Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-30

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his love OF the game honestly.
IOWA PATRONAGE MATTERS.
| dubuque Telegraph Herald
| II one should believe all the news
that comes to Iowa from Washington
and all the statements attributed to
prominent but anonymous democrats,
| the gentlemen who supported MIR. VIII
son in the preconvention campaign and
the gentlemen who supported Mr.. Clark
are engaged in life and death strug-
gle against each other for federal Jobs.
| The appointment Of Jerry Sullivan
to be general appraiser and OF Judge
| Van Wagenen to be district attorney
without consultation with Iowa's con-
gressmen or her national committee
man, is pointed to as evidencing the
presidents purpose to ignore the
gentlemen commonly referred to as
! patronage referees, and to make his
own selections.
| Both assumptions are violent ones. In
the first place, there is agreement that
Jerry Sullivan was entitled to his ap-
pointment. In the second place, there
is agreement that Judge Van Wagenen
has been fittingly honored. Mr.. Sui
| livan was not selected over a Clark
man and was neither was Judge van
Wagenen, it being the claim OF ms
most formidable opponent that ne hao
served Mr. Wilson's welfare as effect
! lively as had the judge AND Clark men
being as numerous among the judges
! endorsers as Wilson men SO that as
| to Mr. Sullivan and the Judge there
! has been no discrimination between
/ Clark and Wilson men.
F.! AS to the matter of the presidents
! failure to consult the congressman ana
| the national committeeman. 1t is OBJ
| served that these gentlemen nave lei
pass nearly two months without lndl-
eating to the president whom they
| favor for the district jobs, and nave
not even yet so far as we are ADVISED
made their recommendations. II is
Furthermore to be remembered tnat
Mr.. Wilson'S policy is to do his own
selecting of attorneys ana 1eoeral
| judges and has adopted his own means
! of getting information regarding them.
This, it will be granted is his right
and, considering the Importance OIL
these officials to the administration OF
laws, his duty.
1t will become evident later on, When
more appointments have been made
that the president is not making dis
tinction invidious to the supporters OF
the speaker. 1t may be that, other
things equal, contested appointments
will go to original Wilson men. but the
mere fact an aspirant for appointment
, was against the presidents nomina-
ton will not prevent appointment
where the logic Of all the other facts
suggests the worthiness Of it.
THE VAN wAGENEN INCIDENT.
[Sioux City Journal.]
Judge Anthony Van Wagenen did
not appear SURPRISED by the informa-
ton that President Wilson had named
him for United States attorney for the
northern district of Iowa. Judge Sui
Ivan, recently named by the presi-
dent for mem bership on the board OF
general appraisers, did not appear sur
prised. 1t is surmised that Edward
G, Dunn, candidate last year for gov
ernor of Iowa, was prepared to hear
Of what happened to Van Wagenen.
The organization" may have been
taken a little aback. The members
may not have been quite ready TO
make their report.
It Is just a guess that Judge Martin
~. Wade. Iowa member Of the demo-
| cratic national committee, received
| his inside Information from the news
papers. 1t Is not improbable that n
| F. Reed chairman of the democratic
! state committee. was not closer TO ehe
! situation than the states representa-
| tive on the national committee. Ear
Bronson. the Eleventh district mein-
Der of the democratic state committee
may have been waiting to hear some
thing drop as result OF IoF1nai
| signal from Iowa influence
There was no reason for not taxing
! Mr. Bronson into the confidence OF
The original Wilson men for he was
| one OF them and was at the hean OF
the state organization that did the
best It could to place iowa In the
! column pledged to the Jerseyman IN
| the activities OF the Baltimore conyen-
| ton. Mr. Bronson was waiting to nave
! the slate completed and hoping his
name might appear in the writing as
endorsed for the office of United
F. States marshal for the northern dis
| 1rict of Iowa. 1t is unusual to name
the attorney and the marshal from
| the same congressional district, al
tho 1t is not to be overlooked that
President Wilson is breaking even
more important precedents. But that
| is farther on.
The wonder is whether or no lnfor
nation reached the president that II
was not expedient evidence should be
! accumulated to sustain argument that
the CLARK men, had won the Iowa
game by stealing bases. II the board
was set for both the southern and the
i northern districts. tho in the most pa
triotic spirit and for the prom otfon OF
harmony, it would appear that the
nomination Of Van Wagenen. upon
Z, whose title as Wilson man there Is
no cloud. was something like pulling
a linchpin somewhat in advance OF
arriving.
Judge Anthony Van Wagenen. who
has friends in both places, is not to
be held blameworthy. He is appre-
ciative Of the honor done him, in
peculiarly delicate manner, by the
president of the United States. 1t may
be in his mind that Judge Sullivan
and Mr.. Dunn are not alone among his
eminent endorsers. He may suspect,
and with reason. that Secretary OF
state William Jennings Bryan dropped
a word: as he might well do, for Van
11-,rapoo,s heart was next to Mr..