Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-16
REPORTS OF AsPIRANTs TO
STATE OFFICES INDICATE
SEEKING COMES HIGH.
ALLEN lTEMizEs HIS
$4,000 EXPENSE ACCOUNT
Havner Spends More Than 5000 in
Campaign For Attorney General
Other Candidates Spent Sums Run
ming Into Four Figures = Governor
Clarke Says Hughes Will Garry Iowa
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican,.
Des Moines, June 16.-Running for
the republican nomination for governor
seems to be an expensive pastime for
fellows like Senator Joe Allen. of Po-
cahontas county. AS announced in the
dispatches yesterday Senator Aliens
expenses totaled $1S,2S1.2s. At this
writing Harding Kuehnle and Cosson
have not filed, altho it is thought their
expenses will be in some time today.
The items in Senator Aliens expense
account were as follows: Auto trip,
$79540: moving pictures, $310.75; sup
plies, S1,79S.40; advertising $3,43S.07;
clippings, $107.97; letterheads, stamps
and envelopes, $4,936.S7; salaries. 49,
664.71; hotel bills, railroad fare. 3d.
1911.
Senator Allen maintained headquar-
ters in Des Moines where Office rents
come high. Full page advertisements
appeared in many of the newspapers
of the state. A large amount of print
ed matter was sent thru the mail as
shown by his bill for letterheads,
stamps and envelopes.
SIS, 566.37 in his efforts to win the re-
publican nomination for attorney gen.
eral. Henry Sampson, of Des Moines,
at present one of the assistants IN the
attorney generals Office, spent over
s2,5OO The other candidates for at
torney general have not yet filed eX-
cept Whitmore, of Ot,umwa. whose eX-
pense was comparatively small. This
\ Of Ia
convention SO the aspiran:s have a
chance to spend some more money be-
fore convention time trying to line up
the delegates.
Edwin r. Hoyt, one of the unsuc-
cessful candidates for the state treas
urership nomination on the. republican
ticket. spent $3.50. John A. Guiher,
of Winterset, spent $1,217.76 in his race
for the republican nomination as rail-
road commissioner. This, too, will have
to be decided by the convention.
w. S. Allen, renominated for secre-
tary of state, spent over $500. Frank
S. Shaw, who won the nomination for
auditor of state without any contest
in the republican party. spent little
over IS.
Hughes to Carry Iowa.
Governor Clarke predicted yesterday
that Hughes will without doubt carry
Iowa, and that he will be victorious
over Wilson at the polls this fall. Fur
thermore he believes that Hughes is by
far the strongest candidate the repub-
licans could have selected. But Wilson
is not going to be an easy man to beat
by any means, in the governors opin-
ion.
"I have always been an sad1nirer of
Hughes" said the governor. He made
most excellent governor of New
York He is man of marked ability
and high character. l think he will
win out over Wilson this fall
The governor is ALSO an admirer OF
Roosevelt, but thated that he does not
believe Roosevelt could have won. He
thinks the party will be united on
Hughes and the progressives in Iowa.
in his judgment, will vote for Hughes.
Hughes will grow on enc people as they
come to know him better, he believes.
Illinois Wants Thorne's Aid.
Clifford Thorne. Chairman of the Iowa
railroad commission. has been asked
by the coal companies of Illinois to
represent them in a freight rate case
before the interstate commerce COM
mission, but the Iowa expert has de-
Eclined. Commissioner Thorne declined
a similar request from the Illinois Live
stock Association a few months ago.
These associations would be willing, to
pay a high attorneys fee for Thorne's
services.