Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-06-04
KENDALL CONCEDED
TO Be IN LEAD
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR CONFIDENT PRl-
MARY WILL NOMINATE.
OPPONENTS WINDING
UP THEIR CAMPAIGNS
Deems Accused Of Attempting to
Purchase Newspaper Influence -
Governor Shaw Comes 10 Iowa to
Help Save State From Disgrace
and Brookhart.
uecial 10 Times Republican.

| Special TO Times Republican,.
| Des Moines. June 4.--Thc four can
oidates for the republican nomination
FOR governor are losing no time this
week TO make votes while the max
| ing is possible. and thru their orSani~
| cations. thru speechmaktng, and thru
the use of the mails, they are en-
deavoring to corral all the votes, pos
sible
kendalTs friends are now claiming
that he will win in the primary, argu-
ing that none of the other candidates
mas the wide personal acquaintance
as has the Abba candidate, who mas
been in public life in Iowa more or
less for twenty years.
Attorney 1enta, AiaNner is WIND
ing up his campaign with speech
making tour in the cities in central
and eastern Iowa, closing with dip
down into southern Iowa on Satur-
day.
The Deems followers are claiming
that Deems organization methods
will win him the victory. The Bur
lington mans opponents. however.
are losing no opportunity 10 charge
his managers with offering to buy the
news columns of a newspaper Tor
advertising purposes.
Lieutenant Governor MooreS
strength is reported to be largely in
the vicinity of his home district or
thru northeastern Iowa. His friends
~ str
and are predicting the convention
will so TO the primary.
To Save Iowa From Disgrace.
+ Former Governor Leslie NJ. Shaw
spoke Wednesday at Abel. for Sena
htor Cummins. He declared he, had
not come to oppose personally Mr..
Brookhart. but had come to Iowa at
his own expense ito do what little |
may to keep her from disgracing
herself"
In his speech at Perry he discussed
at>some length the railroad bill. He
said the railroad bill to which MIR,
Brookhart SO seriously objects, con-
tains no guaranty of any fixed return
upon capital invested in tho rail-
roads.
interstate To-. commerce commission
Shall fix rates that will yield not less
than az per cent" he said. I'm
other Words he continued, .ihe in
terstate commerce commission is di-
rected 10 protect the people who have
invested their money in creating the
greatest transportation system in the
world from complete confiagration.
Senator Cummins' opponent de-
slres the return on this invested
money to become a direct national
obligation: To accomplish this. he
wants the government to issue bonds
for the purchase of the roads. and
then, of courses the government would
have to pay the interest on the
bonds. That would be n direct guar
antee. and the rate would have to be
higher than that contemplated in the
Cummins bill.
Under Mn. Brookhart's plan new
bonds would have 20 be sold. and any
one of more intelligence than this
novice will understand the effect up-
on bonds already out when additional
ponds are sold at a higher rate Ex-
listing government bonds can now be
purchased at better than on 58
Per cent basis. Sell new bonds at
per cent and every holder of bond
would suffer corresponding loss in
the market value OF what he pur-
chased at par. not because he wanted
then, nut because the government
needed the money. Who will now
leopardize his own private in:err,.t,
to enable the government to take
over railroads and operate them at a
loss OF one million dollars year?
If the American people have not
learned the lesson that the govern
ment OF The United States has no
business in business, then they are
very inapt pupils"
Two Candidates Eliminated.
Judge Lawrence DcGraff, for more
tsan ten years district court Judge in
Rolk county, will be the ONLY LAWYER
IN Polk county up for nomination as
a. member Of the supreme court. Two
other aspirants. Judge Charles
hutchinson and Attorney Robert
iaines. have been eliminated thru a
vote taken by the Polk county bar.
the result of which was announced
late Wednesday.
With three attorneys in this coun-
~ seeking the supreme court nomi-
nation. members of the Polk county
bar conceived the idea of an eiimi-
nation contest in this county, in
which every lawyer in the county
voted on his choice for supreme court
Judge out of the three ndidates
fhe candidates all agreed to this, and
nc result Of the vote. as announced
asst evening, was as follows Judge
La Wrence DeGraff, 214: Judge
Charles Hutchinson, 113. and Robert
Haines, 4.
This leaves eleven candidates for
the nomination for the three places