The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-28
HE BRING WOULD
CHANGE SYSTEM
Democratic Candidate for Governor
Declares for Business Administra-
ton Of state Of Iowa Last
Night.
FAvoRs NoN-PART1sAN
He Would Choose Men for Heads Of
Nine Departments Regardless Of
Their Political Affiliations,
He Said.


business manager of the state, Clyde
u. Herring. democratic nominee fol-
governor declared last night, ant
pledged that if he were elected he
would institute a business admins
tration. More business efficiency and
less political e1pediency is needed
he declared. Mr.. Herring addressed
fair sized audience from the plat
form in front of the Elks building
last night, following d dinner and
short talk at the Hotel Iowa.
Il would consider 1t an honor to
be governor, but I do not want the
place unless can be OF real serv.
Ice" he declared Mr. Harding de-
clared that a business administration
was a non-partisan affair. He said
that the Office sought him before the
primary, and declared that he was
THE nominee of his party in the pri-
mary, and mot the nominee of a
manipulated convention"
| Mr.. Herring said he did not be-
ilieve the governor OF Iowa should
/; have anything to do with the league
lof nations, or that he should be
travelling over the country building
tup political bulwarks, but that he
shct.ld be in Iowa.
| He criticised the actions of the
present incumbent in the state house
In the matter Of the Associated Pack
ing company, told of various other
matters of which he said he had the
proof and then hurled the challenge
that .ft has been nothing but graft
all the way through. and as a citizen
of Iowa / am protesting Honest
government is not partisan" he said.
Business Men Wanted.
Mr.. Herring spoke OF Governor
'Lowden's administration Of the state
of Illinois, how under his business
administration plan the taxes were
reduced and money was put IN the
treasury, some fourteen millions,
-and now" he added, Athe THOMPSON
forces are fighting to get that" He
promised that II elected governor Of
the state he would abolish the forty
one commissions and departments
and would establish nine compact
departments, and would choose his
men for them regardless OF their
politics. Il want business men and
VIII pay no more attention to their
politics than to their religion" he
declared
Mr. Herring said he had no labor
record, yet he was endorsed by many
OF the unions. He said he did not
have union man in his employee,
but that he maintained a wage scale
with the minimum OF $3.50 per day.
This minimum, he said, was paid to
women az well as men, because it
costs q woman just as much to live
as man
He declared that he thought It was
time for house cleaning in the
state house, but he didn't think
friend Of the famfly's would do it."
referring TO Kendall Several times
he spoke Of the manipulated conven-
ton" and the nomination OF the
publican ticket He said that the
bookkeeping system of the state
was in such condition that you could
not get trial balance.
Mr.. Herring declared that IL elected
he expected to institute a sy-,ern
whereby a trial balance could be
taken and in which card index sJs-
tens and other business appliances
would be used.
The speaker last evening yts IN
troduced by Henry s. Walker, chair
man Of the district committee. ). o.
Boyd was called on to speak. but
yielded his place TO Mr.. Herring, who
talked about half an hour. There
we're number OF women In the audi
ence last night.
At Hotel Iowa.
There were one hundred at the
dinner at the Hotel Iowa last even
ing, following which Mr.. Herring was
by Henry 8. Walker and
made brief talk In it he said:
Speaking at New Virginia last
week, my opponent for the office of
governor Of Iowa criticized my de-
Tense Of the primary law and my
contending that l had
been hand picked as a candidate.
while the criticism of anything or
anyone ins connection with the pri- |
man who has pledged himself to re-
peal the primary at the first oppor-
tunity, l am willing to compare the
method by which ! was nominated
with the method employed in the
nomination of Mr.. Kendall. 1t is
true that some five hundred men and
women of my party did meet in Des
Moines, and at conference they de-
cided to urge me to become the demo
cratic candidate for governor, and in
response to their urgings / did be-
come a candidate, but this was in
connection with the primary itself.
my decision to become a candi-
date before the primary did not fore
close the primary to any other mem