Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-04-14
POLITICS IN
IOWA ACTIVE
Hoover and Wood attack Lowder
Forces. Latter Take Defensive
as Candidates Begin Active
Solicitation for Votes.
LOOKS LIKE IOWA
is FOR LOWDEN.
oandidates for Governor are Very
Active and Nobody Knows Who
is It.

There VIII be no dearth of repub.
mean politics in Iowa during the few
days remaining until the republican
state delegate convention.
Two frantic appeals for voting sen.
timent, which will be felt in every
corner OF the state, now are getting
under way, one for General Wood
and the other for Mr.. Hoover
AT the same time the Lowden for
ces, with their candidate threatened
in some parts of the state, have gone
actively on the defensive.
There is nothing more certain in
the present situation than that the
! Republican state leaders will con-
troll the state convention for Lowden
and that majority of the Iowa dele
CATION to the Chicago convention will
vote for the Illinois governor on the
early presidential ballots.
| The Wood organizers, and the
Hoover enthusiasts, profess no hope
that they will be able to upset the
! Lowden lead and control the conven-
tion. They are avowedly minorities,
adopting minority tactics Both con-
cede Lowden the bulk of the Iowa
delegation. The Wood forces have an
nounced that they hope to win the
delegations in three districts, the
third, seventh and tenth.
The Hoover club which effected
permanent organization last week
with former Governor George w.
Clarke as state chairman, is even
mors modest. Its announced plan is
to- enter upon no formal contest for
delegates. Incidentally its plan is to
seek representation in the precinct
and county conventions, by urging
Hoover men and women to fight for
Hoover at the precinct caucuses, but
the club will stress mainly cam
paign for names of Iowans who wish
to vote for Hoover, and it hopes be-
fore June comes to have a list of
such great proportions that the Iowa
delegates to Chicago must listen to
its appeal
The tactics of the Wood campaign,
which is being handled by Judge r.
L. Parrish of Des Moines, seems to
be an effort to rouse Wood men in
every community to interest them
selves in the pre-convention machin-
cry.
A circular letter which is being
sent out by the Wood headquarters
states that under the system which
will be followed there will be no
opportunity for the voter to record
his preference for any candidate, and
unless the voter is extremely alert
and active the whole matter will rest
in the hands of the party machine
ry."
1T is known" the letter continues,
that many of the active party men
look upon General Woods candidacy
with favor, and wherever 1t can be
done it will be we'll to work with
them, using due care and caution in
the selection of delegates who will
vote in convention in the interests of
General Wood"
The virtue of which, of course, is
the implied course that it to be pur-
sued in case the "active party men"
are not favorable.
1t should not be assumed, however,
that because all the noise is being
made just now ,by the Wood and
Hoover forces, that Lowden's candi-
dacy is not in position to cope with
this activity. Mr.. kowden has had
district organizations. headed in each
case by powerful republicans, COM
pleted for months. They have been
quiescent because there has been
nothing for them to do. According to
all reports they have gone ION the
Job" against Wood, wherever danger
seems to threaten.
In Des Moines, which is the par
ent city of the Hoover movement In
Iowa, it is probable that the Hoover
enthusiasts may be able to cause con-
siderable trouble at the precinct
meetings.
Every indication points to the con-
clusion that C. l.. Herring will be the,
democratic candidate for governor,
and there is considerable reason to
suppose that Claude r.. Porter OF
centerville will become the Demo-
cratic candidate for United States
senator,
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