Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-19
SHAN HONORS TROOPS
Iowa Governor Leaves Political
Campaign to Meet Soldiers from
the Philippines.
Finds He Can Make the Trip in Ten
Days-His Appoint
ments.
County Fairs and Gambling Devices
State Board of Control
Capital Comment.
Special to Times-Republican

/ Special to Times Republican.
| Des Moines, Oct. 19.-Governor Shaw
and Mrs. Shaw started this morning for
San Francisco to meet the Fifty-first
regiment, which will probably arrive
there about next Friday The governor
has of course always intended to do
this. but it seemed. when the time of
arrival of the regiment was so uncer-
| tain, that he should not take the time
required, about twenty days, to go to
/ San Francisco in time to be there when
| the regiment arrived stay for the DEM
onstration there and get back. Gen.
| Byers. Auditor Merriam and Secretary
Dobson started on the morning of Oc-
tober IL. expecting the regiment to be
| there last Sunday or Monday, the 18th
or 10th; SO If the governor had gone
then he would have lost ten days more
than he does now. The fight the gov
ernor is making in Iowa is of equal i'm
portance, in a way, with the fight the
soldiers have been making in the island
of Luzon. Aguinaldo is holding our in
the hopes that the democratic party
in the United States will win victories.
I or will at least make gains enough to
show that the policy of the administra-
1 ton in trying TO restore order IN the
! philippines is not approved 1t has
been we'll said that Aguinaldo places
Ibis hopes in the democratic party and
the democratic party places its hopes
lin 4Aguinaldo. Then it is quite import
liant that the hope Of Aguinaldo that
the democratic party shall make gains
lin Iowa Shall he crushed. The election
iof Governor Shaw is not questioned in
1.-THE least ny any sane person. 1t is only
La question of how large his majority
Ishall be, of how strongly the people of
| Iowa will approve the Mckinley adj
lministration, the government in time of
war. 1t was to make this verdict as
'lemphatic as possible that Governor
Shaw has been working, and it was this
| task which made him hesitate about
ldeNoting three weeks to a trip to San
Francisco. He thought the boys would
understand his position and forgive
him for not being there in person. But
now that he can do ii in ten days his
desire to honor the regiment and his
| state pride in having the state repre-
lsented by its governor. as other states
lhave been when their regiments arrived
| in San Francisco, has led him to cancel
lhis meetings for this week and start.
*t*
| In anticipation Of this step, We're it
practicable to take it, the governor s
appointments only run to the end of
lthis week; today in Usage and Parkers-
| burg, Friday in Hampton and Toledo,
saturday in West Liberty and Durant.
These appointments will be filled by the
Republican state central committee. ard
isurely no one can complain of not hav-
ing the governor for a speech, aconsid-
lering the cause of his absence upon a
patriotic errand.
The county and district fairs will
have to make a showing on affidavit
/ that they have not allowed any gamb-
Hing devices of any kind during their
| fairs or they can't get the 5000 allowed
to each fair by the state The law de-
prives every fair OF this allowance that
allows gambling and State Auditor
4 Merriam intends to protect himself by
!
! they have obeyed the law. The audi
tally from parties who say, You
mustn't pay the county fair the 500
bonus because they allowed gambling
at the fair" The next question is what
lis gambling under the law? Auditor
Merriam asked Attorney General Rem
Hey and he said gambling under the
| law was what the dictionaries defined
lit to be. and then he went on TO say:
1T may be said generally that any
game in which a person parts With his
money in the hope or with the expecta-
Ition of receiving a sum of money
/ or property in return therefor,
the amount of which depends upon
some chance or the result of the game
is gambling. 1t has been held by our
supreme court that playing at billiards
or pin pool with the agreement that the
losing party shall pay for the use of the
| table is gambling. A game of chance
| resulting upon a drawing is a species
of gambling or lottery. Slot machines,
/ by which one. for a given sum, will OBJ
tain one cigar, or by a lucky turn more
| than one, are unquestionably gambling
devices. 1t is Impossible to name all
games specifically, but any game or
device which comes within the general
I definition above stated is, in my judg-
ment, gambling or a gambling device"
SO that it will only be necessary to
| show that a slot machine for the dis
/ tribution of cigars was operated al a
fair to beat the fair association out of
its 5000 allowance from the state. The
tlaw is plain and the auditor of state
cannot disregard it,
! The state board of control has made
another good showing for the month
Iof September. There has been a total
increase of patients inmates, pupils,
! etc. of 2l3 during the month of Sep
| tember. and the credit balance in the
support fund was s124,3S5.16, an in
crease of sl,6iS.39. The total number of
inmates was 1854 at the end of Septem-
Der. The population of the hospitals for
1.-THE insane, prisons and industrial
schools was as follows for the two
months:
Sept Aug.
Penitentiary al Anamosa. ..... 1856 5O4
Penitentiary at Ft. Madison. 4s5 49O
Total. -. -. =. -. s7l ssA