Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-15
WATERS WANTS A JOB
Des Moines Trade Assembly Presi.
dent Would Like to Be State
Labor Commissioner.
His Aspiration Generally Regarded
by Republicans Big Piece Of
lmpudence.
Final Estimate of Iowa Corn Crop
Outside opinion on Iowa
Election.
Special to TImes- RepubIican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. l5.-With nerve
characteristic Of that organization the
Des Moines Trades Assembly no sooner
heard that w. Il. OtBleness had decided
mot to be a candidate for fourth term
as iapor commissioner than it pro-
ceeded to ask for the appointment of
.Iits president, w. G.. Waters, TO the po-
|sition. 1t takes colossal gall to produce
such a demand, but they have it. The
name of this man Waters was signed
to the disreputable circular sent to Du-
buque county to beat Charles L. Han
cock for senator because he was
supposed to be for John II. Gear. This
lis fine recommendation for candi-
date for republican appointment, is it
not? And why should Governor Shaw
pay much attention, in making politi-
I cal appointment, to the resolutions of
organizations composed of democrats
as we'll as blicans?-especially or
lganizations that do not hesitate to
make a Aeht on republican nominees in
various parts of the state on pretext
that is thin?
1t is understood that the governor
will be glad to hear from the republic
ans in the state who feel a special in
terest in this office. the workingnen, if
You please, who vote the republican
lticket and are therefore entitled to be
heard in the matter. But whoever is
Waters, that is sure.
/ A large majority of republicans in the
Estate think the Office ought to be abol-
lished. and the writer is one of them. 1t
was created some years ago as a sop TO
| the labor element, and it has never
/ 8ibeen anything but a curse and nui-
sance to the republican party and the
state administration. Nor has it been
I of any practical value whatever to the
working people. No one is able to point
4 to anything that has been accom-
plished by it, II never can accomplish
anything without a Very large appro-
priation, which it can not hope to have.
Several attempts have been made in
the legislature to kill and bury it, and
once Senator Waterman. o. Ottumwa
came very near to doing it. Probably
some one will tackle it this winter.
b. w. Snow, of the Orange Judd
| Farmer. who is. says j. r. sage in the
Monthly Bulletin OF the Iowa Weather
land Crop Service, one of the ablest crop
statisticians in the United States. has
recently published his final estimate of
the total yield of the corn crop for the
! past season. The average for The whole
country is placed at 26.4 bushels per
lacre against 23.2 last year This makes
the total crop on the basis of an area
of S3,6l77 900 acres, ,201.473Oo0 bushels.
The estimate of the crop of 1898, at the
corresponding date last year, was L.,
S6S. geo bushels. For Iowa. Mr.,
SHOWS estimate is an average yield Of
S5.5 bushels per acre. and this. on the
basis of an area of S,6l0,0O0 acres, would
give total yield of SO5,655 900 bushels.
/ According 10 Mr.. Shows figures Iowa
leads all the surplus corn states in
acreage and in the total yield The
lifted with totals as follows: Illinois.
| bushels; Nebraska, 2l1.737 900 bushels
Missouri 1I90l0,0oo bushels: and In
diana, 142 Asa 900 bushels. The United
States government estimate gives Iowa
an average yield of only fraction over
Isl bushels to the acre this year This
estimate is absurd in view of the con-
4. ~,
| Washington people are determined TO
be conservative TO the last degree. MIR.
Sage is just sending out his blanks for
reports from Iowa on the crop yield.
/ the final report, and he says he expects
the reports to show an average yield
per acre of about thirty-fve to thirty
six bushels of corn. His report will be
ready about Dec. 5.
/ 1t does an Iowa man good to read the
papers published outside the state
these days and see what opinions out
siders have of the record made by Iowa
in the recent election. Lyman j. Gage,
secretary of the treasury, telegraphed
IGovernor Shaw his congratulations in
these words: please accept hearty
congratulations upon the increase of
the sound-money majority in your
state upon platform declaring for the
gold standard and calling on congress
to put it into law" Mr.. Gage said he
took especial interest in the Iowa cleo
tion because of the advanced character
of the republican state platform, on
which Governor Shaw was elected. He
spoke of the prominence of Senator AL
llison, on the senate finance committee,
and of Col Henderson as chairman of
the house caucus committee that
framed policy for the coming session,
and then went on to say: Their as
lsurances that congress would certainly
act in accord with the platform and
would put the gold standard beyond as
sault evidently had the effect of con-
lvincing the gold democrats of the state
that the republican party was sincere
lin these declarations. / was especially
pleased with the result in Iowa because
the democratic leaders were predicting
heavy gains there a few days before
the election. and We're insisting that the
German voters We're more opposed to
the policy OF the president in the Pa
cific than they We're to free silver. The
result seems to show that, whatever
their opinions were on our policy in