Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-22
70 retain NARD[NS
Ambitious Candidates For the Ward
enship at Fort Madison Will
Be Disappointed.
Jones Fills the Place to the Salts
faction of the Board of
Control.
Col. Crossley, Former Warden Makes
a Few ObservatioEs-The
State Printer.
2eciaI to Times Republican.


Special to Times es-Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. 22.-The ambitious
republicans who are thinking of being
candidates for warden of the Fort
Madison penitentiary to succeed N. N.
Jones, now serving his third term, will
do we'll to save their money, whether
they buy a gun (for the board of con-
troD or not. Mr.. Jones will doubtless
ison penitentiary for some years to
come, for he is a competent official,
who has done excellent work at Fort
Madison, and there is no disposition on
the part of the board of control to re-
move him. The wardens, formerly
elected by the legislature, will be APP
pointed by the state board of control.
the same as the superintendents of 9TH
Ter institutions. They We're allowed, as
lall other heads of institutions We're, to
serve out their present terms, and an
exception was made in favor of Ward
en- Hunter of Anamosa allowing him
| to serve the term to which he was
elected by the last general assembly.
Thus the penitentiaries are taken out
| Of politics and placed upon a strictly
business basis.
| Mutterings and threats against the
board are heard among some politi-
clans, who would like to abolish the
board and return to the old system,
making the Institutions subject To all
the influences of politics. There is not
much chance, however, that the mem
| bers of the legislature will go on record
| in favor of sucn a thing. The board has
made some mistakes. as all its friends
knew it must, in inaugurating such
great system in such a short time and
making such revolutionary changes.
The chief mistakes of the board have
Iprobably been in the direction of too
Expensive economy. Salaries and wages
| have been cut to the bone. and in the
desre TO buy things cheaply the board
mas been sometimes taken In. The old
rule. that one will never be able to get
something for nothing has occasional
| iy been lost sight of. ] is a rule that
will always be good In defense of this
must be remembered that, in the first
a,Iaca gross axtravaeean9s and xyas+a-
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