Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-04
CHARTERS IN DANGER
Special Charter Cities Excited Over
Movement to Abolish Their
Special Privileges.
Men Of Influence in the State Legis.
lature Mean to Push the
Project.
Hoge's Attack on Governor Shaw
Analyzed-The Button Business
-shaw's Majority.


Analyzed-The Button Business
-Shaw's Majority.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. A good deal of
excitement has been stirred up in some
of the special charter cities by the re-
port that q renewed and vigorous ef-
| fort will be made this winter in the
Legislature to abolish special charters
and bring all cities in the state under
the general laws, allowing no special
privileges to any. This is no idle spec
ulation. The men behind it mean busi-
ness. They naturally do not want their
names known, but they are influential
men in the Legislature and they will be
heard from in due time and without
doubt they will come very near ac-
lcomplishing what is sure to be done at
no very distant day. The cities that are
interested may be able to prevent the
passage of the bill at the coming ses-
| sion, especially if they send men to the
Legislature who will have some infiu-
this concession. A member of the nil
nority WI not be in position to ask
much from the legislature on this score
for it will be said that the people of
these cities had fair warning of what
was coming and chose to send demo-
crat to represent them and now they
must be satisfied with what democrat
can get.
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fellow by the name of Hoge, who
wanted job under Governor Shaw
and failed to get it, has written false
abusive letter in regard to Governor
Shaw, which the democratic committee
is giving circulation, after having failed
to palm off Hoge on the public as re-
publican speaker who would under pre-
itense of making republican speech
under republican auspices, attack Gov
ernor Shaw. This fellow roasts Gov
Icrnor Shaw because he has not removed
a lot of clerks in his office and others
| over whom he has no control in
lorder to appoint certain Scandinavians
| to places some of them wanted, not to
/ mention what Hoge wanted. He says
| Governor Shaw offered them places,
but they We're not good enough. The
J places We're the only ones open. The
governor has very little patronage TO
Idispense. Hose further states that the
governor has appointed Mr.. Gullexen,"
probably meaning c. f. Gullixson, of
| Bode, TO be oil Inspector ''in a district
where they inspect 40 barrels a month,
for which he receives the statutory fee
lof 10 cents barrel" The fact is that
inspector GuliXson has made an aver
/ age of SIS a month and expenses right
along and often sloo month But what
he says amounts TO nothing except TO
| show to what cheap methods the anti-
Republicans are reduced. The Scandi-
navians have shown before how they
hate a renegade, fellow who comes
around wanting them To desert their
lprinciples to crafty his petty spite.
When s. r. Davis came to Des
Molnes from Creston he was hailed as
la fair minded man. who would not do
"a mean or little thing. and as long as
| II. NJ Belvel was associated With him
| in the Gazette he did not do any such
little, contemplate things as this. from
his last paper: When Fred White was
marching with Sherman to the sea Les
lie NJ. Shaw was ready to hire a substi-
| tute in case he had been drafted At
| that time Leslie NJ. Shaw was a poor
farmers boy in Vermont. aged IA years,
land the government was not drafting
many 14-year-old boys. 1t is another
evidence of how short of campaign
thunder the popocrats are.
Everywhere there is rejoicing over
the happy solution of the Iowa College
| idissention by the resignation of DR..
Heron and the consent of Mrs. Rand
!! to let her endowment stand. 1t Will
! strengthen the college with its friends
and bring it new friends. That is,
| provided, that another man just as bad
as Heron is not put in his place. and
LIE this is really the end of Herronism,
las we'll as Heron, in Iowa College. If
this is true, IL there are no more out
| breaks of the sort from any other man
lconnected with the college there is no
educational institution in the state that
/ has any better prospects of growth.
The pure moral and social atmosphere
lof Crinnell, the high standard main
ltained by the college. the recognized
ability of the men connected with il and
Its 6enominationai associations. all
combine to make its future one of as
sured progress and success. 1t can be
checked. as it has been in the past. by
such as Herron but the understanding
is that this is really the end of it.
AT yinton they have button fac
tory, making the blank pearl buttons
for eastern factories, and it is said that
the 100 hands employed therein are
alarmed because the board of control
has gone into the button business. as
| they think. with unlimited laborers,
| putting machines enough to work to
cut all the blanks the New York finish
ling factories want" How easy ii is,
| apparently, to get up labor stampede
The board of control has not bought a
machine of any kind to engage in the
button business. All it has done is to
hire out fifty men to a button manufac-
/ turer to cut blanks This is all that can
be used. Any industry that can be
broken up by the competition of fifty
men is not worth much, but the button
Industry will not be seriously affected
/ by it.
| James L. Blythe, former chairman of
the republican state committee, who
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