Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-03
STATE PR|N1ER'S DEAL
Murphy Makes a Deal With Iowa
Printing Company to Do State
Printing.
Says He Intends to Get the Work
Out on Time or Quit
His Job
|
George Roberts as a Political Boss
No Railway Behind Him
His Logic.
acial to Times3Eenuhlicau.

Special TO IlTnes-F.epubllcan.
Des Moines Sept. 3.-Bernard Muir
ply, state printer. has announced that
with the Iowa Printing Company 10 dol.
the state printing when he takes his Of I
flee next January II had to do one of I
two things, said Mr.. Murphy. II must I
either secure a partner with sufficient I
capital to enable us 70 start a new [
printing establishment and put in a
and at the same time do commercial
work TO Keep the plant busy or must
do what 1 have done. provide FOR the
state work alone, separately. under my
own personal supervision | have de- 4
cided TO adopt the latter plan, because
8I believe it viii be more satisfactory to
the public ard viii result in bringing
3out the work more promptly than it has
been done. The price and quantity OF
tiie work has been 50 recuced that it
Would not pay to put in a separate
plant in any event. The Iowa Printing
Company is adding another story to its
done in a separate room by an entirely
separate and distinct organization
which will not be connected with or
halnpered by the commercial work CT
that establishment There will be a
superintendent of the state work inde-
pendent of the rest of the place. l will
have the supervision Of the whole busi-s
ness of state printing myself and shall.
extent that may be required
! Il purpose 10 have this work done on.
| time and delivered to the state officers
| for whom. il is done at the earliest pos
4 sible moment. the same as if it We're
competitive commercial work. II can
not do this l will resign the office, for
4 will not have anything to do With a
4 job which can not do as it ought to be
done. shall resign my Office as post
4 l.master of Ninton when / enter upon
the state printership, but l shall not
4 sell my paper or remove from Nlnton
4 / think too much of my paper, my towr
land my district to leave either cne.
have worked hard a good many years
for all three and am not wiling te
surrender the results of that labor.
j shall spend the most of my time in Des
i A1oines and shall always be there wnen-
4 ever there is anything to be looked If
u ter."5ss
Every one who knows Bernard Muir
ply knows that ne means just what ht
says and that he will carry out 10 ths
q #[lester the promises Which he makes a:
{ he enters the office
81 Governor Shaw leaves today for hi
i. month 5 campaign tour under the direc
!, on OF this. republican national commit
ii tee. He Will devote his time during al
! of Septemherto to the surrounding state
e and Will be one Of the principal speak
8 ers in each of those states. Today h
: opens the Illinois campaign at Jolie
and tomorrow he will be the ci1ie
II speaker at the opening of the Mis-
I souri, campaign at Sedalia. This is
9 be a great occasion and is the formf
3 opening, Of the campaign under the dl
t rection of Richard C. kerAns, the dis
y tinguished Missouri leader, Tembe
i sof the executive committee of the re
Q publican national committee. Som
politicians would not leave the stat
y under the present circums stanees in re
u sponse TO such a call, but would go int
the Tenth district and give person;
attention toflooking after things ther
u II The governor has a very deep intere.
q in tfle outcome in the Tenth distrie
y but he is leaving all that 10 his friend
:. feeling confident that they will protei
! his interests there. 1t is entirely sa
= to say he is quite safe in leaving Il
= state in this Way, foi, if the issue
- Shaw and anti-Shaw is to be raised
y the Tenth district at this time, con
Y bined With the interests of Mr.. Doll
= Yer, there can be but one outcome az
that Is not in favor of those who a
trying to start fight on the goyerne
A. The management of this campaig
Of Lin which the interests of Senator Dc
a liver are somewhat involved, is in Il
as hands of George F.. Roberts. the q
rector of the mint. and the famol
u, writer on economic subjects. Mr. Ro
10, erts has no superior as political ge.
efal in this state. He is not even e
n celIed by that other great leader al
of planner j. w Blythe. Altho quite di
So ferent from Mr., Blythe Mr.. Roberts
TO successful partly fer the same reason
Candor and iruthfulness lie at the br
IS. tom of Mr.. Robarts' success Politi
% ians Know that his word is to be tax
absolutely every time II is given az
as THAT 1t viii be carried out AZ whatev
personal cost. But Mr.. ROBERTS las
a big club TO wield He has no great 9
~: ganization with which 10 execute
o: will. He is influential because Of
Il ability to present matters in an effet
i've way and convince tho man he is {
ter that what he wants is right a
ought to be done. In the larger Held
national politics Mr. Roberts h
achieved great fame and Won
himself place in the history
y American economics by his simple a
T.. forcefui style and by the candor a
-. directness With which he has made /
of everyday facts to clinch his arg
=. ments for sound money and prote
-, i've tariff. He has been able torent
- the sound money cause so great a $
"a vice that not more than three or fl
~ men in the United States are TO
~ counted in the same class, and one
IT. these is Leslie NJ. Shaw. Both tn
nd men have done what they have becal
,ys they saw how to apply simple facts
great theories and thus convince