Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-30
FACNONAu|SN IS GONE
Bank Examiner Whelan Tells OF
Cummins Votes In South
ern Iowa.
Attorney General Mullan Rem.
ders Important Decision on
Insurance Laws.
Jim Wilson Says He Thinks
Roosevelt Will Tackle
the Trusts.

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the Trusts.
| Special to mes-Republican.
| Des Moines, Oct. 30.-One of the most
4 lobservant of the men who are in duty
bound to travel over Iowa on official
business is j. e. Whelan. one of the
state bank examiners, whose territory is
southern Iowa. Mr.. Whelan has been in
the territory southeast of Des Moines
the past few weeks making examination
of banks. Aside from noting the fact
that the corn crop is going to be good
deal larger in the Sixth district than
was anticipated few weeks ago, he
has also reached the conclusion that the
republican vote for A. b. Cummins in
| the same regionNof Iowa is going to be
much larger than some of Mr.. Cummins'
dry days of midsummer.
"I have seem" said Mr.. Whelan, ''sev-
ernt letters from j. w. Blythe written
to his friends in the counties where his
\ influence Is great, and in these letters
he has advised and urged the recipients
| to come out and vote to give Cummins
| q big majority. These letters have been
written to individuals for their private
Information. 1t is his confidential advice
to those who put reliance in him. And
believe such advice will have great
/ trIf tn, nd hot q
consequence the vote of Mr.. Cummins is
going to be surprisingly large. know
\ the feeling toward him is most excellent
| in tile southern part of the state. He
made fine impression by his speeches
and his presence and the republicans
are ready to support him to a man.
From other sources 1t is learned that
Mr.. Blythe has been doing quite a good
deal of quiet work down in the First dis
| trict and it is work for the entire repub-
| lican ticket without any exceptions.
They do not want 1t said of them after
| the election. when the election returns
can be scanned by. every one and COM
pasisons can be made easily. that they
s.ioySe;i the white feather ut this time.
In short. factionalism disappeared from
The republican campaign the day of the
Cedar Rapids convention, and 1t is not
likely to reappear again soon.
sss
| The condition of Mr.. Cummins is not
reassuring. Last night 1t was still given
out that Cummins Is to start out again
today and make speeches the rest of the
week. but his wisest friends believe that
he should abandon all efforts to make
the campaign as planned out. However,
Mr.. Cummins has desired very much to
| fill all engagements and he finds it hard
to give up now.
Those who have taken the trouble to
look at the Iowa ballot law the past few
hours have said that it bears the ap-
pearance of having been pretty badly
shot to pieces. The purpose of the law
was to shut out those who are so indif-
ferent to public duty or to their own
interests, or SO busy with private affairs,
| or who are in ignorance of the plain pro-
visions of the law, that they fail to hold
conventions early in the campaign or to
get their nomination papers to the prop
er officers in the proper way in time.
But now 1t appears one may file a bogus
paper of some kind and have the ballot
board make vacancy by finding the
bogus paper to be bogus. and then the
vacancy can be filled at leisure by the
committees or a convention. There are
critics SO unkfnd as to suggest that this
leaves wide open door thru which
names can be got on the ballot with
ease at any time. But in the absence of
any rulings from the higher courts this
| lis now the law in Iowa.
Governor Shaw is to speak in Syrace
and Beatrice, Neb., on Friday and Sat
urday of this week.
The opinion rendered Auditor Merriam
yesterday by Attorney General Mullan
on an insurance problem has been due
for some time, but 1t is much more inn
Iortant than appeared on the surface.
The insurance laws of Iowa are becom-
ing somewhat jumbled UP. When the
last legislature passed some new laws
the puzzle was made deeper For in
stance, when it was provided that life
/, insurance companies should dip over
into the accident and fidelity business,
by merely changing their articles of in
corporation, there was danger of serious
[
which accident and fidelity business
may be done are quite different from the
ordinary rules governing life insurance
business. There are only a few stipu-
| lated piemium companies doing busi-
ress in Iowa and one of these wanted to
get into the accident business. The
auditor was not in doubt as to the right
OF the company to get into the business.
by amending its articles, but desired the
attorney generals opinion to back him
up. Now the attorney general says that
the legislature plainly intended that life
insurance companies of all kinds may
go into the accident business. But this
does not mean that they Will do so; for
| there are so many restrictions that after
Investigation some of the most conserv-
alive of the Des Moines companies have
| refused to try any experiments along
that line.
j. c. Frazier, of Bloomfield, will be the
next president of the Iowa Agricultural
Society, or department of agriculture.
as it is called now by law. He Is the
present vice president of the society. 1t
has been customary, to elevate the vice
president to the presidency provided he
| is competent, and of the competency of
Mr.. Frazier there is none to raise a
lquestion. He has been on the board for