Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-23

A Rich Des Moines Woman
Leaves $4,000 TO the
Tuskegee Institute.
| Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines Sept. 23.-The republican
state committee has started Mr.. Cum
minis off with seven meetings for the
1 first week of the campaign. beginning
this afternoon at Centerville to be fol-
lowed by meetings in Fairfield, Chart
ton, Abba, Hedrick, Sigourney and Os-
kaloosa. The Abba and Sigourney
meetings will be in the evening, but
all others in the afternoon. The He'd
rick and Sigourney meetings will be
on Friday. Mr.. Cummins prefers after
noon meetings when they are possible.
because it gives him an opportunity to
speak to farmers and people from
distance who would not be able to go a
night meeting. Next week the speak
ling corps will be reinforced by Senator
1 Dolliver and Governor Shaw, and the
4 second week in October there will be
a large number of prominent speakers
added to the list. Some republicans
Ihave contended that 1t is all uneces-
sary to so over the ground SO thor
4 oughly this year, since there is no con-
ltest and no doubt as to anything ex-
Icept the size of the republican majority.
But the committees and prominent
/ leaders of the party take the view that
/ the people can never be made too ia
lmilar with republican principles and
lpolicies, and especially the young men
| of the party need to have the eternal
truths drilled into them year after year
SO that they will never forget them.
So the speakers will be given free rein.
to go over the entire field OF principles
for which the republican party stands.
and as tits an off year the widest
ilicense will be given as to the manner
| OF treating all living issues. 1t is ex-
lpected that more attention Will be given
this year to the tariff issue than usual
lin state campaigns. The last utter
ances of President Mckinley on this
1 subject are taken to have marked a dis
ltinct advance for the party in the dtrec-
ton of the perfect tariff policy, and a
number of speakers in Iowa are ready
to take up the cue thus given and to
/ follow 1t to its local result. State
4 isues will not be neglected. but mas
much as the democratic and republican
platforms are substantially alike, ma
! tional issues will be given the promt-
nence they deserve. The calls which
the committee has for speakers during
| the campaign Indicate that the repub-
lltcans are alert and desire a lively
speaking campaign. AT the conference
with county chair1nen to be held this
week it is expected the committee Will
go over the ground pretty thoroughly
and find out the needs OF the various
localities.
The trial Of the various Indian cases
at Cedar Rapids the past ten days has
begun to attract some attention. 1t
appears from this distance, according
to the newspaper accounts, that Judge
Shiras has been shooting big holes in
CERTAIN of the statutes of Iowa relat-
ing to the Muskwaki Indians. The
iowa legislature sought to cede to the
United States the sovereignty over the
Sac and Fox Indians residing on their
big farm in Tama county. which is not
properly government reservation.
but privately owned farm. and at the
same time the Iowa legislators tried to
retain for the state the sovereignty
over these Indians and their lands suf-
ficient to apply all state laws. Judge
Shiras holds that this can not be done,
but that 1t is evident the state can
only apply its laws to the extent OF
protecting citizens of the state from
injury by the people of the tribe. His
decision that 1t was never INTENDED
that the old medicine men of the Mus
kwalsis should take q course at Rush
Medican school before they would be
permitted to continue applying simple
remedies for the cure of slight all
ments among members of the tribe, is
regarded as good sense statement,
however it may be assailed n the APP
pelate court as not good law. 1t Is
morally certain that hereafter there
will be no attempt on the Tama Indian
lands to apply state laws to enforce
discipline at the Indian school; but In
asmuch as the troubles seem to have
passed away with change of admins
tration, 1t may not be necessary to APP
ply any other than federal law. The
Muskwakis appear to have won sig
nal victory in court.
Mrs. Martha Callahan. who recently
died here, left by her will. $4,000 for
the endowment fund Of the Tuskegee
institute in Alabama. She and her
husband made efforts for many years
to establish in Des Moines a college or
seminary for young ladies and practi-
cally supported alone the Callahan coll
lege, but their efforts We're not appreci-
ated and the college went down. If
they had succeeded in establishing a
college it is probable that large sum
would have been added to the endow-
ment by Mrs. Callahan. She gave
$1,000 to the ONE for the Aged, which
is located in the old dormitory of Cal
lanan college, and which has since been
called the Martha Callahan Home"
The Des Moines horse show and
street carnival scheduled for the second
week in October promises to be the
equal of anything in that line ever at
temnted. The horse show idea Is one