Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-07
FIGHT |S0N MADISON
Madison Primaries Today Will
Vote On the Gubernator.
ial Question.
Names of Candidates for Cover.
nor and County Offices
Appear on Ballot.
Agreement Reached on Polk
County misunderstanding
in Des Moines.
.peeial to Times RepubIIcan.

4 special TO IlfneS-kepuDlIcan.
Des Moines, June THE anticpations
Of a red hot contest in Madison county
will hardly be realized. The fight is TO
be fought out at the primaries this
afternoon. They will be orderly and
while the contest may be spirited il is
not now anticipated that there will be
any sensations. The understanding here
is that the county central committee has
bad printed on the ballots the names of
all the candidates for governor and
/ some who are not, as for instance the
..ame of Maj Couger, who used to do
farming and stock buying in Madison
4 county. The Cummns men nave made
10 objection TO this, altho 1T is unusual.
/ The primary rules call for the printing
the names of candidates for governor
have never before been printed on the
! ticket. The names of other candidates.
! for railroad commissioner. lieutenant
\ governor, etc, Will not 20 on the tickets.
But barring these irregularities the pre-
| liminaries We're all good for the action
of the republicans today. Despite the
4 fact that emissaries of the machine have
been securing Madison county for ten.
i Gays and the newspapers of the county
seat have been enlisted in the cause OF
beating Cummins 1t is believed that
Cummns will carry the county easily.
A number from here are in Wintersst
today To look after the matter. The
tight centers in Winterset. Mr.. Cum
minis was there last Saturday and was
Well received by the people. The situa-
ton out in Montgomery and Cass coun-
Z ties is said to be getting interesting. In
both those counties some of the repub-
I icans insist they are for cummns and
will not be induced To lie still and let
Herriott have the district without con-
test. 1t has been the policy of the Cum
Nmius managers here to leave the Ninth
!. district counties severely alone. and the
fight in Cass and Montgomery is entire
iy of the local republicans.
The board of control and the board of
supervisors of Polk county have come TO
an understanding with regard to the
management of the county insane asy-
lum near Des Mones This is the larg-
sst county asylum in the state. The
new building was put up but four years
ago ard is perfect in every detail. At
the time of the official inspection of DR.
Witte last month there We're 10i inmates
at the asylum. They are all of the in
curable class or persons temporarily re-
strained. 1t is in no sense hospital for
the cure Of insanity. But it has not been
managed as well as 1t should have been.
The report of DR. Witte made bad
showing for the asylum Yesterday
afternoon the board of control had the
supervisors In their office for consul
tation. and when they got together and
frankly talked the matter over they
COON arrived at an agreeable under
standing. There will be more attendants
at the asylum and greater care of the
inmates There viii be no more bathing
, by wholesale, and there Will be night
watchers. AT the state institutions
there are attendants for the especial
purpose of taking the patients out into
the open air. They have an attendant for
every ten or eleven patients. The pa
: tients are taken out every day and Civ
len fresh air. This has not been done at
the Polk county asylum but inmates
Rave been locked in their cells from day
) to day ard the asylum has thus become
an actual prison Tor many VINO are
there The members OF the board ef
control report that in but few cases
ihave there been refisals to comply with
their rules. III some cases the counties
have been glad for the excuse 10 have
the insane patients taken from the poor
farms back TO the state hospitals. Sew
eral counties have Voluntarily relir
auished their insane to the state and
will make no attempt hereafter to nam
tain local hospitals. The policy of the
state board is to discourage the estab
lishment of local and county asylums.
Iowa will soon have four large hospitals
and will be able TO care for ALL
n While clubs and societies and moral
lists are engaged in putting quietus on
Z open gambling in Des Moines and have
Been especially active in suppressine the
4 slot machines, there is one form of gam
bling which they have been thus far nm
able To touch. and ii is ds prevalent as
snN other in Des Moines. as presumably
ii is in many other cities This is nat
4 ronizine the lotteries Those who imae-
4 Inc they have broken up the lottery
Il business by forbidding the use Of the
mails to any person engaging in q lof
4 terry are greatly deceived Every month
there comes TO Des Moines a large batch
of lottery tickets and these are sold bv
the agent to line of regular customers
The patrons of these lotteries look any
iously for the so-called Drawings and
expect fortune every time. They hear
occasionally of some one living in some
ether city who has drawn a big sum of
4 money. 1t is always over in some other
city where luck has just struck. aud the
next time it is coming this way hut the
good next time never comes at all. Tick
cts may be purchased in entire num-
bers or halves and quarters or even
cnths. The patrons can gamble heav-
ils or lightly as they choose. And the
lottery business takes large sum of
money out of Des Moines every month.
The appointment of Frederick Goe-
decke' of Burlington, as announced in
this correspondence some time ago, was
made Yesterday by the president, and
lie will be first lieutenant in the infan-