Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-03
.BACK INTO OBSGDR||Y
Such May Be the Final Result Of
Governor Shaw's Return
To Denison.
Many Ex.state Officials contin.
ue To Reside In Des Moines
...Leaeue Advertises.
How Did Thomas Jefferson Phil.
lips Get His Name Being
Born in Wales?

Special to Times
Des Moines, Sept. 3.-The recent an
nouncement that Governor Shaw in
tends to retire to his private business at
Denison at the close of his public ca
reer next winter recalls the fact that not
all state officials have gone back to their
former homes after their terms Of office
had expired. The fact that Governor
Shaw intends to go back to Denison is
strong corroborative evidence of his
claim that he does not expect to be a
candidate for president at all and that
he is mot a candidate for presidential
honors." 1t is not recorded that politi-
cal parties are much given to taking
men from the obscurity of private life
to make them candidates for president.
II man can not keep himself to the
front in his own state delegates to ma
tional conventions have a way of pass
ing him by. Des Moines has never had
as resident but one ex-governor and
Jackson had ceased to be resident of
Greene before he became governor. Two
former lieutenant governors live in Des
Moines and one who lived here many
years has moved away. The two here
are Cue and Scott and the one who
moved away is Campbell. Judge Given
will continue to live in Des Moines after
his retirement. Judge Granger really
counts Des Moines his home, tho he is at
present in Hot Springs, S. D. Judges
Robinson, Kline and Cole are other ex-
supreme judges living at the capital.
Dobson, Mcfarland, Mccarthy, Jones.
Pray, Sabin, Twombly and Day are 9TH
or ex-state officers who have continued
to live in Des Moines after their terms
of office have expired. Merriam has es-
tablished himself in business here and
will continue to live here after he has
retired and Adjt Gen. Byers now
claims this as his home. There are no
| indications that other present state Of
fcials will remain in Des Moines.
sss
One OF the reasons why the State Az.
lricu1tural Society bank account shows
up better than expected is in the fact
that this year the state fair managers
paid no license fees for their general
amusement features. They did take out
| a license for some of the features which
We're given in front Of the grand stand.
Last year the federal deputies made the
fair management put up for their show.
They got 500 out of the fair manage
ment for their midway feature alone.
| Since then the fair officials have secured
an opinion from the attorney general to
the effect that their show is not taxa
Bile and no license fees were collected.
The side shows had to put up for IL
censes.
sss
The Anti-Saloon League does the un-
usual by advertising in the papers in
Harrison county Offering reward OF
$50 for the conviction of any person yio-
lating the prohibitory liquor law. The
| league takes quarter page display adj
vertisement in one Of the county papers
to call attention to its method of secur-
ing evidence upon which to convict.
sss
Quite number of Des Moines mem
bers of the G. "A. R. will go to Cleveland
next week to attend the national en-
campment of the Grand Army bows. On
| the train which leaves Des Moines about
noon Sept. 8 will go the members of the
Crocker and Kinsman posts of this CITY
and the department officials. Among
those who will go from here are CAM.
\ Il, N.
DIR. and Mrs. Thomas The soldier bows
here have received word that quite
number are coming to Des Moines from
elsewhere in the state to go with them
thru to Cleveland over the Rock Island
and Nickel Plate roads.
1 A democratic organ in northeastern
Iowa has started the story that only a
a vi, Ov-cnr, Ctyv,, ~,
in the 16 to idea. Phillips can not be
elected in that way.
A Chicago newspaper publishes what
purports to be list of the lynchings in
various states of the union, and credits
Iowa with a dozen in the past sixteen
years. Iowa newspaper men generally
keep close tab on all such events. Names
and dates are not given, nor counties
and crimes, and if there have been
| twelve lynchings in Iowa in the past
sixteen years the newspaper reporters
have been derelict in their duty, for they
have not been reported.
Details of the life of Thomas Jefferson
Phillips. democratic candidate for gov
ernor. are just at hand. From this it is
iearHeu thal ne was porH IN wares, at
Mythertiville. in 1S41, that he landed
with his parents at ST. Louis in 1s4s, at
tended commercial school a short time
and then went into the mines. He grad
ually worked his way up to be foreman
and then superintendent OF mines, work
ing in Missouri, Illinois and Iowa. He
was appointed general superintendent
of all the Whitebreast Company's 3 mines
i in Iowa and Illinois in 1885, He was
4 twice elected mayor Of Ottumwa and
spent 81 900 year more than the salary
in maintaining the dignity Of the Office.
But how in the world did he get the
name of Thomas Jefferson in the village
OF Mythertiville?