Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-18
MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
Problem OF Favoring Canton or
Washington to Be Decided
by Committee.
How Votes We're Scratched in
Some Counties.-Voting Ma.
chimes Favored.
Board Of Health Will Consider
Observation-Disclosures
and Anti.Suffrage.
Special to Times Republican.

| Special to Times Republican.
| Des Moines, Nov. 1S.-The meeting of
the Iowa committee on the national me-
| mortal to the late President Mckinley is
to be held in Des Mones again tomor-
row. The meeting last week could hard
lily be called success. There has not
amount of interest in the matter. The
newspapers have not been urging it
with the zeal expected. Governor Shaw
iappointed as members OF the committee
persons connected with daily newspa-
rers of the state, and while group of
newspaper men might make an excel
llent committee for any patriotic work
yet not all newspaper men have time to
go TO meetings and confer with others.
This is known to be the sole reason for
the small attendance at the last meet
| ing. A better attendance is expected to-
morrow, when plans will finally be laid.
The unseemly controversy as to wheth-
| er the memorial should be in Canton
or in Washington has caused some luke
warmness In this connection one Of the
members of the committee has received
a clipping with the following quotation
from Senator Mcmillan, of Michigan, in
regard to the subject:
II have felt that we are trying to do
too much In raising money for two me-
MORALS to the late president at the same
time. 1t s likely to lead to confusion. II
is rather a delicate subject to broach,
but it seems entirely appropriate that
the memorial to President Mckinley
should be built at Canton, and that this
project ought to be given the first con-
sideration. Memorials commemorative
Of the public services of Lincoln and
Grant have yet to be built here In
Wa shington. They will be authorized
by congress in time. When it comes to
building memorial here to Mckinley
the work should be on a scale that will
be lasting monument to the late pres
ident and in keeping with the architec-
tural beauty of Washington's finest
public buildings and memorials"
5'sis comes from republican senator
whuse loyalty TO The late president Is
unquestioned. Others have spoken in
similar vein; and yet there are quite
number who believe that an effort
should be made to erect a national me-
mortal at Washington Immediately.
This, is the delicate and troublesome
question which the Iowa commission
must first solve.
An illustration of the work of the in
dependent voter is fairly Illustrated IN
several counties of the state. For in
stance, in Lucas county, one Laurel
Bass was elected sheriff by IL plurality
over J. w. Mauck. and Bass was the
only democrat elected He had but four
votes for a margin as shown by the un-
official count, but the count by the
board added nine and made 1t thirteen.
Yet the republican candidate for treas
urer received over 500 plurality In the
same county: In Adair county dem
ocratic sheriff was elected. despite the
more than 700 republican majority in the
county. In Washington county the DEM
ocrats again elected an independent
candidate for sheriff. He is republi-
can. but the democrats have been elect
ing him for a number of terms. as the
result of an old factional trouble in the
republican party. When the reports are
ALI in it will probably be found that not
only did a great many persons exercise
the independent right of not voting at
all hut those who did vote used the
SQUARES oftener than the circles on the
official ballots.
When the state board Of health meets
tomorrow it will have before it some
definite information in regard to the
smallpox on the Indian reservation in
Tama county. Unofficial information
| X arYady iS the
effect that there have been nearly 100
cases among the Indians and the deaths
have numbered nearly two dozen. But
the official reports are expected TO scale
these figures materially. DR.. A. M.
Linn, of this city. has been delegated TO
look after that particular case and he
has been in correspondence with the 10
cal physicians who have acted with In
dian Agent Malin at Tama. Agent Ma
lin has been requested TO sehd 10 the
board of health a detailed statement OIL
the situation. The board Will undertake
to straighten out the tangle and do all
that is possible under the law to allevi-
ate the suffering of the Indians and pro-
teet the white people living In the Vlcln-
ity of the reservation. This VIII be one
of the chief matters to come before the
state board tomorrow.
The organ of the prohibition political
party In this city makes the charge
against Mrs Clara Belle Brown, of
Washington, D. c.. who has come into
Iowa to oppose giving the ballot to
women. that she is in reality working
in the interest of the liquor dealers and
liauor interests She has given express
sion to an opinion that the sale of Ii
auors in the army canteen is all right
and the law against such practices
should be repealed. This has aroused
the prohibitionists, and they insist on
coupling the women suffrage movement
with the prohibition movement and point
To this expression of Mrs. Brown as evi-
dence that the two are necessarily all
lied. The equal suffraglsts of Iowa do
not want their cause tied up With the
prohibition party
A strong movement has been started
here for the purchase of voting ma
chimes for Polk county and the city of
Des Moines before another general cleo
ton. Ii is believed that IL this county
takes the lead other counties will follow
quickly. The board Of supervisors -