Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-16

week, however, that indicates they are
goingi to manifest some life after the
election IL they are Indifferent now.
They have started paper in Des
Moines called the Iowa Equalist. 1t is
true It is almost Identical with the pa
per sslblished by Calamity Weller in
Nashua, but It is at least a paper and II
supports the reform movement. A
small circular has been gotten out by
the state committee and Is being circu-
lated It contains biographical sketch
OF each of the candidates on the state
ticket, copy of the state platform Of
the peoples party, defense of the vari-
Gus planks of the platform and an arti-
Gle on the conference Of reformers at
Kansas City and the declaration Of prin-
ciples Of the so-called allied party. This
is referred to as the party which was
formed by the merging of the following
parties, towit: Populists, fuslonists,
Bryan democrats, single takers. social
lists Lincoln republicans, union reform
crs and members Of the public owner
ship party. From this 1t appears that
the new party embraces. or is intended
to embrace. nearly everything that is
not republican or democratic. The pub
Tic ownership movement is given promi-
rence, and 1t is easy to understand that
after the election 1t is the plan of the
Iowa "reformers" to work on the public
ownership idea and try to build up q
new party.
The governors office is subjected to a
good deal of annoyance because Of the
fact that newspapers in various parts
of the country are conducting guessing
lotteries for the distribution Of prizes.
and as a result the Office is asked for a
great deal of information in regard to
election figures Major Fleming, the
private secretary to the governor, yes
terday showed sample letter of this
kind, from some one way down In Mis-
souri,, who wanted to know what the
total vote in Iowa was last year and the
year before on each and all the candi-
dates for head of the tickets. etc. The
work of looking up such information
takes time and the labor involved in
writing 1t is considerable. But such let
tiers come from various parts of the
country, from Maine to California, In
dicating that the guessing mania and
the lottery fad have not yet died out
with Americans,
An old insurance deal in which the
Southwestern Mutual Life, of Marshall-
town, was concerned, came to light In
the supreme court decisions yesterday.
John NJ. Cotton had policy in the ".
A. S. Security Life Association for 81
600. when it sold out to the Southwest
ern Mutual. There was a contract that
the Southwestern should write policies
| for all Security members. circular to
| that effect was sent out, and Cotton
made application. 1t was not acted or
before he died. The contract and the
offer and its acceptance were set up as
a contract of insurance. But the court
holds that Cotton's acceptance was
more in the nature OF an opening of ne
gotiations than anything else, and that
inasmuch as the company had ten kinds
of policies and no one was specified the
contract had not yet been made. The
reason the company had not accepted
| the offer was that Cotton was too old
to be accepted as member OF the
Southwestern. He was thus left. by the
mere fact of growing old, without any
insurance.
The argument for the state in the
Hossack case from Warren county has
been printed and will be filed today. 1t
covers the whole ground. and answers
all the objections made by the attor-
neys for the defense to the regularity of
the trial. Objection was made to in
Itroduction of photographs of the bed
with Hossack lying thereon, because
the body had changed position. but the
testimony was that there had been very