Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28
HULL 8 S[A1 IS SAF[.
Despite Story's Protest There is
no Serious Thought Of His
Defeat.
Counties Outside Of Polk May
Instruct Against Him for
Political Effect.
Cocaine Law Causes Druggists
Notwithstanding Of Ru-
raj Schools Successful.

raj Schools Successful.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 2S.-There is not
particle Of expectation on the part OF
any one in Des Moines that Congress
man j. A. T. Hull will be beaten for re-
nomination to congress this year. There
has been no serious thought of any
such thing since the Polk county re-
On the day of the convention and up to
that time many of the leading republic
ans of the city and county We're ready
to go to any length to secure the defeat
oe Captain Hull. All of the accusations
CT fraud and unfairness at the primary
election and the plan to force con-
testing delegation We're with this in
view. That the primary election was
fair and impartial there are none OF
honor or responsibility to now assert.
But the Hull organization won over the
Prouty organization in a rough and
tumble fight and that was the end of it,
Since that time the Story county re-
publicans have voiced their sentiments
and they are decidedly against Hull
and against the methods resorted to by
the Hull people to secure to him the
Polk delegation. More recently efforts
have been made to emphasize this pro-
test by having similar action taken In
the four other counties of the district
1t certainly would not look well for
Captain Hull If, for instance, four OF
the counties of his district instructed
against him after his nomination was
assured. This is what has been hoped
for and planned for by his opponents
But the judicial canvass in the other
counties is bringing about some COM
plications and makes it impossible that
any such program can be carried out.
Frequent conferences have been held
here and elsewhere to see what can be
done to make more manifest the pro-
test of the district against the present
congressman. But as to attempting Sc
riously to defeat him, that has not been
thought of. Captain Hull announced
his intention of being a candidate two
gears hence and this is why the protest
| is to be emphasized in every possible
way.
It was at the request OF Governor
Cummins himself that the commission
to build the Vicksburg monuments was
increased to nine members, presumably
because he realized that there were at
least that many men who desired places
On the commission and a share in the
honor of the building and that many
who ought to be named. He named his
list Saturday evening as follows: L. G.
Blanchard, Oskaloosa; f. ]. c. Bealer,
Cedar Rapids; J. A. Fitchpatrick, Ne
vada: j. F. Merry, Dubuque; D. A.
Haggard, Algona; II. n. Rood. Mount
Vernon: w. II. C. Jaques. OttumWa;
w. O. Mitchell, Corning; ]. II. Dean,
Des Moines. The terms of the appro-
priation are such that the contract will
be let for the construction of the mon.
uments in accordance with designs al
ready accepted and apprayed but with
the provision that the warrants for the
payment of the same will not be avail
able for several years. This does not
mean that the work will be dragged
along thru the next five years. The
contractors may consent to do the work
and wait for their pay. Only $4,000 Is
available in the current biennial period
and this will do little more than start
the work.
The new cocaine law is causing some
worry to the druggists of the state. II
is one of the most drastic laws of the
state and was made so as to prevent
| absolutely the sale of cocaine except
in each and every instance on an order
from physician. AS originally planned
the law would have prevented any one
from buying the dangerous drug at a
pharmacy except a physician, cutting
off the right to sell on a prescription.
AS amended the law permits selling on
q prescription and also refilling the
prescription on written order from
the physician. Unscrupulous physi-
clans and Indifferent druggists may.
therefore, evade the law by filling a
prescription with a standing order for
the ref1lling thereof. for the benefit of
the cocaine fiend. Druggists are COM
planning that they have customers who
must have the drug, who are so far
gone that resistance is useless and
hopeless, and they are objecting to the
stringency of the new law. But the
legislature did another thing and that
is to provide that the state board of
control shall provide a department at
one of the state insane hospitals for the
treat atment of just such persons. The
state undertakes to treat as insane one
who has so far lost control of his will
that he can not resist the temptation to
buy dangerous or deleterious drugs and
use them. The two laws fit in nicely
and when they are well understood it is
believed the friction will entirely disap-
pear.
At the recent conference of county
sCperintendents with the state super
intendent in this city, and at othet
similar conferences held in the state
recently, one topic much discussed was
that of methods of graduating from the
common schools and the requirements
for entry to the town high schools. The
fact was disclosed that in nearly every
county of the state some form of grad
uation from the common schools and
particularly the ungraded rural schools
Is now used. In one county the princi
pals of the schools in town and leading
educators thruout the county form a
sort of unofficial commission to pre-