Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-18
Decrease in Number of Votes
Cast Renders Prohibition
Party Unknown Legally.
IOWA DELEGATION FOR CANNON
Anthracite Coal Strike Not So Well
Supported by Miners in District No.
13 - Restoration of Shirley House at
Vicksburs Vacancy in 51st Res-
ment Untitled.
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! Des Moines, Nov. 1s.-The prohibition
rarty becomes again in Iowa thing
unknown legally. The prohibitionists
least not one-half of the vote this year
they did last. The party thus falls be-
low the requirement in the matter OF
being legal political party. Last year
| the prohibition vote was nearly $4,000
This year it did not reach 10000 Re
turns from seventy-two Of the counties
OF the state made semi Officially to the
secretary of state show that the total
vote for Howard. candidate on the pro-
hibition ticket for secretary of state,
| was 1857. At the same ratio for the
other twenty seven counties the total
would be about 800. 1t will hardly go
ever 10000. In the same seventy-two
counties the socialist candidate for sec
rotary of state, Jacobs, received total
of 4,671, which indicates vote of about
| $500 in the state for the socialist
| ticket. Last year the socialist candidate
| for governor got 3,463 and the popuiist
candidate got 7s2. 1t is therefore ap-
parent that the socialist ticket drew
| from the republican and democratic
rarties some of its surprising strength
/ Of this year. The socialist ticket re-
Iceiyed T99 votes in Scott county, which
| is the heaviest vote received, and 4Sl
| in Polk county. The socialist vote was
pretty well scattered, as for instance,
IAppanoose 2S9 Boone 266, Clinton 206,
| woodbury. 336, Muscatine 2o1. Des
1 Moines 2S1, Madison 116 Fayette 10S.
Marshall 130. Linn f22. Harrison 13S,
/ and the rest below 100 Dubuque
county returns are not in. The ticket
| received some votes in every county
| thus far reported.
| It is now evident that the members
of the Iowa delegation to the next conI
gress have not acted as wisely as they
! q. ,s7'd have done In the matter of max
ling known their choice for speaker. IL
| is now left for them only to stand by
Joe Cannon, of Illinois. There Is moth
| ing else for them to do. But for some
reason a few of them were led into Civ
| ing expression of choice for Babcock.
who has now withdrawn and left the
Iowans holding the empty bag. Tff
delegation will support Cannon. 1t
hardly to be expected, however, that thu
| Iowa members will fare as well in the
matter of committee chairmanships un-
der Cannon as the delegation did under
Henderson. Hull. Hepburn and Lacey
hold the most important positions. and
| it is improbable all Of them will be so
favored by Cannon.
Coal miners in District No. 13, which
comprises Iowa and Missouri coal
mines, are now paying only one-half as
much for the support of the anthracite
coal strike as formerly. A circular has
just been received by the mine officials
and heads of unions from John P Shite.
Of Abba, president of the district. re-
aucing the strike assessment one-half.
This is on orders from the national Off
GERS, the circular having been sent out
| by President Mitchell announcing that
most of the anthracite miners have re-
| turned to work There are yet about
| 10000 miners out on strike in the an
thracite regions and this makes it nee
| essary for the miners of soft coal to
keep up half payments for some time.
| Members of the Vicksburg park COM
mission for Iowa have received infor-
nation to the effect that the work be-
| ing done by the national commission on
| the park at Vicksburg is now consider
| able and that great deal of improving
| is going on. The plans for the park
We're finally adopted and some sugges-
| tions as to changes which were made
| by Iowa men were acted on favorably.
| The national commission is now en-
gagged in building roads and bridges and
restoring the old landmarks. One of the
| landmarks restored, and which will be
| Of especial interest to many of the Iowa
| soldiers who served in the campaigns
around Vicksburg, is the old Shirley
house, which was within the lines of
the besieging army for large share of
the time. The members of the family
We're symrathizers with the federal
army and gave comfort and aid to
many i'll soldiers. The old house has
been put in order to appear substan
TALLY as when the soldiers were. there. |
The work of placing some of the state
monuments will be commenced in the
spring and the Iowa commission will
likely have it's designs ready for the
bidders next spring.
No action has as yet been taken
looking toward the filing of the vacan-
cy in the Fifty-first regiment occa-
stoned by the dropping out of the COM
pany at Stuart. There will be no COM
pany organized at Stuart again. The
real trouble there was that the people |
did not back up the company, took no
interest in it. felt that it was supported |
by the state and needed no other sup |
port and thus left the company to
Grift into uselessness. A number of |
other towns have asked for the place in
The Fifty-first thus left vacant, but not |
one has been given any encouragement
in the matter 1t is probable that a
transfer from some other regiment will |
be made and thus a vacancy be left i'll
some other part of the state so that
the regiment may be better grouped |
In fact it has been the effort of General
Byers In recent years to get the regi-
mertS located better geographically andI