Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-06
SUSPECT IH[ CENTRAL
Illinois Central May Be Behind
Proposed Railway Thru
Adair County.
Adoption Of Voting Machines in
Des Moines May Develop
a Scandal.
Cummins to Preside at Grant
Club Banquet..Olmsted's
Recommendations.
special to Times-Republican.

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Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Jan. 6.-There Is general
| impression that the new railroad con-
| templated in Madison and Adair coun-
ties to connect Greenfield directly with
Des Moines is an independent enter
prise only while in the embryonic stage.
The people interested in the road have
been taking note of the various move
ments and have reached the conclusion
that the proposed road ;s an Illinois
Central scheme. An observing resident
of Winterset is quoted in the Winterset
Newssin regard to the matter in way
that exactly comedies with the view
held by number of persons in Des
Moines who have also been studying the
map. This man Cherry" said the
guesser. is smooth one. He has some
big road at his back. He has made the
| road proposition that he will get them
a guarantee of a certain amount of tax
es and d certain amount of business out
OF Winterset and Greenfield IL they will
pay him so much for working it up He
has got 1t, and what is more / believe
he has got more than he promised for
no man last spring would have believed
that you could get taxes from Winter
set to Greenfield. or a 5 per cent tax in
Winterset and Greenfield. What road is
1t? Well. 1t isn't the Great Western. If
the Great Western wanted that line she
would build 1t and have 1t done before
anybody could think twice about 1t.
That is Stickney's way. Pull down your
map and look at that Iowa Falls road
running into Deg Moines. 1t is sure
go. 1t is all under way. 1t is being
built. 1t asked taxes, too, up in Story
county and got them all along the line
That road runs out of Iowa Falls for
two whole miles on the Illinois Central
tracks. If it was non-connected with
the Illinois Central it would not be u.s.
ing its tracks. The Illinois Central is
seeking an outlet to Kansas City. 1t
lately got whole lot of money to put
roa. snaterializes, IL 1t ever does, you
with the Iowa Falls project. That is my
guess"
1t is not generally known that the wild
turkey is still to be found In large droves
in Iowa, but the statement comes from
reliable sources that a drove of nearly
200 wild turkeys is foraging in the
southern part of the state and has been
seen in Monroe county and counties near
by. A fine specimen of a wild turkey
has been received at the historical de-
partment and mounted. The drove Is
supposed to have come from Missouri
or further south.
The attempt to adopt voting machines
in Des Moines is bringing about some
complications which suggest the possi-
bility of scandal in the matter of select
ing voting machines. There Is voting
machine commission in Iowa which is
charged with the duty of approving all
machines before they will be legal in the
state. This commission has approved a
number of different machines. The Polk
county board of supervisors has entered
into a contract for three of a certain
make, but the contract has yet to be
approved by the city council Pending
the final settlement the busybodies and
small lobbyists around the city halls and
court houses are doing business. This
machine has a fault and that one is de-
fective somewhere The air is filled with
rumors and statements and objections
If certain machine is used it will not
fill the bill in city elections. All this
means, to the initiated, that somebody
is waiting to be seen" by the agents of
the machine makers, and that there are
others yet to be fixed" before any ma
chimes can be given a trial. In short
the play is much like that of adopting
school text books, and the same sort of
jockeying and haggling is going on. If
this is to be the order of the day where
attempts are made to choose voting ma
chimes, the people of Iowa will become
weary of the whole movement. There is
already some talk of abolishing the
commission on voting machines and to
have the legislature, on report of a COM
mittee, designate what manner of ma
chimes are legal in Iowa, and thus settle
the whole business.
Governor Cummins has accepted
the invitation of the Grant Club people
to preside at the banquet to be given by
prominent republicans In honor of Gov
ernor Leslie M. Shaw this week. There
will be large number of prominent re-
rublicans of the state here at the time.
Among those who have been invited to
speak are Judge Hubbard, Senator Alli-
son, Senator Dolliver, E. Rosewater of
Omaha, Charles o. Lowden of Chicago
and Henry d. Estabrook of Chicago.
The acceptance of the invitation to act
as toastmaster by Mr.. Cummins will 81
lence all of the criticism which has been
cropping up of late along the line of in
dicating that he is disappointed because
an Iowa man has been taken into the
cabinet. Mr.. Cummins' attitude has
been consistent all thru. He did not feel
called upon to say anything in refer
ence to the new honors showered upon
the governor. He has simply gone
about his own business In his own way.
This morning a new judge took his
seat on the district bench in Polk coun-
ty, Last summer there was a lively con-
test in Polk county republican con-
yention From one voting precinct of
the city q delegation was sent to the
convention to fight Cummins. There
was one lawyer on the delegation. He
was the only lawyer who got into the