Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-16
YB[ THERE
Abandonment of Dedication
Plans Enables Governor to
Accompany President
DENlsoN PLANS GREAT WELCOME
President Roosevelt Will Have Album
dant Time to Give That City Good
eetine-state Labor Convention at
Davenport Productive of Very Salts
factory Results.
Special to Times Republican.


Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, May 16.-tt is very prob
able that Governor ,Cumn,ins will go to
Denison and Fort Dodge on the occa-
sion of the visit of President Roosevelt
and accompany the presidential party
ras far as Waterloo. When the plans
were, originally laid for the president to
cross Iowa second time the governor
had made all arrangements to go TO
Shiloh and participate in the dedication
OF the Iowa monuments on May 80 and
1T would be obviously impossible for
him to get back in time to meet the
president at Denison. But since the
dedication plans have al! been aban-
doned and it is known that nothing
stands in the way of the governor meet
ing the president the invitations have
been coming to him to be in the various
towns along the route. Judge Conner
has written the governor pressing IN
vitation to be present IN Denison on
the occasion of the presidents visit. 1t
lis planned that the president shall be
given great welcome there. He will
arrive about 6 o'clock a. M. but will
not leave his car until about $3.50 a. m.
He will have abundant time to give the
Denison people good meeting. Gov
ernor Cummins has received another
Invitation from Senator Dolliver. who
assures him that the people of Fort
Dodge desire his presence on June 2.
when Roosevelt is there. The governor
has date at Charles CITY the next day
and IL he goes with the presidential
party he will go as far as Waterloo.
But Governor Cumrlins had not
planned to take special car and go to
Denison and Fort Dodge, and 1t may be
that he Will merely go a,one. The Sac
City company of the National Guard
will be at Denison.
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Labor Commissioner Brigham and
others Of the Des Moines delegates to
the state convention of the Federation
of Labor at Davenport have returned
home, and they report that the fedora
ton meeting was in many ways one or
the most satisfactory ever held by the
federation. Reports from every part OF
the state indicated that the union
movement has been growing immense
ly, not only in numbers but in standing
in the state of Iowa, and that whereas
in other years the union movement was
regarded everywhere with suspicion 1t
is now respected even by those who
mildly oppose it, and 1t has the good
wishes of the press ana OF politicians.
Des MoineS sent an especially Strons
delegation of conservative men to the
federation meeting. The one topic which
appeared to be of greatest interest IN
the federation was that of protection 10
Iowa laborers. This included not only
factory inspection and boiler inspection,
but child labor and the improvement OF
the compulsory school attendance law.
The Des Moines delegates report tha1
the action of the Federation of Womens 5
Clubs in appearing before the Fedora
ton of Labor by committee and urging
cooperation in regard to child labor
and compulsory education. was one OF
the pleasantest features of the conveH-
t ton. and this was in direct line with the
Recommendations of President Holder.
Of the Federation of Labor. Now it Is
eypected that the State Teachers As
/ sociation will also appoint a committee
| and the three will work in unison to
secure whatever of legislation may be
needed to place Iowa in the forefront
In the matter of legislation to protect
/ the rising generations. Such COM
hination of Influences will be hard for
the state legislature to resist even II
there should be any disposition to re-
sist.
The latest combination is to- be that
of city physicians. They are to meet In
Des Moines today and form state as
sociation.
The fame of Des Moines as an art
center does not rest alone on the low,
soldiers monument. This city is the
home of two original paintings by Peter
Paul Rubens at least they are said to
lbe originals. and the evidence in sup
port of this is good. They are owned
by Joseph Lehner, an eccentric German,
formerly quite wealthy, but now re-
duced to moderation. a man whose WIFE
was of an aristocratic Bavarian family.
The two pictures came Into the family
more than hundred years ago, and
have been in possession of Mr.. Lehner
since 1857. The "Ecco Homo or por-
trait of the head of Christ. is picture
familiar to all, from the fact that copy
hangs in the cathedral at Antwerp. and
|it has been printed many times. Ihe
other is a picture supposed to represent
Adam and Eve in the garden Both are
plainly very ancient pictures. Mr. Len
ner has been offered $4,000 for the
"Ecco Homo" but has refused. An
agent for ]. Pierpont Morgan recently
visited Des Moines and looked at the
picture and arranged ttiat Mr. Lehner
shall go to New York with him on his
return from the west and submit both
pictures to examination by connoisseurs
land If they are pronounced genuine, OF
which Mr.. Lehner has no doubt. they
will be purchased by Morgan for his
great collection. Mr.. Lchner has had
lit intimated to him that he can get at
| least 100000 for the two pictures and
he would not today sell for any less
than that amount.
! report comes from Missouri 10 the
effect that Missouri democrats are be-
coming alarmed over the great move