Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-09
DEMOCRACY LOSING HEART
Few 0bssrvaucss Of jackson Day in the
State Of Iowa.
WOODBURY. WANTS ITS INSANE RETURNED
Board of Control Not Inclined TO
Grant Request, as Counties DO
Not Make Suitable Pro-
vision for Them.
tFrom a SAD Correspondent.)

(From a star Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Jan. Especial Mot
withstanding that in many sections Of the
state the democratic party made suhstan-
tial gains last fall at the election because
OF the omission in the state platform OF
all references to the Chicago and Kansas
City free silver platforms, only a few gem
ersl celebrations OF Jackson day are re-
ported. The day passed without any rec
ognition whatever in Des Moines and not
one Of the Des Moines democratic orators
was invited to go sewber and speak. A
banquet was given by the democrats OF
Muscatine last night addressed by Con-
gresham NJ. ]. Wade Of the Second district.
This evening he was the principal speaker
at a Jackson day banquet in Davenport,
nearly all the speakers being old-time dem
ocrats in the eastern part Of the state
who have survived as such since the advent
Of the new order. The most conspicuous
! gathering of democrats was in Waterloo
/ this evening, where there were as speak
ers Ex-Governor Boies, Waterloo; ]. M.
Parsons, Rock Rapids; Judge A. Van
wagenen, Sioux City; Henry Vol:mer,
Davenport; A. L. Sorter, Mason City; S. S.
Wright, Upton, and T. J. Fitzpatrick,
| Dubuque. Ex-Governor Boies spoke on
The Republicanism Of Lincoln Compared
with the Republicanism Of Hanna Mr..
Parsons, who has twice been chairman Uf
democratic state conventions, spoke on
T Iowa Idea; is 1t a Doorstep Foun-
dling?' At Ottumwa another gathering Of
the democrats took place this evening and
the banquet was addressed by about fifteen
local speakers.
Want Insane Returned.
The county officials of Woodbury. county
are making an effort to have returned to
the county asylum about fifteen inmates OF
the state hospital at Cherokee who are,
| SO It is claimed, able to be placed In a
county asylum. The officials have had an
Investigation made and find that about hf-
teen Of their patients are rmle and In
durable and they are seeking TO have them
sent from Cherokee. They can be cared for
cheaper at the county asylum than at the
state hospital. But the Board Of Control
: has in this case, as in others, hesitated
because the county asylum is reported In
poor condition. The state inspector Of
these county institutions reported at the
last visit that it was in better condition
than before, but still in very poor shape
for properly caring for the insane. A sim
liar state Of affairs exists In other coun-
ties OF the state and 1t is probable that
very few will be sent from state hospitals
to these county insane asylums unless there
is material improvement in the county
hospitals.
schurman ut state University.
President Schurman Of Cornell univer-
sity is to deliver the address tomorrow at
| the sixteenth annual convocation OF the
students of the State university OF Iowa..
He has been in Minnesota and was induced
4 to tarry a day In Iowa.
The Board Of Control yesterday elected
DR.. r. NJ. Powell Of Glenwood to be super
intendent Of the State Institute for the
Feeble Minded for another term. He has
been at the head Of the institute for twenty
years and has about 1900 children in his
charge the year round.
Sent to the Penitentiary.
Judge Given In the district court today
sentenced Charles Keihl TO five years In
the penitentiary for larceny. He broke Into
a dyeing establishment and stole a few
things. He had been in the penitentiary
once before and is addicted to liquor so
that he is regarded as hardly responsible.
He told the court he would commit suicide
II sent back to Fort Madison, where he
had been before. but expressed a willing
ness to go to the penltentiary at Anamosa.
He will be transferred to the latter place.
Tip" Blaine, who last summer was con-
vlcted of larceny, after he had been brought
back from Washington state. and whose
case has been to the supreme court, walked
into the sherif's office today and announced
he is ready to go to the pen. He will serve
six years.
Served for Old Crime.
William Ollie, mentioned in dispatches
from Anamosa yesterday as having died
after twenty-six years in the state peni-
Tertiary, was from Iowa City. He was
serving a life sentence and his case was a
sad one.
Ollie was serving time for the killing
of Thomas Swift, a section foreman on
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern.
Ollie was working under Swift and a diff
ference arose over a time check, amount
ing to about rs cents. A sharp quarrel
arose, and Ollie went to Iowa City and
purchased a revolver. He returned to
Morse, where both men lived, and meeting
Swift in front of the latter's home. re-
newed the quarrel and ended by shooting
Swift. The latter died the next day. Ollie
was defended in court by George w. BoaI
and S. s.. RRnck, but he was convicted OF
murder in the first degree.