Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-14
A DIES HOMES FAKE

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tul,ally, is sorry for 1t. When a coun-
tryman visits the capital city on a
harmless mission and wakes up next
morning to find himself expressing
fantastic views in a newspaper inter-
view without ever having seen the
interviewer the embarrassment of his
situation has often been source OF
amusement to newspaper men but the
heartiessness of Des Moines newspaper
enterprise has given one editor new
View of this kind of a joke.
The editor of the Times Republican
arriving on a belated train, met Gov
amor CumInins in private room in
The hotel at a late hour at night with
tut having exchanged word with
Wing soul about Mr.. Ketchum's can
lidacy and he remained in that room
until the type had been set and half
tone illustrations placed in the forms
Tor the mail editions of the Register
and Leader. What was "rumored about
the Hobbies" was legitimate material
Tor a newspaper story but what pur-
ports to be an "intimation" from him
that Mr. Ketchum will not be a candi-
date for railroad commissioner was un--
nitigated fiction on the part of a repor
er. whom newspaper men believe to be
altogether too friendly to Mr.. Palmer.
Mr.. Ketchum has not made the T.-R.
,ditor guardian of his political fortunes
Tor was his candidacy the subject for
discussion that brought said editor to
oes Moines. Friends of Mr.. ketchum
Marshall county have been repeated
" assured that If he should become
q candidate he would receive the per-
sonal support of Governor Cummins
and that situation has not been
changed. II is for Mr.. Ketchum to say
whether he will become candidate
md when he so decides he will I'M
ioubtedly make formal announcement
N the columns OF the Tinles-Repub-
lean. If Mr. Ketchum is willing to
prosecute a fight for the nomination
into the precinct caucnses and before
i zach county convention the T.-R. be-
aeves that he can successfully de-
eat Mr.. Palmer regardless of the fact
hat the railway attorneys OF this state
are determined to keep Palmer In office
as they have kept Dawson there.
Should the editor of the Register AMI
Leader visit Marshalitown upon an er
rand of purely personal and private
business the reporter who should DELHI
erately seek TO embarrass him by mis-
representation would be made to pay
severe penalty. Such discourtesy is
unprofessiopal and will never prove
success as the circulation builder nee
essary to meet the 50 subscription price
OF 4 rival.
T.-R. WINS IN U. S. SUPREME COURT.
Governor Cummins has received word
from the supreme court of the United
States that the application of Welker
the trial of his case against the Times
Republican in the circuit court of APP
peals had been denied and this ends
our litigation over this matter finally
and forever. Given has now been de-
fsated in three successive federal
courts.
In May 1896 Given sold the T.-R.
to S. c. Mcfarland now United States
consul to Reichenberg, Austria. Two
years afterward he sued the corporation
Tor s16,375 on three counts alleging in
substance that he personally had loaned
$1,000 to the corporation when he
owned all of the capital stock and that
he as president had executed prom
issory notes to himself as individual
but that he had lost the notes The
Marshalltown, and Cummins, Hewitt.
and Wright, of Des Moines, defended
the T.-R. Mr.. Cummins, who has since
become governor of Iowa, argued the
case before Judge Mcpherson of the
United States circuit court at Des
Moir,es in November, 1900, and Given
was defeated. He appealed to the
United States circuit court of appeals
sitting at st. Paul and was again de-
feated on March 10, 1902. This was
supposed to end the case. In the mean
time the firm of Cummins. Hewitt and
Wright was dissolved and the T.-R.
was sold to its present owners. No
tice was received last month, however,
of Given's application before the United
States supreme court for writ of
certiorari to take the case up for last
hearing before the highest tribunal of
the land. Governor Cummins prepared
a final argument which was presented
thru a Washington attorney and the
T.-R. editor was informed yesterday
that the Given suit, which he had in
herited from his predecessor, had been
finally and forever settled in his ia.
Nor.
HIGH TIDE OF IMMIGRATION.
Last Friday marked the high tide of
foreign immigration for single day,
the number of foreigners landed at Ellis
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