Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-12
DES MONIES Nl'22''
D|SAPl!; ,! NTED
Much Chagrin and Some Sore
ness Evoked by Change of
Fairbanks Meeting
MAY BE A BLOW At cuMMlNs
Railroads Complain Of Scarcity Of
Laborers-oiI Inspectors Want Help
Iowa Butter Will Be Represented
in the Last Creamery Competition at
ST. Louis.
Special to Times-Repuplican.

Special to Times-Repubiican.
Des Moines, Oct. 12.-There is un-
feigned disappointment in Des Meines
over the failure of this city to have
a big Fairbanks meeting. The feel
| ing toward the distinguished INDIANA
senator has been most excellent and
there was great planning for a meet
| ing to be held Tuesday evening and
the announcement Of the schedule as
arranged by Congressman Tawney Of
the national committee, gave great
satisfaction here. Then there was an
other thing which the Des Moine~ re-
publicans were looking forward to- and
that was a demonstration here tl1ich
there is really campaign on, for it is
well known that in large cities apathy
is harder to cope with than in the
smaller cities or in the country. There
will be registration days soon and a
demand that the voters shall register.
The work of the local committee will
be largely confined to getting the men
to register. 1t was felt that the Fair
banks meeting would arouse the vot-
ers and it would be easier to get more
nearly full registration. The failure
of the city to have a Fairbanks meet
cost the party over a thou
/ Sos In unregistered voters. The
Polk County Republican Club, which
has generally managed all meetings,
had gone to a considerable expendl-
ture for the Fairbanks meeting, when
the schedule was changed. While
opinions differ ais to the responsibility
for the change in schedule, President
Jordan, of the club, has no hesitancy
in declaring that it was due to the
fact that Polk county office holders
have paid their campaign assessments
to the local committee rather than the
state and to the further fact that
somebody somewhere along the line
wanted to put dampener on meet
ing where it was promised that Cow
ern Cumnins would preside. This is
all the more significant from the fact
that it is well known here that the
Polk County Republican Club is non
factional, and if there is a leaning n
any direction it is against Governor
Cummins. The rumOr that some petty
troubles caused a change in the sche-
dule here have been current for some
time. The state committee declared
at the outset that the sole reason for
the change was that the train could
NOT he got thru in time for the Des
m q W
he. the fact is that the incident has left
an ugly feeling here among all repub-
1icans that will be some time in heal
ing.
The railroad managers here COM
plain they are not able to secure a
sufficient number of men to do what
work they have for laborers at this
season of the year. The superinten-
dent of the Des Moinees division Of the
Milwaukee will send out two or three
work trains with hundred of more
men ia prepare the tracks for winter,
and Yesterday declared that the Gus
tomary run of hoboes and floating
workers who may be hired for such
work could not be secured at all. All
the railroads are making more use OF
men lust now incident to the season
and the fact that the crops are big.
'
The state of Iowa is represented In
the last competition over butter at the
S+ Louis with seventy tubs Of cream
erv made butter which have been ship
n.d there under the direction of Assist
ant Dairy Commissioner Keiffer. The
I,o fo1r in
onlv the very best butter makers in
the state to forward their samples in
the hope that the Iowa showing will be
good. The national meeting of butter
makers will pass upon this butter, and
II will be sold to swell the premiums
naid to exhibitors. Some of the ex-
h;bitors will receive fancy prizes for
butter.
Judge Granger formerly chief justice
of the supreme court OF Iowa, now
resident of Knoxville, was in the city
a few days ago on his way home from
Hot Springs, S. D., where he had been
spanding the summer. He and son
have made extensive purchases OF land
at eureka Springs, Ark, and they will
engage in numbering.
The adiutant general of the national
e,,ard in New York, has just issued
an order announcing that the guard
Of tnat state will be equipped with
Kra--Jorgensen rifles. This indicates
how far ahead of other states Iowa is,
for the guard of this state has had
the Krags for over year, and the boys
are now looking forward to the time
when they will get the new model
Springfields.
Oil inspectors Of the state are max
ing complaint that unless the state
authorities allow them to employ
b,anders for the oil barrels at the var
ious oil depots of the state they Will
be unable to do business and they say
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