Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-21
PR0UTY IN CONTROL
Republican County Committee
In His Hands - Working
Hard For Macyicar
HULL MANAGERS ON DEFENSIVE
Calling of the Congressional Primary
Before Municipal Fight in Des
Moines is Ended Will Have That
Effeet-Mattern Brought Out in the
Interest of HuIl-state's Purchases.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Jan. 21.-The people OF
! the city of Des Moines are having more
than their share of politics this year.
No sooner was the state election we'll
out of the way when the municlpai
campaign was precipitated by unusuas-
ly early primaries of the republicans:
and now the republican congressional
primaries are to be called and will be
piled up on top of the municipal cam
ipaIgn proper. The republican county
/ committee is in the hands of Judge 5.
i r. Prouty and his friends. and the call
Twill undoubtedly be made In accordance
with his wishes. The county commit
tee meets January 2S for the purpose of
fixing the date for the congressional
primary. 1t is certain the date VIII
be sometime within the next 60 days.
|, In the meantime the city election Will
lbe coming on and the municipal cam
lpaign will be warm one. With
George Mattern. the republican can
ldidate for mayor pledged to the sup
mort OF Congressman Hull and his CAM
spaign entirely In the hands " the Huh
lpeople. it will readily be seen that the
possibilities for a complicated case OF
politics are great The Prouty men
will be in position to demand con-
lcessions from the special friends Of
Mattern under threat of non support
of him at the city election. They may
| even be able TO so manipulate the
matter that they Will force Matterns
! friends to deliver the votes to Prouty
in the congressional fight or take great
Irisk of defeat in the city election. AT
any rate, the calling OF the congress
sional primary before the municipal
l,igh, is ended Will place the Hull man
asers on the defensive. The managers
(. for Mattera were reluctant % admit be-
fore his victory at the polls that he was
the Hull candidate and was brought
out in the Interest Of Hull but no sooner
was the primary over until they shout
ed that the Mattern victory was HUI
victory and that Mattern was brought
out by Hull for me special purpose
OF beating MacVicar because MacVicar
was Prouty man. In the meantime
Judge Prouty Is making hard cam.
paign. He will speak In schoolhouses
and at the cross roads and appeal to the
voters direct. He Is very confident of
success not only in this county but
lin other counties, and declares that
there Is no way he can be beaten. But
Capt. Hull Is compelled to remain In
Washington and leave his fight in the
hands OF friends. The congressional
primary will be quite as exciting as
the city primary. but some OF the dis
graceful features may be eliminated.
and there will hardly be the wholesale
| stuf;iny OF the boxes which marked
the fight OF two years ago between the
same two men.
The state OF Iowa purchases fo-
the use OF its state institutions IN
|average OF about 10000 barrels of -four
each year The state buys good fiouf.
as it buys the best OF everything. and
liz buys all supplies on competitive bids
| as required by law, letting contracts
to the lowest bidders. The state mil
lers' association took the state board OF
control to task for not confining the
bidding to the millers OF the state and
permitting mills from Nebra ska to car
ry off a portion OF the business. An
I investigation OF the records OF the state
lin this matter shows that In the past
for wears the state has purchased 40.356
barrels of flour for the state institu-
| tons For the years 1900 and 1901 both
the entire purchat es were made from
Iowa mills. but last year awards were
made aggregating $3.50 barrels to a
Nebraska firm and this year the same
firm got 9,725 barrels. or nearly the
entire supply for the year. Thus %
| the 40,355 barrels bought In four years
27,1sO came from Iowa mills and 49,
ll75 from outside mills. The only out
| slider who has succeeded in doing much
business is milling firm al Schuyler,
Neb. Mills in Des Moines Avoca. Mar
shalltown. Sioux City. Boone. Clarinda,
1ndianola, Carson. Davenport and Lo.
gan have all had portions OF the bust-
| ness recently. The mills at Avoca for
merly got the largest portion OF the
business but recently have been un-
lderbid The owner Is dominating
force in the Iowa millers' association
| The annual purchases of -four for the
institutions are as follows: Anamosa.
| 700 barrels; Cherokee, $50; Clarinda.
| 500: Council Bluffs, 275; Davenport.
| 500; Eldora, $50; Fort Madison, 500,
lGlenwood. 1900: Independence. 1900;
Marshalltown. $50; Mt. Pleasant, 1,
goo: vinton, 140. Members of the
board of control say that they are per-
fectly willing to confine their purchas IS
to Iowa if the law is made TO read
that way, tho it will cost the state
much more So far as they have had
| my discretion in the matter they have
| favored Iowa firms.
The supreme court of Iowa has had
4 5 frs. term under the new rules Of
he court, or rather the first section of
| he term. With the close of business
estsrday the eour; closed oral argu-
cents and submissions until Feb 9.
rren another batch of cases will be
aued for submission. The cases sub
edtted the past week we're from the
outheastern and the extreme north
Western portions OF the state. Ae-
.1,ne to the ulans ~ 'hcs who
framed the new law these changes are