Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-01
TIE CAMPAIGN
ASSESSMENT DUE
Fears of State Officers and AS
sistant of an Increase,
Not Realized
MAY CHECK ONE BOARD PLAN
Board of Trustees of Iowa State Col
Iese Adopted Change of Business
notwithstanding Committee is
acknowledgements Representa-
tives and Labor Movement.
to Times Republican.

Des Moines, Aug. 1.--State officers
and their deputies and their clerical
force have all received the past few
days the customary notice of assess
ment for the state political campaign
in Iowa. There was some fear that
because this is presidential year there
would be an increase in the assessment
but happily this is not true and they
are asked to pay the usual per cent
of their salaries. In the state house
alone, there are about 100 subject to
eating about $4,000. In addition to
these are the federal office holders
and the members of the legislature,
members OF congress and the county
are paid promptly there will be suffi-
cient funds to carry on fairly re-
spectacle campaign for saving Iowa.
The literature for the campaign II
presidential years is always furnished
in great abundance by the members CT
congress and the national COMMITTEES.
but the clerical labor of getting it out
is great and there is much expense
attached to this. The chief work will
come. however. when the speaking part
opens in September, and two or three
hundred speakers are sent out over the
state. many of them receiving pay for
their efforts, and all having their ex-
penses paid. There is much more of
cheerfulness about paying up the as
sessments this year than usual, and
general feeling among all republicans
that this is the year to get the party
well to the front in every district.
The change Of business method
adopted by the board Of trustees OF
the state college is regarded as some
thing that will go far toward putting
a quietus on the movement to establish
one board for the management OF the
educational institutions of the state.
The board has appointed a purchasing
committee thru which all purchases of
a miscellaneous character are to be
made, and these must all be bought on
competitive bids, after the manner pre-
scribed in law for the other state insu-
tutions. Heretofore the purchases have
been made in a general way but not on
bids, and while there never has been
any scandals at any of the institutions
because of the method of purchases.
the educational boards have been much
criticised for failure to adopt common
sense business methods. When the
state board of control examined the
educational institutions accounts
few years ago, severe criticism was
passed on them because there appeared
to be no system in the making of pur-
chases. Now these boards are about
to adopt the plans made so highly sue
cessful under the board of control.
While the United States government
does not officially recognize the labor
movement the fact was brought out
at the last meeting OF the national as
sociation of labor commissioners that
in many of the states the work being
done in the direction of gathering labor
statistics is largely in the hands of
union labor men. The labor bureaus
in the following states have men at
the head who are in the union labor
movement: Iowa, Colorado Illinois
Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota. Missouri
Nebraska, Maryland, New York, North
Carolina, Ontario. Wisconsin and West
Virginia. 1t will be observed that all
the states in the distinctly midland
group centering around Iowa have lab
or commissioners who are union
labor men, New York is the only east
ern state whose commissioner Is a
union labor man, but he is an enthu-
siast. 1t is also notable that these
n, In,
for the states are the most earnest and
generally attend all the meetings. they
practically organized the national
meeting. Carroll d. Wright was made
president but Il. D. Brigham. the Iowa
member, was made vicepresident. and
the North Carolina man was made sec
retary.
The defense of DIR. ". b. c. Bullard
of this city before the supreme court
in the matter OF his having conducted
a medical business In fraudulent man
ner. is shown in his argument just filed
1t will be recalled that he Is under
sentence from Clay county. where cir
culars were distributed which bore pic
lures of the state capitol and 1t was
claimed among other things. that it
was represented that this was the Bull
lard sanitarium in Des Moines. Now
the doctor lays the blame on his wife
and a printer and will attempt to con-
vince the supreme court that the cir
culars were prepared and distributes
by his wife without his knowledge, and
that the picture OF the state house was
placed on the circulars by the printer
without orders.
The entries in the cattle and horse
departments Of the state fair close to-
day, and before the entries close it Is
found that already there are entries
which Insure a larger cattle show than
ever known before. Secretary Sfmp-
son Is also delighted with another
phase of the matter-the entries show