Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-04

is that the adjutant general has fitte
| up another room in the state house and
is using 1t for a private office. The
| room was formerly used as a storage
| room because there was no door be-
tween 1T and the other rooms used by
the adjutant. The article says that
Gen. Byers got along during his term
without the extra furnishings to fit up
that room. AS a matter of fact the
incentive for the article is that the
off1ce of the adjutant general and gov
ernor have been so willfully misrep-
resented that to shield themselves TIC
adjutant has refused to give the re-
porter for the paper any news. The
governors office still gives out news in
magnanimous spirit in spite of the
Misrepresentation of the paper. The
fact of the matter is that Adjutant
General Byers tried for one
year to get the door cut between the
two rooms and Gen. Thrift came into
of the work General Byers had DONE
The article further implies that the
using of the room for an office neces-
states the rental of storage room
down town while the fact is the stor-
age room was rented anyway and is
absolutely necessary. The article
states that the adjutant has three
rooms in the state house while the
state auditor and the secretary of state
have only the same number. To be
fair the, article should have said tina.
the three rooms of the adjutant were
smaller put together than any two Of
the offices of the other officials. The
article states that the offices Of the
governor and adjutant are so surround
ed with ceremony that 1t is difficult to
gain admission to the offices without
sending in a properly engraved card
and then admission is gained with diff
ftculty. The correspondent for the t.
r. and all other Des Moines newspaper
men have no difficulty to gain admis-
sion to either office by waiting their
turn with other persons who have bus
mess there. Governor Cuinmins, as a
matter of fact. is as easy to approach
as any man who has ever held the eX-
ecutiye office. There is nearly always
large number of people seeking to
see the governor. Their business is
usually private and it is, therefore.
necessary for the transaction of the
business coming to the governor that
he use his private office the greater
part of the time that he is at the state
house. At the close of the days BUSH
ness, however. it is quite a common
matter for the governor to chat with
the newspaper men and others in the
office of his private secretary, Mr..
Briar. Until the paper in question rep
resented falsely that there was a strife
between the governor and the adjutant
general, it's reporter was given the news
wiki the others. Then 1t was cut off
for the reason that it misrepresented
the facts.
An effort is likely to be made to Sc
cure Attorney General Peck of the Mill
waukee road to appear in Des Moines
and make a speech. Mr.. Peck recently
appeared before the senate committee
on interstate commerce and his testl.
mony attracted considerable attention
He Is q great orator and one OF the
greatest opponents of the railroads
side of the case In the rate agitation.
1t is difficult to secure him for adj
dresses and the matter has not prog
ressed far. Possibly the efforts will
fail If he should come he would un'
be given a large audience.