Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-04

penses Of the work, the county mas 10
foot the bill, and the latter is more
often the case. The sheriff has made
q good fellow out of himself. friend
and probably several votes. and he
need not care who pays the bill just so
it is paid. The collection OF ices
in advance will mean a reduction in
much unnecessary work.
The Grundy Center Republican OBJ
serves in speaking of the interurban
situations: THE announcement that
the Marshalltown interurban is not
dead Will be received with JOY by the
people of Grundy county. The annual
meeting of the company was held last
week and something definite is promls-
ed in February. If Marshalltown al
lows the road to drop and fails TO land
the $4,000 in tax which has been vot-
ed, we will have to admit that 1t is
deader than it really looks. t'rundN
Center has done its part and thefe is
plenty of money being invested in in
terurbans in Iowa just now. Certain
ly some of it can be turned this way
if the right men are working for it..
Give us more good news soon.
The action of the city council, in
introducing an ordinance defining the
boundaries of the city, in which the
Sixth ward would be eliminated, has
succeeded in stirring up more interest
in the west end of town than any
thing that has happened in recent
years The councils move Friday
night in deferring action until the
next regular meeting was met with
Kisses from the rowdy element OF the
assembled multitude. which filed the
council chamber taxing its seating
capacity to the utmost. That feeling
was rife. WAS plainly shown, but the
manner of expression was entirely un-
called for, and out of place in ses-
sion of the council. Some of the more
conservative residents of the ward, In
speaking of the manner in which the
radicals acted at the meeting. said
that the cause of the Sixth warders
was weaker than it had been before
the meeting. When the presiding Off
cer of the city council feels that it is
necessary to threaten police i1terfer-
ence. because a body of men can not
act in an ordinary manner, 1t is time
that some of the more conservative in
the ward take charge of the affair." In
which the ward residents are so much
interested.
The sincerity Of the opposition from
Sixth warders themselves was put
under suspicion by the apparently vim
dictive action of citizens from outside
of the ward, yet as n matter OF public
rights the change of a ward boundary
is of legitimate interest to every and
any citizen regardless of his ward res
idence.
However, down at the bottom OF 1t
all the real motive for doing away with
this ward lies in the fear of a pro-
hibition majority arising in the coun-
Gil It Is realized that the two mem
bers from the ward now are prohib-
itlonists. One other has slipped in from
the Third ward. An election that
would put prohibition mayor into
office might easily elect a few more
prohibition councilmen and four more
with mayor even neutral would make
a dry town of our city. While this is
probably the purpose that would cause
4 tHe present IidJoIlly W Draw PupliS
criticism at this time in order to abol
ish the ward, the fact remains that
the public will still believe that the
obstructionist policy of Iseman and
Sieg Is what Is sought to be removed
and such motive, of course, is a
gainst public policy. On such grounds
it would be just as reasonable to abol-
ish the Second ward If it's councilmen
opposed the majority. Were it not for
this feature of the situation 1t would
not be a difficult task to secure the
consent of the Sixth warders them
selves to the change, for few of them
have ever believed that the new ward
was at all necessary. AS 1t is, the fair
thing to do now would be to wait UNI
til after the election and propose the
matter when the Sixth warders are not
excited by the politics of the coming
election.
The Just indignation of hundreds of
people is now directed to the theatre
management that will fail to heat a
public hall to such an extent as has
been experienced by the last few gath
erings i'm the Odeon. AS a rule the pre-
sent Odeon management have served
the Marshalltown public most COM
mendably. The Messrs. Busby now
have the good will of our people and,
of course, are not willfully neglecting
| the comfort of their patrons at this
time, but the risk to health is so great
and the duty of the man who conducts
a public hall so apparent that they
should either heat their building ade-
quately or close it's doors until they
can furnish a safe place for people to