Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-14
Warm Supporter Of Cummins
Suggested For Position Of
Attorney General
DISTRICT COULD ENDORSE HIM
However, II Is Probable That Saunders
Himself Has Not Even Thought Of
tho Mstter-New Phase in conten.
tion Over tho lnspectorslip Of High
sohools-Sub. freshman Studies.
Special to Times Republican.

DeS MONIES, Mnrcn l4.-SenatOr
Charles G. Saunders of Council Bluffs,
was mentioned today for the position
of attorney general. 1t is possible
that Colonel Saunders has not so much
as thought of the matter. The reason
for the mention is the fact that on Jan.
1, 1907, the term of office Of Secretary
OF State William b. Martin. of Green
field. in Guthrie county, and the term
OF Lieutenant Governor John G.. Her
riott of Stuart, in Adair county will
expire and this will leave the Ninth
congressional district without repre-
sentatiOn In any Of the principal state
offices. The term of Attorney General
Mullan expires at the same time. Again
the sentiment of the voters in the Ninth
district aided possibly BY a seeming
change in the policy and opinion OF
some of the prominent newspapers of
the district, puts the district in a posi-
tion to endorse just such a man as
Colonel Saunders, who is n warm sup
porter of Governor Cummins Colonel
Saunders worked his way thru Drake
University and has steadily made his
way to that OF prominence and recog-
nixed ability in the state.
AS a party Of the confer ton over the
inspectorship of high schools and the
question OF board Of cor troll for state
educational institutions. 1t is now
claimed that the state university is es-
tablishing what 1t terms sub freshman
studies which 1t Is alleged are in real
ity constituting an academy or high
school course and that in consequence
the high schools are up In arms. 1t
is claimed the high schools say this Is
an infringement on their rights and
they think the state university should
stay in its place. Many universities
have provisions whereby students en-
tering the college of liberal arts and
being back in one or more studies,
can make UP such studies while con-
tinuing their college WORK.
Speaker Clarke Of A,iel has been
mentioned as a more likely candidate
for attorney general thar for governor
OF the state AS advancing this theory
1t is claimed that the attorney gen.
erals position is in the line Of his
work and ambitions as lawyer and
Furthermore 1t Is advant ed that being
governor is costly matter. It Is
pointed out that not Only Is the re-
muneration much less than most good,
lawyers make In q year, but further
more it is liable to be less than 1t
costs man to live and that only a
man of means can afford to accept
the position. The requirements of the
public for charitable matters and the
like are heavier on the governor than
on the attorney general or any OF the
other state offices. At the same time
there is $1,000 difference in the sal
ary. The attorney general gets $4,000
year and $500 as a member Of the
executive council. The governor gets
SIS, 900 a year as governor and 5000 for
house rent and $500 as, a member Of
the executive council.
The tabulation Of the population
statistics by The executive councils Of
flee will begin about April L. 1t is
not believed that 1t will be possible
to correct every card, but the mistakes
have been reduced to e. minimum and
great per cent of the cards will be
actually corrected SO that they will be
entirely correct.
Since the abolition of corporal pun
ishment at the Industrial School for
Girls at Mitchellville, there have been
but three runaways In four years. The
three girls left at one time last sum-
/ mer but were back to the institution
by the next morning. 1t used to be
the custom to whip the girls with
piece of garden hose. A piece two or
three feet long would be attached to
stick and the girls compelled to hold
up their dresses SO they could be
whipped about the legs A piece Of
garden hose makes Il smart that is
simply awful, but 1t leaves no mark
and raises no welt. In those days a
maj, and a team were regularly en-
he was kept pretty busy. Now the
girls are treated like ladies and are
much more like such. They are told
when they enter the school and by
the members of the board Of control
when they visit the institution that
they will be treated as tho it was a
private seminary ana their parents
were paying their board, and that they
will be expected to act as such.
Recently the board of control was
forced to reject receiving an Iowa man
in one of the institutions because he
was over twenty-one years old, and
there was no place for the man to go
but to the poor house, tho his parents
at one time We're very wealthy. The
boy was feeble minded. The parents
had paid $75 month to keep the boy
In private asylum in the east ever
since he was a child Finally the par
ents died and the estate was divided.
In some way this boy's share was soon
gone and Immediately the private in
s4i+rtion t,.rnefl him oi,t There war