Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-17
'CR[D|1 CUNN|NS
WITH AL REFORMS
Governor Enormously Charged
With Authorship of Many
So-Called Reforms
COMMITTED TO FEW OF THEM
He Has Announced Himself as Favor
able TO State Wide Primary and An
ti.Pass Measures, But Has Not
Fathered Any Of Large Number of
Ideas Credited to Him.
Special to Timse-Republican:

Special to Timse-Republican:
Des Moines, April lit Is possible
that some discredit may be cast on the
state wide primary election law and
anti-pass law which the governor has
announced that he favored by the mis-
takes that are being made over the
state in assigning the authorship of all
sorts of so-called reforms to the gov
ernor. Soon after his return from
washington after the Inauguration
Governor Cummlns, in an interview
with the correspondent of the Times
Republican stated that he would use
his influence with the next general as
sembly to secure a state wide primary
election law and an anti-pass law. He
has not at any time added to this list
| tho there seems to be an impression
| over the state that he is also to favor
a tWo-cent railroad fare, a railroad
| credential that can be used by every
member of mans family and a lot of
other thirgs. After crediting the gov
ernor with being the originator Of these
F, ideas the next move will be to claim
that rank injustice Is being done to
the railroads in an attempt to pass
such radical railroad legislation and
thus defeat the anti-pass law which
the governor really favors. One state
paper last week printed a long editor
ial against the two-cent fare propo-
| ci nd q pay, 0f 40 cfaf
prints a list of five reforms all Of
| which it claimed to have secured from
Iowa exchanges which claimed the
governor had announced that he pro-
posed to secure their passage at the
| next session Of the general assembly.
| The claim that the governor is favor
/, ing two-cent fare bill and mileage
/ book to be used by an entire family
| is with as little authority and founda-
tion as the claim that he is to be a
candidate for the United States senate
| against Dolliver.
| There will be but one case submit
ted to the supreme court from Marshall
| county at the next term of the court
and this will come during the second
period, which opens June 6. The case
is that Of Joseph F. Lynn against the
Glucose Sugar Refining Company. The
next term Of the court is known as the
May term and is a short term. there
being but two periods. After the June
period the court will enjoy vacation
till the 10Th of September. At the
next period, however, there will be
some very important cases submitted.
The Martin Westcott case from Cerro
Gordo county which should have been
submitted at the last term but was car
ried over, will be submitted at the
June period and the office of the at
torney general is at this time working
on the arguments. Among the impor-
tant cases coming in the second per-
iod are the motion for a rehearing in
the case of the Bank of Irwin against
the American Express Company, i'm
which the express company has been
held for damages for money lost from
an express package; the Louis Busse
murder case from Bremen county on
motion for rehearing; Polk county,
which usually has the largest number
Of lawsuits, has forty-two cases on
the docket to be submitted, among
the criminal cases there being that of
Satan" Andrews, the man who made
SO much news by escaping from the
Polk county Jail, the case against John
Daily an East Side constable, convict
ed for soliciting a bribe. the case of
criminal libel against Rev. f. G.. Lo-
mack, the man convicted of slandering
H. r. Wright, the colored lawyer who
was born in Marshall county and has
lately been appointed to a consulate in
San Domingo. The motions for re-
hearings Of the jury bribery cases
against Ed II. Hunter and others OF
Des Moines. are to be argued and the
case of Nose Jacobs the Des Moines
newsboy, who made a fortune selling
papers, against his father Charles Jac-
obs, to recover the fortune, is to be
submitted.
There will will be no guard company
at Charles City. Gen Thrift went to
Charles City and found there were but
thirty two men to be enlisted While
the officer about twice that number.
For this reason there will no company
at Charles City unless a better show
can be made there. 1t is understood
that large number of other towns
would like to secure a company of the
guard Iowa Falls wanted a COM
pany some years ago when the New
Hampton company was enlisted and
came near securing it. Manchester
wants a company and has ex-
captain of te Nebraska guard who mas
seen service in the Philippines who
would be willing to take the captaincy.
In the southwest corner of the state
where the Fifty-fifth regiment holds
sway there is a poorer condition than
in any of the other regiments. A
number of companies in Col. Lincoln's
regiment are not up to their full STAN
dard of men while all the other regi-
ments are nearly full.
In the office of the state superintend-
ent there is belief that the Webster
City difficulty over the school book
question is agitation and that the