Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-24

Inc MarSnali county convention OF
republicans was inclined to support
Governor A. B. Cummins.
The contest between Governor Pack
ard and NJ E. Andrews was mistake
all around. Mr. Andrews was pushed
into his candidacy by his friends in the
Third ward and he did not understand
that Governor Packard would be a
candidate. Mr.. Packard. himself, did
not expect to be a candidate until the
delegates among his neighbors in Mar
ietta township came in insisting upon
it and he gave his consent before he
knew that Mr.. Andrews was running.
Both were Cummins men in harmony
with the spirit of the convention and
their contest was entirely friendly.
The only people who found fault
with the action of the convention
were a few outside of the convention.
Inside the convention everything was
unanimous
There might have been a conflict as
to congressman had not all factions
"congealed" their differences, as Mr..
Van Law explained it, but in the alb
sence of any opposing candidate it
seemed to be satisfactory to the great
majority of the convention that the
friends of Mr. Cousins in this county
be allowed to have an Instructed dele
cation for him. The effort to reopen
the resolutions was !. voted down.
r,,dea Caswelrs victory was COM
.plete. Nearly all the country precincts
had declared for him. Two out OF fve
city wards had done the same and his
onponents had withdrawn. He was
accorded the honor of selecting his own
delegates. He can we'll afford to smile
and look pleasant now, when he meets
his friends.
The result of the Marshall county
corn experiments, as announced by the
department of agronomy OF Iowa state
College to the board of supervisors, is
more than gratifying, not only to the
hoard, which fostered the movement,
but to every farmer interested In the
county. The figures that were presented
in the Times-Republican of a few
DAYS ago show an immense amount of
work in com piling by the department
at Ames. and furnish the farmer read
err with an exact rehearsal of just what
the different plots showed. 1t also is
nrma. facie evidence that Marshall
county is a banner corn producing sec
tion. and that as good corn can be
grown on native SOIL from native seed,
as is possible to grow anywhere.
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Attorneys are inclined to think that
Judge Burnham's sentence to F'orger
Gray was a little too severe in view of
the definite knowledge of the extent OF
the mans crimes. Twenty years in the
penitentiary is long time, and to the
average person it might as we'll be for
life. Judge Burnham made of Gray
an example to others. What would
have been his sentence, however, had
he been millionaire bank wrecker like
Bigelow, at Milwaukee, who got only
five-year sentence, or Soule, the Iowa
Falls bank defaulter, eighteen months.
Again, Judge Burnham considers the
danger to society in having man of
'Grays apparent character abroad, and
placed him where he can do no harm.
Even the county attorney himself, and
Sheriff Hutson, fixed fifteen years as
the maximum of the courts sentence,
in a venture as to the outcome, prior
to the pronouncing Of sentence. If it
is true, as Gray says, that he is not
confirmed criminal, and never commit
ted dishonest act prior to six weeks
ago, the probabilities are the same men
who secured his conviction will sign a
petition for his parole after a few
years time, when they consider he has
been sufficiently punished.
Manager Busby of the Odeon demon
strated several things in the recent