Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-12

| disposition among the members of the
| legislature is to make it a business
session. and says that it will be a
whole lot better than playing politics"
MIR. Young would make good gov
ernor, either for business or parade
| purposes, better for the latter than
George Perkins, and as good in the
| former as anybody" admits the
Iowa City Republican, but objects he
is an intense partisan. has personal
quarrel with the present governor
many of his friends, and he might be
just as factional on his side as the
| governor is on his"
The Marion Register notes that the
Des Moines Capital did not print it's
editorial on the governors message in
red as some of the politicians thought
it would. Its comments filled nearly a
column and what was said was of such
complimentary character that the
uniformed reader might be justified
in concluding that the colonel ana
governor are twins which they are
not +"
Speaking of the governors message
the Creston Advertiser says while
radical it was not sensational or in
temperate in Its language and there
was a lack of the undignified vitupera
ton and hurting of defiance which
characterized one of his messages.
Those who do not agree with the ar
guments advanced by the governor can
LIZ =
There is one thing the Cedar Rapids
Gazette thinks the general assembly of
Iowa ought to do. and says it will be
done sometime by some legislative
body, and that is, ITO 1op off lot of
useless offices created for the sole pur-
pose of giving political hangers-on .po-
sitions where they can get remunera-
ton for doing nothing" The Gazette
argues when a business enterprise is
launched the first thing the promoters
do not do is to parcel out a lot of jobs
for the sole purpose of giving employ
ment to their friends And state
is great business institution. Let its
business be operated on the same plan
as any other enterprise"
The Davenport Democrat approves
the "stand Governor Cummins takes
as "the correct ore. The free
ticket" it says, "has grown to the pro-
portions of an evil He is not only cor
rect but he is consistent. In asking
lower passenger fares he proposes thu
way for the railroads to recoup them
selves for any loss sustained in that
direction"
Heretofore. at least until recent
years, the committees on educational
institutions have had practically
nothing to do because the appropra-
tions for the institutions have always
been referred directly to the appro-
priations committees" points out the
Davenport Times. 1T is now proposed
to vitalize these educational commit
tees and through them to direct and CO.
ordinate the work of the university,
agricultural college and normal school
Surely this suggestion on the part of
the legislature before it takes steps
that will break with the traditional
management of educational affairs IN
Iowa that have developed three big in
stitutions doing most excellent and sat
isfactory work.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil calls
LATE Young the Vesuvius of Des
Moines" ana remarks that 'he is now
in full eruption
"The criticism of Governor Cummins
for allowing the state of Iowa to pay
his expenses when away as repre-
sentative of the state to such affairs
as the launching of the Des Moines