Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-12
WOULD BUY CLINTON
Oyertures Said to Have Been
Made to Nine of the Clinton
County Delegates
REFUSED TO BE PURCHASED
Railroad Managers of Perkins Cam
paisn Attempt to seduce Part of
the Clinton Delegation Instructed for
cummins-schooI Boards and the
State Law.
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| Special to Times-Repu'blican
Des Moines July 12.-Overtures have
been made, it is claimed, to IL number
| of the Clinton county delegates to
| the republican state convention. Nine
of the delegates We're called together
| in that city for meeting and the
proposition made to them that they
| bolt the instructions. The nine We're
could control but the information which
reaches this city from a very direct
| source is that the delegates We're not
taken with the idea of cash PROPOSE
| tons" and the deal fell thru. 1t is claim
| ed by some that some of the nine agreed
| to bolt it the entire nine would, but all
| efforts to make the thing unanimous
failed. 1t is claimed now by the Hun
ter crowd in this city that some of
the nine will bolt the plan instructions
of the county convention for Cummins
and will not only vote against Cum
Minis on temporary organization but
will also vote against him on nominal
ton. While the progressives know
| that the nine men have been approach
ed they are firm in the conviction that
none of the Clinton delegates will bolt,
the Kretschmer deal having made such
actions unpopular in that section of
the state.
An appeal to the supreme court has
been prepared in the census case from
Atlantic, the appeal being in the inter
ests of the saloon men. Judge Thor
nell decided against the figures of the
census enumerator and cut out enough
names to bring the census down to
less than 5000, the enumerator's fig
ures being $3.50. The saloon men hope
to induce the supreme court TO decide
that the figures by the enumeration
must stand. If the census is found to
be more than 5000 it will require the
consent of only majority OF the peo-
pie of Atlantic to permit saloons in
the city. If the figures are to be left
below 5000 as the anti saloon league
and temperance people wish, ii will re-
quire the signatures of so per cent
of the voters and this is impossible of
securing.
atorial districts because of the instruc-
tions given by anti-Cummins maj ori-
ties in some counties and by Cum
minis majorities in others. In Cass
county the Perkins victors took pains
to instruct the candidate for state
senator to vote against Cummins for
United States senator If the occasion
ever presented itself. The Republicans
of Shelby county may offset this by
instructing the candidate to vote for
Cummins. There being but two coun-
ties in that district this will work a
tie. It Is then question what the
state senator would do if he had an
opportunity to vote for senator
Just what to do with some school
boards who refuse to obey the law is
question that may seriously con-
front the state of Iowa and 1t is not
Impossible that calling out the militia
may be the only way of enforcing
Obedience to the law. One school
board has refused to put money receiv-
ed from tuition into the teachers fund
tho the law explicitly says it shall be
put into that fund. The board persists
in putting it into the contingent fund
in the face of opinions by the attor-
ney general that they have no discre-
ton and in the face of the fact that
their attention has been called to the
law and suits threatened.
Six members of one school board
who were elected last spring will not
serve the people who elected them to
Office unless the old school board re-
penis of its mean trick and appoints
them. The law explicitly says that ii
members are not sworn in on the first
day Of July the old board shall de-
clare vacancies for as many as fail to
be sworn In and may then appoint
members to the positions thus vacant.
In one school district the old board OF
education met on the first day Of July
but failed to complete the business as
not all members were present and so
adjourned till the next day. The new
members elect were present but not .un-
derstanding the Law thought they would
not press the matter Of being sworn in
but would walt till the next day when
the board met again. When they woke
up in the morning they discovered that
vacancies would be declared to be fill
ed by appointment by the old board,
the members OI the Ola UOdTu Dy law
serving till their successors are sworn
into office. Now the new members are
threatening all sorts of direful things
on the heads Of the old board and law
suits may follow tho the old board has
all the advantage. 1t is claimed now
that the old members will appoint
themselves to the vacant positions, a
right they have of doing under the law
and thus give themselves another year
in office.
Josephine Wilson, the woman who
caused such storm to break out in
Oskaloosa last summer when ninety
seven letters reached Governor Cum.
Minis in one day protesting against her
parole from the penitentiary at Ana
mosa, will be transferred to the insane
hospital at Independence by the board
of control. Josephine Wilson conduct
ed a hotel in Oskaloosa. 1t was a three
story structure deliberately furnished
but of a very unsavory reputation ana
her conviction showed that it was used
for other purposes in reality than a
hotel AS soon as 1t was learned thai
a move was being made to get her pa
rolled from a five year sentence in An
amosa all the women in Oskaloosa
nearly signed remonstrances. Now she
has gone insane and will be transferred
TO independence.