Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-28
DEMOCRATS SLOW
TO NOMINATE
Few Democratic Nominations
Have Yet Been Made For
Legislative Office
PLAN FOR EPlLEPTlcs HOSPITAL
Argued That EpiIeptic Patients and
consumptives Should Be Separated
from Other lnsane-cherokee Wants
s1s5,c0o Appropriation - euard5men
, Must Qualify as ,Marksmen.
Special to Tlrnes-Republican.


Special to Times s-Republican
Des Moines, Aug. 2S.-Fifty OF
the hundred and eight members of the
legislature have been nominated thus
far on the republican ticket While the
democrats have nominated scarcely
more than handful. The republicans
have called nineteen conventions
which will be held inside the next few
weeks. The nomination certificates
must be filed with the secretary OF
state not less than thirty or more thar
sixty days before the election. The lat
est that the county conventions car
thus be held for the nomination of SEN
ators and members of the Legislature
is about the first of October. The SEN
atorial nominations have been made
by the republicans and twelve are ye'
to be made.
Dates for county conventions for the
nomination CT representatives thus fal
set are as follows, the call for Wapellc
including the nomination of state sem
ator:
August 29--F'loyd.
August 30--Union.
August 31--Lnn
Sept. 1-Appanoose, Blackhawk, JEFF
ferson.
Sept. 4.-Buena Vista.
Sept. S.-.Wayne, Wapelle, Tama
Decatur, Iowa.
Sept. 12.-Pocahontas
Sept. 15.-Enmet, Henry
Sept. 19.-Monona.
Sept 20.-Marion.
The Muscsltine Louisa district sena-
torial convention is called for Wednes-
day of this week
The legislative campaign that is fol-
lowing the state campaign discloses
the fact that the progressfves realize
that the battle is not all in the fight
for one place on the state ticket. II
discloses that the progressives propose
to reap the fruits of their victory and
intend to send to the thirty second
general assembly majorities that will
be perfectly in harmony with the ideas
progressive leaders Of the republican
party if they can accomplish it. The
legislative fight is now on and all the
county and senatorial conventions for
the nomination of representatives and
senators will probably be called this
week or next The month of Septem-
Der will disclose whether or not there
is to be a primary election law that
will permit the people to select their
candidates.
Interesting developments are coming
to the surface in the legislative cam
paign which while important as politi-
cal news, do not attract a great deal
of attention because of the fact that
they are destined to follow very
strenuous state campaign. In Monona
county the republicans are understood
to be making an effort to induce b. NJ
Cassidy, the business partner of Will
G, Whiting, the democratic representa-
tive. to take the republican nomina-
ton. believing he is the most likely
man to defeat Whiting.
Trades is the cure for incorrigibility
according TO the report of Supt. Drake
of the Industrial School for Boys at
Eldora filed now with the state board
of control Supt. Drake declares that
it is proven that the teaching of good
trade to a boy is the most sure and
successful method of curing him OF be-
ing a state charge. To this end he asks
that the state, legislature, in making
its appropriations, keep this in mind
and make it possible to teach as many
Of the useful trades as possible. He
finds brick laying the most successful,
as there is always large demand for
brick masons and the remuneration is
the best. But the difficulty is that
there are not enough brick buildings on
the school grounds to erect, and brick
laying can be made permanent
course in the instruction only if there
is an appropriation large enough to
keep building buildings. The boys
have already erected a number of
buildings which are as good as any to
be found any place, but the course OF
instruction is interrupted by the COM
pletion of building.
At the present time the school at
Eldora teaches blacksmithing, stone
masonry, brick masonry, plastering,
carpentering, steam fitting and plumb
ing, painting, printing, tailoring. f1ori-
culture, agriculture, electric and sta
tionary engineering, stenography and
telegraphy, harness making, care OF
stock,
Supt. Drake believes that the legis-
lature should rase the age limit of ad-
mission to 1S from is, and make the
ages of admission limited to from 10
to IS instead Of from to 16. He finds
that the children under 10 are too
young to be in an institution. Boys of
more advanced years could more read-
lily be taught trades that the younger
boys can not be taught and could, ac-
cording to Supt. Drake, be returned to
society.
According to Supt. Drake, the farm
at Eldora has produced the past year
practically everything that has been
consumed on the farm except chickens
and eggs. The facilities for raising
chickens and eggs are too limited, and
he asks the legislature to appropriate
$500 for a hen house so that the poul-