Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-09
.!ND[RHAND FIGHT
ON ANl!FPASy LAW
Standpat Newspapers CHASING
State Fair With Railway
Passes
DISCRIMINATE AGAINST IOWA
Milwaukee Road Making I Cent Rate
From Iowa and Dakota Points Ito
Mitchell Exposition and Refuses the
Same Concession to Iowa State Fair
Other News.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-R Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 9.-The Milwau-
kee & ST. Paul railroad is advertising.
a rate Of 1 cent a mile; to Mitchell, s..
D.. and return, for the corn palace
exhibition September 90 to 2S. None
of the railroads will concede anything
other than the regular maximum fare
of . cents mile for the Iowa state
fair. August % to 81. The ra on the
Milwaukee is advertised from all South
Dakota points and Sioux City. The
rae is one fare for the roundt trip, max
ing / cent mile, while to the Iowa
fair . cents a mile straight is charged.
A careful reading of the standpat
newspapers on the question Of state
fair advertising is leading shrewd poll
iticians to scent a niger in the wood
pile. In the first place according to
the Vinton Eagle the question of stale
fair advertising started with paper
read al the meeting OF the editorial
association at Davenport by Colonel
Dave Brandt, editor of the Iowa City
Republican and is credited with being
one of the rankest of the corporation
standpatters.
The columns of the standpat news
papers are linking the question of state
fair advertising and complimentary
admission tickets with the question of
railroad passes. They seem to divuye
the animus that is back of the fight
against the state fair both on the
part of the standpat newspapers and
the railroads.
Colonel Raymond in the Hampton
Recorder says: 1T has been decided
that it is unlawful for a newspaper
te. do advertising for a railroad or
steamboat line and receive pay in a
pass. If this is so then why is it rot
equally a violation of law for a payer
to advertise the state fair and receive
compensation in the shape of a pass
within the gates?"
The Arlington News says: What
more right has the state fair to give
passes for its advertising than has
the railroads of the country to give
TRANSFORMATION for their adverising?"
The Cedar Falls Gazette says: We'll.
the state fair corporation expects. ad-
vertising for nothing. and no doubt
there are those financially interested
in it who believe that editors who ad-
vertise for the railroads and receive
transportation therefor were grafters
and We're in collusion with the thiev-
ing corporations
Along with these newspapers -he
New Sharon Star, the Estherville En-
terprise, Ames Times, Logan Observer.
Corning Union-Republican, Creston
Advertiser Gazette, Fairfield Ledger,
and Arlington News, all republican
standpat newspapers, and the Wafer
loo Times-Tribune, democratic stand
pat, are fighting the state fair on the
advertising question.
SO many papers have linked the
railroad pass question in that the ques-
ton is being asked whether or NOT it
IS concerted fight on the anti-pass
law and an effort to make the AMI
past law unpopular. laying the founda-
tion for a repeal Of the law.
With the railroads. while they s,ive
a cent rate in South Dakota, and ad-
vertise special trains and extra
short of charging the full fair in Iowa
and will not even agree to furnish any
extra coaches. thus Furnishing the peo-
pie for taking away the right to issue
passes and charge a. three cent fare
The position taken by the state fair
is understood to be that
the state fair is a state institution and
not a corporation in which any citizen
is financially interested, and that the
stuff sent to the county newspapers is
news to be used or thrown away as
they like and that the pass is no. fs-
sued in compensat ton for what they
print about the state fair but purely
as a courtesy to the press.
Information that reaches here is that
the attendance this year at the state
fair will be unprecedented in the his
tory of the organization in spite OF the
refusal of the railroads to lower the
rates and In spite of some neWspa pers
refusing to print any news concerning
the state fair. At the same time all
efforts to pry an interview out o. the
secretary of the department of ,asri-
culture or any member OF the board re-
lating to the state fair advertising; has
proven absolutely futile and they re-
fuse to engage in the controversy IN
any way whatever.
A Tama county man has aspirations |
that transcend the ordinary. and he |
would go sailing thru the azure blue
as first passenger in Knabenshue's new
arship on its first Iowa journey. The |
word having gone out that the new air
ship is built to carry one or more pas
and that few favored Iowa.
people will be permitted to ride with
Professor Knabenshue. Henry S. Smead
of Traer has written Secretary John |
Simpson, of the state fair, applying for
first chance to take the journey from
the fair grounds August 26.
Very few would care 10 take the first
of these journeys. but the Tama coun-
ty man has had balloon experience, and