Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-21
Hull IN nGH1 PLACE
Seventh District Congressman
Where He Must Permit Re
count OF Dallas Vote
WOULD SOON END CONTEST
WOULD SOON END CONTEST
Prouty Willing to Accept Result Of Re-
count as Final--If Hull Does Not
Accede, Executive Council Will
Throw Out Dallas, Thus Nominal
ing Prouty.
pecial to Times-Repuhli,s,n.

| Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, July 21.-After exhaust
ing every known MEANS for delaying
| the Seventh district congressional mat
| ter, it begins to look as tho Congress
man ]. A. IT, Hull is between the deep
blue sea on overland and the Satanic
majesty on the other. Reluctantly he is
about to accept the only alternative
and allow a count Of the ballots in
Dallas county to see whether he or
Prouty got the most.
Hull has offered all sorts of COM
promises to Prouty. He offered to do
Everything to expedite matters except
Withdraw his injunction proceedings
by which the recount is being pre-
where he is about to be forced to do
that. Hull endeayored to lead Prouty
into the trap Of getting Prouty to start
more court actions to tie the matter up
worse. He wanted Prouty to induce the
Dallas board Of supervisors to start
the recount in violation of the injunc-
ton so that contempt proceedings
could be started ON the plea that this
would bring the matter to an immedi-
ate head.
The Dallas board of supervisors con-
sists Of two Hull men and ont dem
ocrat. They are men in whom the
people have the utmost confidence.
The law provides that if recount is
made on any office 1t must be made on
ALL The recount was made on county
auditor and Prouty therefore claimed
the right to the recount on congress
man and the board granted it, but Hull
stopped it. Prouty believes that with
a recount there he will have ma
jority in the district and is willing to
settle the matter with that recount,
which can be done in a few days. He is
DESTROYS of settling the matter at once
SO that the successful candidate, who
ever he is, can at once begin to plan
for the campaign.
"A conference of Hull men was held
in the city yesterday to consider the
matter Every effort Is being made to
make 1t appear that Prouty has in
fluenced the Dallas supervisors by
claiming that he Is their attorney. 1t
is believed that unless there is re-
count in Dallas the executive council
will canvass the votes with the Dallas
county vote out. which of course would
give the nomination to Judge Prouty.
>ss Fg
The state executive council has
agreed to the basis for re-assessing the
express companies on their property in
Iowa. 1t was decided to reduce the as
sessment $40 mile. The American
has been assessed at $3.50 a mile, and
now will be assessed at $3.50. The Pa
cific was assessed at $120 and will now
have an assessment of $780, The other
companies, the Adams, Great North
ern, United States and Wells-Fargo
have been assessed at $3.50, and now
will be assessed at $14Q. The reports of
the assessment of these properties by
other states were submitted to the
council.
Demands for special reduced rates
for the Iowa state fair are unreason-
able. This statement was made in Des
Moines today by ]. p. Elmer of st.
Paul, general passenger agent of the
Great Western railway, who is In the
City on Official business.
The fact that the Great Western has
made rates Of So and $3.50 for pop
ular excursions to Kansas City and
Minneapolis and st. Paul, should not
figure in the arguments for lower rates
for the fair, according to Mr.. Elmer
The two cent rate is as low as the
fares granted before the two-cent fare
law became effective, Mr.. Elmer says,
and because the regular rate has been
lowered, he believes that the railroads
should not be asked to make a further
cut in times Of special attractions, such
as the state fair. According to him.
the increased traffic is needed to swell
the earnings depleted by the new law.
Mr. Elmer says that the bulk of
state fair traffic originates within
radius of sixty miles from Des Moines
and that the rate is now so low in this
circle that the attendance will not suf
fer thru lack OF advertised cut rates.
Since this argument based on our
popular excursions to Kansas City and
the Twin Cities has arisen, will take
time to explain them from our stand
,.oint, altho cannot see why they have
ieoome involved in this discussion.
Those excursions are not run because
there is some special attraction at Kan
sas City or Minneapolis. The state fair
attracts people to Des Moines, or to
ether cities that entertain state fairs.
These popular excursions appeal to
l,enple who will travel, If the rate is
sufficiently low. In running them we
are simply seeking money which would
rot come to us If the fares were not
made sufficiently low to prove attrac
live, We could use page after page of
advertising in every newspaper in the
city and make the billboards blaze with
our posters announcing these excur-
sions to other cities, but if we an
lounced fat rate of fare and -a-half
We would not secure more than car
load of passengers. These excursions
re designed to give city people an out
ing at price which they can afford
and to bring to the railroad money
that it would not otherwise secure.
we run special trains out for these
! excursions. The cost is inconsequential
when compared with the trouble occa-
stoned by burdening score or more
of regular trains with this volume of
traffic.
Ordinarily railroads are organized to
produce revenues. OF course every road
must furnish adequate accommodations
to the travelling public When they do