Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-13
James G. Berryhill Slaps SUI
preme Court and Auditor Car
roll Unintentionally
AIMED AT cuMMINs AND MISSED
Claimed That Governor Manipulated
Offices to Give Friends Jobs, When in
Fact Appointments Were Made by
Executive counciI-contentio Over
Hall of Archives.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, May 13.-James G..
Berryhill, of Des Moines, slapped the
supreme court of Iowa in the face and
punched Auditor Carroll whom he is
supporting for governor. in the short
ribs in childish little attempt to in
jure Governor Cummins. 1t is but a
small matter all around but illustrates
the extreme lengths to which certain
Would-be politicians will go in an effort
to injure Cummins.
Berryhill wrote letter and got 1t
published in Des Moines newspaper
complaining because Governor Cum
minis delivered some chautauqua ad-
dresses for pay and did not turn the
money into the state treasury. Then
he attacked the hall of archives legis-
lation. He declared that Professor
Shambaugh was having the work OF
putting the public documents in class
flied and indexed form in the archives
department by Parrish, a post graduate
of the state university, and lady
stenographer, but that Cummins had
this all changed and put the depart
ment under the control of the secre-
tary of the executive council in order
to give some Of his friends jobs.
The facts are these: Shambaugh
wanted the state to employ Parrish at
an annual salary of $500 a year and
give him d corps of assistants to do
the work. The executive council put
the general supervision of the work
under A. H. Dawson. secretary of the
executive council, who does that work
without additional compensation. Then
they engaged a corps of clerks who are
paid 5000 year each with the excep-
tion Of j. II. Kelley, who is paid ST.
900.
The appointment of the employees IN
the department was made by the ex-
ecutive council, consisting Of the gov
ernor, secretary of state, auditor of
state and treasurer of state, and not by
the governor alone. Three of the men,
Stiles, Hites and Byrkitt, were sug-
gested by State Auditor Carroll, the
candidate for governor whom Berry
hill is supporting, and one Of them,
j. HI. Kelley, was suggested by the
members of the supreme court, whom
Berryhill thus slaps in the face.
Not, satisfied with this Berryhill
"goes after" his own friends still hard
er He says the power to appoint the
to "the governor and his professional
politicians composing the executive
council."
This company of professional poll
ticians" composing the executive coun-
ell. as everyone should know, consists
of Governor Albert B. Cummins, Sec
retary Of State w. c. Hayward, Treas
urer of State w. w. Morrow and Aud
itor of State B. F. Carroll.
Carroll and Morrow are both stand
patters, and Berryhill is of the same
political faction. His classification of
them as professional politicians is
therefore something more than slap
in the face. 1t is really kicking on the
north side a man who is facing south.
1t is, however, characteristic Of the
work Of Berryhill in politics.
There are some other discrepancies
in Berryhills letter, even tho the letter
is not long one. The facts are that
the archives department was created
at the suggestion of the late Charles
Aldrich, whose name is venerated by
everyone in Iowa, and whose work
was dragged into factional politics for
the first time by James G. Berryhill.
The first appropriation from the legis-
lature was $4,000 for two-year pc
riod. Professor Shambaugh was asked
to submit some plans for the work. He
sent Mr.. Parrish to Des Moines to
look after it, and Mr.. Parrish did some
superficial work. Professor Sham
baugh let it be understood from the
first that he could not come to Des
Moines himself. Mr.. Parrish did moth
ing in the way of cataloging and class
flying and filing away the documents.
He looked thru them, furnished for
Professor Shambaugh some material
for historical articles, and he and his
lady stenographer, whom Berryhill
praised so highly, exhausted the appro-
priation of $4,000 before the two years
was up, and the work then stopped
till the legislature met again to ap-
propriate more.
that the public documents and letters.
books and other material, that had ac-
cumulated in the vaults at the state
house since the first organiza ton of
the state, should be filed away and in
dexed so that they could be found
when wanted. They We're laying in
the vaults stacked up in piles, and
some of the most valuable documents
We're in danger of being lost, and some
in fact have been lost. 1t was the idea
of Mr.. Aldrich to file these away sys-
in steel cases so that they
would be preserved. With the appro-
priation of $4,000 nothing was done
except to empty the contents of cou-
pie of the vaults into a big commit
tee room at the state house and look
thru them.
! Under the executive council the first
real work has been done. and big