Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-08
Failure OF Congressman to
Deliver Job Causes With
holding Of Support
YOUNG MIGHT AID TREASURY
Complaints About Shortage of State
Funds inconsistent - standpats to
Drop State Treasury Shortage Ar
suments - Candidates Filing Nom
ination Papers.
Special to Times Republican.

! Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April S.-That Lafe
Young tried to hold up" Congress
man Hull for good fat position" to
be appointed by the president in order
| to prove that he was on good terms
with Roosevelt is now recognized by
| politicians generally. 1t is recognized
| that the delay in starting the Hull
| campaign in this district is being
| caused by the failure of Just Another
! Term" Hull TO land the position of
| public printer for I.afe Young. All Of
| the managers OF Hulrs campaigns in
1 the past are this year supporting
Prouty. with the exception of the few
| holding government positions. Hull Is
| in a position where he must have
managers for his campaign and have
| them quick. He must have the sup
port of the Capital. Not a thing has
been done in his interests and the pri-
maries are less than two months away.
| Politicians are convinced that Young
mand a fat position and picked out the
| job of public printer. Besides, after
posing for many years as the especial
and close friend of the president sucn
an appointment would help out his
contention. But he failed to land 1t.
/ Now there is trouble and unless Hull
| can do something for him there is
! likely to be more trouble. The situa-
tion Is very critical for Congressman
Hull.
On his return from Washington Lafe
1 Roosevelt while in Washington. but
! merely for the purpose Of telling him
! that Gotch, who won the wrestling
match, was an Iowa man. Information
has reached here from Washington
that Young was an applicant for the
position and that it was refused him
and that the president knew Of the de-
| cision of the supreme court decision
reversing the case and holding that
Lafe must turn back into the state
treasury the money illegally extract
ed" therefrom. This undoubtedly had
a great deal to do with the decision of
President Roosevelt not to appoint Mr..
Young public printer
| There Is some doubt whether Mr..
| Young will repay to the state treasury
the amount Of the overcharge at once.
Like many of the other standpat news
papers, Mr.. Young has been saying
thru his newspaper that the state
| treasury is depleted. The state treas
ury is not depleted but the best and
quickest method for helping the state
treasury out if it was depleted would
be for Mr.. Young to repay the amount
| the supreme court says was illegally
extracted" 1t amounts to several
| thousand dollars.
Congressman Walter l. Smith is the
third congressional candidate to file
his petition to have his name placed on
the primary election ballot. He filed
his nomination papers with the sec
retary of state yesterday. Concern
ing the disclosures by the Atlantic
Telegraph. standpat newspaper, that
Smith and Ernest Hart and others are
in scheme to perpetuate themselves
in office, and are supporting Allison
say.
Hon. James L. Berry, of Humeston,
Iowa, a town down in the reservation,
was a caller at the Cummins head
quarters yesterday. He said that he
circulated the Cummins petition in
that town, or rather he took sigma
lures. He let 1t be known that he had
the petitions and eightytwo republic
ans of the town came to his office and
signed without being asked to do so.
This is a town in the reservation, and
the voting strength of the town is
about 100.
Ward Wilson. of Tama, son of Sec
retary Wilson, of the department of
agriculture, has filed his nomination
papers for denomination as represen-
tative from Tama county. He repre-
sented that county in the last legis-
lature.
C. H. Van Law, Of Marshall county,
has filed his nomination papers for
state senator from that district.
1t leaks out from political sources
here that the standpatters have de-
cided to drop the circulation of the re-
ports that the state treasury is de-
pleted, and that Governor Cummins is
responsible. The people nowadays
are so well informed that not cent
of money can be expended from the
state treasury except by act of the leg
islature, and that the legislature alone
is entirely responsible for appropria-
tions and for conditions of the treas
ury that the circulation of the malc-
ious and false report that the COVER
nor is responsible acts only as a
boomerang. and gives grounds for sus-
pic'oning all other reports coming
from the same source. The Council
Bluffs Monparel, Des Moines Capital
and Cedar Rapids Republican have