The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-05-12
While Waiting for School Book
Plum to Be Served, Repre-
sentatives Both cuss and
Discuss Him.
HIS QUITTING IN" Is
VERY MUCH RESENTED
They State the Governor Is in
A Class by Himself as a
School Book Anti Trust
Hammer Wjelder.
Especial correspondent.)

Indianapolis, May 1.-THE school
book men who have been hanging
around waiting for the state board of
education to award the contracts for
the school books for the schools OF In.
diana for the next five years have
spent and are still spending much of
their time in the hotel Hobbies cussing
and discussing Governor Marshall,
who, by butting into the matter, as
they put 1t, has been the means Of
probably saving the people many
thousands of dollars in a souge that
was attempted. They say Governor
Marshall is in class all by himself
rs q school book antitrust agitator.
The governors sudden calling of the
boards attention to the Macmillan
.Company's contract concerning the
Tarr and McMurray elementary geog-
raphiAs has been the chief topic of
conversation among the school book
men. And. by the way, Fragments Of
their expressed opinions have reached
the governor.
Goes In Like Bull.
Hes the damnedest governor ever
ran up against in all my experience
as a book man. said one of the
agents. when he goes into that
board Of book commissioners It's like
q bull going into a china shop, and
when he goes out he leaves just about
as much OF wreck. l have always
been used to treating the adoption Of
4 school book as q sort Of star cham
ber' matter. but this governor comes
out OF the room. and when he finds
newspaper man waiting for him he
takes him into his office and tells
him everything that took place in the
meeting. Then whenever he has any
thing which he thinks ought to be
said about the book contract he calls
/ newspaper man into his office and
tells him about 1t. He does not seem
to think there Is anything about MAX
ing q book contract that ought to be
kept quiet
a Different Deal.
Its different deal from any 1
have ever had In the book business"
said another. Usually all the details
are looked after on the side. and the
newspapers are not expected to get
anything about what il going on until
after the preliminary work has all
been done and the contract is let.
Here you have a governor that evil
IDENTIFY believes there Is nothing the
newspapers ought not to know about
it. shall not be surprised II he asks
tho board to admit newspaper man
TO the meeting next Friday. when the
fboard 10 to agree upon an adoption"
The board will meet Friday morn
NJ Bingham's opinion to the effect
that the Macmillan company, supply
ing the Tarr and McMurray elemen-
tary Biographies at 80 cents can be-
compelled to continue furnishing the
books at that price. There has been
no such widespread objection to the
Biographies that the board feels they
should be discarded, and 1t is thought
that any attempt to supplant them
ut this time with q book which will
cost Is cents. when. in the opinion
OF the attorney general. they can still
be had for 80 cents. will be SO daring
= step that the board win not think
OF taking It.
III this board adds fifteen cents to
the cost Of that book when 1t is
konwn that It can be had for It's pres
ient price. the members will have q
mighty hard time explaining to the
Thousands Of people who are COMPEL
ed to buy them" said Governor Mar
shall, yesterday.
In addition to the Biographies. the
board will select readers. arithmetics
land copy books.