Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-21

the owners OF factories come in, yet
the Times Republican believes in the
lowest rates for gas and electric lights
obtainable, for this Is what interests
the average householder who feels
living. 1t has not seemed good bust
ness to say that nobody except some
one to whom Jones & Hovey was will
ing to sell should be considered, for
this would give Jones & Hovey
monopoly on franchises just as the
grandtoM people would have on paving
prices If no other paving were al
lowed. If somebody else offers better
terms give him a chance or make
Jones & Hovey, their successors and
assigns, some to his terms. The rates
ought. at least, to stand publicity.
In answer to an. inquiry from the
T.-R., Mr.. Schroeder, of the Western
Trust & Savings Company. OF Chica-
go, confirms the report made here that
he is identified with Mr. Darling in the
alleged purchase of the local property
He argues at length that their pur-
chase is bona fde one and involves
a complete change of ownership
However, Mr.. Schroeder, like Darling,
and all the others, are strangers to
Marshalltown. What we want Is the
rates and binding guarantees for per-
formance. A deposit of part OF pur-
chase price for the Jones & Hovey
property. even IL made in good faith,
would simply guarantee Jones & How
ey that they would get that much
money anyhow, and would help MOTH
ing toward performance and terms Of
a franchise.
The mayor is a good politician. He
has some shrewd political advisers. His
address at the Iowa Central picnic to-
day is but an evidence of 1t. With
George Herman, one of the doubtful
members of the council, in his auto
mobile he arrived at the picnic in state
to address the gathering. In view of a
possible franchise election struggle he
improves the opportunity to crate upon
| his flight with Norris" in which he
argued that his action in the T.-R. s
newsboy strike and the Iowa Central
strike is all that there is responsible
for trouble between him and the edi-
| tor Preiudices which Interested per-
sons may have on the subject of strikes
were famed to the limit Ut was good
politics for, If it can be made to APP
pear that opposition to the mayors
franchise enterprise would be pun
| ishment to him personally in his fight
with Norris over the long forgotten
strike, Iowa Central men can deliver a
| lot of valuable votes. The mayor, OF
course, failed to tell the crowd that
this newspaper has never at any time
censured him for anything he did OF
did not do in the newsboy's strike. The
facts are, what was done was done sc
unexpectedly that no one could have
stopped 1t and this newspaper has
never censured the mayor for it in the
least. The incident is a good thing tc
use in tanning prejudices, however. He
also failed to tell them that the T.-R
and its editor recently boosted and
worked for public subscriptions tc
stock in the Richmond Safety Gate
Company, which was being promoted
as subsidiary Of the A. e. Shorthil
Company, in which latter company the
mayor and his political friends con-
stituted the board Of directors. He
would have found difficulty in pointing
out his fight with Norris" If the
mayor will now trot out franchise
giving to Iowa Central men as low
rates on gas and electric lights as 9th
er people are offering to give he neet
have no fight with Norris" this
J newspaper will boost for the mayor
enterprise even unto the street car eX
tensions west toward the Ingledu
farm.