Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-19
Local Comment
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

With the Durham company invading
the Canadian northwest with branch
sales establishment so as to enlarge
it's production and the new owners of
the Lennox Machine Company, vacat-
ing alleys and ordering steel for new
buildings the factory business in the
east end of town may be said to be
booming With the Western Grocer
Mills preparing to spend large sums in
the expansion of their manufacturing
and new offices going up for the Mar
shall Oil Company the same growth
of industry is going on across the
creek. Who is going to build the new
houses necessary to shelter the in
creased number of employees? Are we
coming to city of tents?
An all night service in the postoffice
is but another evidence of our COM
mercial growth and progress. The
service seemed to be demanded by the
business of the office and Postmaster
Smith had the showing necessary to
convince the department that Mar
shalltown had become of sufficient size
to justify metropolitan airs.
And then the city directory man
happens in at just the opportune time.
The old directory is so far out of date
that it has ceased to be useful. We
have so many new people here since
the last book was published that the
local map has been changed. The new
directory is needed to set us right
again. Incidentally it will show the
gain in population and emphasize the
pressing need for more houses.
The county attorney has now been
investigated by two grand juries and
his accusers have been unable to con-
vince either one that he ought to be
tried for corruption in office. The at
torney general says that this ought
to end the controversy and it had but
there may yet be desires TO prosecute
him with removal proceedings or more
grand juries. The fact that this last
hearing was attended with unusual
public interest with the attorney gen.
eral of the state in charge and long
list of witnesses is evidence that Eyer
mayers accusers did their worst and
if they failed 70 make out a case
against him it was not because they
did not try hard enough.
No man in this county can look over
the D6rSOnIlei OF the witnesses oSSo
against him without an instructive i'm
pulse of confidence in the kind of
man who could ts the object of that
class of attack or without the same i'm
pulse Of Indignation that public Off
cial should be thus prosecuted. The
Times Republican. like many others.
once felt shaken in confidence at the
stories told about him SO determined in
assertion. but when the usual news
paper precaution was taken TO verify
nothing definite nor decisive could ever
be obtained. knowing how hard press
ed certain law violators have been and
how Inundated and vindictive even
their attorneys had become it has
seemed to this newspaper that the
attorney was beset by mep who
We're actuated by desire to get even
with him. For these reasons and in
spite of previous suspicious the Times
Republican has called for public sus-
pension of judgment until the grand
jury could sift the evidence Now that
the grand jury with doors thrown wide
open to all who might want to testify
has been unable to find anything more
against him than the Times Republican
could find Egermayer stands vindicated
and entitled to the confidence and trust
of all men. He has paid the penalty
of law enforcement.