Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-18
SUCCESSOR AS AUDITOR
MAKES FINANCIAL SHOWING
Governor criticizes One Department on
Revenue Question When His Former
Department is in the Same Fix -
Lieutenant Governor Clark Not
Standpatter.
pecial to Times-Republican.


achievements of State Auditor Bleak
ley furnish a brilliant chapter in the
process of cleaning out the state aud
tors office and prove conclusively that
under his predecessor-Car
must have been, to say the least, some
thing Very rotten.
Governor Carroll takes to himself
and MS administration great credit be-
cause in the matter of the state pharm-
acy department, for instance, the in
crease in income in the past year over
the previous year was over $4,000
Hence he insists it is proven that
things must have been very bad in
fact. that graft and corruption" pre-
vailed. for he offers not one other sug-
gestion in support of his accusation.
AS a matter of fact which is we'll
known. the number of licenses to drug
peddlers fell off in 1905 because of the
stringency of the previous season and
the bad roads; and last year the ped
dlers hocked to Iowa, and the increased
income represents sixty more drug
peddlers set up in business to compete
with local druggists
But by the same measure il can be
proved just as conclusively and fairly
that the state auditors office under
Auditor Carroll was full of graft and
corruption" because the income to the
state in that office, under Mr.. Bleakley,
has been enormously increased over
anything under Mr. Carroll. In other
words, Auditor Bleakley has looked
after the interests of the state very
much better than his predecessor, or
has rooted out the graft or corruption,
if the Carroll reasoning as to other
departments is accepted as right.
Governor Carroll applied the same
reasoning 70 one other department.
that of the oil inspection wherein he
boasts of nearly $4,000 gain in fees and
a decrease of S129.25 in expenses. He
did not mention. however. that near
the close of the Cummins administra
ton the districts We're so arranged that
one or two deputies We're dropped. and
that the Carroll administration is
merely getting the credit for the econ
omy made possible by his predecessor.
Neither did he mention, in reciting how
the state executive council has cut out
expense accounts of subordinates, how
one of the deputy inspectors put in
bill for SO a month room or office rent,
which he claimed was made necessary
because under Carroll so many incom
petent deputies We're employed that the
oil companies had refused to permit
inspections on their premises any
longer The room which his deputy
wanted the state to pay for was in fact
used by him as sleeping room.
The Carroll organs are still engaged
in circulating the story that Lieutenant
Governor George W. Clarke, of Dallas
county, has gone over to standpatism
and is in favor of having Iowa serve
notice on the nation that we are not
a all interested in what is going on at
Washington. The claim is based on the
theory that at the time c. r. Brenton
of Dallas county was named to be q
member Of the state board of education
the political independence of the lieu
tenant governor was purchased ana
placed in the keeping of Secretary Nye,
the manager for Carroll. Mr. Clarke
has never for a moment wavered in his
earnest allegiance to the progressive
cause He is today one of the most
ardent of progressives and he believes
that the welfare and very life of the
republican party is wrapped up in the
progressive cause He will not only
vote for the nomination of Governor
Garst but will work for him and there
will be no equivocation about it. Garst
will carry Dallas county by a good
round majority, and with it every coun-
" Of the Seventh district.
a very effective way of making answer
to the too-easy insinuations of his OPP
ponents that he doesn't stand very well
at home. They simply show the record.
of his three campaigns for member Of
the lower house from Lucas county.
The first time he won by 445 majority,
the second time by 54S and the last
time by 744 majority The fact is that
there are few men more popular at
home than Mr. Darrah. In his cam
paign Mr. Darrah has called upon
Judge Towner to define his attitude OF
several matters. In regard to Can
nonism the judge completely lodges
the question. but of course it is well
understood in the district that if Tow
ner is elected he will line up for Can
non and the reinstatement of the Can
non rules Darrah is on record as dead
opposed to this. SO the issue in the
Eighth district is about as clearly de-
fined as it can be anywhere in the
state.
When the coal mines in and about
Des Moines were reopened this week
for resumption of business it was found
that in very many of the rooms where
work had been carried on the roof had
fallen and it became necessary for the
miners to spend several days clearing
out. The passage ways had been kept
clear by the companies, but the trouble
was in the rooms where the miners are
required to care for the roofs. There
are tflirty-two active coal mines in
Polk county at this time and the task
of getting in order these mines was
great one. It is believed, however, that
under the agreement ssta0PT there
not again be any shut down pending
wage controversy The operators re-
port that aside from the great loss due
to idle machinery there is a greater
loss to them in that at such times the
outside coal dealers come into the Iowa
territory and get trade which they can
keep in part