Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-22
STEAMBOAT ATTACK AIMED AT
coWNlE HITS HARD HIS
ENEMIES.
CONGRESSMAN SMITHS PAPER
JUMPS AT WRONG CONCLUSIONS
ExtoIs Management of MitcheIlviIle In
stitution During Past Ten Years,
When cownie Was in Direct Charge,
and BIames Plans Of Carroll for Re-
cent Troubles.
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special to IImeS-Republican.
Des Moines, March 22.-An interest
ing case of getting the wires crossed
in strictly political matter comes
from Council Bluffs and it rather in
dicates that Governor Carroll and his
5tandpat hackers have not chosen the
best political managers There is
Times. 1t was started solely in the in
ierest of the Smith candidacy for con-
gress and generally to support the
s,anapat cause in the state. On Satur-
lay it published a column editorial
roast of the situation at MitchelIvilie,
pointed out that a crime had been com
mitted. that somebody must be respon-
sible for the crime and that it was an
outrage that the institution had been
ragged into politics. 1t demanded
summary punishment for the author
Of the trouble, and insisted, properly
enough, that the real crime consisted
in the Introduction of the penal meth
DDS of the dark ages into a school for
girls. 1t pointed out that for eight or
ten years the institution had been run
admirably and was doing good work
and was a credit to the state
All this seemed strange coming from
an organ of the standpat cause sup
porting Smith, Carroll and their asso-
ciates. But the editorial closed with an
intimation that none other than John
CoWnie was responsible for the adop-
lion OF the prison system in the school,
hence Cownie should be summarily de-
posed.
AS a matter Of fact the system
which is praised is that which Cownie
established and which continued until
the present governor forced a change
in the board and change of policy;
and Cownie is deposed for protesting
against the prison methods. The Bluffs
editor got the wrong tip, or misunder-
stood the orders given. The intent was
clear enough, to lay the foundation for
the rape of the board of control, but
either the editor blundered or the man
ager who sent out the dope was in
competent
B. Murphy, of Vinton, who works at
the job of being a standpatter in sea-
son and out, got a different tip as to
how to pave the way for t ruction,
and he demanded the removal of
Chairman Cownie for just exactly the
opposite reasons from those set forth
by the Bluffs editor.
]. w. Jarnagin of Cedar Falls also
1 took a hand early and insisted that as
q. matter of fact there would be a va
cancy on the board a week from FRI
day, April 1. This also was the wrong
tip, else Governor Carroll would not
have found it necessary to delye into
the muck heap to secure material with
which to force Mr.. Cownie to resign
and to threaten him with being be-
snairched if he did not prevent a candi-
dacy for governor against the present
incumbent.
1t is now evident the political value
of the outbreak at the school was well
considered, but the management was
not as good as it might have been.
!
Tons Of fish persisted the past winter
| in the sloughs which lead into the lakes
| of northern Iowa. 1t is folly to plan
for filing the lakes and rivers with
fish unless something is done to pre-
vent their destruction.
Conductor Finnicum, who runs on
! the Storm Lake line out of Dies Moines,
states that the trouble is in not having
screens to prevent the fish to go out
into the sloughs. 1.-The fish run out
! into the big sloughS In the 1al, ne
says, land when the sloughs freeze over
the fish smother. They are not frozen
but they get where the streams are
narrow and remain frozen all over and
they get no air, hence die. There are
thousands and thousand of pounds of
fish dead in the small sloughs, killed in
| this way There should be screens of
! some kind at the outlets to prevent the
| fish getting out into the shallow
sloughs."
The state annually distributes vast
numbers of the fish to the rivers and
| lakes.
1t is not often that one not lawyer
! is called upon by a court to argue
case. but this happened to Quincy Will
lis, deputy state treasurer, who went to
Council Bluffs to appear for the state
in a collateral inheritance tax case. Al
ter others had spoken Judge Thornell
asked Willis to present the argument
for the state. The latter demurred that
he was not a lawyer, but the court
wanted the information. and there is
not a person in the state with such
complete knowledge of the collatera
tax law as Mr.. Willis, and he won his
case.