Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-03
a guilty or frightened man. cownie is

guilty or frightened man. Cownie is
justly outraged.
We should all read Cownie's latest
statement. Carroll says, "The Cudahy
Packing Company bought fifty-four
| head OF cattle and upon slaughtering
| them found ten head to be so rotten
with disease that only the hides could
| be used, the carcasses being used for
tankage purposes only Cownie pub
| fishes letter from the Cudahy Pack
| ing Comp any in. which the company
! shows that the fifty-three head of
Glenwood cattle were included in a
| killing lot bunch of 124. Out of the
124 head eleven head were condemned
by the government inspector. How
many of these were from the Glen
wod herd the company can not say
Putting the governors statement and
the packing company's letter side by
side it is evident that somebody lied,
and it looks like Carroll.
| But the most serious and shameful
charge is against Cownie's moral char
acter; the insinuation of immortality
! in his conduct among the Mitchellville
girls. 1t is doubtful if any man in
the state believes a word of II. Read
the letter reprinted below, written by
| John Cownie to a Marshalltown girl,
800 ;ry, or
vile, and draw your own conclusions
is TO whether the old man who wrote
lit is a libertine or a guardian, a wolf
| or shepherd:
| July IS. 1909.
| Dear Eva: I have your favor of the
| 22d inst. and am pleased to hear from
| you. You are right in assuming that
| we have no further control of you as
| you are now over p years of age. and
| in fact as 1 remember it you We're p
years of age and beyond our control
when l took You from the police Off
GERS and returned you to the school
at Mitchellville TO prevent you from
standing trial and being committed to
the reformatory at Anamosa, where
undou btedly you would have been sent
had it not been for my pleading with
the authorities and having you re-
turned to the Mitchellville school.
Il am surprised that you are so dis
satisfied with the restraint that DR..
Liebig is placing around you as I am
sure she knows much better what Is
good for you than you do yourself. You
are evidently pining under restraint and
determined 10 break away once more
from all that is good, but if you do
you will have 10 stand the consequences
now l can not understand why you
should be so restless in having some
restraint over you, especially when II
is for your own good, and your COM
plant that Dr. Ltebig is interfering
with your business and 7neddling with
your affairs evinces on your part
disposition that you are not 70 be re-
strained and that you mistake license
for liberty I regret very much that
you should write 10 me in the manner
YOU have done as I can see in every
line that you are determined not TO
brook restraint, and as you say to be
'bossed around, and if you will only
study your own good You will be only
too glad TO go to DR.. Liebig and ask
for her advice on every matter that
pertains TO your own welfare. l do
! hope. Eva, that you will take DR.. Lie
/ big's advice and be a good girl, for you
may depend upon it that at the age
YOU now are there will be no return
ling to Mitchellville. and you will find
that there are worse places for those
who violate the laws of the state than
| the Industrial School for Girls.
| ALLOW me to advise you TO go to
DR.. Liebig. show her this letter, tell
1 her that you are now willing TO be
guided by her counsel. allow her TO be
| a mother TO you, follow her advice, and
rest assured that will bring a life Of
ia pv,iness to you. while to follow your
own inclinations may end in your ruin
and a miserable ending for your life.
With kind regards and hoping that
YOU will do well, believe me.
Truly yours.
| JOHN COWNIE."
| Governor Carroll is in a bad box.
He is in a situation where those who
have been his friends must bitterly
regret TO see him and where even his
worst enemy must feel a pang Of pity.
in mis- effort to destroy John Cownie's
good name and besmirch his private
character Carroll has placed himself
lin a. most contemplate attitude; has
made the state ashamed of him and it
would seem has entirely destroyed his
political future. Assassination OF prl-
vate reputation is not an asset Of cam
! didacy for governor Of Iowa.
BE MAN, MOUSE Or RAT.
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