Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-27
SIMPLY SHOCKING.

ME was not GIanCSTeO at al. lTpV-
,r Carroll never said anything bad
ut him. Cownte has simply been
ked into a state of unwarranted
itement by politicians. Governor
roll, being such strict Methodist,
be pitied because some bad girls
1ditchelfviiIe shocked his SENSIBLE
s. eff certain republicans want to
eat Governor Carrou-Iowa will
| have a good governr-but Car
need not run away explains the
lar Rapids Republican with last
RS weather eye still cast toward
ude Porter.
nd this is the governors defense
presented by the Cedar Rapids edi-
No SENSIBLE man can look at that
ictznent In such way. Governor
rron is one OF the most cautious
conscientious men in the state
moral seIlsiDiG1ieS are easily
pcked. He is Methodist enough FOR
IT, The stories of inmoralities in
tie institutions shocked him beyond
assure. There were imrnoralities.
ICE Carroll came into office one SUI
5ntendent has been forced to with
Nv, on the charges of drunkenness
q similar sins To show the lack
discipline at MitchellviIle four girls
that institution sent affdavits to
) governor 10 show a member OF
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proper proposals TO them. The gov
1or has these affdavits. All that
has ever said about them is that
received the af6davits. He nowhere
said that he believed them, for II
IS beyond all belief that man like
T. Cownie could be thus guilty. But
an exacting governor ii showed an
Ter lack of either discipline or re-
|ect in that institution and he was
Itermined to end the matter and
Iange the status of things.
f'Mr. Cownie assumed that The gov
nor had accused him of immoral
es and his friends urged him into
at belief As we understand il the
vernon never made such a charge
that he said was that he had af-
avits 10 that efrect-and we under
Ind he can produce those.
f'Mr Cownie is naturally sensitive
to his personal and moral reputa-
bn. He ought 70 he that way. But
Is real suit for damages should have
en- against the four girls who made
| CHI affidavits, afddavits that we DO
m, if any DANA ge All that the gov
Nor has done IS to make the state
lent that he had such affdsviIs and ne
|ks forced, 80 he says, TO make bitter
tack on him, on the eve Of a state
binary.
How unregenerate It has been for
me coarse. TESTING politicians TO
AXE sport of the supersensitiveness Of
his pious Methodist. When he called
pnest old John Cownie into the gov
Enor's office and IN the presence Of
Fenographer who sat there taking
otes told a pure minded, fatherly old
cotch farmer who had given fourteen
ears Of his life TO almost unparalleled
Iblic service that both he and his
ged wife would be publicly sha1ned
' the exposure OF some affidavtts
ON notorious girls at a state reform
chool he was not playing the low
own trick Of a ward politician who
respectable citizens with
LEGGED affidavits from prostitutes. The
explains that It Is ~be-
ond all belief that man like Cownie
ouId be thus guilty" No. Governor
rrou was recoiling from the shocked
OF a pious Methodist and
Q refused to let CoWnie see the affi-
avits or know the charges they con-
aimed because his sensitive nature re-
olted even from discussion of the
ubject. Rather did he in the pres
nee of a stenosrapher's dictation give
.ownie the alternative of resigning on
he spot or suffer public exposure OF
rimes of which the governor could not
ave believed him guilty and Of which
he old man knew he was innocent but
,hich meant public disgrace for the
ray hairs Of a confding wife.
OF course, when Cownie had recover
d his breath after the shock and his
scotch blood began to boil with indig-
Iation the demand upon the governor
o either prove il or swallow it, which
hese unregenerate politicians forced
i'm TO make, necessitated reply from
he governor. Here again because Of
he shocking character of the charges
o the indebted mind of a prayerful
Iethodist the governors newspaper
epIy could not frankly state the
harges and the effort he had made to
rerify them but by inuendo, implica-
ion and rhetorical whispering 1t mus
cave the ton CUES OF gossips still wag-
ring as to Cownie's alleged relations
With wayWard girls whom he had con-
idered his wards and whom he had
ried TO treat as considerably as he
lid his own grandchildren OF the same
lKe. <,i, :. was the girls who
.aused all the trouble, naughty things
they Were said to have written those
affidavits which were too
lasaehty to be shown. It must have