Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-30
PETTY P0Ln|CS RULES
STANDPAT CAMPAIGN IN BEHALF
OF CARROLL WITHOUT REAL
ISSUES.
SEEKING To UNEARTH
SCANDALS OF cUMMlNs REGIME
Proares.ivss Must Got Busy in Organ.
izins and Choosing Delegates to
County conventions-carroll Can't
Divert Hunters License Fund-other
: News Of the State.
10 Tinoes-Repu blican.

Special to Times-R Republican.
Des Moines, April S0-The managers
of the Carroll standpat cam paign are
making desperate efforts to turn the
campaign discussion toward the petty
things of the state house and 10 this
end they are attacking. sometimes Sc
cretly and sometimes openly, all the re-
publicans who had anything 10 do with
the Cummins administration. They
are raking UP all sorts Of alleged scan
,dals and are telling them around the
corners in the hope they will leak out
and cause discussion. The prog-essives
say they Will not be disturbed by this
cheap style OF campaigning.
It behooves the progressives TO get
busy in the matter Of organizing 10 Sc
tons. Thes tandpatters are evidently
doing some business. This Saturday
evening the causcuses are to be held
in all precincts OF Davis county when
delegates will be selected who will be
guaranteed 10 stand for the whole
standpaI program In Muscaina county
some OF the caUcuseS have been held.
In Dallas county one township picked
its delegates as early as in February
or al least the caucus call was issued
It is evidently the plan OF the stand
pat1ers 10 forestau the action of the
primary wherever possible by select
ing delegates at caucusss and ignoring
the primary law.
The stan6pa-ters affect to be not dis
turbed by the action taken by the
hunters in making public The manner
OF the disposition OF the fund from
the hunters license. Some time ago
Governor Carrolfs sponsors were very
anxious to have it appear 20 the pub
lie that he was standing between the
hunters and the treasury and prevents
dng big raid; but now 1t is limited that
as matter of fact a governor has
nothing to do with the expenditures OF
the state money and really can't have
much influence on state finances. II is
controversy entirely between the gov
ernOr and the hunters and IL has been
pending for the past six months
DR.. NJ. Banntster, membe Of the
board Of control, will assist DR. A E.
kepford. in the series of conferences
TO be held early in the summer in vari-
Gus parts OF the state to arouse among
the physicians OF the state increased
interest in the war upon tuberculosis
Meetings will be held in cities located
SO as to be accessible TO doctors from
q number Of counties. Programs will
be arranged and the doctors will be
urged to bring all facts that will be OF
value. There will be q symposium at
each meeting intended to bring out al!
about the situation and the views of
the doctors. The questions will run
some thing like this: Can tuberculosis
be stamped out? II so, how? Is
compulsory registration law needed?
Would state wide anti splitting law
be of value? How about distinction
after tuberculosis? Should testing of
dairy cattle be compulsory? Should
owners be compensated? How about
medical inspection in schools, care of
defective children, public hospitaliza-
ton, and prevention Of disease? Dis
cussion of the advisability of a ma
tional department Of health with
doctor in the cabinet. AS the result
of this series of conferences il is ex-
pected that decided impetus will be-
given the movemen for complete
eradication Of the white plague
The annual meeting of the state
pharmacy board will be held on Mon
day when a president and secretary
will be elected. Secretary Moore will
be continued in office Ii is supposed
that Mr.. Clements will be reappointed.
His term has expired and there ap-
appear to be no other candidates for
the place. The work of the board has
been moving along as smoothly as it
was before the political eruption OF
last year. The work is being done in
exactly the same manner The fees
are paid in the same way The mem
bers charge up per diem and expences
in exactly the same manner as in the
past seven or eight years during which
time State Auditor Carroll audited the
bills and drew the warrants. A little
less than a year ago the law went into
effect regarding labelling Of drugs and
presumably the law Is being enforced
In the state tho so far ar reported not
a single prosecution for violation has
taken place. 1t is specifically made
the duty of the pharmacy board to en-
force this law, and it is very similar
to the law in regard to pure foods and
labels on seeds and fnodstrlffs
The action taken by Secretary Lewis
on behalf of the Iowa railroad commits
sioners, with reference to the inter-
state commerce bill pending in con-
gress. is unauestionably in line with
the Iowa sentiment favorable 20 the
passage of a bill that will safeguard the
rights Of the state and OF the people
What is wanted in the bill is a clause
declaring plainly tina the provisions of
the bill shall not apply to the transpor-
tation of persons or property wholly
within any one state or territory. That
was put into the bill once, but taken
out by one OF Cannon's committees
The fear of the Iowa commission, and
the national association OF railroad
commissioner, Is that with this clause
left out, the law might be construed to
cover state as well as interstate bust
ness, thus taking from the state com.
missions practically all their authority
and power with. regard to fixing max
imum schedules Of rates. This would
be entirely in line with the plans of
the politicians to take from the states