Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-28
ISSUES CLEARLY DEFINED IN
DIES MONIES MUNICIPAL
ELECTION.
HANNA MAcvicAR TICKET
OPPOSED BY REAcTloNARIEs
Campaign Of Personalities and Charges
of Grating Comes to an End-Bar-
ney Declares Progress is Being Made
in Dairy Business in lowa-Treat For
Cownie's Place.
Special 10 Times-Republican.

Special TO Times Republican.
Des Moines. March 2S.-The city
election is in progress today. The vote
promises 10 be larger than ever before.
as much interest has been aroused
over the irregular contest and The
great variety of conflicting interests. In
way there is clear division between
two factions, one representing progress
and the other representing reversion
to older ideals
The younger and more progressive
element of the city generally rally
around Prof. James R. Hanna, a ane
type of aggressive student Of civic af-
fairs. With him is allied John Mac
Vicar, clearly the strongest man that
ever had 10 do with municipal at
fairs in the state; also Charles
Schramm. former city assessor, who
made the corporations pay heavier
taxes If these three can be elected
they will control the council and great
~ aid in the fixing of the commission
plan as permanent institution
a different element, somewhat in
clined to reaction. suspected also of
wide open" tendencies. is rallied
around the standard of Mayor A. J.
Mathis. Mr.. Mathis is personally a
most estimable man. a democrat OF the
old school and thoroughly honest and
capable. But Ex-Aldernan Brereton
and Justice Eel Roe. with Councilman
Wesley Ash. have aligned themselves
with Mathis, and this gives ii the ap-
pearance of slate
Councilman Hamery appears TO be
playing a lone hand. as also Ex-Labor
Commissioner Ed Brigham and w. A.
Needhan, labor candidate
The campaign has been filed with
personalities and mean attacks. with
accusations of wrong doing and bad
intentions. with suspicion and inuendo
but most of the voters feel that there
Is not much danger but that a fairly
good council viii be selected.
W. b Barney. Of Hampton. who is
to become dairy and pure food COM
missioner in May. spent a few days
here last week. He Is acquainting him
self with the duties of an office which
has come 70 be one Of the most i'm
portant and most difficult in the state
tho the work has been so systematized
that the department works smoothly
There never was time when there
was so much interest taken in the
crea merry and dairy business in Iowa"
he said 'tand I shall devote myself
largely 10 the extension Of that work
Formerly the Iowa people raised live
stock and sold il for beef and pork
but they have come 10 discover that
the best thing is the dairy industry
To extend that to every part of the
state and give the farmers all the in
formation possible will be my aim
An interesting situation in regard 10
railroad mana cement is found at
Sprag ueville III Jackson county, on
the Milwaukee, where all efforts made
for more than two years 10 secure
even siding at the town have failed
The town has leo or mora inhabitants
and business THAT would make perhaps
400 carloads of freight year Il has
a postoffice and mail is delivered there
daily; but there is neither depot nor
siding. The people have long tried TO
get a hearing before the railroad COM
mission on the matter but say that this
has not been done, as the matter is in
correspondence.
Secretary of State Hayward is en-
gagged in trying to find out just when
the corporations that Were in recent
years doing bushes in Iowa but are
now dead ones, quit business. 1t is
believed that this VIII disclose that
many have not been regularly dissolved
and are still subject to the penalties.
There is excellent reason for assun1-
ing that Secretary Forrest Treat OF the
state board OF control viii be appointed
TO Cownie's place. The only thing which
stands IN the way might be political
pressure, which has already had every
thing to do with disposing Of affairs in
regard to the state institutions. Mr..
Treats selection would be, also, an in
dorsement of the policy of the board
the past ten years during which time he
has been identified with the work and
It would indicate that the work Of Mr..
Cownie, as OF Messrs. Larabee Kline
and Hamilton, was all good.
The movement for the abolition of
the state board of health, which gained
some Roadway at the last session OF
the legislature by reason Of the sup
port It received from Governor Car
roll. is likely to take on more serious
aspect at the next session. It is under
stood that the doctors Of the state viii
thrash out the mater at their state
association meeting here in May and
probably indorse the movement. The
bin which was agreed upon during the
last legislature provided for 9, board of
three, merely having the qualification
Of citizenship, who would be empower
ed to employ a doctor, veterinarian,
etc, and also employ someone to look
after the pharmacy matter. The board
would have almost unlimited powers.
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