Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-30
nes MONIES NEWsPApER's a..
TACK ON SUPERVISORS AND
OTHERS DOES INJUSTICE.
ATTACK shouLp De BROUGHT
AGAINST FEW INDIVIDUALS
Few Of County Official. P.rteok Of
Free Beer Provided by Bridge Com
paniss in Effort to Secure "infIu-
snes"-corrsspondsnt Present Tells
Actual Facts Of Officials Convention.
Special to Times Republican.

special to Times Republican,.
I Mason City, Nov. 3O.-The boards OF
supervisors, auditors, treasurers and
stewards of poor farms of the state OF
Iowa, are jast now in the lime light.
the Des Moines Capital featuring the
meeting held in this city in the early
fall as one of their yearly carousals
and drunken riots The question is
how far should a gathering of repre-
sentative men of the state be held re-
coed half a dozen men? If the three
hundred men who gathered in this city
are to be judged by the actions of a
rev roWdieS who We're in the bunch
and who had no regard for decency or
anything approaching it, then the con-
vention was guilty as charged. Pos
sibly there is not convention held in
Iowa, especially of political nature,
where the same charges could not be
brought. The supervisors of this coun-
ty, the treasurer, the auditor, and the
steward of the poor farm, consider the
article an outrage and not truthful only
as an exception, and the entire body
made to stand the brunt of an attack
which should be brought, If brought at
all, against the ones guilty and not
against those who attended the con-
ventions for the purpose Of being bet
ter fitted for the duties Of their Of
fees.
1t was the good fortune Of your cor
respondent tc be IN attendance at the
general meeting and at a number of
special meetings. There never was a
finer body of men called together in
this state. There was not drunken
man in the entire number who had any
part to do with the convention, but
from time Of opening the session they
were brinnful of business Of a helpful
kind until the adjournment.
Now the facts are that certain bridge
companies did rent rooms in hotels in
Mason City and at Clear Lake. 1t is
true and it is matter Of public record
that Sam Foster refused q wagon load
OF beer that backed up to his hotel. the
Cerro Gordo, which came addressed to
one of the big bridge companies Of this
country. that this same com pany had
rented a number Of rooms which they
hoped to have occupied by supervisors
they could work. that these rooms were
not extensively patronized, and no beer
was permitted in this hotel. To the
great credit Of the state be it said that
nine out Of ten Of them spurned
free beer, or free room. and
spotted the very men who hoped to
gain favor in this way.
AS class, Judged by their splendid
conduct while in this city, the state can
be congratulated upon its splendid men
serving in the, responsible position of
members OF the board OF supervisors.
While possibly a dozen deserve CEN
sure. and the paper publishing the gen.
eral attack could have been read with
popular favor had 1t seen fit to separ-
ate these and give them what they de-
served, the 100 or more who did
stand four square against the insult
offered them by the bridge companies
should have the commentator they
deserve.