Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-18
Local Comment

i Local comment
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Candidate 4dohr can obtain hops from
his fellow. socialists In Muscatine who
elected two members OF the school
board and two members OF the city
council this week with the help Of the
labor unions
should take cognixance Of the effort to
has unquestionably been done this
peared and registered as a recent ar
rival to town when It could be seen
that he had in his hat band three cards
bearing names and addresses. II was
the thought Of the registration clerks
that this man was registering In DIFF
ferent wards under different names
and that on election day some other
hoater would vote under those names
as a repeater and take the first train
out Of town. The saloon fight is at the
bottom OF this kind OF business.
rights for the labor unions TO put up
a ticket and try to capture the city
government but why do they want to
do 1t? What special or class interest
would they have in putting union card
men in as mayor and counc!lmen
Their organizer and national officers
speaking in Red Mems hall ore Sunday
before the primary said that laboring
men had been fooled too often by poll
ticians who had promised them every
thing before election and then became
the first to put policemen on the team
sters' wa CONS In times OF strikes but
there could hardly be much ground for
them to complain OF the privileges al
lowed then, in warshall:own. Joe Mohr.
as MAYOR. could rot do much more
without violating hts oath OF office.
Merritt Greene I. making It clear
that he realized how his friends We're
justified in certe-ire on Jones IN the
primary and in fact during the closing
day. Of the campaign he told them to
DO tust as they pleased in the matter.
Several hundred Of his personal friends
centered on Jones to make sure Of the
defeat Of another candidate. Jones was
fairly nominated and Mr Greene IS go
ing u vote for him for mayor in the
election.
The spring clean up has arrived ana
with It several thousand wa gon loads OF
cinders are to Re hauled TO the dump
and depo.ited where they win be Of no
value. Householders pay so cents per
load to have them hauled away. Why
does not the city furnish the teams TO
do this hauling. cut the price to IS
cents to the householder and put the
ctnde-s on some OF our worst roads
like the South Center street. East Main
street and North Third avenue roads?
One thousand wagon loads Of cinders
would improve q mile Of highway at a
net cost to the city Of $3.50. Easy
money.
Now Is the time to revive tho auto
mobile club. An active club can help
along the good roads movement II Il
viii DO nothing but appoint commit
tee 70 receive corn plants from NOM
bers n to ROADS that are in bad con-
dftton. This COMMITTEES could then
make It its Official business to report
the bad roads 70 the officials whose
duty Il 10 TO repair them. A few email
OYt2GS
ito, for those who maintain good roads
could then supplement the work An
automobile club - made q circle or de-
partment within the Marshal!town
Club could have All the e1vartages Of
house and could have the greater
share Of II. due. devoted to road work
and use tbs clerical services Of the
hA S,,h' 4,
can't some auto enthusiast start some
thing?
A SELDOM petition could Nave been
circulated Immediately following last
fairs general election. Why was It not
done? Simply because majority OF
those voting at that election would
have refused to sign for saloons. It
will be the game after this election II
the majority Of those voting are OF the
same color. AS the situation now
stands more than two-tt thirds Of the
voters OF this city are known to be de-
termined IN their own minds never 70
sign a saloon petition n they all vote
TO petition VIII be circulated ard no
one will be ANNOYED. But II all the
vets vote and only few OF the drvs
vote then the division of voters Will be
close enough to encourage the saloon
men to make one last attempt for their
b-einess lives. We viii then have a
saloon petition heht on and It will be
a fierce one. For this reason the arch
saloon keeper is attending the regis
tration places frequently He is inter-
ested IN getting his kind OF voters re-
corded. Somebody Il inducing men
to register by the hundreds who never
registered before. Many are coming IN
from the country and from other towns
and arrests for illegal registration are