Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-22
ouaTEp DISTRICT ATTORNEY 49,
auEs PUBLIC STATEMENT AT.
TAckINo M'REYNoLDs.
BETTY FEDERAL OFFICIALS
ACCUSED OF GRATING
Friction Between Attorney General and
Van Waaenen Started Over Suits
Against Alleged Plumbers Trust II
Marshal Knott Charged With Petty
Graft.
Sioux CITY Dec. e2.-Accusing Attor-

the department of justice in general
A. Van Wagenen until Saturday at
torney Of the northern Iowa district,
took the first step in his defense Sat
urday night. Besides attacking the in
tegrity of the attorney general the
dismissed official accuses several Iowa
officials of the department with petty
misconduct
The order for Van Wagenan's re-
moval. which was received here Satur-
day from Attorney General Mercy
nolds, was followed by another ap-
pointing Grover NJ. Neese, who has
been Mr.. Van Wagenen's assistant. TO
act as attorney until a successor is
named.
Van Wasenan's Statement.
In his statement Mr.. Van Wagenen
says in part:
u have kept quiet just as long as the
matter could be held in allegiance SO as
not to air my grievance like the attor-
ney general has at the other end. It
is time for me now TO give my side.
THE real cause of serious difference
of opinion between the attorney gen
eral and myself arose, as nearly as
can tell, on, of the trust prosecution
dSdlLSL Tie -hdSlcI S.uillDGES <ASScC!d-
ton. Early in the summer 1913 Mr..
Piper. of the firm Of Piper & Larson,
plumbers, came TO my office and re-
ported to me that the Master Plumb
ers' Association of Sioux City, Iowa.
together with the state and national
Associations constituted an iron clad
trust, the trust main tanned an office in
an out-of-the-way room on the third
floor IF tho hnjIliVor IN
City. where every Monday night they
met and assigned jobs by rotation
among the members.
Sworn Not to Compete.
The plumber who was assigned a
job could bid as high as he pleased
and all others were bound by solemn
oath, the original of which we secured
in the raid Of the office here. to bid at
least 10 per cent higher. This referred
to Jobs coming from the architects
offices The ordinary work was as
signed to the men who nrsr reported to
the Office and every plumber thereafter
had to bid 10 per cent higher than the
man who first reported On the Job.
sThey kept a man in this office and
: paid him salary for doing nothing
else but simply assign jobs Every
plumber belonging to the trust had to
pay 5 per cent Of all his earnings to
support the trust.
~ Mr.. Piper brought with him to nv
Office letters from wholesale plumbing
houses. absolutely refusing to sell any
goods unless he rejoined the trust He
Z had belonged to 1t for short time.
secured from him and sent to the de-
partment certain little slips which read
Ike this. Boone VS.. Shirley Radiator
Company, first offense;' this was
printed with a rubber stamp on a plain
piece OF paper and mailed from Dee
Aoines in a plain envelope to members
thruout Iowa and elsewhere, It's mean.
ing Is plain. It simply meant that the
shirley Radiator Company had sold
some one in Boone who did not belong
70 the trust and was thereafter IN he
boycotted.
What Ais McReynolds.
What the attorney generals object
Is In not prosecuting fragrant matters
IKE this 1 can not understand. Some.
.ines think he is in league with the
RUSS and at other times tina, he is
Infatuated with some pet scheme of his
own. But absolutely every turn the
: attorney general makes looks to me like
ne Is interested in the corpora tons and
trusts" >-AAA
The deposed district attorney critf-
: cises the attorney generals amt 81
polcles. declaring the recent Bell Tel
ephone compromise leaves the CORPORA
tons Just where they were before and
generally in position to carry our
their combination, tntrenched behind
the law.
Regarding state federal officials the
Judge says: The first day I was az
FEDERAL court at Waterloo, Marshal
Knott and John W. Philpot Of DUBUQUE
came over from the court room with
me- They insisted on my going IN
stairs for a book Of instructions. I
suspected what the book OF instructions
was, but went up just the same. Once
upstairs Philpot told me he had a lot
OF good friends in Sioux City and want
ed to visit them and he said Subpoena
me l did not Just catch his meaning
and said: On what case? He said:
Any case I simply parried with him
and gave him no satisfaction
Has Photographed Letter.
Later he said. Now you subpoena
Philpot to Sioux City. If you don't
you're going to get in bad with boys'
said. ON what cases?' He,replie5 ION
the bank cases. jollied him a little
while and gave no satisfactaop. Two
or three days later received a. letter
from Marshal Knotts chief deputy,
sLietz. asking me to subpoena Philpot
on the Harmon Vinegar and Picking
Works case. That letter 1 have taken
pains to have photographed
These facts are delicate facts TO
talk about. but they can be just as
distinctly understood as II you could
I prove what is the modus operandi I
! want simply to say that for any man
TO win case under the circumstances
he must have an invincible case and
then he will be lucky II he wins it.
For some reason the marshal never
comes alone, but two or three Of his
deputies find some excuse for being
s along. Here would be the lineup. Take
for fnstnace Sioux City. Marshal Knott,
Deputy Healy, Deputy Blanchard. De-
j putty Lfetz, chief knocker, J. H. Bolton,
Dave Anderson. George Story. Lee Nc
Nicely, all republican officials, and
while they were not an in active OPP
position there was at least none in
sympathy or accord with the democrat
who hap broken the charmed circle by
being appointed attorney"
Murphy Makes Reply.
Dubuque. Dec. cc.-Louis Murphy,
oollscsoe Of internal revenue for Iowa,