Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-26
LAS ABSURD AS MALICIOUS"

LAS ABSURD AS MALICIOUS"
[Des Moines Register and Leader.l
State Senator Farr, democratic MEM
Der of the senate from Woodbury.
county, has made an address at Mo-
Vile
The senator. preliminary to his crit
icism of Governor Clarke. is quoted by
The Sioux City Journal as saying:
THAT his own knowledge OF the needs
of state building and state property is
far more complete than that Of Gov
ernor Clarke. altho Governor Clarke
has been in office as legislator, lieuten-
ant governor and governor for twelve
years"
The senator after this Introduction.
turned his attention TO capitol extention
| ard more especially to settling the
heating plant for the public buildings
at the Rock Island tracks and tunnel
! Ing hack. and proceeded to dem onstrate
| his knowledge OF the situation with the
| following statement: THE land thru
/ which the tunnel is to be built is
| sandy and subject to overflow by the
| Des Moines river. Water could not be
| kept out of the tunnel
| Now the most casual wayfarer
| knows that the capitol crowns hill.
( and that all the public buildings Iowa
will ever build will be set on a hill.
|, and the tunnel from the heating plant.
T! instead of being in danger of flooding
would be freer from that particular
| danger than from any other.
| Moreover. the Des Moines river even
in the mighty food of 1881 did not
reach back TO the ground where the
new heating plant would be located.
! State Senator Farr it should be said
did not discover any of these dangers
at the time the bill vas up for passage.
(, and his name Is not one OF the three
recorded in the final roll call for dem
| ocrats IN the negative.
! DON'T BEGRUDGE THE DOLLAR.
shenandoah Sentinel Postl
The actual increase in the capitol
grounds is thirty four acres. most OF
| j; on the south side of the capitol
building. toward the railroad tracks.
not quite one fifth as much the
grounds of the Page county poor house.
For years and years people passing
thru Des Moines by train have been
compelled. when looking from the car
windows % see the magnificent capi-
tol. to look acress the most -disre-
putable part of the city. with old rattle
trap buildings, dirty yards strewn with
| tin cans and beer bottles. with frowsy
women gazing from doors or windows
Who is there in Shenandoah, re-
publican or democrat. who has not
pride enough in his state TO pay 10
cents year for two years to get rid
| splendid capitol?
a off "a IN
Senator Dunnegan and the other
democrats who Joined with the re-
publicans in removing the rubbish from
the backyard of the state house. / do
| not begruGge my dollar TO help.
| Senator Wilson, democratic member
from clinton county. had charge of the
/ measure in the senate.
In the house the convincing and un-
answerable speech in favor OF the
measure was made by Representative
! Charles W. Miller OF Bremen county
/ floor leader of the democrats and the
| special friend OF Billy Jameson OF this
city. and formerly chairman OF the
democratic state central committee
| When John T. Hamilton. democratic
| candidate for governor attacks the re-
| publicans for capitol extension he is
attacking nearly all the democratic
members Of the last Legislature. for i,
was their bill. They selected tine
ground that was purchased. They
spoke for 1t in the house and senate.
They voted for 1t. They adopted It.
They carried out the recommends
ton OF Governor Larrabee made nearly
thirty years ago.
| Do you imagine that II you elect
John T. Hamilton sovernor that he
will or could or would wish to restore
the rickety buildings the unsightly
! sights and smells the dirty saloons and
worse under the very shadow of the
capitol?
40 you suppose that IL he were
| elected he would like to sit at the win
dow of his beautiful office on the west
side Of the building and look across
Ninth streel few rods away at the
vacant lots on the corner of Locust and
Ninth streets with rusty tin cans. dead
| cats. beer bottles and weeds. as all the
| republican governors from Larrabee TO
Clarke have had to do?
| Shenandoah people every spring have
a regular clean up campaign when we
do our best to get rid of unsightly
/ sights and unsavory smells. but for
! forty years the state of Iowa failed to
i clean up" around our premises in Des
| Moines
/, And now some Of us are kicking
! about It because the last legislature
/! cleaned UP. Are we like the SOW told
| Of in the parable that after she was
washed returned to her wallowing in
the mire?
i The Lawyers Way.
I! Before I agree to undertake your
/ defense said the eminent criminal
i lawyer, you will have to tell me the
whole truth. Did you embezzle the
i 100000 you are accused OF having
Il taken?"