Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-24
TO AROUSE INTEREST
IN CANDIDATES OR POSI-.
BILE ISSUES
MUCH GOSSIP At DES
MONIES SPEEDILY DENIED
Little Consideration Given to Places
on Republican Ticket Other Than
For Governor - Iowa City, Where
Protest Originated, Only Point in
Iowa Where State 10 Being Held Up.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, May "a. The chief
characteristic Of the political situation
in Iowa, so far as it may be said there
is anything of the sort, is that It takes
a great deal of straining 10 keep up
even the semblance Of interest in the
same. The fact is that with the de-
parture OF the legislature the most OF
the politics departed from the capital
city and from the state house and 1t IS
only when some one from the outside
shows up here that anybody does any
talking. For instance the other Cay
state senator was indulging 4 lot of
joking with your correspondent, and in
purely jesting way put forth a wild
dream as to how some candidate Tor
governor might be trading promises
for influence, and the joke was over
heard and forthwith blossomed out as
serious story worthy to be denied
and discussed. Another senator comes
to town and he is at once eatured as
on desperate chase for support for
office. A state official wholly absorbed
in business affairs in connection with
LIS OAiiCe IS pSSlereO pS OSluauC tiIdt
he outline his political future, about
which he is not giving much concern.
Every session of the court and a num-
Der OF lawyers, who generally pay some
attention to politics, gather around the
supreme court and discuss possibilities.
1t has been represented that the tenn
perance forces of the state are doing
"a vast amount of specific and active
n q a re-
nor or get into an elimination game,
but the head of the organization says
they are doing pra cticaliy nothing and
are quite content to let matters drift
along as at present. In fact, it IS very
hard to stir up any real interest in
state politics even by running opposing
fake stories into a head-end collision
with deftness. AS for the candidates.
for places on the republican ticket 9TH
er than governor very little has ever
been said and 1t is presumed that not
very many candidates. are in process
OF lncuba ton except as to attorney
general. There has been no talk at all
as to possible candidates for places on
the democratic ticket.
State officials are somewhat inter
ested in the fact that the only place
in the state where the new law for
condemnation of property for state use
has had TO be regularly used in order
TO prevent the state from being held
up" by exorbitant prices for land is,
not in Des Moines, on the capitol ex-
tention tract but in Iowa City, for
state university purposes in the city
whence came the first and most viru-
lent accusations that Des Moines was
going 10 make the state pay fr!ghtful
prices for land. For the second time
the state board Of education has had to
invoke the new law to get prices on
land needed for state purposes. The
law passed especially to fl the capitol
extension case, because after an all
winter discussion of the mater. some
members of the legislature feared that
the property owners OF Des Moines
would try to force the state to pay
fancy prices for ground needed for the
use of the state. Condemnation was
had on few small tracts "a very small
percentage Of the total bought; but it
seems that in order TO get land for the
university, that a great educational in
stitution may be built up, juries of
condemnation must be utilized in fixing
prices to be paid. The state wants a
plCCh Ol STOOHE IN WHICH 10 DuliO q
new dental school.
1t is learned that one purpose Of the
visit to Iowa Of c. NJ. DeForest, field
secretary of the national association
for the study and prevention of tuber-
culosis, was to urge upon the people
| that they organize state association
auxiliary to the national associa ton
nd RI, dc OF
! different from those long pursued in
| Iowa
The national association has never
| had very much support from Iowa be-
cause in Iowa the work has been done
almost entirely thru public agencies
and not so much by private initiative.
Only in a small way has there been
cooperation with the national body.
| The latter undertakes to divide the
work and responsibility, but a great
many of those most active in the work
in Iowa believe it would be better not
to form any new organization or to do
any work not in entire harmony with
that being done by the state and thru
counties.
| 1t is promised that the retirement Of
DR.. Kepford will not lessen the work
being done in Iowa, but that it will be
continued along much the same lines,
which have proven more successful
than those Of almost any other state.
| $50
President R. A. Pearson, Of Iowa
| State College. is on the program for
the quarterly conference of the board
Of control two weeks hence, to tell Of
prison reform. His observation of re-
suits in connection with the working
Of prisoners at the big camp at Ames
last fall, in road and bridge building,
affords a starting point for general
discussion Of subject about which
too little is known. 1t may not be gen
orally understood, at least, that the
prison reform work being carried on
quietly and without ostentation in
Iowa is second to mono in any state
Of the union.
Two outsiders are to appear on the
program. Wisconsin has woman
member Of the board of control, Kath-
crime R Williams, and she will speak
at the conference. r. o. johnson, SUI
perintnedent Of the Ipdiana school for
the deaf at indianapolis, is to tell OF
THE Measure Of Efficiency Of Schools
For the Deaf"
| F. H. Herald, dentist, at the indus
trial school for boys, is to have q pa
per on Mouth Conditions and Their
Relation to the Health ana Develop
ment OF the Child. ~ q. Hubbard,
secretary Of the Y. NC. A. at Mason