Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-08

| lines can go only half way across, and
was fined S2o. 1t would have been
cheaper TO have cut the line in two
and set two stakes in the middle of
the river. That would have been legal.
Or possibly, he might have tied the
! two lines TO one stake in the middle of
! the stream, but that would have raised
technical law point. and such things
| are expensive
SHE'D NO TEARS FOR THESE MEN.
lDes MONIES Capitall
In country where one Of those
| horse racing swindles can be success
| fully put over, what have you got 70
| say about common intelligence?
| The doingS of the celepra ted Mabray
| gang are fresh in Inc minds OF many
people. MaDray made his headquar-
| uers at Council Biuus. With his as
| sociates he pulled off many fake horse
| races, and won large sums of money.
| Who were Mabray's victims? They
| We're country bankers ana rich farm
! ers. These country bankers and rich
| farmers were led to believe that they
| were going to swindle somebody and
| make large sums of money. The earn
| lngS were 10 be easy money. They
| thought all their proceedings were
| within the law. 1t is scarcely believ
! able that victims could be found for
such swinde but Mabray found
them.
The Mabray gang was broken up
by the federal courts. Judge McPher
son with great Indignation did his best
TO punish the guilty. Mabray was sent
TO Jail. Others were punished and it
was supposed the fake horse race was
at an end. But it has come back; had
revival. At Davenport there are
many victims. 1t is said that a rich
farmer near Keota, Keokuk county.
lost 100000. Names Of others are men
toned as losers. The swindIers have
made it a rule to select men who, af
ter being swindled. could not afford to
kick Therefore there are many VIC
tins Of whom we have not heard.
When a country banker is caught in
such swindle he necessarily is COM
PEELED to go out Of business, beca use
people would not trust such a banker.
This horse racing swindle is the legiti-
| mate successor to the old counterfeit
money affair. Some years ago men in
New York negotiated the sale Of coun-
terfeit money and upon receipt of All
order shipped the so-called money by
express c. O. D. After the G.. O. u.
had been paid it was discovered that
the box which was supposed to contain
the counterfeit money was filed with
sawdust. The man who paid for the
sa wdust was generally too proud to
sQueal So. the swindle went on.
The public had no pity for the man
| who undertook to purchase ounterfeit
money and was himself swindled. And
| the public will have no mercy now up
| on the victims Of the horse race swim
die. The victims thought they were
] going to swindle somebody else Such
| was their purpose, and they knew it.
Let no tears be shed for the rich farm
| er and the country banker who is
| swindled by any old horse race scheme
! Even handed justice would put all of
| them in Jail, those who lost the money.
| along with those who got the money.
| THE REGISTER AND HARDING.
[Des Moines Register.l
| The Register wishes to assure it's
| readers that the entire summer and fall
| is not to be devoted to an effort to
c~eh -i'' AAoA uAh6 Aol SoNCIhoA. "
have had unfit governors before, altho
never governor Of just Mr.. Harding's
| type, and both the readers of the Reg
lister and the Register will survive
Harding if that is to be the verdict.
But the Register does propose to
| make 1t plain that it is opposed to
| Harding for public reasons, and it does
propose to serve such notice on its
| readers as will put them on inquiry
before they go to the polls and ratify
| a nomination brought about by COM
bination Of interests all Of them work
| ing against the best interests of tn,
state.
| The Register has before on various
occasions referred to the circular sent
| to all the liquor dealers Of Iowa two
years ago on the eve of the state cleo
| ton. On this page this morning We
| publish Photographic reproduction Of
| this notice, emitting the name to which
| the notice was addressed. The original
copy is in our possession. however,
| with the name of the addressee.
No intelligent man can read this not
| ice, scan the election returns, take note
| Of the forces behind Harding in the
primary election this year, watch the
spread Of Temperance bars" all over
Iowa, and not know that there Is some
thing in the wind.
We have published before several
times the comparative vote for Harding
two years ago in what are known as
the liberal counties. Here are few
hints of what followed the suggestion:
/ I'VE want to work together for the
same ends without the general public
knowing how it happens that we are
all agreed on the same proposition.
Look at the Harding vote as compared
with the vote for Governor Clarke az
the head of the ticket in the following
| counties:
| Counties Harding. Clarke
| Dubuque ............. 1857 z.sof
| Clinton 1856 1896
| Scott 1913 5.263
Des Moines 2,727 2.516
Carroll >. .l,oZo i,ofo
| CRAWFORD Z,44o l,Voo
The Register yesterday asked one
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