Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-01

tenn started thru their former visiti
Will undoubtedly soon put recent grav-
cling in excellent condition and open
up new movement Of enthusiasm
with more Travel on Gravel for a
slogan.
!. $4,000 SAVED.
shenandoah Sentinel Post.]
In 1911, under very peculiar circum-
stances, the board of supervisors OF
Clinton county reached an agreement
with the Clinton Bridge Company to
build steel super-structure bridge at
Harris Mill for $4,000. A separate agree
ment was entered into for foundation
and sub-structure work at $3.50 per
cubic yard. There was no highway
commission at that time. but there was
an Clinton a newspaper that raised such
| strenuous objections that the work was
!: postponed. Fortunately, the delay was
sufficient to permit the highway COM
mission to get on the job. The agree
ment was cancelled and a reinforced
concrete bridge, with an eighteen foot
roadway, was built for less money than
the supervisors proposed to pay for a
sixteen-foot steel span. Immediately
after this the highway commission, to-
gether with the states attorney and
other officials, obtained the indictment
| Of members Of the board OF supervis-
| ors and officers Of the Clinton Bridge
Company, with the ultimate result that
the Clinton Bridge Company refunded
more than $4,000 to the taxpayers Of
Clinton county, on few other similar
jobs. Clinton county's share Of the
highway commissions expense for that
year was $S0S.
WOMEN AT A NASTY TRIAL.
burlington Gazette.l
In the reports of the Orpet trial it Is
said that IS per cent Of the audience Is
composed of women. And large num-
bers Of the fair sex were unable to gain
admittance to the court room. The
Orpet trial. the unfortunate and de-
plorable sequence of the Illicit love Of
the defendant for Marian Lambert, the
pretty school miss, is interesting 1t is
interesting because it is nasty. In the
town Of Waukegan, ILL.,, it is the sole
topic Of conversation. In the neighbor-
ing city OF Chicago. 1t is said, it has
the news Of the Mexican crisis backed
over on the legal notice section of the
newspapers. And the newspapers.
whose mission is to give the news, are
giving full and complete details Of the
proceedings in the Waukegan court
room. wherein a weak and trembling
youth is telling the story of his COM
mon sin and trying to prove his INIT
cence of the capital crime of which he
is accused.
And IS per cent Of the people of the
court room are women. They are not
bad women, immoral women or undo.
srable women. 1t Is safe to say that
the crowd Is composed of just suck
women az you meet in every day social
and church circles Of any town the size
of Waukegan. No doubt many Of them
are mothers with daughters no strong
err than Marian Lambert. And while
these mothers are in the court room
the daughters perhaps are pursuing
their own sweet devices, who knows.
counting a Marian Lambert fate. The
Gazette can not conceive a more
shameless spectacle than court room
full of otherwise respectable women
straining every sense to hear the de-
tails of trials such as those OF VIII
Orpet.
PRIMARIES AND CONGRESSMAN.
Nevada Representative
The Cedar Rapids Republican
makes the general allegation that
the Iowa delegation in congress has
much .deteriorated from what 1t was
twenty years or SO ago and charges the
present deficiency up to the WORKINGS
of the primary system. Which suggests
a little inquiry into the facts as to how
the present congressman from Iowa
came to be in congress.
Mr.. Kennedy OF the First district was
originally nominated in convention
and has held on since. The primary Is
not to blame for Kennedy. Mr.. Hull OF
the Second district was nominated hrst
by the congressional committee after
the candidate nominated by con-
gressional convention to fill vacancy
had declined the nomination, and he
came so close to an election that there
was nothing for the republicans OF the
district to do at the next election but
to nominate him and elect him. The
primary Is not to blame for Hull. Mr..
Sweet of the Third district was npmi-
mated in primary upon second trial;
but for our part We see nothing the
matter with Sweet and we wonder what
the Republican Is charging up against
him. Mr.. Haugen of the Fourth dis
trict is a veteran holding over from a
convention nomination and of demon
strated ability to hold his place against
any Corners and under any system. The
argument gets no reinforcement from
his case. Mr.. Good OF the Fifth got his
nomination in primary where 1t Is
conceivable that convention would
have nominated Trewin; but this is the
Republicans own district and we for
bear to follow up this phase Of the mat
ter. Mr.. Ramseyer of the Sixth district
was nominated in a primary and SUBJ
sequently elected, where the district
was much divided, the majority small
and his predecessor a democrat Mr..
Ramseyer has not yet jumped into con.
gressional fame; but we believe his
nomination has been fortunate and that
he has the proper material in him. AS
to the Seventh. the editor Of this paper
has had some modest notions Of his
own as to how the representation might
be improved; but he does not have the
remotest idea that conditions for> q
change would have been better under
the convention system than in q pri-
mary and he believes that Mr.. DowelIs
position in Folk county would be dis
tinctly stronger for a convention fight.
The primary is not to blame for any
thing here Mr.. Towner Of the Eighth
was nominated in primary; but he
had long been indicated as the choice
OF the dominant faction in that dis
trict for Colonel Hepburn's successor,
and he would have been nominated I'M
der any rule Judge Green NJ the Ninth