Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-03
CONTEST FOR GovERNoRsHiP'
NARRoWs BETWEEN TWO
CANDIDATES. N
WET AND DRY ISSUE
oBscuREs ALL OTHERS
Dry Following Of Allen Declared e Pc
Going Over TO cosson,. and Vets De.
sertins kushnls For Sioux City Man.
-ttsasselquist Making Aggressive
Campaign For Secretary Of State.

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Des Moines, May 3.--With the state,
primaries only about four weeks away
the fight for the nomination for gov
ernor is narrowing down to Cosson
and Harding, SO friends of the candi-s
dates claim. The wet support which
might have been given to Carl
Kuehnle, >of Denison, is going over to
Harding, it Is claimed and the dry.
vote which has been split between
Allen and Cosson is centering on
Cosson, SO the latter's followers as
sert.
Z. R. A. Hasselquist, of Charlton, is
putting up an aggressive campaign for
the secretary of states nomination.
He is the only opponent of the present
incumbent, William s. Allen, who Is
out for a third term. Hasselquist was
state representative from Lucas
county in the Twenty eighth and
Twenty-ninth general assemblies and
was a state senator in the Thirtieth
and Thirty first assemblies. He has
held county office in Lucas county.
He has opened headquarters in Des
Moines and is sending out literature
and speaking at a number Of public
meetings. His campaign was given
a boost at a meeting held in his honor
here last Friday night.
The present state treasurer, w. c.
Brown, is out for a third term. Former
Senator E. H. Hoyt, of Manchester,
is out for the nomination. as, is also
Senator Charles H. Thomas, Of Kent.
Senator Thomas has opened head,
quarters in Des Moines, is sending out
considerable literature and is getting
around over the state quite little.
s Auditor of State Frank S. Shaw, OF
Toledo who is out for the second
term has no opposition for the noni-
nation. y, "a =g@.. ,r.@ 5s-t& e.s@ Er.. biz
-f Not to Widen Railroad.
Y The state railroad commission in
majority ruling handed down today
refuses to recommend that the Cas-
cade branch line owned by the Mil
waukee be Ghanged from a narrow
gauge to standard gauge road.
Commissioners John A. Guiher and
James H. Wilson are against the
change while Clifford Thorne, chair
man Of the commission, favors it, &S
Commissioner Guiher wrote the
ma jority opinion against recommend
ing any such change and Commits"
sioner Thorne wrote a dissent
In the facts submitted by the rail-
road as cited aby Commissioner Guiher
Ii Is claimed that the road lost s17.o07
in 1914, S1S;7T0 In 1918, and $23.552 In
1912 The road was built in 1888 by
the Chicago, Believes, Cascade and
western Railway Company and was
later purchaser by the Milwaukee. It
is thirty six miles long and extends
from Bellevue to Cascade. 1t Is
claimed by the road that it would cost
to widen the road bed $451,115 II the
present grade was left unchanged. but
il the grade was changed. as 1t Is
claimed would be necessary II stand
ara trains were operated on the line.
it would cost $955,216. Commissioners
Guiher and Wilson declares that with
the road losing. money it should not
be asked to schange to a standard
guage.
Commissioner Thorne in his dis
senting opinion declares that the fig
ures submitted by the railroad show
ing deficit in operation are based on
a method Of accounting which is
unsound. IT. is figured
only on the business actually done
on the branch line leaving out Of con-
sideration that 1t is a feeder to the
main.tline and the amount OF business
the main line gets as a result of the
short line. E g47 st
q Commissioner Thorne says that II a
fair accounting should show a profit
then in his Judgment a reasonable
time should be specified within which
the company should be required to-
change to a standard guages road. He
says it is. the only narrow gauge road
left in the state.
Is School Health Posters.
DR.. G. H. Sumner, secretary OF thu
state board Of health. has put out
poster showing that the home and
the school shocld cooperate in de-
yeloping healthy, we'll balanced chill
dren. The posters are being sent out
thru the state superintendent OF
schools to every school room in the
state. f{It 81
The poster declares the schools
should teach hygiene, have regular
health inspection and give physical
training. It should have facilities for
school lunches and provide school
nurses. .s
The homes should clothe the chill
dren properly, keep them clean, pro-
vide proper nourishment, insist upon
sufficient sleep and remember that
happiness and good morals contribute
to health. The poster declares
THAT each home and school must as
sist the other and there must be CO.
operation between them. A failure Of
either nnllifies the other and wastes
the money of both.
HARDING OPPOSED At HOME.