Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-26


details Of that awful crime is ready for
the work houses, the chain gangs or
anything that will exterminate the
tramp. In these times Of great demand
for labor the vagrancy laws cannot be
too stringent. The sympathy Of the
public is with the man who works and
limit to reach the vagrant.
In the first place our good house.
wives can lend world of help if they
will consider 1t crime to feed a tramp.
There is no excuse for man to ask for
hand OUT these days and the
quicker the dog is "sicked'' onto him
the better will fare the community.
When the housewife has refused him
let her husband assist in establishing
for yagrancy that the pest will be
swept from the land. Officers should
enforce every law they now have to the
full limit. The tramp is the curse of
society today. 1t is arrant nonsense to
say that society is responsible for his
condition. 1t is only responsible for his
existence and the sooner it ends that
existence in some way or other the
sooner will society be progressing in
the right direction.
Il
Some days ago, to the end that read
ers of the T.-R. might have an unbiased
View of the all-important point of in
terest in Iowa politics, this paper un-
dertook to size up the senatorial situa-
ton. The probable Cummins and Gear
strength i'll the next legislature was
given as it appeared then, on the face
of the returns and within the limits of
reasonable conjecture The article called
forth a good deal of criticism from our
Des Mcines contemporaries, but of
good -natured sort. and it was taken by
us in the spirit in which it was given.
In that estimate the T.-R. gave Gear
80 votes and Cummns a. A review OF
the figures reveals one unintentional
error Butler county was given to
Cummins when it should have been.
placed among the Gear counties-5S- 4S.
Harrison and Howard counties We're
also placed among those that had
spoken for Gear: they probably belong
in the doubtful list. After careful re-
vision, we find that a few errors We're
made in tabulating the votes, owing to
the confusing of senatorial districts.
leaving the net result as it should have
been tabulated on that day, Gear 50 and
Cummins AZ.
Aside from these errors we can see no
good reasons that would lead disin-
Eterested person to change the figures.
The estimate was not exactly satisfac-
tory to the Cummins people. but we
think that if they could fairly appre-
Iciate the situation they would derive no
for it certainly did one thing: it To-
Gated Curnmins in the race. something a
great many newspapers have deliber-
ately refused to do, and it made him a
tclose competitor in that race, too. The
Impartial standpoint from which the
Judgment was taken was admitted by
our severest critics. which in itself adj
mits the good faith of any guess.
We placed Clarke county among the
Icounties that ARE and always have
been for Gear" the Register critic not
withstanding. Last Saturday that
county Instructed its nominee, MIR.
Telnple, for Gear.
We gave PocahontasH Humboldt to
Mr. Cummins, and the result of the con-
vention makes that guess certainty.
| We also gave Gear senator from the
/ Buchanan Delaware district because
all the signs pointed that way. and the
nominee, Mr.. Griswold, has now beer
instructed. We will now ask our friends
lof the Leader to reduce the size of tina
chunk of INSTRUMENTATION lurking
around the T.-R. office.
(. 1t is now reasonably certain that thu
nominees from the Butler Bremer ant
Cedar Jones districts can be counted OF
1.-The Gear side, while, on the other hand
Lit is probable that the two votes o
Marshall county can be counted on tn
4 Cummins side. We do th
simply to land them some
where. 1t Is we'll known that this coun
ity is not a Gear county and if we are t
assign them at all we must assign then
TO cummins in the absence of othe
candidates.
The cummins people seem so sure
the representative from Audubon tina
bit is fair to presume that some under