Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-21
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Referring to stuffed ballot boxes at q
democratic primary in Dubuque. the
Times Of that city declares that I'm the
interest of common decency and the
purity OF the ballot something ought to
be done to prevent it, Iowa should APP
ply the Australian ballot law to pri-
mary elections, as Minnesota has done.
1t won't do to say that the people can
correct the evil at the polls. The rising
generation deserves come consideration
and 1t should not be permitted to be-
come too familiar with the methods now
SO frequently employed at democratic
primaries in this city
An Indian Territory man was arrest
ed for expanding 81 silver certificate
to $40. Yet there are those who affect to
see no wrong in making every dollar in
the country worth only 45 cents" re-
marks the Webster City Tribune.
The Keokuk Gate City AYERS that
The trust conference at Chicago
showed that nobody can we'll undertake
to make laws about subject that no.
body understands
"Eldora's Got Same Disease" is the
heading which the Eldora Herald put
over the IRIS article about the slum-
bering Commercial Club.
The Rails yoYotr, Jy,,;,p rafioar, ~ I,
Democrats oppose a large standing
army. Our army is but 100000, not Sc
great as the regular army under Wash
ington and Jefferson, and scarcely q
handful compared to the armies of other
nations
with the militia doing business in one
part of the state of Illinois and the
democratic headquarters in another, the
conjoint rumpus ought to furnish food
at least for a long winter evening {
! thought about Ex-Governor Altgeld's
state rights doctrine" remarks the
Sioux City Tribune.
| In commenting on what the T.-R. Is
Des Moines correspondent said abou,
the quality Of tobacco secured by the
board of control, the unreconciled Vim
ton Eagle says: "Oh, that's nothing
The quality of the stuff the board OF
control buys would paralyze saint
Some time ago state officer was TAX
| ing dinner at a state institution, and the
/ Gil nj, hi
a cup of coffee, remarked, You will
| have to excuse this coffee, it's board OF
control coffee But it is not necessary
| to kick. The Taxpayers are with this
| board. 1t saved them $105, 900. 1t is
simply case of God pity the inmates
The Davenport Times thinks the
contention of Senator Hayward thai
/ all the Iowa soldier boys should be
treated alike is one that will meet with
general approval and will no doubt re.
ceive favorable consideration by the
| leglslature.,
The Washington Press goes to the
4 Bible TO prove that Gear is not Yer.
old man and should not be turned dow
because of his age: There was Fathe
Adam. When he was 100 he achieved
remarkable feat, and he lived 800 year
after that. and kept his vigor, as tn,
Irecord shows. Why turn Gear down
under so. Adams son Seth kept up th,
gait: he was 105 when he became hap
Ply father, and was man till 912 year
of age, and could have held seat in tn,
senate much longer than Benton, An
thony or Morrill,. Methuselah wa
a Joseph Dandy; he was 1877 when h
4 begat Lamech, and he harvested SO
years. Dear old Uncle Noah, frs
4 secretary of the navy, and commodor
of the earlist yacht club. was 500 year
old when he achieved the first triplet
on record, Shem, Ham and Japhett
And these were old enough to be mar
ried before he built his big yacht, tina
won the cup. named the Ark. He wa
GOO years old at the flood, yet he ha
done feat several degrees more ardu
Gus than any ever imposed on an u. s