Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-17
! TOPICS OF THE TIMES


Sells circus at Des Moines yesterday
tried to palm of on the people as a
novelty white" elephant, but
Iowans have seen 1t before.
The Chicago trust conference has
planned a special session to discuss the
relation OF tariff to trusts.
Over 100 volumes OF the Rebellion
Records have been published by the
public library in town near Boston
has full set, and the librarian says in
his report: When Henry B. Pierce was
alive he used to look at some of them
once in a while, but now there is only
one man in town who ever calls for any
of the set. He seems to be greatly In
terested in the battles in which his
father fought. We can hardly afford
the space for the Rebellion Records
much longer"
Bryan's effort at Des Moines discloses
his hand more and more in his effort
to weld the party on the old 16 to i
platform for 1900. well knowing that he
himself is the chief apostle Of silver
ism.
Governor General Brooke will be
summoned to Washington to impart
knowledge of Cuban affairs.
II believe ex-Speaker Reed will re-
main in congress-" said Congressman
Warner of Illinois In Washington the
other day, though he will not enter the
race for the speakership. do not pre-
tend to have any information on the
subject, but merely as guess believe
that, finding himself out of harmony
with the sentiment of his party with re-
spect to some important questions-ex-
panslon and so forth-he decided as a
man of q high sense of honor that he
could not retain the speakership and be
free to advance his own views on these
questions. He therefore decided to take
his place on the floor and do the best he
could to advance his views OF course
II he does this, his strong personality
and great intellectual powers will give
him an influence. but the republican
party is in favor of expansion, and he
will not be able to overcome that SEN
timent regard Reed as the biggest
man In America, but l do not agree
with him on the expansion question.
and would not yield my views to his nor
would other republicans on the floor.
He would have to maintain his position
against general and active attack in
trying to fight expansion" One OF his
New York partners denies the report
that Reed will remain in congress.
According to the annual report of the
knights of Pythias there are 442 lodges
| of that order in Iowa. This gives but
slight idea of the great strength of
the order and the good it is doing.
1 No wonder Cato declined to be a
candidate! If he We're called upon to
defend all the false or misleading state
ments he made in his democratic con-
vention speech the task would be an
appalling one.
4 Is
Like the bourbons of the south, the
Iowa democracy would have the Hawk
eye state a white" mans government.
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! The uncovering of solid mountain of
native ferro- nickel Manganese at Du-
range iron mountain, Mexico, has Gre
ated great excitement throughout the
republic. Tradition has it that this
enormous mass of native metal is an
aerolite that fell from the sky centuries
| ago. 1t is more than 800 feet high, half
a mile in length and is estimated to
contain more than 500, 900 600 tons above
ground. 1t is worth s4S5 a ton. "A roll
ling mill with two large blast furnaces
is now nearly completed to work on this
mass of native metal, and already five
cars of ferro-nickel manganese are be-
4 ing shipped daily from Durango to the
4 United States and Europe.
i Sells besought White to take the dem
ocratic nomination for the governor
ship. No, said Sells, you take it. Both
i regarded it as a sacrifice, and SO ex-
/ pressed themselves, and Sells spoke of
putting himself upon the altar If neces-
sary. Their talk disclosed the hopeless
ness of the contest from their own point
of view.
The Filipinos will probably be able to
get up another skirmish when they hear
from the Iowa democracy.
Anyhow, Marshall county got the
lnomination for the state railroad COM
missicnership from democracy in the
selection of the well-known populist, w.
H. Calhoun. This will not make Mr.. N.
S. Ketchum at all envious.
The democratic platform urges the
Legislature to eliminate the objection
able features of the mulct law and
substitute therefor carefully guarded
Legislation, just. fair and in the inter-
lest of true temperance" What does this
mean? While refraining from offend
ling the temperance element by open
lily declaring for a license law, 1t would
revise and hence retain the mulct Ia
suit democratic demands, which are
known to be for an open license.
That Iowa democracy is an unpro-