Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-15
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Chairman Weaver, of the republican
state committee, will meet the county
chairmen of the Seventh district at the
Sayery this evening to discuss the plans
for the campaign. 1t is also announced
today that the committeeman for the.
Sixth district Will meet at Oskaloosa
tomorrow evening, and those for the
Ninth will get together at Council
Bluffs on Tuesday. These conferences
thus far have been altogether success
iIui, developing general enthusiasm. 1t.
is jim Blythe's old scheme. and any
/ thing that Jim Blythe approved in state
Organization came pretty near being all
fright.
The caucuses in the town of Cherokee
ARE being he'd today. as we'll as those in
lmost of the rural townships OF the
county. The Cuumins men say that the
Gear bari has been opened for the oc-
leasion, and that there is going to be a
hotter time than at Muscatine
Boone county's primaries Yesterday
resulted in the nomination of A. j. Bar
clay as the republican candidate for the
house. He is unquestionably a Cum
minis man, and the county is strongly
enough republican to make his election
practically certain.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ strauss and Miss
Gertrude have returned from four
months trip in Europe, much of the
time being spent in Carlsbad, where Mr..
Strauss went for the waters. They we're
in Paris three weeks ago last SUNDAY.
and had the experience OF being mixed
up With Partisan mob, one of the
many of its kind incident 10 the Dreyfus
excitement.
All over the continent, and in Great
Britain. the feeling over the Dreyfus
affair is just as general and strong as
in America" said Mr.. Strauss. ..yNher-
ever we went we found 1t the same
The newspapers everywhere printed, for
| them extensive accounts of the pro-
ceedings. with constant editorial COM
nlent. OF course the continental news
papers do not print SO much news as
ours in America, and American readers
have been given much better opportu-
mites TO inform themselves of all the
doings in the case than the people on
the continent. In England the newspa-
pers are run more nearly on American
lines, they We're simply full of the
Dreyfus case every day. The feeling
there against the injustice of the whole
prosecution of preyfus t.. if anything.
stronger than on the continent 1t is
talked everywhere. and France is de-
nounced on all hands. The Germans
are bitter, but they are not more so
than the people of AUSTRIA While in
London the Transvaal war crisis could
not get first place In public attention
for a long time because of the interest
in the trial at Rennes.
Three weeks ago last Sunday we
We're driving. and went down on the
Boulevard des Italiens. Before we real
lied it We We're in the midst OF a howl
ing mob. The driver Was unable TO
make any headway for a long time.
We couldn't see anything bur human
heads and waving arms people shour-
ing and making a terrific din There
We're 500 people hurt in the uproar that
day in the city. In Paris little would be
heard of the case except in the poorer
sections of the city. The best classes
of people, aside from the aristocracy.
seemed to side with Dreyfus and TO rea-
lie the injustice that was being done
him But the mob was bitterly against
him and his cause.
There is no question that the feeling
against France will iniure the Paris ex-
position next year. All over Europe the
people declare they will not go to Paris.
The civilized world seems determined
to show its contempt for France, and
thousands upon thousands OF people
Will be kept away from Paris because
of this feeling. 1t is Impossible to tell
what may be the final effect of the
trouble in France"
Mrs. I.aylander Seriously III.
Cedar Falls, Sept. 15.-Mrs. o. j.
Laylander. wife of Superintendent Lay
lander has lain in an unconscious con-
ldition at her home for the past thirty
six hours, efforts to resuscitate her
having proven futile. Today it is dis
covered that one side of the patient is