Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-05
BY The Will OF PROVIDENCE.


BY watching the shadows that play
across the surface of the Cedar Rap
ids Republican one can readily see that
4 a sun is about to rise on the political
night ofsuncertainty as to who would be
the Cedar Rapids candidate for secre-
tary of state, the morning has begun TO
dawn. The all-powerful providence, the
creator of all things political, who In his
aomnipotence draws a princely salary as
solicitor for a great railway corporation
and makes and unmakes repub-
iican candidates as easily as the
Great Creator makes planets for
the solar system, has decreed
that young man by the name OF Hoo
bart shall be the republican candidate
TOR secretary of state. And as this new-
born sun rises in response to its creator
Its radiance is cast before it to be ,s-
flected in the columns of the creators
newspaper in the following terms:
The Des Alcines Register Wants
know swhat is ii big man for seepe
tarS of state Several haze been
mentioned. There is Il man up in
Cherokee. named Hobart. state SEN
ator Hobart a relative uf the late
Vice President Hobart, We believe,
who can be seen all across the state.
As a speaker he has few equals in
the state. 1t would almost be a pity
to run him for ~ small an ottiee--he
ought TO go to congress some day.
That is the kind Of men the Repnb-
lican believes thesrepublican party
in Iowa ought to pick un for state
Offices, men who are in the fun flush
Of growing influence. hot men who
have failed in other respects, in life
and are looking for Il political place
to die in.---Gedar Rapids Republican.
Senator Hobart has been a very good
man and WOULD probably make a good
secretary of state, but as to his being
too great for the office opinions Will diff
fer. About the last time he was seen
all across the state Was, when he was
counted as sure" by both Sides in the
recent senatorial contest However
waving the question as to the masni-
tude of his greatness. he is a good man
The only thing republicans ha We Il sainat
him is the fact that the Cedar Rapids
+ influences are behind him. Nevertheless
his acceptable chara eters coass not excuse
4 the Cedar f.apiitdls newspaper i'll casting
the insulting SUR at the other canGi-
dates that some one or all5of them have
failed in other respects in life and are
looking for. political place TO die I'M
OF the three candidates Who have for
mally announced themselves not one is
such a man. One of them, Mr. ReJinls,n
of Newton, is a n old man. that is. a5civi'
war veteran of 60 Years of age but the
republican party-of Iowa has just sent
a man "a years old back TO the United
States senate. 30 the standard age limit
of usefulness is yet far off in Rednali's
case, and further, f the civil war vet
Grams of Iowa knew that it Was because
of his years that Cedar Rapids houlti
oppose Redman they would probably
register their protest in convention.
AS to making a failure in ltfe none OF
these neE could be - accused They
are all moderately successful business
men. Not % successful 4. loobson; Coo
forbid. but men who lave3always made
a comfortable living for themselves and
families, in fact in Mr. Redman'. case
his success in life has been greater ever
than will ever be achieved by the ON.
nipotent creator at Cedar Rapids. 70.
having been tried With a public trust Ii.
has retired with a fortune such as few
men attain and which no man can tax.
from him, the sobriquet, Homes
Hank"
An Honest Hank Or an Homes
John" or an" Hone st somebody isswlla
The Times Republican wants TO 81.
made secretary Of state, and from tn
fact that that official must s!t in N
executive council to levy railway as
cess ments the republicans OF Iowa ca
not afford 10 support a man who come
into politics ;ss the creation of the ceda
Rapids railway attorney. We.have seel
United States senator elected by tn
i vaccinations Of anothe great railwa,
attorney. but the motive there wa
probably as much due to the fact tina
the attorney was eisctiDy his father-in
law as to anything else. The only mo
tive that the Cedar Rapids attorney cal
have in the republican candidate 20
SECRETARY OF state is in the railway as
easement. That he has so profited ii
times past can not be denied. If any re
publican doubts it let him go quietly t
some other railroad man and inquire
The editor of this paper has consulted
railroad man who attends every assass
ment, and after being sworn toabsolut
secrecy as to the source of his infcrma
ton, he learned that the Northwestern
assesHne mt SIS too low. but that so lon
q az our road is treated all right we can
afford to kick He also learned tina
"Herriott is the only man on that coun
Gil that knows anything about railwa
assessment" II is too bad for repub BIZ
can politics that Mr.. Herriott has no