Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-23

! TOPICS OF THE TIMES

TOPICS OF THE TIMES !
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Democrats who are to meet at Kansas
City are already beginning to view
with alarm
Enlightened public sentiment is
against the murderous cannon cracker,
Its sale ought to be universally forbid
den.
In acknowledging President McKin-
| ley's friendly message, Governor Roose-.
velt Responded: II appreciate your con-
CALCULATIONS and am proud to be asso-
ciated with YOU on the ticket
Nothing can defeat the magnificent
national republican ticket but apathy
growing out of overconfidence.
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In An unwritten Chapter on Diplo-
macy" in AlcClure's for July "A. Maurice
Low. the American correspondent of the
London chronicle, gives the history of
our present cordial diplomatic relations
With Great Britain, dating from the be-
ginning of the Venezuela controversy.
The author has omitted no details of
hitherto secret history which can props
I erly be made public. He shows to how
large an extent the friendliness between
4 me INC. Anglo Saxon powers is due to
the efforts of two men, Secretary Hay
and ex-Secretary Olney Our relations
With the European powers at the time
of the late war with Spain are also mas
lsterfully outlined. This is hitherto un-
published history.
From the remotest reaches OF the ma
i4tlon republican echoes continue to come
'Rah for Mckinley and Roosevelt,
Some Luther autograph manuscripts
have been discovered in the vatican IL
/; brary by Prof. Fiker of Strasbure.
sfhere are two commentaries on the
Epistle to the Romans, one on the text
and the other on the sense, and tw,
commentaries on the Epistle to the He
8breNNs. They We're written in 1916 and
lol., shortly before the mailing OF the
An upward tendency in prices of ag-
I5ricuitural products and a downward
movement in manufactured articles.
are features of the weekly commercial
review.
me present dowager empress of
emma is Manehu lady and was the
Wife OF the Chinese emperor who in
/ 1860, under circumstances similar 10
those now existing. fed from Pekin at
Inc approach Of the French and En-
glish. For the past forty years she has
peen the real autocrat of the Chinese
empire, nominating and deposing infant
rulers at will. With the army, she is in
sympathy with the object of the Box
ers" and would gladly see all foreigners
expelled from her empire. Another Sc
cret society. the Bow Wong Wui. al
Tho weak in numbers has done much to
stir UP the present trouble Its men,
bers have agitated forreforms and seek
to reinstate the progressive young en-
Eeror recently deposed by his august
aunt in punishment for Introducing
modern Improvements all thru his do
main.
Ii Hung Chang has accepted the role
of peace maker between China and the
powers, a position in which he has an
opportunity to prove himself a states
man Of the first rank.
! The small fruit crop in central Iowa
has taken on greater proportions as$the,
result Of repeated and refreshing rain
falls.
The Chicago Tribune says: The
unanimous nomination Of Theodore
Roosevelt for vice president Of the
United States was fitting climax to.
1.-The proceedings OF the republican con-
isvention. The combination of Mckinley
land Roosevelt is invincible. The alleged
Epolitica! scheming of I2latt cuts no ig-
ure one Way or the other. What Mr.
Plat may or may not do is of no in
Iterest 70 the people at large The Inn
lSpo1'tant fact is that the party and the
people wanted Governor Roosevelt on
t5the ticket and will support him in Mo-
Nenber. The political superstition,
that man who becomes vice president
rs buried need give nobody any con
Ecern. Mr.. Roosevelt is not the sort Of
man to be buried in the vice presiden-
cy or anywhere else. He is too young
land yigorous-too good a fighter-and
has too many resources to he success
fully showed into obscurty by any
scheme or by any set of circumstances.
He will make d model vice president
and be stronger and more popular than
ever four years hence
The ST. Louis Globe Democrat appro-
| priately remarks that Uncle Sans re-
/ sponsibilities are too large to admit of
1.-the selection of second-rate man for
vice president.
Senator Tom Plat says Roosevelt
4 Will make a better run for vice presi-
/ dent than he would for governor were
he candidate for reelection. which is
Ia sort of confession that Roosevelt's
straightforward methods are not
| wholly reished by certain New York