Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-12
Public Opinion On. Iowa Subjects as
Reflected In the Iowa News.
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The News Of Iowa From Hundreds
Of Different Towns and Com.
munities.

q UaHefont Towns ana OOm.
mnnities.
4 HOBART NOT WANTED.
Harris Bee.l
y. w. Hallam, county attorney OF
Woodbury. county, is candidate for
the republican nomination for attorney
general. Mr. Hallam stands high as
lawyer and an officer; ls we'll educated,
an estimable citizen, and il nominated
and elected will reflect credit on the
Eleventh district and northwestern
Iowa. We hope to see Osceola county
send q solid delegation to Des Moines
for Mr. Hallam, OF Sioux City, for at
ftorney general. Mr. Hobart Of Chero-
kee IL mentioned for secretary of state,
but 1t 10 the opinion Of the Bee that the
Eleventh district can not get the two
onceS OF attorney general and secre-
stary of state. II we try to carry both
Hallam and Hobart we shall be in great
danger Of losing both. Mr.. Hallam was
Q candidate and canvassed the state
weeks before Mr.. Hobart 20 much as
limited that he would be in the field for
Htate nomination. All we can we'll carry
in the Eleventh district liz Hallam. II
We give him solid support and help
State Senator Gilbert, A. Gilbertson OF
the Tenth district to be nominated for
state treasurer, we shall, in the opinion
OF the Bee, be doing as, we'll by north
western Iowa and the state as we can,
CABBAGE CROP DAMAGED.
[Muscatine Journal.l
The mammoth cabbage yield antici-g
pated by the growers surrounding the
city has turned out to be not half a crop
on account OF a disastrous rotting OF
the heads on the stalks. When the
heads first began to form some of the
growers on the island noticed that there
were signs OF rotting in the heads, but
then they attributed it to insects The
plants continued to grow and as the
heads reached maturity the disease In
creased and on inspection the conclusion
was reached TINT the cause of the rot
ting was not insects. but must OF me-
cessity be some fault which existed in
the seeds before placed into the
ground
The shippers and growers anticipated
one OF the largest crops of cabbage this
year in the history of the industry in
this part Of the country. Never before
had % many acres been planted and
never before We're such elaborate prep
arations made to handle the crops when
they had matured. The total number
z of acres in use in the cultivation of cab
bage, on the island, may be estimated
as follows. The figures having been
furnished by one OF the growers, we.
may assume them to be correct:
Hahn Bros. 49,. !. 1. 100 acres
y. 3. Holcomb $500. IS acres
C. b. Vail $3.50. go acres
w. n. Hopes & Sons. 4. I. &. 25 acres
MlscellaneouS... ....s.... So. 80 acres
Iotal 1855. ..i..3...... $50 acres
The average crop is ten tons per acre.
then an average crop from the $50 acres
would be $500 tons of cabbage. The.
most sanguine estimates on the crops
this year place the weight OF the total
at less than 1850 tons.
80
TWO TYPICAL AMERICANS.
[Des Molnes Leader.1
One prediction may be ventured cons
/. corning the presidential campaign OF
1900: There will be no mudslinglng:
stink pots will not be part of the ar
tillery OF either committee. No hearing
will be accorded cheap defamers and
slanderers. Both candidates. as private
individuals and fellow citizens. are gem.
tlemen Of the highest personal charac-
ter, and with each ambition is tenn
pered by conscience.
As public characters. representing
certain opposing political programs
and tendencies, opinions naturally diff.
fer concerning William j. Bryan and
William Mckinley. Sincere persons will
Il n mil hall
former Is merely the mask of anarchy
and disorder, and that his election will
mean red ruin to the republic: on the
other hand, equally sincere persons Will
think the success CT the latter will turn
the country over to aelfish plutocrucy
Ito sordid conspirators. who say pray
ers to nothing but the dollar These
divergent opinions, with all possible in
termediate shadings, must needs be-
Riotous unreason is always epidemic
when the American people set about
choosing a chief magistrate. Twenty
eight times presidential elections have
been held, and except the first two,
when Washington was elected, and the
eighth ana ninth, when Monroe was the
candidate OF all parties, both sides
have been quite sure that an abyss
yawned IL the other fellow won.
Yet both William Mckinley and Will
{ lam j. Bryan are such men, as the most
exacting moralist would be proud to
call friends Both have had typically
American careers, concretely proving
that opportunity still knocks at the
! door OF American boyhood. The two
men have won their way by their own
unaided merits and efforts. Both are
from the loins OF the plain people,
and only prejudice will assert that
{ either Is untrue. in motive. to his par
entage. or has anything at heart ex-
cepts the American welfare.
The home life OF both candidates is
Z ideal, and the home gives the sruest
measure Of essential manhood. For
nearly generation William McKin-
y ley's life has been8one long sacrifice OF
4 love OF an invalid wife. He has never
murmured. Is he kind. il he courteous,
! is he tactful? He has learned more at
the bedside than in the halls Of con.
Gress. or In committee room conference.
Many men would have been crushed or
! emhtttered by the burden. But adverse
4 circsfmstances conquered, q Z ffen moral
I and mental muscles. and William Me-