Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-09
!: TOPICS OF THE TIMES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Observation-Disclosures -i-i-i-i,a
i 1.-The l6 10 plank marks he trap
door8of the Kansas city scaffold.s says
4 the Washington Post
/ More coffee is used in the United
States than In ANY other country. the
annual CONSUMPTION being not far from
i5o,0g0. GOO pounds, for which American
Importers pay abou, s9o.ooO,ooO TO the
growers
4 III VIII require something Of an effort
among democratic leaders now to locate
/ Tonne in a comfortable position.
Adlai Z. Stevenson is one OF the two
Surviving vice presidents, Levi p Nor
ton being the other. He was old enough
/ in the civil war period to have belonged
ITO the democratic party of 1851, and is
Well drilled in "ferninst the govern
mentY IDEAS
Bets on McNinleys $ election have been
4 offered on Wall street at 4 TO 4, with no
takers.
The city of Washington, ID O. is
feantending With smallpox and other
troubles. The health officer states that
Il OF smallpox there were twenty Zone
eases in the hospital al the close of the
L last report. During the week -four new
cases Developed aud eight We're dis
charged, leaving seventeen under treat
/ ment in the hospital A, the time of
the report there We're also seventy one
cases Of scarlet fever and twenty-three
of diphtheria
] The weather question on Sunday was
turned around to Is it cool enough for
4 YOU
The st. Paul Globe. democratic pa
per, in carefully prepared double
4leaded editorial article of neariySa COLI
ann in length, utterly repudiates both
1.-THE democratic ticket ard the platform
d asserts, however, that it will continue
4 TO be a4democratic paper. II is opposed
\ 10 ~ to ] sllverism and iy not to be
(, hoodwinked by the alleged paramount
ISSUE OF slfnperiaiism.
The popuiists Of Alabama. in which
state there will he an election In Au-
n gust. have nominated fpf governor a
Il canf tdats who is probate judge and "A
clergyman as Well There are five lick
4 els in the field in Alabama this year.
two erublican tickets the democratic
Il ticket the prohibition ticket and the
q ticket nominated by the popuiist party.
q which polled for Bryan and Watson "a
900 Votes IN the election Of four years
ago 10 o1,Ooo for Bryan and sewall, "a.
o4o for Mckinley and 6,4oofor the gold
democratic Ticket.
u appears that Adai was brought
fout by Chicago poli,icians VINO did not
,ss,'ii. Ircs:,;:.ss.. ;:ailiiiiia ;tiioii.
One Of the most curious political stu.
Iatfons observable anywhere in tbs
q country Is IN the state Of North caro-.
lima. This strongly democratic state
which the republicans have not carried
lin a national election since 1872, ha,
LIMO United States senators one re.
. & s
publican and one a popuist a repub
publican governor al its head. and I
state supreme court majority Of iii.
members Of which are republican
Z These abnormal conditions are due i
the fact that the popnlist party is still
81 strong IN North Caroline: that il:
strength has been drawn almost exclu
slvely from The white voters Of th,
state. and that in combination with tn
republicans it has put the democrat S II
minority. Senator Marion Butler
.8i term expires next year and he and TIL,
Iother popnlists are sticking - enforce
i-duplex alliance with the democrats ol
the presidency and With the republic
ans on the Legislature, which is 10 cleo
him or his successor.
In New Hampshire a Concord 1ndg'
: ha. decided that soda water is one 0
the necessaries of life and may be .solt
! ION Sunday. Oftcourse this VIII be new
to some who have never learned hop
necessary it is 10 keep body and sou
Together.
: Harvard University won commenda
9 ton by offering free tuition to all Cubal
: teachers who would take the course o
!, training al it's summer school. The in
\ vitation has been accepted by 1,30
teachers. who are nov being hospital l.
IentertairedSthru the liberality Of Cam
= bridge, Boston and neighboring towns
Many of the students Of the universt!
\ have placed their rooms at the disposa
: Of the visitors. The ultimate good o
) the effort viii be felt in Cuba.
i Illinois will be one Of the battle
grounds this fall. With a German ol
: the ticket for governor and an Illinoi
2 man for vice president, the democrat
: are building great expectations on car
t rying the state. In 1890 Illinois stoo
next below New York In having tn
/ largest German population, with
total Of 1886, 1882 A great many Of them
. however, are firmly opposed to silver
ism. In 1895 Mckinley carried the stat
: by 142,49s plurality.
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