Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-10
Observation-Disclosures
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For the Times Republican.
Superior, Aug. 9.-One Of our county
and in 1t, and part of the regular ma
an observer. as well as something of
an orator. Here's his opinion of cam
didates for office: II don't believe In
running cheap men for Office. Now,
there's Blank; he was up for judge.
and anybody could buy him for $50.
I'd rather see Persimmons elected, for
you couldn't buy him for less than q
thousand dollars. What we need is
to put big men in office"
Penny wise and pound foolish" is
the record of some men who were
showed under at Cedar Rapids. Some
how the American voter expects a cam
didate for Office to shell OUT He don't
want to be bribed, not with nickel
cigar, but he does like free smoke.
He is like the janitor i'll one respect,
he feels like supporting a big man."
In one town, naming home candi-
date, a voter said to the writer: II
hope he will be beaten, he's so
penurious." Along with this idea OF
.setting 'em up is the true story of
one candidate who arranged" for the
voters on convention day to have "a
reasonable amount of beer" And they
had 1t. Bill gross, not in detail, 5000,
And the other fellow got the delegates.
What is it that seems to make re-
spectability and starched linen COL
lar almost words synonymous. The
other day there was a tall, lank Abra-
ham Lincoln sort of chap travelling
from town to town, clothed in clean
striped suit of overalls and an every
day sort of shirt. To be sure he
wore a good pair Of shoes and new
straw hat. The total expense of his
travelling suit was not to exceed $3.50,
the shoes excepted. But he wore a
fresh laundried, stiff standup white
linen collar, and "darned il he wasn't
dressed up
In one of our iowa towns there is a
very sick man, sick unto death. He has
been an invalid for many years, hoping
against hope, but now the doctors have
told him the end is near. Before, they
said he might get better. but now the
verdict is given: Possibly few months
more, probably a few weeks-it may
be only a few days. And has that man
Host his nerve? Not much. He talks
as calmly of the future as those of us
with the date unknown. Has arranged
with his Oldest boy what the son is to
do when he takes the trip. Talks with
wife his wife about money matters.
And 1t isn't sniveling, whining, sane
timonious kind of driyel he INDUCES
In. Just good, healthy conversation.
What about 1t? Only this. there's a
stole in Iowa.
This seems to be sort of moral
ling scribble, so 1t occurs to the Look
er-O On what a waste OF energy there is
| in some of Bro. Abrams work. He
gets into some good prohibition towns
where drug stores flourish, watches to
see IL they cross their It's and dot their.
is in their applications, and finally
brings suit. costs the county several
hundred dollars. and then sends out
and gets another dollar from each
member of the enforcement league. He
needs guide. A sort OF pointer to
tell him where the game really is. OF
course, it wouldn't be as pleasant work
to go into county and enforce the
laws. where one part of county Is
dry and another wet; where In one
town prohibition is the law and Cos
pei, and another where the town fines
them $25 every month; where the sa-
loon business runs wide open, Bro.
Abrams to the contrary nOtwithstand-
| ing. Once the writer heard governor
of Iowa deliver an address at a county
fair. a prohibition governor, and in his
speech he said, The prohibition law
/ is as we'll enforced as the law against
horse stealing" And not thousand
feet from where the speaker stood there
was wooden building where they
were selling beer at 25 cents bottle,
and these bottled beer dealers av-
leraged carload a day for three of
the fair. This is not fairy story. It's
what the Looker-On heard and saw.
Moral: Get Abrams some eyeglasses
and an ear trumpet.
| And the people are mnralizing
good deal these days over the sins OF
Iowa newspapers. the Capital pointing
the moral and adjoining the tale. Mr..
Young's statement of the Conger fake
interview was uOuUlLully IeCSlSctAs lto
explanation of the statement mixed
| things in the minds of the readers of
the Iowa dailies. But his explanation
of the explanation of the state
ment of the admitted Conger
fake Interview, coupled with the
statements of how the Leader Is mis-
using him, has got the average reader
of the Capital into mental condition
of doubling whether Conger Is a myth,
the statement a dream, the explanation
| Latin and the explanation of the ex-
lplanation Greek, and whether the Cap.
lital is a newspaper or d personal ex-
planatory organ. One man takes all
of Lafe's sarcasm In dead earnest and
says he didn't think LATE Young would
| ever get 30 low as to tell Mr.. Cum
minis why he went out OF town and
what ne did while he was out OF town.
He'd tell Cummins it's none Of his
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