Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-28


agent of the State Temperance Union,
submitted little more than a year ago,
1t was stated thai l29 towns had been
,sited and convassetl. and that of these
1o9 places twenty seven openly pro-
lected LIQUOR chops Oh condition of their
paving certain stipulated sums of mon
ey at stated Intervals; "a allowed joints
t. run thru apparent collusion on the
part of public officers; and 40. or less
than one third OF the whole, appeared
TO have no such Places running Moe
than two-t thirds OF the towns ignore the
violation of the 'aw; nearly half OF
these openly exaeting and receiving
revenue from the unlawful traffic.
ALL BUT TWO WEST POINTERS.
Gen. Charles King, in the Saturday
Post, gives some interesting
facts in regard 10 army commanders
The Army Reg ister of 1s67-the first
published after the reorganization of I
that day--is IA fled for study now. At
the head of the list. general In chief isa /
the name of the great silent soldier who
in 81 vainly tendered his sword 70 the
war department and sadly waited two /
Cincinnati. begging an audience that !
was never accorded Neither the wis I
dom of the adjusant generals depart
5ment nor that of the great organizer
saw ANYTHING worthy of consideration In
the appeal of a resigned captain, despite
his West Point diploma and his fine
fighting record in Mexico. Illinois gave
him the start. merit did the rest, and inj
spite OF everything Grant forged TO the
front
Second: on the roll, lieutenant general,
was Sherman. who. with influence toj
begin WITH in 81 had skill 10 send him
on.
Then came the major generals-"Olc.l
Brains" Hailecn, Meade. the loyal head
of the Army OF. the Potomac, Sheridan
sNwhos. own state had no place for mimi
among its volunteers and who got his
start from AIichigan). Thomas the
Rock of d'hickan3auga, and Hancock,
the shuperb' Nest Pointers.
So, too, We're the brigadiers. save only
Terry. tia Connecticut; soldier lawyer.
who Won fame al Fort Fisher, and his
Kentucky elloN-fghter. Rousseau,
awarded the fag- end of The list when
sIaosecrans Resigned in the spring of 81.
Even the brigadieis had commanded in-
dependent armies Or a least corps
t'ar,nee during the great various
sean and the veteran dragopn st.
George Cooke alone excepted. In the
order of regular rank they We're Nc
Dowel. Cooke. Pope, Hooker. Schofield,
Howard, Terry, Ord, CANDY and Rous-
seaus
So there You have the seventeen gem
erals OF the line as determined by the
war beside which the recent furry was
but an affair II outposts. and all but
ltwo--West Poifters'
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
I The sac Sun explains TO a cont emI,o-
rary thar it is flowing 10 paper in the
Tenth district III coming out for Cum
minis. and that it was one Of the first
news papers in Inc state TO declare for
him.
The Montezuma Democrat adopts and
adapts itself 10 this cheerful philcso-
ply "Deleware will go unrepresented
4 in the United States senate until the
next meeting of the legislature This.
i however. is better than to be misrepre-
scented. Better an empty house than a
\ bad tenant
The E.stherville Republican hopes
4 that forest tree planting will not be
neglected this spring. Parties who have
commenced should plant more and
those who nave not ought TO begin this
year. There ought to be ter or twenty
acres of timber on every quarter sec
Ition of land in northwestern Iowa.'
The Oelwein Register reports the eff
8 fort of a man trying to work" slot
machine the other day down on tbs
/ street, but, as occurs four times cut Of
five, the machine worked him to the
/. ISextent Of a dollar or more
The Keokuk Gate City has this to say
i of a certain alleged candidate Senator
> Trew:n says it is all a mistake; that h,
has not authorized announcement Of hi
!, candidacy for governor-not yet, any
j way. The form of his denial makes i
: appear probable that with proper effor
! on the part of his friends he could b
persuaded to make the race
=
i The Clinton Herald thinks Heron
n divorce is an awful Jolt on his applie
Christianity. He ought to apply a littl
: of it to himself"
II The Council Bluffs Nonpareil is Of TIL
ii opinion that If butter is to he inspecte
before sent abroad it ought to be ais
Inspected before being sold at homs
n The American stomach deserves a
! much protection as that of the foreign
a err
:, = In noticing the Heron denouemer
e the Rockwell Phonograph conclude
: that Thus another idol is broken an
y the people who have gone daft on Her
. ronism will now be compelled to hur
III up Hew dreamer
.r AS the Washington Press looks at i
s '4All manly men and all right thinkin
), Christian women would say that 1t is
n thunderin' poor case of applied Chrl.
st tisnity,' is Herron's conduct, leadin
= him jauntily to desert wife and childre
a to follow Jesus as he would likely ga
lie on the other hand. one would be tenn