Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-12
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

very satisfactory to the people of Iowa, =
observes the Clarinda Herald
The Creston American reprints lot
os small squibs from Mr.. Bryan's paper
under the heading Some Commoner'
Paragraphs" After reading them the
Winterset Madisonian remarks that lit
would be hard to find anything any COM
moner.'
This is the way the Ogden Reporter
sizes it up: "A quiet election? Well, we
should remark! II was more like sun
DAY than circus day"
Phillips has doubtless discovered that
some of his handshakes We're cold
shakes in the opinion of the Fort
Dodge Dodge Messenger.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil declares
t,aat Thanksgiving will so republican
by big majority this year
The Sioux City Journal notices that
these are hard times for the delinquent
tax lists
The Marcus News suggests that AS
the wintry blasts whistle around the
coat tails of some of our young men they
viii wonder where their summer wages
have gone
The Keokuk Gate City is impressed
with the thought that at its present rate
Of holding it's own" there won't be any
democratic party in Lee county or the
state of Iowa in the course of te"
Years.
Nov let the banner OF prosperity
feat. the good times continue ana the
wave of expansion spread, exeiaiIhs the
Marengo Republican. "All America is at
home on the ground floor, the gates are
OMEN and the glad hand extends
The Spirit Lake Beacon thinks the
election returns make it clear that there
10 no .kick. on present conditions in
Iowa.
The Sioux City Tribune joins the Des
Moines Register in the wish that Iowa
might have voting machines and be able
to get its election news the week OF the
election.
The Rockford Register urges that
1.-The State Agricultural College should
be insured in some good Farmers mu-
tual company-a $4,000 barn went up in
smoke last week
The disappointed Dubuque Telegraph
Herald advises that democrats may
console themselves with the reflection
that it is always darkest before the
dawn"
The Keosauque Republican declares
that ivan Buren, county republicans
were loyal to Cummins last Tuesday-as
much as they would have been had its
delegation to the state convention sue
ceeded in landing the nomination of the
candidate of its first choice Sc too
we're the republicans of the First dis
trict loyal to him-perhaps as much. SO
as any congressional district in Iowa.
That is the kind of republicanism that
honors the party name.
In noticing that the Illinois courts
have decided that woman is RESPONSE
Bile for her husbands debts, the Abba
Union asks, How then can marriage
be a failure?
The Waterloo Reporter believes the
manifold causes for observing Thanks
giving have been increased by the result
of this election"
Webster City Tribune: The
old democratic organization is appar-.
entity retrogading faster than most peo-
pie think. The tariff counts for little in
influencing its politicies. The money
question doesn't furnish enough enthu-
sasm To keep the old hulk alive. En-
pansion and imperialism" have lost the
magic power to inspire action. But the
inconseuuential incident of President
Roosevelt in asking Booker Washington
to dine with him has operated as an
elixir of life to the old putrid repninis-
cences.