Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-29
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

iiVeSllSatlOn, said tonight that the
tramp problem has been solved In Kan
sas by the passage OF law making 1t
a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and
imprisonment, to steal ride on pas
senger or freight train, trainnen being
commissioned special officers to arrest
the violators.
Farm hands will needed by the thou
sends to aid In harvesting the prospec-
tive crops of grain. The thought of be-
ing impressed into work is why the
tramp Is lodging Kansas. For years
this state has been known as hoboes'
PARADISE sort OF half way house
where back door handouts and bed
at night could be had for the asking.
But in these prosperous days, with
plenty Of work for all and too few men
to accomplish results, the tramp will
have the ultimatum of going to work or
TO Jail. So to avoid making a test case
of the matter, he will approach the
mountains by way of Nebraska or Okla
homa."
A recent editorial in the Hartford
iCourant under the head Of THE Iowa
Way" had this to say:
We notice signs of fresh eruption
in Ohio politics. a Cleveland paper pub.
fishes an interview with Senator Hanna
about Mckissonism' and the methods
of the Cuyahoga county republican
committee. AS reported, the senator
declares that the real republicans are
Thoroughly disguised with the one, and
that the other cannot be tolerated any
longer. This is Senator Forakers fight.
he is made to say in the interview, and
III the election next fall is against us
Senator Foraker must shoulder the
blame
Why cannot the the statesmen of
of Ohio love one another and dwell to-
gether in unity as the Iowa statesmen
do?
Last Saturday night Hon. Leslie NJ.
Shaw, Dea Moines. telegraphed to Hon.
William b. Allison, Washington
My Dear Senator: i notice with much
satisfaction that the country is taking
kindly to the mention of your name for
the presidency. hope you will en-
courage its use. will be more than
glad to aid to the best Of my ability that
Iowa and the nation rally to you as new
err before. Do not say No
Sunday night Senator Allison said to
i shall be 10 when the convention of
1904 meets, and you could not convince
our people that man Of IS is not old.
Some one else will have to pose as
Iowa's favorite son, for will not. /
am serious. 1 mean what 1 say. Why
should not Governor Shaw himself be
the candidate of our state? He is a fine
man and has a good record behind him.
II M In, 10 4.
Glad to join in presenting his name to
the nation convention.
What a halcyonic. millennial calm
would spread over Ohio politics like a
roultice II the big men of the big state
that Keeps Pennsylvania and Indiana
apart on the map could learn to feel ans!
talk about one another as these Iowa
big men do
Some of us here in Iowa can appreci-
ate the reference to the big Iowa men.
and the love some of the big ones have
for another big one whose name is very
much in the papers these days. And
there are some unfeeling small repub-
icans, who think they see motives
which inspired the above noteworthy
correspondence.
Not all of the readers of the daily pa
per, noticed In the copious reports of
the gathering In Des Molnes Of the u.
p. General Assembly, the following
which an eastern paper reprints:
AT Dies Moines last week, in the gem
eral assembly OF the United Presbyter.
ians negro delegate from Tennessee.
Rev. ID. Il. Smith. scored one of the sue
cesses of the meeting. He told the story
of his own life. II was born into this
world with less than nothin" he said
As soon as ] was old enough to work,
had on me the support of large fam
lily. l never saw the inside of a school
house until after / was sixteen years
of age. If had not drifted into Knox
Vile College. the Lord only knows what
would have become OF me- Then he
spoke of his wife. and of the debt the
pair of them owed to their church And
then he spoke. with simple but thrilling
eloquence, OF his race; of its crushing
handicaps. and of lts wonderful progress
in spite Of them.
But how about making good United
Presbyterians of you colored people,"
asked white elder Brother Smith
laughed. Why" he said. you can't
get one of our members to sing a hymn,
they won't open their mouths when a
hymn is started. They're Just az
strong in the Psalms as you are; and
they all say Sabbath. none of them Sun
day; and they're Just as down on secret
societies as any white U. P. Twin"
Then he told about a member Of his
own flock who took notion that he
wanted to see the Mardi Gras doings
down at Mobile. To do that he would
have to spend Sunday on the river.
"That'll never do" his pastor told him
Why" eXpostulated the member, II
won't be workin'. I'll just be ridin', and
the boat'll come long any way. and 1
might just as well get on" But he was
wasting his breath. Il just took my
Bible" Brother Smith told the assem-
bly,, and l showed him 1t wouldn't be
right to go to the Mardi Gras on the
Sabbath. md I want to tell you right
now that didn't CO."
Lastly, Brother Smith made a sudden
incursion in.o the domain Of vital statis-
tics. He said
II notice here in the north you have
big houses and small families. Now with
us people down south it's just the other
way--the families are big and the hous-
es are small. One of our members at
Camden has thirty-six children. Another
family has twenty-five children, three
sets of twins. ind then still another
family has twentyone children. The
last two families live in ope-room hous
~ 80 you see they have no room to