Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-15
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News Of Iowa From Hun.
dreds Of Diifereut Towns
and COMMUNITIES.
EDITOR BRANT PHILOSOPHERS
[Cltnton Herald.l

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not understand why he should be the
subject of discussion any more than q
dozen others who were before the con-
vention and were beaten. unless there
is a suspicion that life is not entirely
extinct.
1t was not the intention 10 discuss the
personal and political affairs of the
subject so generally under considera
ton by the newspaper brethren. First
his feelings are his own and nobody else
has to share their enjoyment. Political
defeat, boils and kindred ailments are fit
subjects of solitude. A politician is an
accepted liar and IL he does not grieve
over defeat, 1t is useless to say so, for
nobody believes him. Yet even politi-
clan ought to be a philosopher, which
NcGuffys fifth reader defined as "a
contented person." Sympathy is good
thing and is appreciated, even when the
earnest hand grasp of the sympathizer
clasps a well-developed boil. But when
the head of great delegation came
around and kindly said, Dave, we did
the best we could for you. You are too
big man to be lieutenant governor.
( Keep your nerve and you'll be govern
or some day; we could not vote for you
this time, but when you want to be
| governor call on u.s." there arose new
1 hope, and where there had been sorrow
| there was joy. The light that dawned
would have dazzled what Saul saw when
on his way to Damascus. Now all was
clear Those who had voted for Herriott
We're shelving a dangerous rival. When
Tom Way walked among the delegates
demanding that they vote for Herriott,
| he was making the second next gov
| ernor of Iowa. When Webb Bvers
doomed Herriott he was cutting his own
| political throat. But there is this con-
| ISOLATION for Webb: When his mangled
and bleeding political form comes out
of the fray four years hence, it. will not
| be kicked aside without attention as 1t
| was four years ago, but II he will ex-
| hibit his crushed bones and mangled
| feelings the Ninth district will again be
given a porous plaster in the form of the
| lieutenant governorship. The
Cumnlins men owed nothing to Mr..
fBrant except what they might have felt
was his due for past support. But he
4 asked nothing on that account. The
4 pretepse that the, vote Of part Of Clin-
i ton county against Cummins and
i against seating the Cummins delegation
lin Jackson and Carroll counties had
anything to do with the result is errone-
Gus. The result reached was necessary
1 to secure the nomination of Cummins.
| The nomination of both Brown and
| Weaver was long ago determined upon
/ by the Cummins people. The second
place upon the ticket was left indefinite
for trading purposes. The nomination OF
Mr.. Brant meant the nomination of
Judge Towner and Mowry, and their
nomination would have left the Cum
minis people with string of broken
pledges that would have been disas-
ltrous. The Herald honors the Cum
pledges. They had no pledges out in
broken.
| SECRETARY WILSON'S REPORT.
[Des Moines Register.l
\ The views of Secretary Wilson regard
| ing the conditions that brought about
the injury to this years corn crop dur
ing the unequaled July heat, after he
bad made thorough investigation and
comparisons, will be valuable to the
farmers of the corn growing region il
lthey will familiarize themselves with his
report. in Sundays Register, and here
after give proof that they will heed the
lesson taught on every farm every year
The lesson taught by his report is plain
lily presented in the following extract
from his report:
"a common observation regarding the
] cron crop this year Is that the tassel
upon coming out has been withered by
the heat and failed to fertillze thru the
1 silk. This is the case more or less in all
| the fields that have visited, but polll-
| ration has been much more perfectly
1 performed where the soil was full of or
/ ganic matter from plowed under grass
roots than where corn has been grown
SO long that the organic matter has been
,oxidized-burned out of the, soil. Where
| there was plenty OF organic matter In
| the SOIL and thorough cultivation had,
| the effects of the heat upon the tassel
has been to a great extent balanced by
| the amount of moisture that the plant
could get to Offset evaporation. In cases
where the ground was saturated by ex-
cessive rains in the spring-and this has
occurred in many fields - the roots
4 spread near the surface. They could not
| get into the saturated soil because they
could not find oxygen there. The
growth under these conditions was re-
tarded, and when the heat came such
fields were in bad condition to resist 1t,
particularly II cultivation was not as
frequent and as thorough as it should
have been"
Every farmer who has corn growing
on soil that has been rotated for several
years past, that was cultivated both
ways this year. will have proof Of tina,
statement in his own fields So will the
farmers who have corn growing where
straw stacks stood in former years, as
well as where part Of their corn ground
was heavily manfred last spring or In
recent years. In all such places the soil
Ia loose and porous. and retains much
more moisture than ground that has
been planted to corn year after year;
and in all such places there Will be O
fair corn crop this year. These facts
have also been proved this year by tive
acres Of celery grown by Mr.. p. w
sIsBalma In East Dies Molnes, which Is
4 rronoinced by those who have seen 1t Il
|sbe as good as anytcelery crop they eve,
saw, Notwithstanding It has not had an,
moisture except that that fell In this
I rains and dews. That celery. plot wa
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