Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-17
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ET.-R. He feels assured that four OF the
lseight votes cast against Mr.. Cummins
from Marshall county were the votes of
men honestly opposed to Cummins from
principle, while two, and two only, were
influenced by men who hate the T.-R. as
+ the devil does the ten commandments.|
| The two delegates from the Third ward
we do not care to discuss.
eve
\ When the present editor assumed
charge of this newspaper he realized
that he was young man to assume
such responsibilities. The property was
one OF the greatest newspaper properties
In the state, made SO by a career of more
than remarkable management. How
ever, men of Judgment and experience
were not only willing to back the young
man, but to buy stock with him as the
majority owner, softhe editor.waded in.
1 No sooner was he fairly started than
he found that not only would he have to
face the ordinary business trials of any
management, but that he must beat off
y pack of bowling hyenas at home, who
| thought they had at their mercy de-
| fenseless boy with an abundance Of
sweet and toothsome flesh awaiting only
the combined attack of the pack to fall
an easy prey. "Croakers' appeared on
every street corner. Every man who had
/ ever gotten into police court and been
reported in this newspaper, every dead
beat who had been forced to pay his
i subscription. every disappointed candi-
date who had sought and been denied
4 preferment in the political columns of
this paper and every rogue who had felt
the lash of it's fearless comment were
4 working overtime to breed ,dissatisfac-
ton with the new management. Amid
the glaring teeth and flaring jaws of
j these outcasts of the jungle the young
I editor has gone on about his business
] and his business has prospered. He has
! been attacked, ridiculed and reviled by
i men who never cross the thresholds of
the decent homes of this community yet
he has managed to find congenial soci-.
I ETY. outside the saloon and the brothel,
4 to gain welcome and friends where
! entrance has long been denied his ira
dueers. He has fought political battles
!. as they came: not as personal battles,
hut as political ones When citizens dis
\ covered the attempt of an official to
4 steal from the public funds this news
paper exposed him. Three thousand doll
! lars were paid into the public treasury
as result and the city is now suing for
Its wood bill For any one to look light
4 w upon this as personal matter be-
! tween editor and errins official is to ig-
4 rore the facts Personally the editor
/ hears no malice toward this man, hut
rather hopes that the future viii show
7, less complaint for the man4 conduct
4 than has The past. When evidences of
corrnntion We're falling thick about the
/ heads of certain members of the county
hoard Of education this newsnansr pub
lished the evidence. altho the suspected
ren had heretofore been the editors
!, friends.
Z, 1t cost much worry and distress of
4 mind to do these things. Any editor
! much less young man just starting
7 upon his career. would prefer peace with
all men. but when duty confronts man
none hut a coward will shirk it. Each of
q these men the editor had reason to be-
llieve We're bad citizens, prosututing q
/ public Office to the injury of the public
4 welfare, and the editor fought them. He
I has no apologies to make for his con-
4 Duct, but when these men work upon
every prejudice and circulate every con-
loeivable lie to injure the newspaper that
dared to hold them up to public gaze the
{ public should stop to recall their mo-
4 tive. Afen-a few men, not many
i stand around as one did at Thursdays
picnic and damn the T.-R. for this of
! Tense and that but in every case the
4 real grievance is the one presented by
4 this man that the editor won't let any
u body tell him anything" Now this man
4 being man of political influence had
written Mr.. Cummins a letter promis-
ing his hearty support and then all thru
Z the campaign did all in his power to de-
& feat Mr.. Cummins. He is Inundated
because of the victory at Cedar Rapids
and sore at the T.-R. for its part in it.
The editor assumed charge of his news
paper on an expressed agreement with
his partners and hackers that he do the
managing and SO long as that agreement
holds the editor intends to fulfill its pro-
visions to the letter. He has yet to hear
complaint from the men who have a
right to complain and for that reason
& feels satisfied. When men will violate
!. their convictions and misrepresent Mar
shall county in a state convention or OPP
pose good men at home simply because
the T.-R. favors them they merely stul-
t.fy themselves. They can not humili-
ate this newspaper, for if its own course
is believed to be right it will be hon
ored for the enemies it makes. These
things are said to inform the public that
the editor having realized that he
was beset by a horde of critics with base
motives feels himself in a posi-
5 ton to laugh in their faces. He cares
rot for the bowling of the whole
pack. He cares only for the conduct of
this newspaper to be along lines he be-
lieves to be right and from the pile of
congratulatory letters the Cedar Rapids
result brought to his desk he feels salts
fled that the percentage of "croakers'
now stands at about one-half of per
] cent.
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