Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-10
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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We're used in number of places, in
Guiding three districts in Brooklyn.
Heretofore the bicyclists, as organ
lied in clubs, have been a factor in
elections in New York state, and in
New York City bicycle parades in sup
port of local candidates have been
usual. This year, either on account OF
the subsistence i'll popularity of cycling
or the greater favor of automobiles
cyclists have taken no part as such in
elections.
Governor Odell's election expenditure
was a contribution of $4,000 given to
the New York republican state COM
mittee, as shown by the certificate of
expenses filed. Nearly dollar for each
vote of the majority.
The British weekly reviews repeat
the judgment of the daily press that
President Roosevelt has delivered the
republican party from defeat and rem
dered his own denomination and cleo
ton inevitable, since the American peo-
ple trust him and will not relax their
grip upon him.
The big railway strike threatened in
Chicago may make the old go-cart a
necessity.
President Roosevelt will leave Wash
ington tonight and will not return until
after the reception to Luke E. Wright,
vice governor of the Philippines, at
Memphis, Tenn, on Nov. 10. He VIII
attend the dedication of the chamber OF
commerce building in New York on
Tuesday, and will make speech at the
dinner that night. The next day he will
go west and south. His exact itinerary
has not been announced, but 1T is pc
lieved that he contemplates a bear hunt
in Mississippi before going to Memphis.
On his return he will stop In Washihs-
ton only one day, as he has accepted an
invitation to attend the Union League
dinner in Philadelphia on NOV. 70.
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The election of Governor Odell is
something of an achievement, Tor II is
noted that for the first time in gen
Grafton republican governor has been
reelected in New York.
"Civilization of the Indian seems
pretty close says the St Louis Globe
Democrat. when we read that marble
dealers of Omaha have just closed
contract whereby they are to erect for
the Cheyenne and Ogallala Sioux In
dams a monument to be placed on the
of Wounded Knee, in South
Dakota, which the Indians insist on re-
as a massacre. There is already
q monument to the United States SOL
diers who fell there at Fort Riley, Kan
sas, and with both sides to that san
conflict commemoratlng IL, IL Is
not likely to be forgotten, altho the cir
cumstances have already faded from
the memory of nearly every one. Should
the Indians generally take to setting up
where they have met their
white adversaries in battle the country
would be pretty thickly sprlnkied Win
them. Those who doubt that they VIII
ever fall into the customs and modes OF
thought of the whites ought to find
something convincing in this project OF
the Sioux Indians. 1t is less than half
a generation since they were in blan-
kets and turkey feathers"
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Mound City, Mo-, is in the midst of a
record breaking revival, being conduct
ed by the Rev. Lincoln Mcconnell OF
Dearborn. 1t is expected the CONVEX
sions will exceed 500 in number.
President Stickney of the Great
Western railroad, at the interstate
commerce commission hearing. accused
the Chicago Live Stock exchange with
being a monopoly and collecting So
900 600 tolls in 1901 from shippers,
while the railroads got only sS,00o,O00.
Of this live stock exchange Stickney
declared it possessed more impudence
than any other monopoly on earth and
had long since outlived its usefulness
Three Kansas banks were robbed by
dynamiters last week, and the money
question has taken on serious phase.
Adiutant General Corbin in his an
nual report favors return to the old
army canteen, saying it is conducive to
,obriety among the soldiers. This will
prohibit ionists a new excuse
FOR continuing in the political field.
DO you know" said the man who has
inst returned from New York. that one
If the things that impressed me the
strongest in the big town was the po-
ieemen. There may be corruption with
n, but the outside is certainly fair to
view. Every man of them is as slick
md well combed and brushed as If he