Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-05
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The DOings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

s%equently can not be maintained. CAL
houn county tried various expedients.
but without permanent I'M
provement. The doctors disagree as
to the disease and the proper RENEE
dies. There are those in this day who
will affirm that If their advice had been
followed the fair would be running yet.
Whether the immediate cause of fail
ure was unskillful handling or some-
thing else we are not discussing now.
but the Advocate suspects that people
have outgrown the old time fair idea.
When the country was new and money
and opportunities for outings scarce,
the county fair was q gathering place
the country people. and they enjoyed n
day of such recreation. Now the state
fair offers much greater attractions
and the majority of farm families are
able to attend it. Church societies,
lodges, literary societies and other
means of social intercourse have null
tiplfed to satisfy the craving for socia-
bility, and the big expeditions have
made the attractions of the old time
county fair seem of little value in com
parison. The county fair has served
its purpose, and it will not be reinstat-
ed untll people nave IlOIS uSSihS
than they have at present.
MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY.
Manson Democrat.l
The release of Jack Ballew, the Fort
Dodge murderer, is n travesty on JUS
tice. Ballew was convicted OF one OF
the most cold FLOODED murders, and had
only served seven years for his horrible
crime. There is little use of convicting
men of murder If they are to be turned
loose upon the public in a few years.
1t is no wonder that lynch law is re-
sorted to in order to secure justice. NO
man who has taken the life of another
without Just provocation, should ever
be given his liberty. The man VINO
shot the marshal of Humboldt a few
months ago gave as his reason thai ne
would only have to serve q few years
in prison for the offense. II that man
had known that his own life would pay
the forfeit of his crime he would have
hesitated before he had fired the shot.
But as long as women nave tears ana
men have soft hearts, no doubt the par
doning business will continue to the
end Of time. Some years ago M. -.
O'Connell assisted In prosecuting a
man who had committed q deliberate
murder. The jury found a verdict OF
manslaughter against the man. Mr..
O'Connell soundly berated the jury for
their leniency. A year or so afterward,
when a petition was circulated asking
for the pardon of the man, his name
was found upon the petition. Justice
is more than blind sometimes.
FIFTH DISTRICT SOLID.
[Cedar Rapids Republican,
A member of the staff of the Daily
Capital, Internationally. no doubt, mis-
represented the Fifth district outrage
eously in a recent issue of that paper.
He went on to state that the old time
discord among republicans of this dis
trict is as rife Is aver, and that the
east end of the district is arrayed
against the west end, in order to n
mpa h defeat of Ketchum and
Buchan, who are respectively candi-
dates for railroad commissioner n
clerk of the supreme u
In support of this was cited the re-
fusal of the late Linn county v
ton to endorse the candidates of the
two gentlemen above named. There
was nothing in that action except that
since this particular convention was
not empowered to select state delegates
it was thought to be not within it's
province to speak on state matters, n
this point was doubtless we'll taken.
But the feeling thruOut the east end OF
the district toward the candidates. of
these two gentlemen is just the reverse
Of what the Des MONIES Capital paints
it in the article referred to. Benton
county for example chose state dele
gates, and endorsed Messrs. Ketchum
and Buchan. If Linn county had been
selecting state delegates, it would have
done the same thing.
This paper believes that the Fifth
district republicans, both east and west
realize the folly and futi!ity of longer
working at cross purposes in state con-
ventions. To go to a state convention
with two candidates for the same Office
means defeat for both. 1t means bad
blood and general political discomfort,
and because this sort of thing has too
much, been INDUCED in, this district is
today without any representation In
the state government. There are evil
dences without number that the district
has learned well it's lesson in the school
of experience, and that in the future it
will present a united front.
The Fifth congressional district oc-
cupies a strategetic position in the poll
tics of this state. No district is more