Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-24
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The DOingS of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

do, is the correct and only standard
They go further and say who may
safely indulge certain practices and
who may not. Unwarrantable discrim-
ination between persons and classes
with them is virtue.
What is all this about? Simply this
and nothing more: Shall the men and
boys of Grinnell be permitted to In
dulge in the healthful exercise of roll
ing balls in bowling alley. What! A
bowling alley! Never! Perish the
thought, and the promoters at well!
True, there is bowling alley at the
college, and members of the Y. M. c,
A. and others make the balls fly like
the deuce. The members of the Frank
lin and other clubs roll balls on their
billiard and pool tables, and certain
members of the city council, who are
opposing an alley in Grinnell, actually
roll croquet balls. go wild over football
and base ball. and are pretty high roll
ers themselves in some respects, but
can see nothing but evil in bowling
alley open to the public.
If bowling alleys are an evil per Sc.
they should be banished from our
midst. If they are not, then the re-
qpest for the establishment of an alley
for the use of the public should be
granted, with reasonable regulations
as to hours of closing and manage
ment.
Don't be so stuck on your own mar
row notion of what is good or bad for
other people. There is not great deal
of difference in the moral fibre OF peo-
pie generally after all.
COMPOSE YOUR MIND, MR.. GA
ZETTE.
[Anamosa Eureka.1
The Cedar Rapids Gazette need not
get agitated as to the congressional
nominee for the Fifth district. That
paper is enterprising and often sensa-
tional and will invent news if there
isn't a sufficiency of that commodity in
the market. To this fact is attributed
it's reference to possible change in the
situation in this district. Col. Clark,
of Linn, f. o. Ellison, Of Jones, and
several others in various parts of the
district are named as brainy and
worthy men, etc., ETC., and now If those
gentlemen would only take a demo-
cratic hint and get up a combination or
a revolution and turn down Bob Cous-
ms it would be a highly entertaining
spectacle-for the democrats. Well,
they are going to do nothing Of the
sort. While Jones county, we doubt
not, would give Mr.. Ellison hearty sup
port in case of proposed change in
the representation of the Fifth district,
he informs us that his name was used
by the Gazette without his knowledge
or consent, and that he 'is for Bob"
We understand the same Is true of Col.
Clark. and it is fair to assume that a
similar statement will apply to all the
others mentioned.
The attempt of Judge Prouty, with
his unlimited wealth and several
thousand democratic votes in the Des
Moines organization to back him. failed
as against Congressman Hull. and in
the Polk county convention the judge
made a speech and pledged his support
to Hull. 1t simply shows that when
the people of a district have strong
and influential representative at the
seat of government, they are not dis
posed to knock him out just for the
purpose of passing the plum around"
as the Gazette puts it.
This district is not in the plum bust
ness just now, and we predict that Mr..
Cousins will be nominated by acclama-
ton, as he should be-