Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-28

nothing, he must use the necessary
precautions to keep him from arriving
at such an end by giving him some
thing to do that he knows he must be
re. ponsible for. This is The remedy
that makes the idler, the loafer and the
nothing, an unknown quantity on the
farm and it can be used just as eff
fectively in town.
MARTIN FOR REELECTION.
[Fontanelle Observer
Adair county republicans will take
pleasure this year in again recommend
ing w. B. Martin for secretary of state.
Mr.. Martin will be candidate for re-
nomination and has served so we'll and
faithfully during his first term that the
honor will be cheerfully conceded. AS
secretary of state he is one of the most
conspicuous figures in public life In
Iowa and by reason of his conservatism
and thoroughness in the performance
OF his duties stands high in the estima-
ton of all who watch the transactions
of men in public life. The office of sec
rotary of state has not been so we'll adj
ministered during many years as dur
ing the incumbency of its present chief.
Accurate and painstaking business
methods have been adopted and en-
forced and systematic methods prevail
to the great advantage of the public
service and to the credit of the authori-
ty in charge. 1t is creditable to the
citizens and republicans of Adair coun-
ty that the one promoted from our
ranks has been able to serve with such
L. n
for his denomination is unanimous, and
the approaching county convention will
take pleasure in showing Mr. Martin
every courtesy which good politics
suggests.
INDIANS AT CHARLTON.
[Chariton Patriot
A few of the Indians who have Wis
tied Charlton annually for the past
fifteen years to hold services over the
grave of their chief, Rinehart, were
camped near Charlton on their annual
visit last Friday and Saturday, but
omitted the customary grave ceremony,
perhaps because they are growing too
civilized to believe in 1t any longer.
They departed on Saturday on their
way to Minneapolis, where they will
spend the summer in a cooler climate.
1t is generally believed that the princi-
pal one of the four Indian graves just
south of the main gate, in the Charlton
cemetery. is that of a noted Indian chief
but it is not SO. The man was called a
a CHI ( ard was lan,ei etnfhart out
he was not an Indian. He was a
Frenchman who married full b,ooded
Indian squaw, probably the widow of
a minor chief, and thereby became the
chief of the little tribe. Fifteen years
ago Rineharts band was calnped on the
Charlton river, two or three miles from
town, when he took sick and died. His
family bought him a lot in Charlton
cemetery and buried him here, and
each year since then some of his Indian
friends have come back to see that the
grave is kept in proper condition.
JUD WELLIVER, LOBBYIST.
Newton Herald.l
We detest, above all creatures, the
lobbyist whose business it is to per-
sIade legislators to do that which they
feel they ought not to do. We believe
there ought to be law to hang every
the purpose of influencing a vote. The
will of'the people to be exercised thru
It's public servants without let or hin
drance.
However If there are degrees Of an
evil, If one lobbyist is better than an
ether. we desire to appeal in behalf of
Jud Welliver, the only man in the state
of Iowa who Hobbies against the corpo-
rations. He certainly can not be ac-
cused of mercenary motives. for he
could sell himself to the railroads at a
good, round price They are always on
the lookout for such as he.
We have known Jud Welliver for ten
years. When we first saw him he was
a snip of a boy who looked inferior in
every lineament. We have seen him
develop into one OF the best newspaper
men in the United States All OF this
time he has been the fearless defender
of the interests of the people as against
the corporations, To him is due the
credit of making the Molsberry bill un-
popular. He killed it.
Jud not only has a brain, but he has
the tact to use 1t judiciously. We do
not know what he got out of the defeat
of the railroad lobby, but we do know
that he could not have made more than
what the newspapers paid him for his
stuff" He deserves that, because he
earned it.
DINGING.
Washington Press.1
Precept upon precept, precept upon
precept, line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little, Isaiah said.
That's the way many people learn
the commonest, simplest things, if, in
deed, they learn them at all. To make
it impressive, to hammer it in, the
prophet reiterated each clause of the
sentence. The constant fall of drops of
water will wear away rock, or, If they
fall on the head, will drive one into
torture and perhaps insanity.
And yet, this method fails In many
cases.
For generations papers have warned
people not to blow out gas. but they
do. and are found asphyxiated-not
suicides, but fools.
For ages, people We're cautioned, by
precept, line. observation, not to form
the drink habit but what good has 1t
done? There are as many whisky
wrecks In the waste of humanity as
there are bats in brickyard. or broken
shards around a pottery. Thousands,
millions, will not learn before they are
ruined, and then it is too late.
The most striking passage in the
poem. and in the drama, of Faust, is