Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-21

mittee and feels that the piteous spec
row like doll babies in the rack at a
county fair would make certain dem
ocratic victory. The plan is worthy of
the great kentuckian. Outside of the
facts that truthful Investigation
would rebound to the credit of the adj
ministration, that the committee need
be in no fear of arrest, and that 1T
would be in much more danger from
the bino of the country than from
it's celebrated hemp product there are
no reasons why it shouldn't work. 1t is
noticeable, however, that Henri has not
suggested himself for the Craftsmanship
of Tie committee.
ELI Perkins, talking to an Iowa
newspaper man recently crossed his
heart and said: I'm Graniteville
South Carolina, saw the largest cot
ton factory of the 500 cotton factories
in the south And, what do you think?
Why, they had just shipped forty tons
of white cotton drilling to Manila
We have got to clothe 100000 Fill
ptnos. Another Georgia cotton mill
recently sent twenty-five tons of cot
ton cloth to Japan and China, where
they indigo it and make 1T into cloth
ing" So instead Of paying cash for
silk, rice tea, indigo. hemp and Phil
ippiue coffee. tea and tobacco. we pay
for them with cotton cloth from the
south and flour from California and
Washington.
MANY men not yet decrepit will re-
member the draft riots in New York
City during the civil war. Recently at
the regular monthly meeting of the
trustees of the New York public library
held at the Astor library building. AL
cNander Maitland presented the libra
ny with seven posters of the time of the
draft riots. One was an invitation by
Archbishop John Hughes to the people
CT New York to hear him speak at his
residence. Another, headed Free
Speech and Free Press" censured the
government for "gagging the newspa-
pers." Another poster, signed by Gov
ernor Seymour, announced the arrest
of Hon. G. I. Vallandigham. Another
called all the loyal citizens to mass
meeting of the union at the city hall.
One signed by John, bishop of Buffalo,
admonished Catholics to stand by the
union, but not to neglect their homes. A
poster, signed Democratic Citizen"
denounced the government for drafting
men to fight for principles they did not
honestly advocate.
In accordance with the unvarying
custom of his predecessors. President
Roosevelt will soon sit for his portrait
for his medal, which will be struck by
the Philadelphia mint. No suitable
portrait of the president is in existence
and one must be had, in profile. Such
q view is considered requisite by the
mint bureau. Features upon medals
look fiat when reproduced in the full
face view. Only one presidential medal
has been so adorned-that of the elder
Harrison. President Roosevelt's sec
ond sitting for his picture will occur
in the 1904 campaign.
Hoax thought at one time he was
getting the aldermanic bee In his bon
ret.
Joax-So did he.
And didn't he get it?"
Not in his bonnet; in the neck"
Philadelphia Record
II when Koscuiszko pointed out to
Washington the site of the military
academy at West Point which is cele-
brating its centenary this week, the
great Pole could have foreseen the pro-
portions 1T was destined to attain, the
roster of great names 100 years would
write upon it's records and the dissem-