Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-14

had journeyed east together the for
! mer going to Ohio to speak for his
| friend Tom Johnson, and Judge Wade
| TO deliver a lecture in Indiana. When
| they parted it was with the under
standing that Bryan would next be
heard of in Europe, hobnobbing with
| the scions of nobility, etc. 1t was
| therefore a surprise to Judge Wade
| to meet the colonel In a Des Moines
hotel this week He explained that
while he had intended to start for
Europe on the 18th inst. something
had turned up to call him back to
Lincoln. He would star st again
in a few days The dem tic state
committee has tried in VI . o induce
Bryan to enter the campo In Iowa.
He was invited some time to make
a speech or two, but he 2 not even
deigned to answer the co g nication
and not word has been I'd from
him. His presence In Des = mes was
not known to the commit q int1l af-
ter he had departed. 1t g an open
secret that Bryan has - interest
whatever in the campaign owa and
would not do any great amount of
shouting If the democratic vote this
year would run up higher than at any
time during the days of free silver.
The convention of the State Anti-Sa-
loon League this week. demonstrated
there is a general revival of interest
in The work of the league and In gen.
era temperance legislation. The past
few years these conventions have only
been attended by a handful of the
faithful believers In statutt ry pronloi-
ton OF saloons. This year more than
200 persons attended the meetings and
they have shown much of the old time
interest and vigor. Quite number
of the old temperance leaders have
returned to the work after being quiet
a few years and a number OF new
and vigorous younger men have been
added One of the things that will be
worked for in the coming Legislature
will be the establishment of separ-
ate institution for the care of ineb-
rates of the state. and that they shall
not be placed in the hospitals for the
insane Another is the law to desig-
nate what ''bootlegger" is, and 10
The Hepburn bill to make 1t impos-
sible for liquor dealer to ship liquor
into a state where prohibition prevails
will be pushed in congress. Another
Of the reforms sought is that of linz
iting the life of the saloon consent.
This was favored at the last session
of the legislature On the whole the
Anti Saloon League, judging by what
has happened this week, is exper-
iencing much prosperity.
There is not much real politics going
now. said Speaker Eaton who is at
tending supreme court, There is much
of petty politics and little fights of
local interest only This is usual in
an off year 1t is just the time when
the little fights. are hroaGht ITO the
surface in the party lines, and there
has been. an, abundance Of this. I would
have gone to California If / could have
got away during the campaign In our
county Well. l did go as far as Yer
mont while the campaign was at Its
hottest, and / kept myself entirely out
of It, But perhaps it Is just as well
for the party that these little differ
ences should be fought out this way.
There does not seem to me much real
political activity this year.
The case of the sta,e VS. Louis Busse.
from Bremen county, was submitted
to the Iowa supreme court without
oral argument 1t was expected there
would be an interesting oral argument
but neither the attorney general nor
the attorneys for the defendant cared
to enter upon it. Busse is awaiting
execution for wife murder. The main
reliance in the case is on the claim
that the evidence showed that Busse
was struck on the head by his wife be-
fore he killed her and that therefore
1t could not have been premeditated
murder There is also a claim that in
asmuch as it was shown that he was
drunk there could not have been the
premeditation necessary to make of it
a crime punishable by death.
The republican state committee has
secured copies of the admirable adj
dress of George d. Perkins as tempor
airy chairman Of the republican state
convention and will distribute them
wherever there is any call for informa
ton on the tariff question. Chairman
Spence states that he regards this
address as one of the finest that he has
ever seen on the subject and he de-
sires that 1t be given the widest pub
licity.
Mayor j. H. Funk, Of Iowa Fails, was
In the city this week but did not call
at republican headquarters and offer
himself for campaign work for the re-
publican principles this year. His last
correspondence with the state COM
mittee was in reference to helping the
republican nominee for congress in his
district when he refused to enter the
campaign.
ToDAY's COURT DEcisloNs.