Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-21
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T The Nonparel fears Dave Brant'
rheumatism has gone tc his head
! President Storms personal success
financial administration CT the agricul
I tural school.
To judge from the tone of the low.
press comment on his wool gathering
stunt Mr.. Cousins came back shori
rather shearer and he and those VIII,
urged him to strike a ai.cordant STRING
in harmony convention should take
their medicine like men. When Mr.
Cousins became the voice OF dis.
lgruntled faction under such circum-
stances he made bid for the almost
accorded him. He simply got what was
knocked off to him and must settle be-
fore removing property.
The ubiquitous Chicago University
professor hobs UP again with an asser-
1
developing into Indians. He has proba-
bly, confined his observations too close
|ly to the stock exchanges
The Sac Sun cut the fifty third birth
day notch in its tally stick last week.
| Colonel Eiboeck. Of the Stats
Anzeiger. thinks Council Bluffs is go
| ing fast to the devil because the city is
enforcing Sunday closing of saloons.
He went over to Council Bluffs to view
the situation face to face but seems to
have seen thru a glass darkly just the
same.
Some points made by the T.-R. in
this republican platform debate have
evidently been found difficult to meet
for we notice on the pat of the Cedar
Rapids Republican and Iowa City Re-
publican. a return to that old charge
of calling the other fellow democrat
II has been our experience that when
our argumentative adversaries have
been driven into corner 1T is then
that they begin to sptster and snap
back at US with these bad names. 1t is
true. as these editors charge, that the
T.-R editor has not been a republican
as long as they have, and the reason Is
that, altho he began voting the repub
lican ticket when he was u years of
age. he did not do so before because of
a statutory obstacle placed in his way
by men who had proceed him which he
could not surmount However, regard
less of whatever temporary disadvan-
tage he may now be laboring under in
this debate, he is. on the whole, very
we'll satisfied. since his health and his
temper is good and he has the promise
of being able to vote the republican
ticket far longer than any of the edi-
tors now questioning his party stand
ing.
Chicago newspapers arc finding fault
with the two months vacation taken by
the judges of the courts of record Each
judge draws onesixth OF his $4,000
salary while slipping mint juleps at
summer resorts and the papers are sug-
gesting that their pay be locked.
There seems to be hush on the
Hearst candidacy. 1t needs a new press
agent.
The latest application of the principle
of the penny in the slot is reported
from Australia. In the postoftices OF
the commonwealth. IL time or opportu-
nifty does not permit the prompt pur-
chase of stamp, the person in hurry
will in future be able to drop his letter
into one oritice of machine and his
penny into the other. ard when this
process is completed, "0Ie penny paid
Will be found impressed on the envelope
as an equivalent to the OF thodox stamp.
The innovation has its advantages. At
tachng the stamp to The envelope Is
perhaps the greatest nuisance con-
nected with letter writing. In spite of
many sanitary warnings. the practice
of licking" is stIll considerably more
the rule than the exception.
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j., specimen Of an orchid grown by him
for $1,000 This may be a record pfice
for the odontoglossum crispus, but
Marshalltown man has 4 bunch of "Old
Scotch" orchids on his nose that cost
him twenty times $1,000.
The Des Moines Capital, referring to
the caustic press comment on Con-
gresham r. G. Cousins speech at the
state convention, says the men who
are occasionally heard talking in the
loudest tones about liberty in the re-
publican party are not willing to accord
it to Robert G. Cousins. The Times
Republican has failed to read with the
same discernment as the Capital APP
pears to have done. 1t has seen no ex
preston against Mr.. Cousins personal
right TO speak his opinion. The privi
lege of free speech, however, carries
with it the privilege of free criticism
The comment which so annoys the
Capital has been directed not so much
a. what Mr.. Cousins said, but his man
ner of saying it and what he left un-
said
Here Is a novel feat which can be
done by an Oklahoma negro: He starts
wild steer on run, and, pursuing on
horseback. rides alongside, and when a;
full speed leaps from the horse to the
back of the steer. Then, taking hold of