Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-31
LOCAL COMMENT.


| NO committee ever laDOfed narueT
| than did the barbecue committee but
| the day was a grand success and they
are satisfied. What is more, practical
| ly every store in town received 4
marked Increase in trade. Seasonable
| goods We're sold in large bills to Gus
toners from a distance who undoubted-
| ly would never have come to Marshall
town. Travelling men who make all
! towns In Iowa agree in saying that NJ
| town in the state sells merchandise as
cheap as do the merchants of this city.
| 1t is for this reason that any excitement
| that Will bring crowds to the city will
result in sending them home salts
fed.
Two years ago B. F.. Cummings was
compelled to make a campaign for cleo
ton to the legislature against bitter
opposition of many influential repub
licans who had fought him at the pr
maries in one Of the nastiest local
fights this county had ever seen. He
triumphed over the same democrat tic
opponent he has to meet this year. He
went to the legislature where his rec
ord was conspicuous for it's success and
republicans are now satisfied. Cum
mings has not the disaffection in his
own party this time and will return to
office with q larger vote than before.
He is being quoted by democrats as
saying things that he never said but
republicans are accustomed to this
kind of campaigning. Because Mr. Daily
succeeded in carrying the city two
years ago a tremendous effort is being
made to capture the city vote this
year in the hope that the farmers will
be too busy to vote. Disappointment
Is in store for them, however, for the
republican campaign has been we'll or
ganized.
The great danger with republican
voters this year is in their failure to
vote. Great teachers like Roosevelt,
Cleveland and Culnmins denounce the
man who stays al home as being far
worse than the man who votes and
votes wrong. The republicans who do
not vote this year will wonder why
their delegates to county conventions
and the county delegates to state con-
ventions grow fewer in number. The
man who can vote and don't is lacking
in loyalty to the government that gives
him the right to vote.
Marshalltown is going to have lit
tie election of her own Tuesday held in
connection with the general election, at
which time the question OF levying a q
mill tax for park purposes will be plac-
ed before the people. The proposition is
to levy the tax for period of three
years, which will realize the sum of
about $4,000, which will be used by
the park commissioners, to be elected
next spring, In purchasing land and
building the park. In the election Tues
day, when the tax will be voted, it must
not be understood that vote deter
mines in any way where the park is
to be located. Thas matter rests wholly
with the park commissioners, and is
undoubtedly to be made the issue on
which the commissioners will be cleo
ted. While the river site has been talk
ed Of, and the council has, by resolu-
ton, offered to set aside the city's four
teen-acre tract, provided certain con-
ditions are met, the location will not
be determined until the commissioners
are elected. The only question for the
voters to consider Monday is whether
where it will be located. The women
of the city will be privileged to vote on
the park question, as the statutes pro-
vide that whenever tax is to be voted
the women may have voice. 1t will
not be necessary for the women to reg
lister In order to vote.
If you wish to vote Tuesday and have
moved from the precinct in which you
voted last election, it will be necessary
for you to register again. Your last
opportunity, unless you have been out
of the city, on each of the previous
days of registration, will be tonight.
The registry books will be closed at
3 o'clock Register If you have not al
ready done so.
Time changes all things. Such is the
lesson of life that has twice been re-
peated in Marshalltown business circles
during the past week. MarshalltoWn
boys of Yesterdays swimming pool, are
the business men of today. succeeding
to the business which their fathers
have established Direct succession OF
the sons to the fathers and the contin-
uance Of ancestral traditions is what
makes a business firm strong, as 1t
makes a family dignified and aristo-
cratic. The ressiveness Of youth Is
what makes yesterday We olden time. |