Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-04
TOPICS OF THE.
TIMES = . .


4 Tillman's candidacy of congress
from South Carolina should be consid
cred an appeal from the verdict of tn
court that cleared him of the murde
of Ganzales and its ruling should be re
versed by the voters.
The decision Of an Iowa court tina
'fntoxication isNno excuse for marriage
leads the Keokuk Gate City to protest
Alas and alack! What excuse l.
there then ?"
South Carolina is complaining of {
scarcity of common labor on account O
the tendency of the colored population
to loaf The situation is growing UNI
bearable and keeps the whites so busy
that a prominent citizen can scarcel,
find time to go out once or twice week
| to burn niger"
| An Anglo-American syndicate has
| been successfully attacking the bank
| at Monte Carlo. with new system
| and shares in the great gaming insti-
| tuition. have 1t is alleged. fallen to 2
| serious extent in consequence. The
| probabilities are that the system" in
cludes Il Jimmy and a dark lantern il
| the reports of its success are well
| founded.
The Dies Moines Capital evidently be-
JuIS TN,
I eys policies-into the back yard.
The calling OF national convention
at st. Louis to nominate a negro can
didate for president on the same date
of the democratic convention is some
what like bringing March II and July
II together.
II the war in the east should drag
out to contest of endurance, the
financial resources of the two nations
would become the most important ele-
financially. Each has come out of
every war It has waged Cor the last
fifty years financially Frustrated by the
cost OF the struggle. Japan though the
smaller and poorer nation, is better fit
ted to stand the financial strain. Her
expenses are far less and all her people
are ready to devote the last drop Of
blood to her service. The Russian peo-
pie, though they will fight under dis
cipline, can give no more money. Tax
alton has been pushed to the point u
famine and cannot be increased.
Fine feathers may not make fine birds,
AS we've been told, and still
They're pretty sure. just mark our
words,
To make at least a bill.
Philadelphia Press.
AS evidence OF the listening habit
along party telephone lines a Kansas
young man who attempted to propose
over a rural telephone received six ac-
ceptances before the girl addressed
could get her mouth open to say yes"
A monument in the form of a drink
Ing fountain, the gift Of the Hon. VIII
lam Tebb has been erected at Burs-
tow. England. Cut on the front Of the
drinking trough is this inscriptions:
In memory of the mute fidelity OF the
four hundred thousand horses killed
and wounded at the call of their mas
tiers during the South African wac,
1899 1902, in a cause of which they
knew nothing, this fountain is erected
by reverent fellow creature
Senator Burton's conviction scarcely
stops with Senator Burton. It reaches
on to the theory that public official
is justified In making money out Of his
office and influence.
Ancient History-Church - see
some one has been calling Grover
Cleveland the democratic Moses.
Gotham = Seems strange the dem
ocrtic party clngs to back numbers.
What do you mean?"
why, for the last two presidential
elections they have had Jonah. AMI
now they're after Moses. '-Yonkers
Statesman.