Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-21
Topics Of the Times


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The Oskaloosa Times-Journel, I'M
like its democratic contemporaries,
gives evidence of leaning toward ex-
pansion. At any rate it headed it's
congressional ticket For Congress
man Fifth District, S. A. Brewster, of
Ottumwa."
| Suppose the war is costing Russia
a million day. isn't she getting all
of it that is coming to her?
The Davenport Democrat denies the
report that William r. Hearst will pub
lish a morning paper in that city. The
| Democrat is likely to be right about
it. Mr.. Hearst's Iowa purchases this
year turned out in a fashion to dis
courage future investments.
civilian Jennings Bryan" said Mr..
Dooley, got SO hoarse cheerin' rr
Parker that he has been obliged to
cancel all engagements to speak. Ye
didn't hear him cheerin'? He was
cheern' in his sleeve"
AS bearing on race suicide Mr..
Roosevelts attention should be called
to the announcement of the dressmak-
ers that girl may be dressed very
nicely on $500 year.
The availability of the Guatemolan
ant as a destroyer of the boil weevil
suggests that If some new Importation
might be made to prey on the negroes
thus leaving southerners free to de-
vote their time to useful labor and
their kerosene entirely to Illuminating
purposes, the era of southern pros
perity might be considered fairly at
hand.
p. III. Sprague, a poultry commits
sion merchant of Chicago, has compil-
ed reports on this years poultry crop
from fourteen middle western states,
and gives it as his conclusion that the
chicken crop is at least 20 per cent
above last year, that the turkey crop
is Is per cent above and ducks 10 per
cent over last year. Geese, he reports,
are going out Of style for in spite of
conditions which cause an increase IN
all other kinds of poultry, the crop of
geese is reported 10 per cent under last
year.
Grandpa Davis has shown that he
can lead the German at a dancing
party, but he will find the voting Ger
mans under another and different kind
of leadership next November.
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Joe Cannon is to help Mr. Dawson
against Wade in the Second district.
Sort of Cannonade in honor of Mr..
Dawson.
Mr.. Brewster was presented to the
convention by the editor of the Her
aid, because, next to perhaps one 9TH
err man, he was the logical candidate of
the onvention.-Newton Herald.
Presumably modesty forbids Mr..
Reinhart to mention the name of the
"other man."
Since the decision that amateurs are
barred entirely from professionalism,
a place on the college athletic team is
likely to be worth two in the bush"
The democratic congressional con-
vention was held in Fort Dodge last
Thursday forenoon, but the Fort Dodge
Messenger never found it out and did
not publish it until Friday evening.
There's newspaper enterprise for you.
Manson Democrat.
But perhaps this was only one of
the cases where editorial courtesy is
obliged to give way to the demand for
real news.
"On the vital questions that have
confronted the American people in the
last decade our opponents take the po-
sition that silence is the best possible
way to convey their views. They con-
tend that their lukewarm attitude of
partial acquiescence in what others
have accomplished entities them to be
made the custodians Of the financial
honor and commercial interests which
they nave recently sought 10 ruin.
Roosevelt.
General Kuropatkin's complaint that
his men are too old calls attention to
the fact that the Russian system tends
to place rather old men with the colors
in war time The liability for service
extends from the twenty-frst to the
forty third year. The first four years
are spent with the colors, and the
conscript is then a reservist for four
teen years. 1t is quite likely, there
fore, that Kuropatkin has received many
reservists of about thirty-fi years of
age. Japan's service age is from sew
enteen to forty.
What Is Liter
In the last analysis nobody knows
but we do know that it is under strict