Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-15
IOWA oPiNlQNs AND NOTES

| The WAN Lake Blade is for hoStllities
! and believes that harmony gag should
be left by the way.side, and war 10 the
| finish take its place. The stand patters
have shown their dirty hands in the
Polk county convention, and III the
| future should be treated as a foe who
4 would fire upon a flag OF truce. 1t is
one thing to control the Polk county
delegation and another thing to con-
! troll the state convention. Blythe. Hull
ana Ed Hunter are three Of kind and
| the sooner the Republican party sets
down upon them good and hard. the
sooner VIII such q thing as clean poll
titles exist in Iowa republican state pol
! tics
The Sioux City Journal having OBJ
served that the tax ferret breeds tax
dodgers the Boone Republican desires
| 10 add that tax dodgers breed tax
| ferrets
The great black belt of Iowa ooze is
| beginning to make itself felt, and the
| frost in the ground has become an ex-
| ransionist," remarks the Burlington
| Hawkeye. The only cure for the cit
izen of Des Moines (and other) coun-
ties, is to take a great chunk of pa
| tience out of the calendar, hang 1t on
| the wall and admire it from a distance
For pity 1t is that the good old state
| should be thus "Waterlogged, or rath-
er, mud logged every spring. The
inland fleet of Russia's Black sea
| squadron Is not to be compared With
the mud blockade which now hens in
SO nfaly good people of the state, and
which will soon hold so many farmers
of the state in its grip. Good roads
Is not a bad slogan after all. Let ii
be raised in hue and cry to our relief"
The fact that state binding Irvine
plant would hit at a monopoly none
too considerafe in the opinion of the
Davenport Republican ought to be also
a strong point in its favor. The Re-
publican thinks the general assembly
might do worse than act upon the re-
port of this joint committee which has
| so much to commend it To the approval
of the legislators
so far as any particular tariff
schedule is concerned. the Sioux coun-
republicans are for If it is right and
against it If it is wrong. What could
be fairer?" asks the Dubuque Times.
The Charlton Herald says: There
is considerable talk of asking Col Hep
burn to introduce a bill into congress
asking for an appropriation of $4,000
to build a sewerage system in Chari-
ton. 1t is badly needed, as the neavy
rains often cause damage from over
flow of water And DIT has been decided
in Polk county that such an appcopri-
alton would be perfectly constitu-
tjonal.'"
1T may not be out of the way in the
judgment of the Atlantic Messenger to
remind some of the stock raisers who
wanted to see the DeLano bill pass,
that Governor Cummins is the only
republican governor who has taken the
part of the people as against the rail-
roads, since the time of Larrabee. Yet
this same governor is receiving de-
nunciation in unmeasured quantities,
because he does not stand for an UNI
changing tariff which is backed up by
every corporation i'm the United States
that is at all large in its influence in
political affairs"
The odebolt Chronicle asserts IF the
stockmen viii use common sense and
have bill drawn by some good lawyer
who will leave out illegal clauses the
legislature WIFI give them all the relief
possible. If they persist in sticking to
unconstitutional measures they will ac-
complish nothing"