Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-30
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Sutherland, April 29.-on a recent
sunday the Rev. Mr.. Smith of Sioux
1 City, an Episcopal clergyman, preached
on Sunday base ball. The writer was
rot present, but reports OF the sermon
came to him from so many different
sources {and curiously enough there
are many different reports all do not
hear alike) that it seems safe to as
sumo this good preacher favors Sum
day base ball if
The idea is that q certain class OF
our citizens in these strenuous times
| have to work six days in a week and
ftfty-two weeks in year. To such
men base ball is recreation. right
they have. to demand apd need. To
! illustrate fhe preacher did not use
| these illustrations), Uncle George, or
/ the Journal, has to write long editorials
every day in the week. His sermons
In every Sunday Journal require long
/ and deep research. To get at the orig
| lnal Greek root takes time. He has
no time to see base ball. on week days.
therefore Uncle George needs Sunday
base ball. Not so with Jud Weiliver
All he has to do, is to be an associate
editor of the Tribune, write little skits.
attend to republican politics in the
| Eleventh district, in fact, suggest the
management of the whole republican
campaign, and incidentally run as the
] democratic candidate for congress-.
This leaves him leisure time which he
can put in going to the base bali park
week days. Church is the proper place
| for Jud on Sundays
The preacher seemed to make 1t
/ plain that the bank president should
! not attend Sunday base ball, but the
paying teller ought to go. That all
clerks. mechanics and laboring men.
reed Sunday base ball, while the pro-
prietors, contractors and leisure class
| should attend divine worship and be
sufficiently recreated.
Then, too, about children and won-
en- going to see a game of ball on Sun
| day. 1t would seem that IL woman
does her own work she commits no sin
| in going out to the base ball park on
! Sunday afternoon, but IL she keeps a
hired girl she doesn't need to spend
Sunday afternoon watching game.
She has bridge whist" six hundred
and military euchre," pit stick"
"old maids" "muggins," "pit," stick"
and such exciting games every after
noon and six evenings in week.
| therefore she can get her recreation by
sleeping Sunday afternoon. And the
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| take stock In this doctrine; SO do the
men. A good many men in Sioux CITY
have to work six days in week, for
| last Sunday morning the writer had
| time and inclination in the church he
attended to count ten women for one
man present on the morning service.
The reader must not think all the
/ above came from the Sunday base ball
sermon. BY no means; the prevailing
thought of the discourse was to let
| every man and woman decide for him
self or herself: make personal decis-
/ ion In regard to the matter of Sunday
observance. Some need recreation.
others need rest. And in SO far as the
writer heard. this preacher proposed
no legal restriction on matter of
Sunday amusements that some cer>
taiuly DO not need, but thousands OF
others find necessary to their Well
being, both mentally and physically.
/ The universal subject UP In this neck
of the woods is the Eleventh district
congressional campaign, to be settled
May A. at Cherokee.
Now that the republicans of all the
| thirteen counties have held their coun-
/ ty conventions and selected their dele
gates to the district convention at
Cherokee the opening session of which
will be held May A.. the game now set
ties down into the lining up the 1876
! delegates on second choice possibili-
ties, combinations, trades and the like.
/ EighHy-two of the 135 delegates are
actually instructed They are as fol-
lows:
Hubbard. Woodbury. :. ;. :. ....25
Strpbie, Plymouth and Sioux ..2S
! Thomas, Buena Vista 10
1 Helsell, Sac ;. .....p
! Roach, Lyon ............ .
Funk, Dickinson :. s
Total ..sz
Monona, with its IL votes, Endorsed
the candidacy of Senator Ernest L..
Hogue, but did not instruct for him.
/ Clay with s votes is for Thomas, and
Ida, also with votes. Is for Helsell.
The 90 votes of Cherokee and O'Brien
are divided among Thomas, Hubbard
and iStruble, and the 6 votes of Osceola
are divided between Hubbard and
Struble However, the SD Eninstructed
delegates will be given considerable
Iattentlon between now and May
4.
AS one travels over the district he
finds that our candidate has the
hest chance of winning out. but an out
slider can only see possibilities for two
candidates. First and foremost is Lot
Thomas the present incumbent. Talk
anywhere with politicians. unless they
are disgruntled over a postoffice fight,
or have had personal political ambition
checked. and they scout at the idea OF
"our" candidate making deal With
any other aspirant for congressional
honors. If "our" candidate cannot get
it, they have no particular objection to
Thomas Persistently and universally
all over the district is the talk that ex-
s Judge Helsell "has something up his
sleeve that will nominate the lucky