Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-05

Iowa farmers will never be promoted
or advanced by killing or opposing
| reasona BILE reciprocal trade relations
with Canada and the rest Of the world.
Neither will these interests be sub
served by permitting Iowa to remain as
a solid railroad controlled state. The
! interests OF the republican party are
| identical with those of the Iowa farm
ers.
! DEMOCRATS IN THIS CAMPAIGN.
[5ioux City Journal.l
The democratic party is in this cans
paien without aggressive national leao-
ership The party is not united upon
any question of national importance.
The party is not in accord in any state
! essential to the election of it's national
ticket In this situation it has the
added misfortune to have follower
and not leader at the head of it's tick
ct 1t may be said he is capable In
/ Interpretation; it must be agreed that
he is neither aggressive nor construc-
| tive. Judge Parker has offered to his
distracted party not one rallying point.
His views are not much better under-
stood than they were before his nom-
L
on the money question: he has no is
sue to present on the trust question:
he has no issue to present on the tariff
question; he has no issue to present
on the Philippine question. He makes
some distinctions but they are fine. lie
does not stand forth as the represen-
tative of anything tangible and distinc-
tive 1t is impossible to say now what
| TO-
he would stand for in the event of his
! election.
| Being without leadership the party Is
left to drift The working forces OF
the party are running around loose.
There is entire absence of cohesion;
assertion is met in one democratic
quarter only to be contradicted in an
other democratic quarter of equal res
probability. In many states the party
is giving state issues precedence; and
that is true as to New York, as to In
diana, as to Missouri, as to Wisconsin,
as to Nebraska The party has no
common ground upon which to stand
as to questions of national concern
There is one thing the democratic
party is quite agreed not to do. 1t is
quite agreed that it will not ask ap-
prevail on it's record, either under
Cleveland or under Bryan. In this re-
spect 1T is the antithesis of the repub-
lican party. What the democratic par
ty would do if entrusted with power,
or what it would try to do, is a mat
ter of surmise. The fact that 1t does
not know what to do, suggests that 1t
would not be clearer in judgment under
actual responsibility. 1t is restrained
now by desire to win; having won. II
is safe to believe it would out with
knives and guns.
1t would be misfortune If the
country should be transferred from
present stability and certainty to the
confusion and hazard of democratic adj
ministration.
THE GOOD OLD sPENCERIAN.
[Charter Oak Times.]
Some localities are taking up the old
question Of vertical writing again but
after all whether it is slant or vertical
or Spencerian matters very little il the
writing is legible and neat. Person
ally we are in favor Of bold Spencer
ian type of penmanship and recon-
mend it as suitable for all needs and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT News.
Same here! For all around utility,
there is no system that will compare
with the old Spencerian 1t was pretty
in looks and rapid execution. 1t was
capable of high degree of perfection,
while the late fad of vertical scraWl1ng
was low and groveling. The vertical
writing was pushed upon the market as
an increase of speed, but have you ever
seen a user Of it who was rapid
writer? It is illegible. ill-looking and
slow, while the Spencerian system was
such that it leaves the middle aged
and old men the best writer's in the
land. whereas the more 1.-the hands of
the younger man should hold the honor.
Verify the vertical hocus has been
weighed in the balance and found not
only wanting but wholly devoid OF
weight, and the whole country is clam
oring for something else.