Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-13
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All is not lovely in Iowa City. Milton
Remley's Citizen irstimates that Dave
| Brant's Republican was sat upon to
the tune of about 800 majority on the
/ franchise vote, to which Mr.. Brant re-
Piled Yes. and that is just the major
and Iowa counties repudiated Milton
Remiey for district judge something
over year ago.
Major Rathbun's intimate foreknow-
/ ledge of the national platform to be
adopted by the Chicago convention
gives color to the suspicion that the re-
doubtable major has it concealed some
where in the Marion Register office
Still, according to reports the major
was deceived in 1896 and this may be
another of his off years.
! The Mormons are willing to re-
nounce polygamy again on the principle
of replacing broken promise with an
other just as good.
| Notwithstanding SOuliiy is PlIueT par
| ticularly favored wi h prosperity or Pc
| culiarly contracted with stinginess. The
| board of supervisors handed the over
| seer of the poor s57.S5 the other day
with the admonition to make that do
until the June mes ting. 1t would be
| interesting to know to what public
utility the Is cents change was appro-
priated.
| The eastern cities overpopulated
With foreigners are calling for the es-
| Establishment of an immigration bureau
| to meet inconlers and steer them west,
where the labor is needed in the ag
ricultural sections.
Many OF the prominent men of Japan
are Christians. To this creed belongs
one member of the imperial cabinet,
two judges Of the supreme court, two
presidents OF the lower house of par
| lament, three vice ministers of state
not to mention host of officials in the
lower ranks. In the present parliament
the president ana thirteen members in
Il lolIl IHSIiDSlSiup VI ouV diG NIL 1St-
ians In the army there are 155
Christian officers. Or per cent of all,
and the two largest battleships are
commanded by Christians. In Toxic
three of the great daily papers have
Christian editors.
The grandson of ts..i:f Cetewayo the
0,,,,, l.;,c vt,,J,,;,er 10 IN Yao1a,
Even the Zulu is coming to the UNDER
standing that q bigger killing is pos
sible with the law than with the as
segai.
Bryan on Parker" is the title of the
leading editorial in an eastern paper.
Certainly and with both feet.
The trading stamp companies in Chi
stituted by j. f. Lawrence, who claims
to be the originator OF the trading
stamr, scheme, to recover 100000 dam
ages Of another company. Lawrence
says he has pc effected the trading stamp
business and Is making $4,000 year |
from his operations.
I DIR. Martin the evangelist who advis-
es women to use face powder to inn
prove their appearance is not in any |
immediate danger of a blowing up"
A total of $54,693, 500 of gold. or 10
tons, coined In two months breaks
previous mint records for the United |
States.
A new man in Michigan politics Is /
Justus Stearns, the millionaire lum- /
herman of Ludington. Mr.. Stearns has
long maintained an uncompromisng at |
titude on the questions of railroad tax
alton and primary elections. He be-
Meves the railroads of the state have
not been paying their just burden of
taxation also that political trickery
and treachery are fostered and the real |
voice of THE people subverted by the
convention system in vogue. Mr.. |
Stearns' ambition is to become govern
or of Michigan and he seeks the repub-
lican nomination.
Since immigration to the United
States was first recorded officially,
twenty-five millions of souls have come
to increase the population of this re-
public. Five millions have crossed the
sea from Gremany and four millions
from ireland.
The United States is being nattered
by the old country, If imitation is con-
coded to be fiattering. A bill has just
been introduced in tae commons to re-
strict the immigration of aliens and the
example of the United States is cited
by a member of the ministry in dts
support. The idea is that liberals and
other people of democratic tendencies
cannot Well object to a measure which
the great democracy of the new world
has already adopted. The aliens to be
excluded by the bill before the com-
mons are defined by the home secretary
to be the class OF undesirable imni-