Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-14

Tom Purcell, of the Hampton Chron-
T. cle, confesses that there are some
married men who can not understand
why those Mormons should care for
half dozen wives.
The Dows Advocate is informed by
rural carriers that the cutting oft of
the carrying privilege will deprive
them of very little income but will add
So 500 TO the earnings of Wright coun-
w carriers The Advocate knows of 10
class of employees more entitled or well
come to raise in salary and wishes
their salaries could have been raised to
$780, at least.
The loss to the federal bench is still
greater than the personal loss to Mr..
Healy,' says the Denison Review, in
speaking of the Fort Dodge mans
failure to land the federal judgeship.
IF the standpatters want a special
champion among the delegates-at-
large to the national republican con-
vention, the Hardin County Citizen
thinks there perhaps ought not to be
any terrific objection, but the selec~
ton of Blythe is all insult TO Iowa re-
publicanism. IL this is the best mate
rial that the standpatters can present.
they ought to be defeated"
why is it that the enlightened pee
PIE. of the present age devote so much
attention to improving the breeds Of
stock and grain and so little to the im-
pr,ovement of the human race" asks
the Shenandoah Sentinel.
The Sac Sun characteriZes Governor
Cummins as one of the manifest men
ever in public life in Iowa. He says
what he means and means what he
Says and he never asks for support up
on false issue" The Sun admits he
lis not Il shrewd politician. Had he
been politician, he would not have
been content with assurances of the
kind made him by the Hull managers
in Polk county. He would have known
that most politicians do not mean what
they appear to say, and he would have
exacted promise without any strings
l. J L
been a better politician he either would
have stayed away from the Prouty
meeting or he would have gotten out
and worked with all his strength for
tine man of his choice. realizing that
his own political fortunes for this year
were linked with Prouty's. The Polk
county fight is over and it appears to
have defeated for this year the plans
CT the governor as well as the candi-
dacy OF his friend for congress-
The senate committee investigating
Snioot having called for list of the
Mormon bishops. the Davenport Demo-
erat presumes that somebody will OBJ
ject to this on the ground that the
state is interfering With the church.
But" it continues. when we consider
the thing called the church the deeper
the probing the better. 1t is very evil
trying to run not only the politics of
Utah, but of the country
The Dubuque Telegraph declares that
with Hearst as the nominee the demo-
cratic party could go into the cam
paign unmortgaged thru the campaign
fund to single industry. If the demo-
cratic party is really what it processes
to be--the foe of special legislation
why should it turn away from the only
man whom 1t can put in the presiden-
tial chair free from every restraint to
the execution of the partys will2 II |
the slogan of the party really is Equal
ity to all, special privileges to none,
and If that slogan is to be anything but
"A cheat. the party should nominate for
president man who would be able to
make it stand for equality"
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The white house china is now being |
exhibited to the admiring gaze of the