Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-26

IOWA OPINIONS ANG No1Ea.

IOWA OPINIONS ANG NO1Eo.
The Sioux City Journal notices that
Col. Bryan lis sufficiently alive to cause
need for an S. r. O. sign ut Sioux
City Chautauqua and that is saying a
good deal remarks the Journal
There are a good many people who
think Uncle Sam ought to go out OF
the lottery business. or provide suffi-
cient military or police force to main
tain order while the game is on OBJ
serves the Council Bluffs Nonparei.
The Dubuque Telegraph says: The
democratic party is before the country
in this campaign advocating "A revision
and gradual reduction of the tariff
The republican party is before the
country standing pat, or against re-
vision
DR. Swallow having said his party
has enlisted against the reign of bum
ko, Doodle and booze. the Dubuque
Times notes that "Ona Of the advan-
tages enjoyed by the prohibition cam
date is that he can indulge in allitera-
tion without Burchardizing his pros
poets"
The gentle spirit of the editor of the
Iowa CITY Republican objects to the
term used by Governor Cummins when
he spoke OF his traducers as unmiti-
gated liars as "a pretty strong express
sion and hardly In keeping with the Dig
nifty OF the governor of a great state.
STOPPING to notice that the Webster
City Journal attempts seriously to
discredit Governor Cummins by coll
lecting a number OF scattered senten-
ces from his various tariff speeches,
the Register and Leader says That
is all right for amusement, but
to be serious about is absurd. A book
on calculus could be proved to be
fairy tale by that method and the
bible the most inconsistent and unre-
liable book ever written" The
Register and Leader submits that
public men are not judged that
way. II their general purpose be con-
sistent and their motives honest bur
rowing around for phrases they have
uttered results only as burrowing usu-
ally does, in burying the turnover.
Governor Cummins has pursued gem
eral course of advocacy of tariff chan
ges in the interests OF trade expansion,
along republican lines. The American
Economist says this is what the ma
tional platform stands for. What is the
use OF further pickering, then. about
Governor Cummins? He says he is n
republican, the platform confirms him.
and the people seem to believe him If
the uproar in his honor at the late
convention may be accepted as signlii-
cant"
The intention to make Judge Parker
serve as an accident policy to insure
the people against injury in the event
OF democratic success is not being ta-
ken as seriously as its promoters had
hoped" asserts the Waterloo Reporter.
The people. If they make use of the
judgment an all-wise providence has
provided for use. VIII certainly decide
that it is better to take all reasonable
and prudent precautions to avoid injury
rather than to invite disaster and then
indemnify against 1t.
HE sought to be party boss without
having in him those qualities which
count for good leadership" says the
Onawa Democrat, referring to Mr.
Maxwell Those who listened to his
speech at the Hearst rally In Des
Moines the evening before the state
convention could not but see the weak
ness OF Mr.. Maxwell. He has simply
run up against his own weakness with
out knowing what was the matter
The Iowa Stats Anzeiger says that
Mr.. Maxwelfs brays on leaving the
democratic party are the nightmare of
the unholy alliance with the populistic
element"
Henry G. Davis is undoubtedly 81
years old" says the Cedar Rapids Ca
zette. but he must have found that
smile somewhere after he had passed
middle age. 1t is not nearly as old as
himself