Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-24
Speaker Clarke's Estimate of
Roosevelt Roundly Applaud
ed by Tippecanoe Club
PARAPHRAsEs THE SCRIPTURES
cIarke's Advice to the United States
Senators Was "Where Theodore
Roosevelt Leads They Had Better
Follow, and Where He Stops They
Had Better Remain
necial to Times Republican.

Snecial to Times Republican,.
Des Moines Feb. 2t.-The best part
of the addresses at ,.e banquet of the
Tippecanoe Club Wednesday evening
seems to have been lost entirely by the
Des Moncs newspapers. Two of The
best rhetorical efforts ever heard in
Des Moines were delivered by N. p.
Kendall and Speaker George Clarke, OF
Adel, and the climax in the address OF
that is seldom given to public
speaker. He began by paying a glow
ing tribute to the Tippecanoe Cluo.
to it's ve.,ran voters and the part they
had taken in the his ory of the coun-
try, some of whom l ad seen time
when the locomotive whistle had not
been heard. He told of the history ana
progress of the country and dwelt 1T
length on the characters that had made
the history, leading up to President
Roosevelt. In Colonel ID. j. Palmer's
address he paid a tribute to the flag.
saying: Where thou goest l will go
and. where thou stayest l will stay"
Speaker Clarke declared that President
Roosevelt is the greatest moral force
on earth today, and he presumed that
some would rightfully gather he was
Roosevelt man. Referring then to-
the paraphrase of Colonel d. j. Palmer,
Mr. Clarke said he wished to para<
phrase the scriptures also. i wish to
say to the senators of the United
States," said Mr.. Clarke, that where
Theodore Roosevelt leads they had bet
ter follow and where he stops they
had better remain" The statement was
the most roundly applauded of the
evening. The address of Hon. Nate
Kendall was one of the mastery efforts
of which he is capable. 1t was an ex-
position of republicanism.
The Martin Westcott murder case
is not to be heard at the next period
of the supreme court, which begins
March Z. The attorneys for Westcott
state that they will not be ready in
time for the oral argument then. west
colt was indicted in Worth county for
the murder of George Logue, barber,
at Hanlontown. The trial was had in
Cerro Gordo county on change ot
venue and Westcott was found guilty.
Logue had a barber shop in the Sec
sond story of the Calhoun building.
Westcott had been in the shop during
the early part of the evening, and, ac-
cording to the testimony OF Martin
Lewis, a blacksmith, he was forced to
thrash Westcott before he would leave
the barber shop. The body of Logue
was found face downward on the
ground under one of the broken Win
dows of his barber shop distance
of fifteen feet. The floor of the room
was covered with the remains of
broken beer bottle and there was cut
on the head of Logue. Westcott, ac-
cording to testimony. said later in the
evening, while drunk, that he would
bet SIS he knew a man with sore head.
The murder was committed on the
night of Dec. II, 1908, and Westcott
was convicted on March %.
The case of the state against DR..
w. B. c. Bullard will be one OF the
most important and interesting of the
criminal cases orally argued at the next
period of the supreme court. Billiard
is the man who was indicted for OBJ
tanning the signature of j. D. Carson
in Clay county to a note for $500 on
the claim that he had sanitarium in
Des Moines and exhibited as pic
ture of the sanitarium picture of the
state house. He was indicted first
April, 1908, and later this indictment
was set aside and he was reindicted
in September of that year. His trial
;,, ,ct of hat and
he was convicted.
Beginning with the examinations of
officers for guard positions neld yes
terday and today, Iowa officers who
pass the examination will be admit
ted to the regular army without re-
examination. Under a new rule OF the
regular army officers from all states in
the union can be admitted under such
conditions provided they make the ex-
aminations as stringent as they are
in the regular army, or in other words
adgpt the same examination. Iowa
has not heretofore done this. The eX
animation now being held is the first
under orders of Adjutant General
Thrift and he has adopted the rules
of the regular army in respect to ex-
aminations. When the Spanish Am
erican war broke out officers in the
national guard had to be re-examined
when taken into the regular army.
Under the regulations adopted by Gen.
Thrift if admitted into the regular
army in any way they will not have
to be re-eXamined.
Dairy Commissioner H. R. Wright
has been having some difficulty with
the tests for butter fat made by the
dairymen over the state and has had
made a special bottle for such tests
which is expected to help matters.
The state law requires the dairy OPP
orators to secure their Babcock test
bottles from the dairy commissioner.
At the same time they are hello res
ponsible for the test being accurate.
1t is sometimes pretty hard to make