Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-12
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NorthWooa, Aug. 1.-THE presiden-
tial boom for Governor Cunmins,
started out west by some en- thusiastic
friend Of our worthy official curiousIv
enough. has brought out considerable
amount OF talk with reference to ex-
Governor Shaw's presidential aspira
tons Here's a newspaper clipping Il
gentleman Of iowa hands the writer
as expressing exactly his opinion:
Secretary shaw, of the treasury
said yesterday to some friends at Des
MONIES, Iowa that the questio OF his
being a candidate for the presidency
was one that he did not care even to
discuss Most people feel just in the
same way about it,
The fact is. these booms are becom-
ing so numerous and the origin so we'll
understood these days. that the public
refuses to become enthusiastic.
A we'll posted republican OF this city
hits the nail on the head when he says,
~ sill be a long time before Iowa
furnshes a presidential candidate. We
are too d unanimous" A state
sure for 100000 republican majority
does not furnish the head Of the tick
et / am sorry this Cumnlins boom
has been started and am sure he has
no knowledge of it, further than from
reading 1t in the papers, and mind you.
I'm a Cummins man. believe in the
doctrines he breaches, but this boom
OF Cummins sounds so much like 9TH
ers I'm sorry to hear of it."
VT -y,t O,~s,
ions. Another republican said: "The
newspapers of the state ought to be
ashamed Of themselveS the way they
are mentioning some possible candl-
dates for governor to succeed Governor
Cummins. Men have been suggested
for governor. this in the way of a joke
that read as soberly and apparently as
honestly as when the names of Per
kins, Larrabee, Byers and such men
are put in print The public never
has been able to see the point of such
Jokes. But when the voters Of the
town where such candidates live read
this nonsense. they conclude that the
writer of the insinuating paragraph Is
a bigger fool than the man mentioned
for the governorship."
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Gradually the dwellers In our lake
towns are becoming converted to the
expressed scientific theory that the
source of the water supply of these
lakes is underground, and comes from
the big rivers. Without any apparent
ly good reason, the seasons rainfall IN
that vicinity not being great enough
to be a satisfactory explanation
ton. these lakes in Iowa
have risen in many cases to
float away sidewalks and docks that
for years were above high water mark
Farmers are claiming overfiowed land,
and suits at law are promised unless
dams are lowered. While all this IS
true and noticeable, our rivers are on
ly temporarily higher, and the volume
of water they are carrying off is the
same each year according to the sea-
son.
The experience of some OF our farm
ers and spectators in lake bottom
land, would be the more funny, If they
were not so expensive experiments
The other day, some one pointed out
to the writer lake ten feet deep, with
the remark that "in the year 1902 there
was a good crop of corn raised on
that lake bottom" Streams of water
are now coming from number OF
Iowa lakes big enough to be success
fully used as a water power, that in
1901 and 1902, were almost drained out.
Hundreds of dollars worth of drain
tile were put in, and are there yet.
And here is another noticeable feat.
ure Of our river bottoms and banks
During the dry years mentioned. the
oweurs of the farms through which
these streams run, plowed up the land
close to the rivers bank and raised
crop of corn. Now they do the same
every year. but they don't get crop
of corn. This land was retrograded
and refused to be imposed upon. il
is apparently willing to grow grass,
but has Indefinitely gone out Of the
corn business.
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