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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
USE WIDE TIRES

We are hearing of good roads and
bad roads and how to make and use
the split-Iog drag. but one of the fac
tors in making and keeping good roads
is the kind of tires farmers have on
their wagons. Most wagons are fitted
with narrow tires. which cut thru the
road surface and make ruts. especially
when the wagon is heavily loaded
Wide tires have Il tendency to roll the
road and keep it packed down and
smooth. Other conditions being equal,
experiments have shown that wagon
with wide tires has a lighter draft than
one with narrow tires, and in every
case they cut the roads less deeply
1t is said that most of the European
countries have laws regulating the
width of tires of vehicles: that in
France the market wagons have tires
from three to ten inches in width.
usually from four to six inches. Be-
sides having the tires wide the rear
axle is longer, SO that the rear wheels
do not run in the same track with the
front wheels.
While wide tires may not always be
best on the farm. nor even on some
roads, it is sure that if farmers would
adopt them on their road wagons and
use the drag it would not be long until
good roads would be the order eyery-
where. 1t is contended by farmers
who have used wide tires that when
the soil is soft and hauling has to be
done the wide tires sink into the mud
and the draft is much heavier than the.
narrow tires. This would probably
be the case on some Of our muddy
roads. Michigan has done more 20
encourage the use of wide tires than
any other state, perhaps. There they
have law regulating a reduction in
taxes to those who use wide tires. TIL,
legislatures of several other states are
the same kind of measure
out the farmers themselves should be
Interested in the subject and decide
whether they can profitably change
heir wagon tires and have better
.oads
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
LET'S GET DOWN TO DATE.
[Sac CITY SUM

Why do the opponents of Governor
Cummins spend so much time on 1888
He has been governor for five years. He
is a candidate for governor again Why
not deal with present conditions? Gov
ernor Cummins may have favored
modification of the prohibitory law be-
fore the republican party was ready
to consent to it, but the modification
he sought was not nearly so favorable
to the liquor interests as that which
his party afterward made. Governor
Larrabee appears to be satisfied with
the support Governor Cummins rem
dered him in getting sound railway
legislation in 1888, but what is more
to the point, he says that Governor
Cummins should have the support at
this time of all who desire to prevent
the domination of the state by the
railway interests. Let us deal with
present conditions.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
MONEY IN CALHOUN.
Manson Journal

Attorney Stafford of Sioux City, was
in Manson last week ana dld his best
to stir up fight for Geo. ID. Perkins
and succeeded in making showing.
but of course was unmerclfully de-
feated in Lincoln. Mr.. Stafford was
very liberal while in Manson and the
friends of Mr.. Perkins had plenty of
cigars and other things to make the
day pleasant for them He admitted
to the Journal editor that ne had cam
vassed pretty nearly every township
in Calhoun county, riding for several
days with DR.. Townsend of LohrvilIe.
He was not at all small in dealing
with the political situation in Calhoun
and spent his money freely wherever
he went. This means that several
hundred dollars of Perkins money was
left in Calhoun in the way of expen-
ses. Mr.. Stafford admitted that he was
riding on a pass furnished him, he
bearing the balance OF the expense
himself. Does any one believe this is
true? Is Geo. D. Perkins able to make
a personal review of every township
in the state and spend the money nee
essary to make such canvass out OF
his own pocket? Does any one believe
that Mr.. Perkins would do this? 1t is
safe to say that he cannot afford to do
it nor is doing it, but there is some
one else who has the money that is
bearing the expense. Il will cost
of dollars to make MIR. Per-
kins campaign. Will you please kind
ly tell us who is paying the bills? Is
Mr.. Perkins doing it himself? We take
the liberty of saying that he is not
doing it nor could he afford to do il
but the corporations of Iowa are only
too glad to pay the bills. We make
this assertion and defy Contradiction
that every railroad that takes any in
terest in politics in the state of Iowa
and some of those outside, besides
number of large firms that have special
rates with the railroad companies are
to this expense. It is
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23

| based solely upon personal grounds. 1t
was doubtless clear to them that MI.
Herriott could not succeed unless he
became the railroad candidate against
Mr. Cummins, and in that event they
preferred to support Cummins.
The situation to date is Therefore as
follows: Mr.. Perkins candidacy,
pushed forward by the railroads to beat
Cummins, has failed to carry with 1t
the candidates own congressional dis
trict, and Mr.. Perkins, himself, has
been sent to congress and to have held
other positions of public trust. Mr..
Herriott's candidacy, inspired by the
candidates long cherished ambition,
but excited and no doubt promoted at
this time, by the railroad machine in
its effort to beat Cummins. has failed
to carry even the candidates own
county. Mr. Herrott has been leader
in republican politics. SO great has
to lead the fight to throw off corpora
ton control of politics that he has been
able to triumph in the very homes of
two of the strongest and abest leaders
among Iowa republicans. Can the
combined power of the annual pass and
the Misrepresentation of hireling's
prevent so manifest popular demand
as this selecting the man of it's choice
for governor? Can either Mr.. Perkins
or Mr.. Herriott remain longer in the
contest to beat Cummins without adj
hitting the charge that their candi-
dacies are special purpose candidates.,
promoted by men whose sole aim is to
beat Cummins and to retain their po-
litical power by keeping public Off
Gals under everlasting obligations to
them? What further excuse has either
man to continue his candidacy?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
Looking Out for the Company.


Lancia, the chauffeur, crossed the At
lantic to New York on La Gascogne.
and one night in the smoking room OF
the steamer he said:
.'Your American railroads are super
ior to ours The trains go faster, the
cars are more luxurious and the man
agement is wiser.
Il like your system of excess checks
those checks, each worth dime,
which you give on your railroads to
passengers who having no tickets, pay
cash fares. At first these checks an
gered me- 1 did not like them; but a
conductor, with a good-natured smile,
illustrated their use with story
HE said that on little railway in
the south they did not use excess
checks. A friend of his, riding on this
railway without ticket, paid his fare
in cash. a matter of 81 or SO.
"The conductor took the money ana
counted it. and then, carefully, he put
mart of it in his coat pocket and the
rest in the hip pocket of his pantaloons.
why said the passenger, do you
divide the money in that way"
s.The conductor, with frown, re-
piled: "a a,,
thing, amt it?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
Pointed Paragraphs.
Chicago News.l
Tipping a waiter doesn't make hin

Tipping waiter doesn't make him
lose his balance.
Some people speak three times be-
fore they say anything
If you are fond of a high old time,
buy a grandfather's clock.
In trying to dodge the issue the aver
age man wastes lots of time.
Isn't it surprising what lot of good
bargains are offered man when he's
broke?
Money may not make the mayor go.
but it sometimes induces the police to
move on.
Some people ask your advice for the
purpose of working it off on others as
original matter
When boy is willing to trade his
pocket knife for a red apple to give
to his teacher-that is love.
Why does a young man try to keep
on the right side of his best girl when
he knows that her heart is on the left
side?
Just think how easy it is for you to
deceive others-then have another
thought as to the ease with which
others may deceive you.
Secretary Root announces that in
making his trip to South America next
summer he will go clear around that
continent, coming up the west coast
and crossing the isthmus.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
Our Western Forests

People who know little of the i'm
mensity of our Pacific coast forests
may get slight idea thereof by the
hgures which show what our sawmills
are doing" said Mr.. d. e. Skinner, q
successful young business man Of San
Francisco, at the New Willard For
1905, the total production of the Pa
cific northwest was 100000, 900 feet of
lumber, rail shipments We're $4,000 !
coo feet, water shipments, 100000, 900,
and the rest went for local require
ments.
The exported lumber went to almost
every quarter of the habitable globe
the west coast of South America, the
River Plate, the Orient Australia.
South Africa, the United Kingdom, the
continent of Europe Our
best single customer is China.
Our timber, the Douglas fir, erro-
neously called Oregon pine, is the best
on earth because of it's universal avail
ability. 1t will make anything from
toothpick to a ships mast, or the in
terror finishing of palace. 1t is the
wood of the future for general con-
sumption in the rapid giving out of the
forests of the middle north. Even in
the southern states the timber supply
will scarcely exceed another decade"
Mr.. Skinner is manager of the fara-
Gus Port Blakely mills, which occupy an
unusually excellent site on sheltered
bay across the sound from Seattle, and
only seven miles distant from that
CITY of marvellous growth. These mills
founded in 1859, manufacture and ex-
port lumber in excess of any similar
establishment in the United States, and
their cut for last year aggregated ILL.,
mn mn
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
THE PRESIDENTS HINT,


Mr. Roosevelt is an exceptionally
striking personality in that his mind
is highly suggestive. Every once and
and a while he sets the people a-think
ing, and is very successful in making
political "paramounts," such as the
rate bill, now pending. In his speech
last Saturday he made remark about
taxation that is most suggestive and
might easily become the subject of ex-
tended debate in either house of con-
gress.
When the Pharisees questioned the
Master "Tell us, therefore, what think
est Thou? Is it lawful to give tribute
unto Caesar or not?' they sought to-
tempt him to an odius decision. of
dispute that had vexed Israel since
Jacob had cheated Esau. The matter
of taxation is not science, but a
privilege. 1t would give comparatively
little concern if all taxes were for
public purposes; but much of our tax
alton, notably the excise on oleomar-.
garine, is for private advantage. That
was tax "laid' with no intention and
no desire to collect" it. The govern
ment by act of congress sought to de-
stroy one industry in order that an
other might increase it's profits. 1t was
not the square deal. This is only one
case in hundreds where taxes have
been levied with no intention to collect
them, policy that is not only uncon-
stitutional, but immoral.
The president has set some of our
statesmen talking about taxes on in
comes, and that brings this question:
Tc 70 q wao1tb?
That depends. Here is one of our great
railroad systems that had a net income
of $36 100000 last year Suppose the
government should levy and collect
tax on it, Would not the road "shift"
the tax and levy and collect it off its
patrons? Quite likely Senator Till
man wants to tax William Waldorf
Astors income from rents. But would
not Mr.. Astor shift the tax and make
his tenants pay? That is what the
founder of the Astor fortune would
have done, we may be assured.
The inheritance tax is another mat
ter and quite different. 1t is much
more nearly tax on wealth than an
income tax and much more difficult to
shift" After all, labor foots the bills
taxes, dividends, interest. current ex-
penses-and it is necessarily so. The
thing to do is to found every charge
in justice. make taxation equitable and
for public purposes.
The president will have the railroads
off his hands one of these days. and he
could then stimulate things political
turnout the country if he would talk
a word with the learned Thebans" who
call themselves .standpatters, and who
run both houses of congress The
rooster is not more certain that his
growing makes the daybreak than your |
standpatter is that his political econ-I
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
New York Herald.

ceedings were abundantly supplied
There were men here honestly and I'M
selfishly for Perkins, but the fight was
directed and pressed with untlaggins
zeal by men inspired by revenge in
some cases, and in Others by cons1m-
ing ambition for county leadership. The
governor was shamefully misrepre-
sented. Personal reputation was mali
ciously assailed and public and private
records grossly maligned. The chords
of prejudice and passion and personal
ambition were swept from scale to
scale in all parts of the county. And
it may be admitted that the opposition
bunch put up fight which for shrewd-
ness and tireless persistence has sell
dom been equaled in any latitude.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
BussE NOT PARpoNEp.

People who are confirmed in their
own opinion that Louis Busse, the But
Ter county murderer, should be hanged
should not mistake the governors ac-
ton as pardon or parole. Busse has
been given a temporary reprieve only.
His attorneys claimed that Busse had
not had his constitutional rights, and
they wished to present the matter to
the supreme court This could not be
done, of course, until after the time
fixed for his execution, SO the reprieve
was granted.
The governor could not do otherwise,
as the lawyers claimed that the prison.
er had not had his constitutional rights.
OF course, if the supreme court shall
al rights he will then be executed in
accordance with law on August 10. If,
however, the supreme court shall de-
eide that he has not had his constitu-
tional rights, it would have been a very
grave crime to have executed him be-
fore their decision.
This does not, as some suppose,
amount to parole or pardon, or even
committeeman of sentence to life i'm
prisonment, but is simply temporary
delay to give the supreme court time to
pass upon the questions of law. The
killing of man is serious event, even
when done in accordance with the law,
and any judge will lean toward delay
whenever the slightest question Of law
is raised. There will be plenty of time
to hang Busse after August 10, but
none in which to bring him back to life
If he should be hanged without full
rights of defense before the law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23

where the tax levy is only about fifty
mills, how would we feel to live III
Toledo, where they levy seventy mills,
or in Anamosa, where they collect
seventy eight, or in Clinton, where
have increased, but not in proportion
to the increase of wealth of the state
The Grnnell Herald has discovered
that Judging from the present state of
affairs in Iowa the chief effect of the
biennial election law is to make just
twice as much politics as formerly
when elections do occur"
1t rather looks as tho Leslie Shaw
was figuring upon ingratiating himself
with the monied interests of the east
by his stand on the tariff and kindred
subjects and depending on 1owa's 10y
atty to favorite son to bring her into
line for him as an anti-Rooseveltiar
presidential candidate" says the Grin
Some favorite sons have been cast
into outer darkness
"Tf Governor Cummins is demo-
GRAFT" argues the Sac Sun, 80 is Lar
rabee. so has been Dolliver for several
years, so is Roosevelt and even Mr..
Perkins has manifested at times dem
ocratic symptoms"
THE defeat of Perkins in Dickinson
is the beginning of the end predicts
the Odebolt Chronicle in the Eleventh
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
Iowa Newspapers
THE KIND OF CAMPAIGN
Esprit Lake Beaconl

lopii iLtlhe bCotOul
The corporations and standpatters
have made and will make no stronger
stand anywhere than they have i'm
this county. There was mischief and
malice involved. An editor who had
offended by his candor in the discussion
of public issues was marked for slaugh
ter on his own account by the corpora
tons and by a candidate in whose SER
vice he had spent many years, and in
his political undoing it was hoped to
inhict body blow upon Governor
Cummins. The county was flooded
with Sioux City Journals, Des MONIES
Capitals Cedar Rapids Republicans
and other literature vicious on the
governor. The corporations were
plainly in evidence with transporta-
ton and otherwise. and money was
plentifully contributed. Birds of POI
litical iii omen flew in with more and
more frequency as the caucuses APP
preached to get into the game in Sc
cret. This was all from the outside,
and here at home supplementary pro-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
A RAILROAD INVESTIGATION.

The attorney general has employed
as his chief assistant in the prosecu-
ton of certain alleged violations of the
anti-rebate and antitrust laws by
powerful railroad corporations. When
Mr.. Hughes went after the greatest in
surance companies in the world it was
little dreamed by the country what
mess of corrupt finance he would stir
up. Since then he has become an ex-
pert in ferreting out syndicates and
like devices for obtaining profits to the
officers out of the manipulation of
company funds.
If it is true, as is freely charged.
that many a high railroad official is
managing his railroad for private prof
it thru the medium of conspiracies
with coal companies and huge COM
bina tons or trusts, Charles E. Hughes
will come very near to making them
public. The minority stakeholder will
receive information which may be of
some value to him.
Prosecutions of this nature are large
ly of the muck rake order, but If there
Il, any such muck in existence, it ought
to be raked. When the Credit Mobilier
scandals of IA were raked over 1t
proved fatal to many ambitions in pol
itics, but none will argue that the re-
suit was not beneficial to the public.
Likewise with the insurance inveStiga-
ton. Aged and very highly respected
officials fell from their pedestals to be
shattered in the dust of public scorn.
From positions of oppulence they We're
compelled to disgorge and even flee to
save what they had, but there is no one
TO say that the policy holder will not
get better insurance in the future. Let
these investigations go on. They are a
good thing. They say that well-lighted
streets are the most efficient kind of
police protection.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23

needless to say the Perkins campaign
has all the means it needs to make the
fight against Cummins. On the other
hand it is a fight of the governor
alone assisted by the small shippers of
stock and grain and other articles
turnout the state, besides large per-
sonal following that is making the
Cumnins fight. There is not a dollar
in the campaign except that contrib
uted by the personal friends of the
governor and the unselfish work of the
men who will eventually be benefited
by the loyal work of Governor Cummins
for the people of the state against the
corporations. In every community
where the farmers and shippers have
been aroused the governor is making
great strides toward victory.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
WHAT FURTHER EXCUSE HAVE THEYq

Lieutenant Governor Herriott is a
candidate for governor in opposition to
the candidacy of Governor Cummins
Mr.. Herriott lives in Guthrie county,
but, by primary vote, the people of
Guthrie county, where Mr. Herriott
lives, have determined to instruct their
delegates for Governor Cummins. In
American politics such an incident is
remarkable to an extreme.
Imagine for moment an able man
from your own county who has been
state treasurer and lieutenant COVER
nor asking for the support of his home
delegation for governor, how many
counties are there in Iowa which could
not have been carried for the local
man? But the republicans of Guthrie
county voted to stand by Cunlmins,
and the resolution adopted at the
Guthrie Center caucus recognizes the
supreme issue in this campaign to be
managers to dictate political nomina-
tons to the people of Iowa-and we
declare our firm conviction that our
loyal support ought to be given to the
candidacy of Governor A. B. Cum
Minis" And again the resolutions
read: I'VE, therefore, invoke the pa
triotic surrender of all consideration of
personal feelings or local sentiment as
to candidates or issues, that we may
strongly unite our forces upon that one
issue"
In other words, the people of Mr..
Herriot's own county realize that the
issue this year is that of the people
against the railroads, and that Cum
minis represents the side of the people
They are willing to look the situation
square in the face and admit that there
is no room in this fight for candidates.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
Piles! Piles! Piles!

Or. Williams Indian Pile Ointment
will cure blind, bleeding, liberated ard
itching piles 1t absorbs the tumorsi
allays the itching at once, acts as a
n,ultice. gives instead relie'. DR.. Will
ANS Indian Pi:a Ointment is prepared
for piles and itching Of the private
carts. Every box is guaranteed. Sold
bv druggists, by mail, for so cents and
81 Williams Manufacturing Company,
nroprietors. Cleveland, o. For sale
by B. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23

"Just at present" says the Register
and Leader, 1.-The hue and cry is that
the democrats packed the caucuses in
the Dickinson county contest and a
contesting delegation in the state con-
venton is called for. Inasmuch as
there are but 312 democrats in Dick
inson county. and as Governor Cum
minis has 504 more votes in the pri-
rnaries than Mr.. Perkins, it requires
considerable courage to attempt to di-
ninish the effect of the overwhelming
victory with this talk of democratic
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
EXCURSION TO STATE CENTER.
Anril 26. 1906.

ON account Of the 1. O. o. F. S7th
Anniversary Celebration. at State Cen
ter. April 18th. the Iowa Central will
run a popular excursion. Special train
will leave Marshalltown at 9:15 a. M,
arriving State Center 1885 a. m. Re-
turning, leave State Center 1880 p. m.
ONLY rs cents for round trip.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
Through Tourist Car Service to Cali
fornia via Chicago Great Western

halfway.
Two cars per week, one leaving Mar
shalltown $50 a. M. every Thursday
via Kansas City and Rock Island-El
Paso route, arriving Los Angeles -: 55
.. m. the following Sunday, the other
via. Kansas City and Santa Fe Route.
leaving at 7:05 p. m. every Thursday
arriving Los Angeles 1925 a. m. the fol-
lowing Monday For further informa-
ton apply to ]. r. Harding, agent.
Marshalltown. Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-23
Had Leaned on Him.

r. M. Bartlett, of Omaha, who IS one
of the directors of the American Trot-
ting Association, said of hard drlv-
The mans horses keep so lean and
poor that they remind me Of a muck
ster whom 1 knew in my boyhood.
"Ths huckster drove gray morse
that was the thinnest creature your
,nind can conceive Of Its huge, long
head dropped at the end of a neck tna1
resenbled a pump handle and its ribs
stuck out thru the tight skin pitiably.
The huckster one day left the horse
:. atarge of his SON When he came
hack the animal was lying on the
eround Thereupon he said angrlly 10
the lad: hin,
aha. you've been leaning on MN
again. have your