Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-31
Topics Of the Times

Rev Coleman's scheme to segre-
gate negroes in North and South Da-
kota. will not, it is likely, be received
with enthusiasm by the citizens OF the
states thus selected. The Dakotas
have troubles of their own without
borrowing any of the Carolinas'.
Possibly Mr.. Hunter will decide to
dissolve the douma and not hold a
second convention after all.
The talk of monument to President
Buchanan recalls the saying that no
man who deserves monument needs
one.
Many a man who thought he wanted
to be delegate and succeeded wishes
he had gone fishing.
The strong demand for five dollar
bills and Secretary Shaw's activity IN
Iowa politics have no connection. MI
Shaw is secretary of the national, not
the campaign treasury
Des Moines reports say all was
quiet about the hotels Sunday. Del
egates all gone to church?
Those contests insisted upon by
Uncle George are as full of holes as
a peeh-a-b boo waist.
The assertion that something can
not be created from nothing seems to
be refuted by the standpat contests
and protests.
The square deal gets about as much
show in the standpat camp as an or
phans' home in Russell Sage's will
If Uncle George continues in the
course he has followed for the past
months we may expect sooner of later
to see his head in bronze on the door
of the state capitol.
Ut is a trying time for delegates.
Every pressure that can be brought
to bear VIII center on the men who
represent for the hour the desires and
wishes of the republicans of Iowa. The
ordinary man, unused to the methods
and wiles of the politician, is likely to
find himself dizzy in the whirl of the
maelstrom at Des Moines. However.
the man who strives to honestly rep
resent the sentiment and wish of his
Jud G.. W'ellver is in Des Moines for
the convention. He represents the
Washington Times among other news
papers, and will view the convention
session with some interest in view of
his close association with politics in
Iowa for several years. He is conf
dent that the people are coming into
their own. Incidentally, Mr.. Welliver
declares that the scheme of having
the state committee transform the ma
jority into Il minority in the state con-
vention was outlined in Washington
away last winter. 1t was defended as
regular because the national commit
tee has undertaken a time or two to
seat in the convention only those DEL
egates pleasing to the faction con-
trolling the committee.
Slow train, local time. Dispute be-
tween passenger and guard.
Guard-Well sir. I've been on this
train, boy and man, for thirty five
year.
Bitter Passenger Good heavens,
man, what station did you get on at?
Smiles.
Telegraph lines in Africa are ex-
posed to unusual perils, and Interrupt
tions are of an extraordinary charac-
ter. Recently, according to The
Bulawayo Chronicle a herd of gil
RATES. became entangled by their necks
in the wires at Infundhia, 125 miles
from Bulawayo, and pulled about a
mile of wire down, breaking three Of
the iron poles. The telegraph lineman
was near at hand, and communication
was Interrupted only for a few hours.
This is the sixth time since the OPEN
ing of the Falls line that similar in
terruptions nave occurred. In two
cases elephants were responsible.
ssa
II see," remarked Towne, that a
great statistician says considerably
more than half the population of the
world is feminine"
"Ridiculous!" retorted Browne "If
that was so, how would he account for
the fact that one-half of the world
doesn't know how the other half
lives ?'-Chicago Journal.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
The Hardin County Citizen insists
1T is useless to talk compromise at
the state convention as it would have
been for Napoleon to demand conces-
sions of wellington at the close of the