Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-14
LOOKER-ON in IOWA !
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES;

Harris April 1.-THE citizens of at
| least Osceoa and Dickinson counties
are fortunate, in that the editor of as
| good a daily paper as the Sioux City
Journal happens to be candidate for
governor. Many business men are re-
ceiving this daily marked paid till May
so, 1906, men that do not even know
to whom they are indebted for so good
| 4 paper for three months. Others are
approached by a gentlemanly travel
| ing agent for the Journal and offered
this daily three months for so cents.
One recipient of the Journal free till
| May 80, thinks their press bureau
| should reorganize, for in addition to
the free copy he is receiving every few
| days he gets a copy in a single wrap
| per poStmarked Spirit Lake. It's not
| every candidate for governor that has
| the privilege of thus talking to thou
sands every day.
| But just the same, printers ink won't
save Osceola and Dickinson county
| for Bro. Perkins that is if one can
judge by the talk heard in the stores,
depots, hotels, etc. The mass of the
voters clearly is opposed to the Per-
kins-Blythe- Elkins and Company as
ISOLATION. Rightly or wrongly they be-
lieve it is a corporation crowd, and as
such propose to down it. What the
Perkins machine crowd may do in the
way of fine work TO secure delegates to
the state convention. is another thing.
Mr.. Blythe is great organizer"
!, -.;t;
visit Ames and inspect the buildings
of the agricultural college, but few
have seen since it was finished and
occupied the Central Building" Here
is Il building that cost $4,000, that
every taxpayer can look at and feel
he has got his moneys worth. Fire
proof, both outside and inside, it is a
credit to the state, and those in charge
Of its architecture and building.
It's time for straws, political straws,
that show the way the wind is blow
ing In Boone hotel not long ago,
twenty travelling men were seated In
the hotel office and everyone of them
was a Cummins man. It's useless to
deny here is a force in politics bound
to have much influence in this present
anti convention campaign. travelling
men may not be good organizers" but
they are mighty fine orators.
Temperance people bewail the prev
alence of the drink habit. Well they
NAV. The day of needed frequent and
often temperance lectures has not
passed. But it ought to be some sat
isfaction to the teetotalers to observe
that many are now ashamed
to drink in public twenty
wears ago in the cars in Iowa
1t was common daily sight for pas
sengers in the smoker to open thels
grips and pass around the bottle. NOW
this performance is so unusual that 1t
attracts attention. Just why two men
that want to take a drink of whisky
now 60 into the water closet is
conundrum. but they do.
Probably it's an old story. but was
new to the printer, maybe VIII oe 10 'he
reader. They tell it on one of the
correspondents, reporting the leslsla-
ture" and the member from the next
county. 1t was one of the correspond,
ents' best ..tat1y" efforts. Made gooa
filling. Appeared in the daily in NoS-
town. In substance was like this. MI
Blank from next county is fortunate IN
having his wife with him here TINS
winter. Not only does she add mucn
to the society attractions of the Hing
ton, but she is an almost daily occu-
pant of the representatives chair IN
the representative hall. The presence
of his handsome and gifted wlfe'
makes Mr.. Blank an object of much
envy to several of his colleagues
Some one forgot to tell the correspond
ent that Blanks wife was at home IN
Noxtown, end this referred gifted
lady was a committee clerk.
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