Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-16

Iowa placed such worthy ticket IN
the field, that is, If you take the word
of the standpat press states the Ce-
| dar Rapids Gazette.
What the outcome may be is for
| those who profess the gift of
prophecy" says the Sioux City Jour-
nal. There is one way in which much
might be done to repair the damage.
| Cummins might withdraw
The Grinnell Register thinks at re-
| fleets credit upon the state that the
nominees Of both the republican and
democratic parties are samples OF
Iowa's best men,"
I'm an agricultural state like Iowa
the educational value OF a state fair Is
simply incalculable,' declares the Des
Moines Capital.
'If any country has better cornu-
copia this year than the west, point it
out on the map" requests the Burling
ton Hawkeye.
Discussing the Hubbard incident the
Capital complains: 1.-The brutal treat
ment extended to Hon. Il. II. Hubbard
member of congress from the Eleventh
Iowa district, by the Cummins caucus
at Storm Lake, has never been equaled
in Iowa in all the states history. We
are surprised that Mr.. Hubbard
would so far humiliate himself in or
der to hold a seat in congress" But
the Register and Leader explains.
'"rhe moment the vote was explained
and 1t became apparent that Congress-
man Hubbard had been placed where
he could not follow his own wishes
in the matter, and the moment he was
able to make 1t plain that he was had
faithfully stood by Mr.. Perkins, he
had not abandoned his former attitude
on public questions nor his former at
tiliations. opposition was withdrawn
immediately
"The Iowa idea seems to be no long
err an idea" says the Iowa City Repub-
lican. 1T is now condition"
The Castaha Times, speaking of the
effort made at the state convention to
induce Senator Dolliver to speak, says:
But the Junior Iowa senator was be-
tween the devil and the deep sea, and
he knew it. He couldn't go back on
his former stand by making a Cum
Minis speech, and he couldn't afford to
risk being Kissed for Perkins speech.
SO he gravely and persistently kept 81
lent in several different languages"
The Des Moines News complains
that sin America we still send those
who can work and who have no jobs to
Jail to make criminals of them, and
those who cannot work we send to the
poor house, where they are farmed out
to man who makes a political record
by proving on how little human beings
can be fed and kept out of the ceme-
terry The fellow who makes the best
record, for they cal it best in politics,
altho it is really worse, is the most
efficient manager, and is reelected, or
rewarded with ia higher political po-
sition. A little less enlightenment and
more humanity would be fine thing
right in this glorious land of the free,
wouldn't it?" inquiries the News.
The Columbus Junction Safeguard,
noting that the Washington Democrat
ridicules Kennedy, the republican con-
gressionad nominee, because he is
nurseryman, fruit tree man." as the
democrat .dubs him, rejoins why the
nursery business is certainly legiti-
mate and honorable and Kennedy may
eb a pretty decent fellow even if he
is working man instead of a corpor-
alton magnate, as is his opponent,
Tracy. Kennedy may be a fruit tree
man but Abraham Lincoln was once
riil splitter, too. and he didn't do so
badly, did hep