Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-09
: Topics Of the Times


| The Cedar Falls Record goes on
record as favorable to the political
boss as necessity. The Record does
not classify and we are left to draw
differences as to whether or not 1T fav-
ors the railroad boss or the organizer
| who stands for good government
| The Eagle Grove Times Gazette
has installed a type setting machine.
| That Nebraska convict who drew the
$500 prize for correctly placing the
attendance at the st. Louis exposition
| is probably sorry twice. He can't get
out to spend it and if had had it before
he got in he could have hired lawyers
| to keep him out.
did it ever strike you that bur-
glar of all things is most sensitive TO
the fitness of things?"
Cant say it ever did. How do you
make it out? ?"
"He always throws light on his
shady transactions with dark Lam
rn."-Baltmore American.
The Marshalltown Times Republican
has done it's full share and more in
misrepresenting Colonel Hepburn. 1t
has evidently been convinced 1t it's
error, for it's editor, now in Washing
ton, writes it from there that Col
onel Hepburn is brave man, an hon
est man. patriotic man." The re-
verse attachment of the Marshalltown
paper, it is gratifying to note. is in
excellent working order.-keokuk Gate
City.
The Gate City has fallen into a very
natural error Mr.. Norris, the corre-
spondent, is not the editor of this pa
per, but the father of the editor, So
far as colonel Hepburn or any other
representative of the people is con-
cerned he may always have the T.-R. s
good word by doing his duty. 1t ap-
pears that MIR. Hepburn is now sim
cerely at9work in the interests of the
people and this paper is glad to be so
informed. There has been a very gem
eral and justified suspicion of Mr..
Hepburn's inactivity in which the
T.-R. shared and was not backward
in expressing. The reverse attach
ment" of the T.-R., by the way works
only from the inside of the office If
the Gate City would quit working from
Burlington it would find it easy to say
just things about men outside its mar
row railroad faction of special inter-
ests. Cut out the dispatcher.
Moorish grandee, has gone mad from
unavailing efforts to keep three wives
together in peace and seclusion in a
flat in Paris. The American method
of separating them seems like every
thing else American, to lay over the
fashions of the effete east.
Speaking Of revolutions" began the
loquacious man, II was the central
figure in one myself once"
Somewhere in South American"
mo, in Massachusetts. got caught
in the shafting of wooden MILL
Philadelphia Ledger.
Ten years ago there were $50 Amer
leans in the City of Mexico. The di-
rectory printed last December shows
6,745 Prohibition has in some measure
struck to the town. A law was re-,
Gently passed closing saloons at
o'clock, and "pulque joints at in the
evening. Another Iowa idea.
In whiskey case tried at Concordia,
Kan, last week, one of the witnesses
was asked what he understood a nuis-
ance under the prohibitory law to be,
to which he made the following an
swer: "a place where a man goes in
at the front door on his feet, appar-
emily in his sober senses, and is hauled
out at the hind door on his back like
a dog
The sum of s4so,ooo, which repre-
sents a 1 per cent tax on betting
transactions under the French law be-
tween January 16 and December 1 of
last year, is available for the relief of,
the poor in that country.