Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-06
Topics Of the Times

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Secretary Shaw does not mince
words but says what he thinks and
tary's famous sound money, gold
| standard addresses in 1S94-95, when
| many Iowa politicians were still flirt-
! ing with the free silver idea.-Ottum
wa Courier.
Is the Courier limiting at Perkins
Lacey or Hepburn? Mark Hanna had
to rope and throw them to get them
/ inside the gold standard fold at st.
Louis when Cummins was fighting
| free silver.
The Perkins people are counting the
uninstructed and all the Rathbun del
egates for the Sioux City man. Other
men have claimed the earth but on
| one, as yet. can show warranty deed.
The Marshalltown Times Republican
control the Rathbun delegates. He
will not even try. The Perkins men
may just as well cease making their
extravagant claims as to the unin-
structed and the Rathbun delegates.
The Marshalltown paper may dismiss
it's fears.-Marion Register.
Major Rathbun evidently has not
been consulted by the Perkins man
ayers who assume ownership of the
Rathbun delegates. He refuses to be
Perkinized after the Herriott fashion.
Iowans aware of Secretary Shaw's
devout piety will understand how
deeply he must have been stirred to
use the language attributed to him in
the following story: Miss Irma Shaw,
daughter of the secretary of the treas
ury, is great dog fancier She is at
recently purchased in London a fine
young bull terrier. She shipped it to
Washington and for time the secre-
tary had a woeful time looking after
the animal. Finally he says, 7 de-
cided it would be cheaper to pay some
and now have agreed to pay $3.50 a
week for 1t until my daughter returns
and takes it off my hands,
William Larrabee wrote to Governor
Cummins: II know you are straining
every nerve to free our state from
corporation domination. You should
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in your contest. William Larrabee."
Said the burglar, I'm taking no
chance,
My victim robs Of his pants.
The man can't pursue;
He'll be pinched if he do;
I've read up on frenzied finance
st. Louis Democrat.
"Pernicious Politics" is one Of the
subjects upon which the Waterloo Re-
porter's editorial energy is expended
and one of the objects attained.
Reynolds report on the condition Of
the great packing houses is enough to
set people thanking the good Lord for
strawberries.
Tommy-Pop, what is the difference
between a bachelor and an old man?
Tommy's Pop-The only difference, my
son, Is whether we are talking about
her behind her back or to her face. -
Philadelphia Record.
The dispatch regarding Cleveland
aeronaut who fell 1000 feet and es-
capped serious injury, should carry
hopeful comfort into the inner office of
the Sioux City Journal
The Iowa City Republican Is in favor
of nominating man who has not been
considered for the governorship. This
would bring the Republican editor into
the race. No one ever seriously con-
sidered him for governor.
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Confidential Friend-How do you
manage to hold your job in spite of
the notorious Irregularities in the man
agement Of your office?
Political Heeler-They can't inves-
tigate my case without exposing chap
that's higher up.-Chicago Tribune.
e. H. Hartman has been so favor
ably impressed with the recent expert
ments with the gasoline motor car on
Union Pacific lines that he has ordered
the erection of shops exclusively for
their construction. These cars are now
in active use on Union Pacific tracks,
several of them having been turned out
by the regular Omaha shops in the
last few months. They are made en-
tirely of steel and are SIS feet long. be-