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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16
A JUDGE AND CRIMINAL
dubuque Telegraph

A black man, 20 year,, of age. home
less, penniless, friendless, but con-
vcted murderer, was led into judge
Wofford's court In Kansas City the
other day to receive his sentence. The
case had been conclusive against him.
His name Is Wallace Cooper and he
had slain bad negro who had two
notches In his gun. This negroes name
was James Taylor, and when he ran
amuck of Cooper some one had to bite
the dust. and Cooper was the quicker
at the trigger.
No one of ability, or with an inter-
est in him, appeared to defend Cooper
He was without influence He was
without intellect. He had been reared
or perhaps he just grew up like Sc
many thousand of his race, and nobody
ever made an effort to do anything for
him. He was on a plane with the beast
because he had no morality. Envir.
oninent never did anything for him.
while 1t did much to sink him deeper
into the morass. The world outside
the court house knew nothing OF his
existence, and cared less.
but the merciful and noble judge,
who has lived long, and has observed
as he has lived, saw in the convicted
murderer an object to elicit his mercy.
Well" said the Judge. you're guilty.
OF murder all right, but you're poor,
ignorant black man, and don't want:
to hang you. You have no friends.
You have no one to plead that YOU
We're insane when you killed this man.
If sentence you to hang. you will
hang Just as sure as there's God in
heaven. There will not be a whole lot
Of women circulating petitions to save
your neck. There will not be lot
of fool men writing letters to the gov.
erllor to save you. No one will send
you flowers You'll just be forgotten
until the day set for your hanging,
and then they'll hang you. I'll sentence
you to thirty years in the penitenti-.
ary."
The abiect man listening to these
words probably did not understand
them. Certainly he did not gather
from them the meaning with which
they are charged.-the sarcasm of the
master mind balanced we'll in the
scales Of Justice, which sees the bar
riers that wealth. maudlin sentiment
tally. and an archaic legal jurispru-
dence have erected in the way of JUS
tice. These words. which should i'm
mortalize Judge Wofford oughtto sink
home into the minds of the people and
awaken them to the need Of demand
ing that the dollar. nor influence, Nor
social position, shall longer be suffered
to give sight to the blinded eyes Of
Justice.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16
TERMS:
the DOMINANT FACTION.

1--WE repeat the assertion that II the
democratic newspapers and democratic
voters had been required to attend
(strictly to their own business, Cover
NOR Cummins would not now have to
exceed $50 delegates prepared to sit IN
the convention on August l.
what is to be done about 1t?
Are the republicans who have made
q the party what it is in Iowa to have
/ ticket and platform crammed down
their throats without a word to say IN
regard to either? Are those who think
they control the party to continue to
abuse all the members of the party
VINO do not agree with them in regard
s9 principles and men?
THE time for abuse Of all men who
not agree with the dominant fac
On. has gone by Des Moines Cap
II al!
'-rhe dominant faction" Please put
aat admission into writing, Mr..
Dung. 1t is Important.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16
Topics Of the Times

Shouldn't that spring chicken held
twelve years in cold storage go on the
market as old hen?
Now that Boone has WEIGHED on its
ball team, it should go after the state
tuberculosis sanitariun or something
else easy to handle.
1t is safe to say there are hundreds
Of delegates. to the state convention
who wish they We're not instructed.
They do not like the style of the pres
ent campaign and would gladly vote
for harmony il they dared to do So
Clinton Herald.
This has been the continued plant Of
the Clinton paper. If the Herald de-
sires the Clinton delegation to WEIGH
on it's plain instructions, why doesn't
it come out of the tall grass and say
so?
"a plague O. both your houses" is
getting to be common sentiment
among republicans who contemplate
with sorrow the condition of the party
III this state Creston Advertiser.
1t will be remembered. however, that
the quotation is from O. violent partisan
who had just been stuck
SIS
In an address from the so-called
Perkins committee 1t is explained that
the real objection raised to Governor
Cummins naming his own delegation
is that he will name a personal follow
ing who will give scsnt consideration
10 the other candidates on the ticket
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16
III ytps- e,n.biea,1s Observation-Disclosures gnma augNl6 1906

IL this does not mean the elimination
Of the fake contests 1t is mere sound
ing brass. In all the close districts
congressman have been nominated.
They should all be elected. The party
needs them. The country needs them.
Every republican nominee for the leg
islature should be elected. The best
possible way to assure these desirable
ends Is to call off the thimble-r iggers
and let the people understand decent
men will not consent to the base
attempts TO rob them OF the fruits Of
victory.
II is not too much TO say Cummins
will win anyway. Since the people
have spoken, no power can defeat
them But ii will be better for all
concerned. and particularly for them
selves II honorable standpatters re-
pudiate the fake contests and the
thimble-riggers who brazenly assume
to speak for the Cummins opposition
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16
A MORAL ISSUE.
Shirt Lake Beacon.7

Cummins and the cause of progress
sive republicanism have won in the
intense struggle now closing in Iowa.
Neither progressive nor standpatter is
privately in doubt as to this fact.
Eliminating the counties of Wapello.
Jasper and Jefferson, the only counties
involved in contests of any merit wha-.-
ever, and the vote stands Cummins,
SS5; anti-Cummins, 755, clear mat
iority over all of 100 delegates. Tie
standpatters do not yield because they
have placed their campaign in the
hands of a political pariah at Des
Moines who insists upon abandoning
the usual rules of honorable politics
and forcing the fight thru shell game
methods.
Man.festly there are two forces
potent in opposition leadership. The
one is strictly corporation. 1t is per-
sonified in j. w. Blythe, who announc-
ed his intention of taking to the
woods just before the Mckinley cleo
ton, and who endeavored to defeat the
nomination of Roosevelt; Ed Hunter,
former democratic chairman and ali
around-political prostitute. These and
their satellites care nothing for the
party In an investigation Jay Gould
once admitted he was a republican in
republican counties, democrat in
democratic counties, but always for
the Erie This is the measure of the
Blythe Hunter crowd In victory or
in defeat they aspire to the control of
both political parties. They want the
organization, the machine. No pent
I'D partisan devotion contracts their
versatile powers. When the republic
can party in Iowa was out of control
they lust as successfully worked the
democratic party and won their game.
Should such influences control the
destinies of the republican party?
The other force in opposition is com
posed of the congressional delegation
and other republicans who are stand
patters by temperament and assocta-
ton. These hold dear the name and
success of the republican party. These
i'm large measure have political inter
ests, honorable ambitions to serve.
They can If they will depose the party
wrecl1ers who are in control at Per-
kins headquarters. If they have been
in doubt they can easily convince
themselves as to popular intent as 'ex-
pressed in the caucuses. They are
shrewd enough to discover the motives
of the thimble- Triggers backed by few
abandoned newspapers. They do not
need to be warned of the party peril
involved in Hunter management. They
should be aware that every day they
countenance the Hunter attempts to
defeat the popular will makes it the
more difficult to save legislators in the
close counties and to elect congress-
men i'm the closer districts. They must
IN their hearts admit the great ger
sonal strength of Cumnins and his
cause before the people They cannot
fail to understand the odium of Hunter
and his shell game, and to discover the
RISING. tide of Indignation attending
the tnimble- rigging process 1t is not
to be assumed the delegation and con-
sistent standpa tiers will permit them
selves and the party to be tarred with
the Hunter stick. Congressman are
reported as standing for square deal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16
DOGS IN Dolw's.
TDoWs Advocate.


Dows MS one of the greatest dog
towns of it's size in the world. The city
of Constantinople, famed the world
over for the numerical strength of Its
canine population, is no more harbor
for the dogs than is DoWs, and especi-
allN the main thoroughfare of Bows.
Every resident of Bows, who is Of very
much consequence, has his dog,
and his dog has his day,
and that day is twenty four
hours long. for Bows dogs are the bus
lest ours in existence. They run the
streets without let or hindrance, fight
bark, howl and scratch, chase teams
brighten children and have dog
goned good time generally. If you want
to see a genuine dog-ridden town,
come to Dow:s.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16

prospect Of relief, finally gave IN ana
prospect of relief, finally gave in also,
and, handing the keys to the minister
said: 'I'm off. You can lock up the
church when you're thru"
DR.. Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton
University, is fond of the wilds Give
me for vacation" he said recently, "a
trout country where the nearest town
is ten miles away and where TINS
town. when you visit it, is so primitive
that the storekee,per will say to you:
NO sir; them's two articles / don't
keep, but the cl,lms, I reckon, We KIN
find at the postotfice, an the onions We
kin git at the barbers acrost the
way"
Lieut.. H. H. Rogers, Jr., son of the
oil king, is one of the good fellows
in the Twelfth regiment, National
Guard Of the state of New York. He
is much unlike his friend. John ID.
Rockefeller, Jr. in temperament. He
is far more popular thon Lieut. Cor
ssnelius Vanderbilt. OF; the same regi-
ment. for young Rogers is one of the
bows. while Vanderbilt keeps mostly
to himself. Rogers is "scrapper,
doesn't shun fight, and goes out with
his men just as. tho he wasn't the son
of a northumberland. Vanderbilt occa-
sionally gives a little "blowout" to his
men but the affairs are of the formal
kind. and usually the officers only are
invited. He draws a line that Rogers
never thinks of.
William S. and Boone Thompson,
sons of Mayor Thompson, of ALBANIA :
zoo. are working on the streets there
as PAYERS. Their father is rich, but
he believes that his boys will put a
higher value on the money they earn
than on what he gives them. Boone
Thompson Dis a college graduate and
is becoming a very good stone payer.
His brother William has just returned
from a course ct a military academy,
and Boone is teaching him all he has
learned about paving blocks. Both
young men wear overalls and carry
dinner pals. Their father could give
them the backing Of millions if they
started in business.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16
the BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

June made the most satisfactory ex-
hfbit as to amount Of defaulted indebt-
edness of any month since last Octo-
Der, and compared favorably with the
corresponding month of every year
81 since failures were compiled in this
form. with the single exception Of 1899,
and even in that case there was small
decrease in number Of insolvencies.
AS current mercantile conditions are
best indicated by the latest period for
which a comparison is available, the
splendid showing for the month OF
June is calculated to engender senti-
ments Of great confidence in the fu-
ture. Manufacturing defaults in June
were 202 in number, against 247 last
year. while liabilities were $2,796, T5O.
against s3,453s43 in the same month
last year.
Trading failures in June numbered
but aS7 and involved liabilities of 3d..
454,412, against s02 defaults last yea,
for s4.635.69s. Only three of the four.
teen trading classes recorded heavier
liabilities than last year. and in no
case was the difference as much as
100000. These three adverse COM
parsons We're made by hotels and res
taurants, hardware and books In
some of the remaining eleven trading
classes liabilities were about 100000
smaller than last year. the best exhHb-
its being made by general stores. gro
ceries and meats, liquors and tobacco,
clothing, dry goods and miscellaneous.
while smaller favorable showings were
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16

To get all you can and keep all you get
That was the motto his young life set
He spelled Success with letters of gain
And stopped at nothing that meant
attain
Love went by him-he said, We'll lost
For wives are wasteful and children
are cost"
He laughed at fashion. But FOOLS he
said,
And clothes wear rusty. while gold
wears bright,
And heap on heap--'tis a goodly sight
Want, though worthy, and need, though
great.
He held, as always, the spendthrift's
fate.
II toll he argued while Others sleep:
While others are idle gain, and keep"
Pleasure he pushed from his path aside,
Make way" he commanded, for gain,
my guide"
And even comfort he thrust from his
door,
Lest she should lessen his growing
store.
Friendship he secuted, "for what is a
friend,
But one who tells secrets and asks you
to lend?
II keep my own counsel that no one
may know
And ask no favors, and none bestow.
And those who hate me shall one day
cover
And serve me-" he boosted, for wealth
is power
but whether men curse me. or
whether they bless,
Matters but littlel seek success"
And while he labored, and gained, and
kept,
A hideous shadow behind him crept.
She lodged his footsteps, and bided her
time,
Il am ready" she grinned as he reached
his prime.
She peered through the window, and
chuckled to see
How he counted his gold with a miser's
glee.
Then close behind him he saw her
stand.
And he clutched his treasure with
trembling hand.
Nay, not your treasure seek quoth
she,
Leave them behind you and follow
me-"
He shook with terror-"Not yet, i
Give me year, or a month, or day.
Il will scatter my gold, will do kind
deeds,
/ will seek my fellows, and give to
their needs
ooh, much could do ere another
dawn!"
Death answered briefly TOO late, come
on!''
Now, where she took him do not know,
But all his money he left. And SO
I trust he is musing on that same
thought:
Il got all could and kept all GOT
And 1 hope he is honest enough to
confess
That wealth is very small part OF
success.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16

whose only, or at least only direct in
terest, in the convention is the hope
that it will favor them with nomin-
alton. We don't see how even Ray
mond's plan, or any other, can be mad
available"
Hereafter when the grocer sends
you finely perfumed connection OF
glucose and corncobs labeled mapla
syrup, you can make him pay fine
for selling you adulterated food stuffs, .
advises the Mason City Times-Her-
aid.
The Hardin County Citizen says:
.tOne of the disgusting things about
the country press is the readiness with
which so many editors slobber all over
so many men, hoping to curry favor
and patronage. Every fool loves a
fiatterer. Sensible men rely on their
merit, which doesn't consist In vain
words of the mouth. 1t is all right to
praise men in manner commensurate
with the deeds that they perform. but
all other laudation is slobber, used to
tickle the vanity, conceit, and egotism
of the afflicted"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16

who received a majority of the votes
cast In the Polk county primary. Has
all this dust been raised for Dave Pal
mer's sake? Or IS it intended to beat
Garst?
Now the doctors say that the auto
lists who so alright us are peculiarly
subject to nephritis.
IL that big retail drug store trust
materializes we will soon be buying
hydarnt water at 81 900 gallon.
Bishop McVickir constantly warns
young clergymen to beware of tedious
sermons. BY way OF elnphazing this
caution he tells OF church near Phil
adelphia whose rastor was noted for
the dryness of his discourse. One sun
day morning the old gentleman preach
ed a sermon so amazingly long and
dull that the congregation diminished
one by one until only the janltor and
himself were left. But the clergyman,
apparently unconscious of all this, kept
right on until the janitor, seeing no
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Iowa Newspapers

JUST TALK.
1Snirii Lake BEACON. ]

The following conversation was ov-
erheard on the long distance telephone
the other day: Hello, Julian; heard
anything from Marion?" Have VIII
keep after Carroll Audubon and Lyon
Don't neglect any of these matters.
Ed Hunter has been spending a few
days at the lakes and politicians NAV
be able to put two and two together
and make good guess as to what was
going on over the wires.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16
TIVE ASSESSMENT EXPLAINS II.

: s :
fvable that the railroad campaign
anagers should still keep up their
sperate fight to steal from the ma
sity OF delegates III the coming con-
htion the nomination which these
he managers have been unable to
In the county conventions. To
sfranchise Polk county, or contest
Il delegations which were won fairly ac-
j cortling to the testimony Of local stand
matters. has seemed so Improbable that
4 the threat has been looked upon as
bluff. Nearly every other candidate
Ibefore this state convention Is demand
fng square deal, congressman and
LEADERS within the party are insisting
that Cummins has won his nominal
gItion. Even railroad henchmen who
fetched and carried during the heat Of
the campaign have "laid down" and
freely admit defeat, yet Hunter and his
tunta keep up the fight. The three
L dailies owned or controlled by the
railroads still insist upon robbing the
! convention. Why do they do 1T?
Is Perhaps the fact that the railroad
assessment is now before the execu-
J tive council has something to do with
all this noise. Cummins stands at the
head of the council with friends in the
other seats. He has the railroads at
his mercy il he should be disposed to
use his advantage, The railroads them
4 selves have invited the severest kind
Of punishment by their campaign ar
currents, which insisted that Cummins
nd.s.his council had been derelict in
mot raising their assessment The vi
ssciousness Of their opposition has given
him plenty OF provocation, and the
gshortsightedness Of their campaigning
plenty Of cover under which to deal
retaliation with apparent justification.
EThere is little wonder that the rail-
roads fear the worst in the coming as
Esessment.
what is there left to them, then. but
Z
Ito bluff and threaten and hold over
T the governor the club of convention
disruption? Unless they can COW
\ him with fear and force leniency by
their threats and buster, they must
beg for mercy. according to their way
fsof thinking. The governors friends be-
lieve him broad enough to overlook
personal abuse in assessing property for
taxation, but the railroad campaign
manager conscious of the fact that
he himself has resorted to every ex.
pedient which is mean and unfair to
defeat Cummins, can not but fear that
the governor will press his present adj
vantage if not frightened away by
much noise. Remove the railway as
sessment and the defeated minority
would acquiesce in a harmonious con-
venfion
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Nevada Representative, official
stastician for many lost cause, opines
that CAS- to Audubon we find that 9TH
ers whose point of view is the same
as our own have less confidence in the
merit of the standpat claim there than
we have have expressing, and we have
no opinion now to express regarding
that county,"
Mr.. Perkins says that mot many
men in his position would accept nom-
ination in the face of proof such as
he is compelled to meet that he ought
to retire. At the expiration of his
present term he will have been in office
five years. He insists that it shall be
made seven. He insists that if he can
not hold on by right, and under fair
agreement by his party, he will hold
on by might, and in defiance Of his
party"
"There is little more exhilirating
these days than watching the corn
grow and realizing that the big crop
is likely to sell at round forty cents
per buushel," remarks the Ocheydan
Press.
To the Brooklyn Chronicle cit seems
to be a good guess that Dolliver would
have a much easier time in obtaining
the support of the Iowa delegation for
the nomination than Shaw would
have
The Clarion Clipper believes eff Iowa
had d good primary law With few
fines and imprisonment sections scatter
ed around in It, it would help the cause
of decency and justice nightly"
"rhe nomination will be made by the
convention asserts the Marion Reg
lister.
.Any movement on the teachers part
to effect an organization on the
plan of trades union to force the pay
ment of higher salaries, should be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16

frowned upon concludes the Dubuque
Telegraph, but boards of education,
on their part. should treat the teachers
fairly and make it unnecessary Tor
them even to consider trades union
organization
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16
LIVED THE CHANGES.

There is an article in the Mirror
this week On "Iowa's Remarkable
Change" and while we were reading
proof. on it a man came into the Mir
ror office who knew all about it, for
he had lived in it and was a part of it,.
The man was Henry Curvo, who is 76
years old, but looks to be twenty years
younger. Mr. Curvo has been resi-
dent of Iowa SO years and of Cerro
Gordo county 81 years. He came to
Jones county from Michigan in 1854,
when there wasn't mile OF railroad in
the state of Iowa. and the nearest rail-
road town was F'reeport. I'll. Selling
out his land in Jones county he came
to Cerro Gordo and bought the eighty
acres south of the lake now owned by
c. M. Sites. Later he moved to Clear
Lake and subsequently bought his
farm of half section south of town.
Mr. Curvo was born and raised in til
conderoga. N. Y. and has vivid men,
DRY of the old fort and its traditions.
The last man he worked for there was
j. w. Holconlb, who raised the famous
trotter Ethan Allan.
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