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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01
Learning the vernacular.

when l first went to Australia to
live" said Mr.. P. c. Clyde, of Cali
fornia, at the Arlington. Il was often
puzzled at some of the local express
sions.
when you ask confectioner in
Melbourne for candy, he doesn't under
stand you, but if you say "lollies," he
will hand out the sweet stuff fast
enough So at a restaurant, if you or
der dessert, ten to one the waiter will
bring YOU macaroni. Ask him for
sweets at the end of your repast, and
You'll get pudding or some such ar
ticle. A request for a biscuit will in
variably bring cracker. In Australia
they never ask man what wages or
salary he gets. but what is your
screw?'s
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01

with special trains and talks from the
rear klatform of Pullman coaches as
giblyas any presidential candidate. He
stir( UP farmers Institutes and eSeur-
siols OF farmers to the special courses
ut Ames until every travelling pass
eager agent In the state is willing to
take off his hat to Holden. What
dolden knows he multiplies ten thou
sand fold Right or half right he has
been worth millions to the state OF
Iowa. John Cownie, able and success
full as he is, should cooperate with
Holden. instead of trying to knock him
down
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01
THE VOTE in 1901
the Convention Which Nom mated
|mmins Five Years Ago Voted -
Bile Taken From tho Records
owing the Vote Which First Nom
X,ted the Governor.

Numerous inquiries have come to the
Times Republican asking how fcertain
counties voted in the convention in
1901, when Governor Cumminjs was
first nominated for the office fe now
holds BY way Of answering these
Inquiries and for the informal .tion of
those who arc following the present
campaign, the Times Republican re-
publishes the ballot which RESULTED in
the nomination of Cummins TN that
convention:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01

"Thc Hawk Eye believes ii knows the
people OF the Tenth district well
enough to answer for them that they
repudate the silly conduct of the ma
jority OF that committee"
Thus breaches the Burt Monitor:
No, Mr.. Perkins the people have
tried you in the balance for twenty
five years and you have been found
wanting. and they must consign you
to the heap of hasbeens who never did
any particular good. Your political
company would spoil a citron."
1T Is Senator Dolliver, and not
Governor Cummins. who says the
railroads OF this country had spent
S2,000.000 during the past year to ed
ucato the people on railroad legtsla-
ton says the DEBORAH Republican.
assuming the senator knows where
OF he speaks, the question is peril
nent one: How much of this Is now
being spent in Iowa? Some consid-
cradle. to II dead certainty, TO kill
Cummins politically would be worth
q million, easily.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01
cowsil 70 HOLDEN.

I'm Of wide experience as farm
Successful in the art Of testing
born according to the methods
LA by Professor Holden, Of the
1chool, expresses the belief that
must be something the matter
hn Cownie for he seems to have
Holden" This man is willing
ede that Cownie is right when
It's upon the corn being tested
rather than by the wet cloth
but he can see no EXCUSE for
Ice which Cownie seems to dis
ard the agricultural school in
Interviews at the state insti-
is a Scotchman and, there
newhat pardonable for the
less of his opinions. He is a
farmer of the day when
al colleges were Of little use
may be subject to prejudice,
hin it is that he criticises
Holden unjustly when he
that the wisdom of selecting
from the fields in the fall
/. !
ezing weather sets in is for
Professor Holden's teachings.
er who ever heard one of
lectures knows that Holden
i men to select their seed
the Goth of October. Cownie
Is alone will insure good
orn next year, but in present.
i view there is no occasion for
neer at Holden.
,cess of selection in the breed
superior or more nearly per-
of corn by Holden's method Of
kernels from individual ears
bne from which all great dis
and improvements have been
the species of plant and ami
.. Present day breeds Of do
animals have been evolved by it.
has worked wonders not sur
even by the wizard Edison in
nee of force, by his life work
ion and testing In his gardens.
natural law, pure and simple,
Iolden breaches, but above all.
bf working out his experiments
Aiege and combining his discov-
school text books, Holden is
rtiser. III this respect he ex-
other agricultural school pro-
II he did not know more than
at other scientists know he
t1e of more value to the state
public for the reason that he
TO the world his knowledge
talent of a breakfast food
lrer. He butts into the news
the agricultural press at
Re campaigns the state
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01
TERMS:
Inc OUR INTELLIGENCE.

efforts to keep Cummins
h was part of the cam
ked out by J. w. Blythe. ct
defeat of the governor, and
e Perkins, the standpatters
have not counted upon the
'oter being possessed of COM
3 or the ability to dc even u
king. The Gorrell letter fur
h instance. Any voter who
Enough to care which side wins
great struggle being waged in
must have felt the insult that
offered him when he was asked
BITE against Cummlns because he
apparently favored the double
letary standard at time when the
81 platform, If not actually favoring
coinage at t6 to 1 WAS firmly de-
hiding that the fre!e use Of both
als be continued.
When the production Of silver be-
me so plentiful that 1t was greatly
happened and silver mine owners be-
u to demand THAT the government
b IT all ut the ratio of 16 to l, Gov
Rr Cummins tyas among the first
ge the dangef and raised his voice
he gold STANDARD. This was
time. before George D. Perkins
c~salne fight. Yet the standpat
pas nefer blamed him for his
on ne silver question Nor
prsbgressives done so. Hun
yo4ers saw the danger at the
he cumanins saw it, and acted
g,is. Yet the standpat press
many of the same voters by
them to condemn Cummins for
what he--the voter--did, and
Perkins ultimately was forced
II order to be in accord with his
LIZ desperation the Blythe or
IN to forget that the average
Is some sense OF Justice and
hese days of books and news
Me average man is somewhat
and capable of intelligent
K. There never was 50
j a move made in politics as
It of LATE Young's in digging
money issue of 1890 in the in
of a man who has such a free
ge record as has George d. Per-
Now that he has raised the ques-
will LATE please explain why 1t
that in the Mckinley campaign of
the first gold standard campaign.
Cummins was the one man from
iowa to be selected as national
(mitteelnan to assist in waging the
ce fight against Bryan for the gold
b
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01
yirps- 52rm1hlira.r, Observation-Disclosures an1uu, 1upy

regret, permitted action to be
which Is calculated to discredit one
tho most prominent officials OF Pfe
dent RooseVelt's cabinet in the eyes
tho nation, and which viii be seized
upon with Gcndish glce by every dem
ocrat populist aud mugwunp newspa-
per In the United States
The day viii come when the rcpup-
Leans OF the Tenth district Will SIM
ccrclv regret he episode of yesterday
II VIII he however. after they nave
come out from under the Cummins
spell just now they are concerned
with but one mighty purpose, namely
that OF perpetuating the Cummins dy-
nasty.
ICedar Rapids Republican,
Secretary Shaw and his friends can
afford to comnlacoutly regard what
ever insults may be heaped upon them
by these assistant democrats. If
they succeed and the disasters which
inevitably follow In the wake Of Il free
trade movement come upon us. as they
surely Will come IL they succeed, the
country chastened for It's folly will
turn to men Of the Shaw stamp as in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01
Iowa Newspapers
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
~. - TveA.>f..-eus
SHA!W'S PACKAGE,
TDes Moines Capital.1

Leslie NJ. Shaw was a national char
acter before j. p. Conner was known to
all of the counties in the district when
he now holds in the hollow of his hand.
We violate no confidence Or publish
nothing new in declaring that Conner
is under greater obligation to Shaw
than other man in Iowa, and yet he sat
quietly by in the FIT. Dodge convention
and apparently without a trernor of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01

1896 they turned to Mckinley. Those
who are right can always afford to be
patient under insult. The eternal
years of God belong to the truth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

THE somersaulting and hoop jump
ing tendencies Of Iowa's acrobatic
governor were touched up with neat
ness and dispatch by George d. Per-
kins in his speech at Merrill" says
the Sioux City Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01

Nothing can be more clear" says
the Cedar Rapids Republican, discuss
ing the turn-down of Shaw in the
Tenth district convention, than this,
namely. that in the campaign now be-
ing waged the paramount issue is shall
the republican party's cardinal princi-
pies be maintained or overthrown.'
And the Hawkeye, a. Burlington, says:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01

We caYe not how you suffered nor
what failed to cure you. HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea makes the pun
lest, WEAKEST specimen of man or
woma1hood strong and healthy. 35
cents, (tea or tablets. Mcbride s. VIII
Dr11pJco
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01

tack the vital organs, causing catarrh oil
The bladder, or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Bladder troubles almost always result
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l cure is obtained quickest by a proper
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ng badly you can make no mistake by
aking DR.. Kil,ner's Swanlp-Root, the
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ight The mild and the extraordinary
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01
The Cause of Many
Sudden Deaths.

prevailing in this
IS because so decep-
tive. Many sudden
deaths are caused
by it-heart dis
ease, pneumonia.
heart failure OF
apoplexy are Otter
the result of kid
ney disease. i
kidney trouble is
allowedt
neutrality-suspicious.
ed blood will at.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01

Butler and Delaware counties repre-
sent clear gain to the Cummins coll
umn to the extent of fifteen votes
each over what he had In the Cedar
Rapids convention five years ago.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-01

Russia has a new law prohibiting the
purchase or sale Of typewriters without
police sanction. This Is because che
revolutionists are using typewrRers for
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-15
<es<zsNs<>s<<s<sss<ess< MI. MEIGS ROAD AND ITS
 FAMOUS SOUTHERN HOMES
BY WILL T. sHEEHAN.

substitute for 1t rh. South had no industrial line mapped out and the monetary loss represented :n the free. irg of the slaves was the smallest 1f the losses incurred at the arbltramert of war
 The plantations were ther. and some of tho houses. The lands were thcre with free Iabor--the labo~ of negroes , who, for the .ime. could work when they felt like il. and only then. The decadence of inc agricultural Bla,, S
 Belt. under such conditions, was | foregono conclusion.
 There were not white pecorie cnouih
 tc cultivate the lands, &ni he nesrc discovered early in his new fodnd
 freedom that hunger and need were
 the only spurs to his idlehcss. Tn, white people dritted to the towns, a,,i tbc negroes that rcmaineh cultivated tie soil earelessly ana hee1lessly. This I;rosperous development throughout Many Home still stand. It is fact to be noted. however, that to the numbers Of other days remain ed aSong the Mount Meigs Road than along another highway of Montgom-
 ss fry CoHnty ot ,h ana they so % remaia today decadcnce on tine planta aions from ante bellun standards Is seen along the
 Mount Meigs Road. but the decddcnce
 Several of the old homes have been | maintained in fine style and number of handsome and modern houses have been built. but if one who lived alons the old highway in other days should return he could not be otherwise than disappointed in the changes wrought by conditions that came in the wake | of the war.
 Many of the fine old places that or namented the road are missing for all | time. The Ware place would be miss | ed by one who would return The rounded bv the spacious grounds, but | the old home went up in smoke sevara years ago. The visitor to Electric l Park rides through the edge of these
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-15

Civilization broke into Montgomery County through the northt astern cor ner Before a dollaf was spent or ,a 2 Augusta and Mount Meigs were prom is!ng settlements. which. however, never fulfilled the premise. of youth.
 lcng that nothing "isiDle remains bu: the old cemetery. and Mount Meigs is what 1t has been through all the years a village with few stores and a num-
 Greatness promised to Mount Mcigs IF pioneer days refused to stop. but moved on to Montgomery. The settle" nent of that portion of the county lying wealthy slave owner and land owner was only n ormal and natural. Tho d ,. vclopment and improvement of other portions of the count. tame later. The. who had money to build houses and establish landed estates preferred D stop in tn" nelghborhood of the early settlements.
 Tn this way the Mount Meigs Road. called. too, the Line Creek Road for more. than score "f years. was the principal road that led to Montgome.y: tho main thoroughfale but the most important help to Mohtogmery's com, nierce and bus,ncss until !he ral:na1 which is nov the Western of ,,,,l,, Alaham;,. ana. chandise that did not come by the Alabama River. and most Of it after 1s25 did come ttat way. camr m ID wagons over the Mount M@igs Road.
 The road and the land owners who lived along it were ot greater import ance. in the quarter of century h.fot . the war that could not be appreciateu
 Along the road the plantations were the richest, the planters the most pros peroas and the slaves the most nt,net. which Mount Meigs stands the trav"lGr, was not out of sight Of one or tue o,c U manor houses before he came inuo sight of another The family carriaga in it's different style of equipment was the measure of each family's wealth o' social pretensions. There was an uh' tr.mitting rivalry between :hc planters as to the handsomeness and the com rIcteness ot the carriage equipment. Carriage Necessity.
 Neighbors We're living mp and dowi lthe road for a distance of thirteen mile' !or more, and Montgom6 ry was a thriV
 planters went on business errands nn' in whicn they found friends and socia
 diversion. A family carriage was es scntial to life and the pursuit or nap
 tke road from neighboi to neightor O } from home to town anG town to hrals
 But the war wrought its work. m institutions that made the glory D s.ch a civilization were at stake at tn court of war. and the dnciee of tn court was th"ir destruction IT on .nloycd the priv $gs or hdron;aI a,,T,n, ''1r nr der as it once prevailed. could returi to the scenes that he moved anon; orce. hn could hardly know them now. The decree of war ushered in nes industrial system that had to be bull from the ground up-a system so dl, rcult of construction that 1t would nay
 rtver been undertaken If necessity hal not driven. No man. perhaps. wishe the return of slavery. but on it. if on !. may forget its demerits. there Va buiIt prosperity for tho community prosperity for tHe county and prosper !ty for the State. Appomattox let n
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-15

extensive grounds. but few of them across the Mount Meigs Road from Electric Park marks the site of the out of existence by defective flue. thing which has been sofatal to so many of the old homes of the South.
 old COwles Home.
 Tho curious visitor. if he be so in- clined. can see from the road n half mile further out several stately alms place is on the south side of the road, ITnttl the closing months Of the war one of the handsomest homes of the South stood there--the country seat Of Major Thomas Cowles. in his day one of the weslthiest citizens of MontgOm- cry County. President Willard Fill more when he visited Montgomery was driven the three miles to the country home of Major CowIes where he spent the night. He was entertained there as it was the finest home of Montgom- cry. .,,. o, A victorious soldierv The onll visible evidences that the hill was once tho seat of q beautiful and spacious nome are the few elms that remained or tno long driveway to the front door. Two of the most famous of the ante-belluin landmarks are therefore no more 10 be seen. however. thc traveller passes two or the old homes that have survived throughout the years and are yet spa cious homes. He first passes just De yond Red Bridge the home so long oc- cupisd by Federal Judge John Bruce On the same side of the road. IS anoth. CT old fashioned two storied house set in fine grove of old oaks. This ls the famous old Nickers place. the home stead of the Vickers family. on the plantation of which this house was the center is the new extension 10 tnH Hii | limits. the Capitol Heights suburb | From this prominent famlly or Niohi | gomery County. one of the streets "f | the city takes it's name.
 | Home of lancey.
 A fine old home associated with the | name of William LowndeS 1anceS sllS | a hundred yards back on a mn III "A tensive grounds six miles rom the ctT ", | If is now the home of Captaln F. T. l I.edyard, a prominent planter or the county While Yanccy's country home | Tor a number Of years was tirte o' | four miles distant on tn" Upper we | tumpka Road. he made hS home in the | quaint and stong old two-storv house | for some time. The great agItator dleu
 during the war at , ms f"ia Eorne on Iivmd tmd | to see the outcome of the war whlch he more than any other 9Ihe'' man | brought about this house is apparent but no matter Nnw many years it was built before
 the war. it is still well preserved "hd
 be beautiful r,rnMdry .",,Hd1[y nnm,e nla"c crowned
 huil Ina Salp mic furthcr cast This old
 place Is now usrd by Gath2iie ,;a br ordel iel
 11por The mother ,nH: supcrior &1 of the order ",
 'Irnishrd thr funds for tA" org"ni,
 zatlon of the sort%Y' y1j, w@I , 'I>"i~ p,cx famfly of Ph.Rdrlphia. rh" "ld nlar loriginalIy belonged to h m"m"r
 the McLemoro f4mil!' but II r!!n' M a>
 several voars tlc nom" n' Judge Al the foot oI the eastern ascent oi
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-15

this hill the traveller along the MouHf ,H Meiss road sees high on nn! 1nS h,S ..,s.ening through girIn 1ne ,acs Ersen " 1t h4s toH if is now LOW occupied by Mir. Seth John: son, it's owner who kept the nouso ondi. " the plantation in an & excensi xcsarias souSIe and painted white. It Is orhamemo~ ,,,oys by a verandah that does not run i"S rnan nall way across the dron'' in ~roye of oaks clusters about tn house on top of the hill and the drive. way that leads from its i.ont oooI tv the Mount Meigs road Is fdily hais x mile long. This home was butt oy oy inc county a few wears before the war. Until recent years the house ama .a the plantation were owned ana oc cupied by his descendants.
 Old McLemOFe Place. One of the oldest and one or the most historic places along the ne rosd ro" oaks and cedars. This is the old Me Lemore place now osSaIdsnt occupied oS of M aae | born in the house and who has had no other home. This old place " was Tnn,or.. or. in pioneer days. It has been contins, | uously in the family ever since ana is now occupied by his grandson.
 original in homt, but @iong before the .middle of the nineteenth century " Thad supplante1 the first and the pn, pion,- rambling comfortable home built to ante -bellum ideals. Three of the
 houses identical in outlines and upon the same plan, were built within three miles of each other in the same year bv the same architect
 The first was the chffey place. the
 second the McLemore home and the third the fine old home of Major
 Thomas Oliver. which fell victim to ] the flames.
 1 A new home much on th" same lines of the old one has been erected , in the old grove by Mr. Thomas Oli-
 yer. q son of Major Oliver Near Mt ! Meigs, but over mile from the r:d b
 road. Is the old home that las for two
 or three generations been the home
 of the PinkstOns.
 It is to be noted that none of these l old homes meets the conventional idea
 of an ante bellum Southern home. for
 none is built upon the colonial or Gre clan lines generally accepted as the
 distinguishing If not the exclusive feature of Southern architecture.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-15
pYTHIANs GO TO NEW ORLEANS.
Knights Are Travelling to Meeting of
 Supreme Lodge.

Knights of Pythias from all sections of the country passed through Mont gomery yesterday en route to New Orleans for the meeting of the Stu preme Lodge this week.
 The representatives from Alabama will be John B. Ellis of Selma, who was elected at the meeting of the Grand Lodge here two years ago, and D. C. Cooper of Oxford. appointed last week by Grand Chancellor B. C. Jones of Bessemer, to succeed Supreme Rep resentative Jesse B. Wadsworth, re- signed
 was strong delegation of the uni form rank from Louisville com pany of thirty five commanded by Cap i tain Caperton and The old Legion Drum and Trumpeters Corps. seventeen strong composed the delegation. Here delegations from the Northern and Eastern States were transferred to the Louisville & Nashville to be trans ported to Mobile and thence to New Orleans. The trains carried severn extra cars yesterday and this will he the case for several days to come on account of the meeting of the Supreme
 on a morning train a large delega tion of Pythians from Jacksonville Fla, left for New Orleans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-15

a grand nephew, now occupies the old place Another granddaughter Is tinted States Marshal James C. Jud- kins. ..., Within sight of the old home Is the humber building shown in the second picture--all that remains of the Mount Meigs Tavern where Lafayette spent the night before coming to Montgom- cry. Only a portion of the old-fash- toned two-story structure remains the old building has undergone many vicissitudes. But in it's day 1t was one of the big and perhaps one of the famous hosteIries in Middle Alabama