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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18
SOME MARRIAGE STATISTICS.

The census report on population just
issued. shows that in the total popula-
ton of 75,994,575 in 1900, the number
of single persons was i3,9s3.965. or
nearly 5S per cent The married We're
27,77010l; the widowed, 3,S95,S47; the
divorced, 1894. In the Old World
the proportion of single is different
Spain CO.'S in England and Austria, and
being Ala per cent in India, 54.6 IN
ure varies from 65 to IS per cent. In
the southern states the percentage Of
unmarried persons is COS, of married
33.7,of widowed 81, of divorced o..
while IN the north the corresponding
figures are 56.4, $50. So, 02.
The twelfth census shows Plaza
more negro wives than negro husbands,
the women reporting themselves mar
ried more freely. 1t appears. than the
men. But the figures, as respect the
colored population, are open to ques-
ton, many reporting themselves mar
ried when not legally married. "Of 40
couple at Cinelaire, La says the re-
port, who reported themselves as
married. only 20 were legally married
In the church or by the civil authori-
ties. Numerous cases are seen Of two
persons legally married and yet each
living with different person and re-
porting as being married to the sec
ond.'' In Porto Rico the same state
of things exists to large extent ow-
ing to the cost of the necessary relig-
ious ceremony.
In Maine. New Hampshire and Ver-'
mont the divorced are half of l per
cent of the population, while in Mary
land and West Virginia the divorced
were two tenths of l per cent, and in
Virginia one tenth of l per cent. In
Nevada the divorced are seven-tenths
of per cent, and in Washington, Ore
gpn and California six-tenths of l per
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18
BOWS PLATFORM.
Bows Advocated

While attending the judicial conven-
ton at, Iowa Falls Tuesday, we had the
pleasure Of taking dinner with Hon. D.
w. Dow, who was renomilated for
representative of Franklin county at
the recent convention. We were glad
to meet the gentleman and to have
him inform us that he is a strong and
ardent supporter of the principles of
progressive republicanism. The colonel
is a most impressive and imposing
man and cuts striking figure in his
Prince Albert coat and burnt straw
hat We are glad to know that he is a
supporter of the principles of progress
sive republicanism. We are glad to
know that he was in favor of a recp-
rocal demurrage bill in which every
farmer and stock raiser in his district
is Interested, even tho he saw fit to
vote against it, We are glad to know
that he is in favor of reciprocity with
Canada, as is also his farmer consti-
tuency to a unit, even tho the records
do not show that he did any work for
it. Ye are glad to know that he is in
favor Of primary law, even tho he
voted against 1t. We are glad to know
that he was in favor of the anti-pass
bill, altho the records show that his
ballot was cast against it. And we
feel confident, that when he takes his
seat in the lower house at the next
session Of the general assembly he
will continue in his noble service of
the promotion of progressive republi-
canism.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18
TRY AGAIN" ADVICE.
TDavenport Times.

You say you have tried dozen
times, and failed. Well what of 1T?
Try again. Nothing worth while is
won without effort. keeping ever
lastingly at it" brings success-but be
sure you go at it in the right way.
1t isn't so much the doing, as the man
ner Of doing.
Suppose conditions are adverse to
success Are you going to let that
handicap you, or are you going to rise
above it and make things easier for
someone else? asks Spare Moments.
The world wants your smiles, your
hopes, your aspirations. She already
has too many frowns and tears.
Open mind and heart. Be awake to
possibilities of the moment. Oppor-
tunity, like will-o' 1.-The wisp, fits be
fore him who is too timid or too indo-
lent to stretch forth his hand and make
her his own. Lovingly she comrades
with him whose wish is will; whose
will is to dare; whose daring Is to
achieve.
Remember energy, ambition, and
tireless effort alone spell the great Sc
cret of success. Be sure your vision is
clear, your purpose right, then push on
with might and main. Let nothing
you dismay."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18

tiff had purchased a sleeping car tick
ct. but on it's being discovered that he
had a contagious disease. the conduct
or refused to let him ride on the car.
The court held that the company was
within its rights in refusing his pas
sage, tho it was bound to offer to re-
turn the purchase price of the tick
ct.
39S
TAKING PRIVATE PROPERTY
In case recently handed down by
the supreme court Of Illinois, the court
holds that the imposition upon a rail-
way company OF the entire cost of re-
moving aud rebuilding a railway bridge
and culvert. made necessary by the
widening and deepening OF the cham
mel of creek by drainage commissions
ers acting under authority Of state
drainage law, does not amount to a
taking of private property for public
use without compensation, or to a de-
NAL of the equal protection of the laws
guaranteed by the federal constitution.
The court holds, however, that 1t is a
taking of property without compensa-
ton to place upon the railroad COM
pany In such case the expense of re-
moving the soil attendant upon the
widening and deepening of the creek.
Chicago. etc. Ry Co. VS.. Illinois Sup.
CT. Rep. S41.
UNAUTHORIZED TELEGRAM.
The circuit court OF appeals has re-
Gently held. that, in the absence of no.
tice of facts or circumstances which
would awaken inquiry and arouse sus-
picion in the mind of a person of o.
binary prudence and intelligence IN 4
like situation regarding the authority
to send it of the party who presents
a message for transmission, the exer-
else by a telegraph company and Its
operators of reasonable care to receive
ana transmit genuine and authorized
messages only does not require them
TO investigate or ascertain the Identity,
or authority to send 1T, Of the person
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18
no WE NEEnlI2

When Ed. Hunter takes command
of the campaign of republican cam
didate for the highest office in Iowa,
do we need statewide primary law?
When two township delegates in
Chickasaw, under strict instructions
from the voters they represent, sue
cumh TO the arguments most m vogue
among Mr.. Hunters paid workers, and
deliberately betray the voters of q
whole county, do we need statewide
primary?
tiers outside the state, as he did in Rock
Island. and river rats, thugs and The
offal OF the levees descend upon an
Iowa city to raid political caucuses, as
was the case in Davenport do we need
statewide primary?
When the paid agents of the Hunter
political propaganda assume the Lead
1sship In counties where they have no
residence, and where even their faces
and rtames are unknown, threat
en- contests and organize and
hold rump conventions, repudlated by
the Very men they assume to lead as
/ IN Delaware and Scott and Black
Hawk counties. do we need statewide
primary? 81
: When, by manipulation and the pro.
cesses that go with this sort Of manip-
ulation, the county central COMMITTEES
of Carroll county can be virtually 6iis-
charged, it's powers usurped, and its
duties assumed by partisan attorney,
ITO put 1t mildly, and that power u'ed
d TO call IA snap convention in an unusual
place, do we need statewide primary?
when, in an Iowa town like Red Oak.
committeeman conceals the official
ballots, and when forced to produce
them, the board refuses to count the
vote on governor and the ballots are
again secreted; when a federal judge
names the delegates thus shamef,llly
secured is 1t time for a statewide rri-
mary law In Iowa?
When cold cash and railroad trans
portation are principal arguments with
delegates; when postoffices and United
States narshalships and United States
treasury jobs are openly bartered as
the price of mems honor and the de-
livery OF a. county delegation, do we
need statewide primary law in Iowa?
Tl<,,,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18
y yures- 3se4n4hlt, arsla1ltn,un anua,ss ar II 100

taken on the work of influencing legis-
lation on either side of any issue that
did not interfere with the corporation
program. Faultlessly dressed and
with manners Chesterficldian, Hunter
has made it his particular business to
be smooth with legislators who would
submit to his advances and with his
adroit use of his sinews of war, he has
with strip of mileage of times gotten
on terms with men who would have
knocked him down upon the sugges-
ton of a money bride. So notorious
has Hunter become In recent years.
that 1t is matter of reproach for a leg
islator to be seen in his company. and
real compromise to be counted among
his associates.
In the line of his work Hunter has
made a wide acquaintance. He is
shrewd in his estimate of men that can
be used. He Is audacious in his meth
DDS. He has no fear of the personal
peril that restraints men of character in
the presence of political temptation.
He has for years been active in corpor-
alton politics, but has discreetly been
kept In the background on account of
his shady reputation. But when the
corporation craft was laundering in the
trough of turbulent political sea,
Hunter was called to the helm regard
less OF public criticism. 1t is not diff
ticult to see his handiwork in the prog
ress OF the campaign. More democrat
than republican. more mountebank
than either, he revels in the rich spoils
flung into his lap by the frightened
corporations and prosecutes ruthless
warfare upon men and communities
with souls to save and a righteous
government to support.
And nobody is hearing standpat pro-
test, Why should they? Standpatsm
is after results. 1t is proud of Blythe
because he Is resourceful. unmindful
of the perils to popular government in
volved In corporation leadership 1t
con stomach Ed. Hunter because the
situation is desperate to standpatism
and what's the difference so long as
standpatters win? So it comes about
that Hunter is permitted to throw off
his mask and take standpat leadership
because he has in his nefarious occu-
patton Of misdirecting legislation be-
come an effective instrument in the
contamination OF corporation design
and standpat success.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18

tempting to array the meat producer
against rigid inspection of slaughter
houses, are leading them astray. Moth
ing less than the most careful and
honest supervision will again give our
meats standing in the foreign markets.
The present revulsion against packing
house meats will continue until con-
sumers are assured OF sanitary precau-
tons in the great slaughtering estab-
lishments.
The president is right on meat in-
spection. as he was on rate contro.
Stand by the president.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18
Topics Of the Times

The delegation in Washington is said
to be averse to a row in the state con-
vention and anxious to establish plan
to end all contests with the county con-
ventions. Even the standpat congress-
men who have attempted to engineer
the state are frantically opposed TO a
bolt.
Secretary Silaw's imitation of Peck
sniff would be in direct violation of an
international compyright law, If such
a law existed.
Iowa weather is showing frosty
against Mr.. Shaw's presidential boom.
When Dowie related having seen his
dead body in shroud, Voliva and
some others probably licked their lips
with longing for similar experience.
In view of the double facedness he
has displayed, the news that Secretary
Shaw has six toes on each foot ought
not to excite comment.
In the meantime, there are others
worthy to cross swords with Mr.. Bry-
an. The secretary Of the treasury.
Leslie NJ. Shaw, is probably the ideal
exponent Of national republican prin-
ciples today.-Burlingto Hawkeye.
But we have Roosevelt's word for it
that he is not expounding Roosevelts
opinions in Iowa today and Roosevelt
is the ideal republican.
Consul Harris, Of Mannheim, says
that thousands of American agricultu
raj implements have been sold in
southwest Germany, and yet two
thirds Of the hay and grain is harvest
ed by hand. The superiority of Ameri-
can sewing machines, cash registers.
typewriters, shoes office, furniture and
many other articles has helped to make
their introduction all but UNIVERSAL.
The private secretary of the empress
of Japan is Christian woman and a
member of the Congregational church.
In these days. when so much is said
in regard to defects in the Constitution
of the United States, and so many
are being made for its bet
terment, peculiar interest attaches to
an important paper in the June num-
Der OF. the Atlantic Monthly on Con
Mending and the Initiative"
by Frank Foxcroft. Several states have
already provided for amendments to
their constitutions by popular refer
but this month, in Oregon, this
plan is being put to the test for the
first time. Mr. Foxcroft makes
study of the conditions un-
der which this Oregon referendum on
the question of equal suffrage is being
carried out. He concludes that, while
the theory of the popular referendum
may be sound, it carries with it seri-
Gus danger Of hasty and ill-considered
action. inasmuch as the entire process
may be completed within four months
time. 1t is a paper which should be
read and studied by every thoughtful
A p,aripo
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18
Iowa Newspapers
DIRT CHEAP.
INIT. Vernon Record

Fifty dollars for county Is Dirt
cheap in this stage of the governorship
contest. yet that is said to have been all
Chickasaw county cost the Perkins
men. For twenty-five dollars piece
two delegates violated their instruc-
lions. which were for Cummins, and
dropped into the Perkins band wagon.
The two men said it was the Hrst
money they had ever got out of politics,
altho they had been playing at the
game for a number of years, and they
didn't intend to miss the opportunity.
They were evidently unsophisticated,
however, or they would have demanded
twenty times what they got with
Dubuque county going at the price II
did. Chickasaw should have been
worth pretty valuable consideration.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18
THe .couRT REVIEW AGAIN.

ThE "COuRT REVIEW" AGAIN.
In the matter of packing house in
spection, as in the fight against rate
regulation, opponents of the inspection
| Eiii have turned TO the court review
as a loophole of escape. AS in the rate
regulation fight. the president is plain
Thy outspoken against the introduction
Of little joker, and in his reply to the
criticisms of Representative Wads
worth, chairman Of the house commit
tee on agriculture, says in effect that
the court provision would render meat
inspection sham. AS regards the
court provision the president points
out that:
If deliberately designed to prevent
the rernedying of the evils, complained
OF, this is the exact provision which
1.-the friends of the packers themselves
would have provided. 1t is absurd. to
assert that any such provision is need
ed. Why have you not put such a pro-
vision in the postoffice law as it affects
fraud orders; in the law as it effects
fraudulent enteries of homesteads etc. :?
Congress cannot take away the consti
Itutional right of the packers or of any
one else, to the protection of the courts.
But such provision as that under
considerat ton does not represent a de-
sire to secure the constitutional rights
of anyone. 1t represents doubtless, in
some cases, an honest, tho wholly
mistaken conviction; in other cases,
| 1t represents a deliberate purpose to
Interfere with effective administration
| by trying to provide that the courts
| shall in reality do administrative work
which they would be the first to assert
| their inability to perform. If the bill,
/ as you reported it from the committee,
were enacted into law. you would have
/ the functions Of the secretary of agri-
iculture, narrowly limited so as to be
purely ministerial, and wher he de-
3clared given slaughter unsanitary,
ling on the Judgment of the government
dexperts, you would put on the judge,
Jwho had no knowledge whatever of the
conditions, the burden of stating
whether or not the secretary was right
The president further points out that
the court provision offers the packers
la choice of judges and eliminates the
agricultural experts. The judge select
led by the packers would give the de-
4cision In any matter wherein the pack
Iers found it to their interest to raise
d dispute. With characteristic blunt
apess, he refers Mr.. Wadswortll to 1.-The
recent judicial decision in Chicago in
Mhict the packers We're concerned
President Roosevelt is not particular
has to the language of the law, so long
las it provides for real inspection and
works the reforms it is intended to ac-
Icomplish Neither is any one else ex-
eept the interests that have profitetl by
the outrageous conditions revealed in
Jpacking houses. No aw can deprive
the packing companies of any of their
constitutional privileges, but we do not
want a meat inspection law that gives
40 power to the inspector. We want
Ind must have rigid inspection by ex-
perts, amenable only to the laws and
The government of the United States.
If these are wrong, the pacakers have
their remedy in court as the individual
has now.
Il Mel. and newspapers Who arc at
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18
HUNTER AS HELMSMAiN.
Esprit Lake Beacon.l

Ed Hunter, in all his degeneracy
is the logical product Of corporation
politics. He is rare combination of
shrewdness. audacity and depravity.
For nearly twenty years he has infest-
ed the halls of legislation. In return
for his intrigue among the member
ship in their behalf the railways have
given him plenary power in the issue
of transportation. Besides doing cor
poration dirty work, he has used this
transportation as an asset in a general
lobby brokerage business. He has
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18

who tenders a message for transmits
sion, whether that message Is in writ
ing, or Is spoken directly to the opera
tor. or is communicated to him by
telephone, But, when such facts or
circumstances come to the notice OF
the company, or of its acting operator,
the exercise of reasonable care to
transmit genuine and authorized mes
sages only require the party who re-
ceives the notice either to investigate
and ascertain the authority of the
sender before transmitting the message
or TO communicate the facts and cir
cumstances and the inquiry or sus-
picion to the addresses at or before its
delivery
Bank of Havelock vs.. Western Union
Tel co. 141 Fed. Rep. 522.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18
iowa lPlNloNs AND NOTES.

The effort to drag Roosevelt into
this dirty campaign is only equalled
by ]. w Blythe and other corporation
leaders meeting in council for the pur-
pose of comprising Roosevelt's defeat"
asserts the Scranton Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18

inal must get his full deserts. There
must be equal rights for all and specia!
privileges for none. Every man must
have an open field and a fair chance.
There must be no coddling of the few,
no special favors, no inequality of leg
islation."
president Roosevelt may be a
weakling, but you cannot make the
men believe it whose business it Is to
make pressed chicken out of bull
meat" remarks the Charter Oak
Times.
Admitting that news correspondents
can sometimes mislead an honest pa
per-" the Alton Star Enterprise sees
mo excuse for the publication of a
table OF convention results which is
obviously and manifestly unfair and
wrong. In one paper we are given the
figures to show that Cummins can not
possibly win, by any combination
known to man. In another paper a
column Of statistics. apparently equal
~ authentic. show that only God him
self can prevent the governors re-
nomination. Somebody is lying. in
sists the STAR Enterprise. And who
ever it is is injuring his own cause
more than that of the opposition"
",The dividing up of that Dubuque
delegation was a blow that almos.
killed Uncle George" notes the Maple
ton Press. This. too, after his lauding
the actions of kretschmer in selling
his honor to Ed Hunter Senator ALI
son seems to be pretty square old
guy after ALL
The Spirit Lake Beacon thinks the
bitter denunciation of the two instruct
ed delegates who for a cash considera-
ton turned Chickasaw from Cummins
to Perkins may cause the offenders TO
vince, but il will not jar the depraved
managers of a candidate sworn to OPP
pose the lowering of the standards OF
public life
The Mason City Times Herald says
"The Fourth district is not proud OF
the Chickasaw record" and offers as
the only extenuation of the act OF
those two republican delegates over
there that the inspiration came from
Des Moines."
1--WE believe the c. B. & G. railway
intends to go democratic this year,
and that 1t has already picked Its
man" declares the Wapello Tribune.
I'VE may have more to say of this later
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18

"There must be restoration of the
principle of equality before the law"
insists the Des Moines News. The
high criminal as we'll as the low GRIM
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18

I'VE believe the c. B. & @. railway
intends to go democratic this year,
and that 1t has already picked its
man" declares the Wapello Tribune.
I'VE may have more to say of this later
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-18

President Roosevelt may be a
weakling, but you cannot make the
men believe it whose business it Is to
make pressed chicken out of bull
meat" remarks the Charter Oak
Times
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