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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-09
Bergman in Washington Post.

boosted freedom are the slowest peo-
pie on earth to revolt and to put an
end to all manner of political injustice,
debauchery. not to say crime. Tam
many had a reign of almost a decade
under Tweed. Half as long under
Croker Pennsylvania and Philadelphia
continued Quayism till the day of his
death. If Tammany spelled correctly
was petit larceny. the Philadelphia ring
was always highway robbery. Yet
children We're born and became voters
before these ulcers on the body politics
We're cured. So now in this year of
reform, We are just commencing on a
plan to end q system of election that
makes an Aldrch and his prototype
not only a possibility but probability.
What stands in the way of shorter
mel / of ending such cited abuse and
reign of criminal political practices?
Simply partysm and craftsmanship.
Today in Iowa the people are making
an effort to rid themselves Of corpor-
alton rule. Put it another way, the
republican party of Iowa is trying to
purge itself, to spew out an accumu-
lation of deleterious political food and
sustenance. And what do we find arr
rayed against the element in the party
that demands these reforms? All of
the party bosses calling the faithful to
prayers Don't disrupt the republic
can party of Iowa." ANY man that
proposes change is a democrat" Don't
change the sacred Dingley tariff"
Bryan favored the election of United
States senators by the direct vote of
the people, therefore it's wrong There
fore any NAM who favors such
change is a populist" Meanwhile we
continue To elect Aldriches
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-09
HOW PERKINS FEELs.
ISiouX GIN JourmaI. ]


Down in Des Moines, where they are
pretty we'll acquainted with the COVER
nor, they are unkind enough to suggest
that nether logic nor principle had
much to do with the governors veto.
The imtimation is that the governor $
recommendation was made at the sug-
gestion of some of the railroads which
stood to profit by the change of policy.
After the matter was taken up by the
Legislature the proposition was vigor-
ously opposed by some of the railroads
which are making a cozy thing out OF
their monopoly of short line traffic.
Among the most strenuous of the OBJ
jecting roads was one often mentioned
as having been helpful In promot-
ing the governors political ambitions.
The Des Mones conclusion is that the
governor vetoed the bill for the same
reason that he took stock in Tom
Ways elevator trust, namely to oblige
a friend.
SOL.
PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES.
Judd Welliver in Cedar Rapids Ga
Zette.
Down east here the campaign In
Iowa is getting famous. 1t is in the
news columns the editorial pages. the
cartoons. almost daily. The Tenth dis
trict Reputation of the Shaw resolu-
ton is getting an immense amount of
attention. When Hardin county did
much the same thing. the papers along
the seaboard all printed 1t as sensa-
tional occurrence. Shaw has been
calmly ruled off the presidential course
as disqualified. and no amount of ex-
planning will have any weight. The
harm has been done. 1t is a sad case.
Foraker, of Ohio. has sent word home
that he doesn't want his state conven-
ton to indorse him for president SO
the expected fight in the Ohio gather
ing on that question will not come Off.
Foraker is regarded as out of the race
by this act 1t is said he realizes the
unpopularity of his railroad fight, and
thinks it useless to try to be a presi-
Dental factor. Shaw is counted out
Taft is expected to go on the supreme
bench in the fall. Fairbanks, Root, La
Toilette, Cummins, are the names most
heard. The elimination of the conserv-
atives goes right on. Root is consid-
cred weak outside of the extreme east;
Fairbanks somehow has never succeed
ed in getting anybody to take his case.
seriously. He has been rather in the
Shaw class all the time. The file is
narrowing down to the few promising
figures of men who represent the lib
eral view-and to Theodore Roosevelt.
He gets bigger all the time, despite as
surances that he will not allow his
name to be used.
La Follette's is the one name that
has increaseo in luster. among the en-
tire bunch OF possibilities with which
the congressional session opened. All
the others are regarded as rather
weaker than when congress came to-
gether, or else out of it Cummins is
the new name in the list. But the pres
ident himself is the likely man, after
an That is what everybody really
thinks when talking Gin confidence
don't use my name"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-09
ADMITTED BY THE PROSECUTION.

If any man in Iowa harbors the least
doubt that Perkins and Dave Palmer
are not the 20" candidates let him read
this from Mr.. Blythes Burlington
Hawkeye.
The First district will be solid for
Perkins and Palmer. The only county
in the district where 1t was supposed
might be made for Governor Cummins
was Washington, where under the lead
ership of Mr.. Brookhart strenuous
effort base been made to organize a
Cummins party to control the prmar-
les and the county convention. Mr.
Brookhart threw his personality into
the contest and drew heavily upon all
his friends and neighbors in town and
country, but in vain. Mr.. Bailey won
out easily in the contest for judge of
the district court, and the friends of
Geo. ID. Perkins for governor and Col.
Palmer for railroad commissioner will
select solid delegation to the state
convention for those gentlemen.
''The defeat in Washington county is
q great disappointment to the Cum
Minis people for they realize that If
they would break into the First dis
trict anywhere, the beginning must be
made in Washington. Failure there
means failure in every other county in
the district. They have active manip-
ulators in every county, some of them
hired workers from Des Moines. and
they wanted the prestige of Washing
ton county as an entering wedge in the
First district
THE First district will stand by
those two soldiers of the civil war, and
veteran republicans, Geo. D. Perkins
and Col. Dave Palmer Neither gentle-
man has ever wavered In loyalty to the
party, neither has f1irted with the DEM
ocratic party, and neither counts him
self so superior in craftsmanship and
political wisdom that the party creed
must be amended in order to hold him
in the ranks"
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Mothers Religion.
rC,hicaro Record-Herald

On the last evening of the three
day revival, held in the Chicago Az
enue church recently, by DR.. r. A
Torrey and Charles NJ. Alexander. or
their return from their Worldwide
evangelical tour. Mr.. Alexander told ar
anecdote, much to the delight of his
audience. of how the late Bob IN
gersoll failed to convince one young
man who heard him.
"This youth had just come up te
Chicago from farm in Indiana said
Mr.. Alexander. where he had left his
old mother. who was staunch Pres
byterian Soon after the young man
came to Chicago, Bob Ingersoll spoke
at the Auditorium and the country
boy was persuaded to go to hear him
by former Indiana schoolmate. who
had become a great admirer of Inger-
soil
".You'll see how Colonel Ingersoll
will bowl over the doctrines of believ-
ers in the Bible said the fried. 1T
will open your eyes some, tell YOU
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both If he failed to distrust these His
demand for the selection or election Of
United States senators by popular vote
is an evidence of his distrust and a
proof of his common sense and when
he has accorded himself this privilege
he will have made one long stride
toward the complete popular govern
ment to which every American citizen
considers himself entitled.
When public interests find friend
ly welcome in the senate the public
estimate of that body will change.
While righteous measures meet bitter
opposition there and special interests
find defenders the senate must bear the
burden Of distrust.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-09

good crop of cherries and strawber-
ries, and et us hope that the base ball
team will turn out a peach"
Des Moines has another mysterious
murder case. and we may expect
another exhibition of incapacity from
the detective force of that city. The
greatest of Des Moines mysteries is
why it keeps and pays its detectives.
Mr.. Perkins experience in the last
ditch in The Eleventh district should
induce him to turn his attention to the
drainage problem.
While Railway Attorney Call con-
tinues in his position as chief Dispatch
er of the Perkins campaign, the report
that the railroads have abandoned Mr..
Perkins may be taken with grain of
4.
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weeks prior to the commission Of the
offense for which he was on trial. and
to which the defense was an albi, he
committed another robbery at the
same place, upon another person, by
| the use OF the same means. The court
| held that this was incompetent tes-
| t'mony, that the testimony which was
given under this ruling showed dis
tinct, Independent crime, committed
upon another individual at another
time. 1T is an elementary principle of
law that the commission of a distinct
and Independent crime cannot be used
as evidence for the purpose of con-
vieting the defendant of another crime
unless such proof tends to establish
certain facts essential to conviction
which are recognized as furnishing ex-
ception to the general rule. Cases in
which such proof is admissible are
specified In People vs. MoIneaux, 1863
N. Y. 293, GIL ~ IG. 296 1t is not es-
sential that we now relate them. The
prosecution does not claim that it can
support the ruling in the present case
unless 1t be upon the ground that the
prior crime tended to establish the
identity of the defendant. Two facts
are advanced in this regard In support
OF The theory that the testimony was
admissible, |. G., that the prior crime
was committed at the same place and
in the same manner. The defense was
an alibi. consequently evidence tending
to identify the defendant was vital to
the case. as that was the issue itigat-
ed. 1t Is persuasive to say that a rob
berry committed a short time before at
the same place, by similar means. and
by the same person, tends to identify
the defendant as the person who COM
mitted at the same place, and by the
same means. for which he is being
tried. If the first crime be satisfac-
torily established, the mind is easily
convinced Of the guilt of the defendant,
as to the second. and yet it is COM
mon knowledge that numerous crimes
of the same character have been COM
mitted by other individuals and by use
of the same means. There is always
more or less similarity between the
commission of independent crimes of
this class and Is many instances feat
ures that are common to one are found
in the other. and yet it has never been
supposed that. where there was separa-
ton as to time and no connection es-
the first crime was admissi-
bic to establish any of the elements
which constituted the other
People VS.. Romano, 50 N Y. Supp.
749.
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PROVED BY HIS OWN "lF."

The political forecaster in Mr.
Blythe's Burlington Hawkeye declares
that the crisis has now arrived fol
Cummins When OBrier and Buena
Vista counties have gone for Cummins
observes the sage, "Mr. Perkins will
have three counties in the Eleventh to
his credit and Cummins 1923 delegates
In 1901 Cummins had 149 votes from
the Eleventh district, which makes his
loss there 26 votes. That would be
sufficient to defeat him. If the rest of
the state votes as it did in the con-
vention of 1901" What joke! And
what lie! Cummins now has $40
delegates assured for him. If the
''rest Of the state votes as it did in the
convention Of 1901" and no more he
will get 349 additional delegates where
as he needs only 302 to noranate.
But will the rest of the state be con-
tent to "vote. as it did in the conven-
ton Of 1901 2" There are several coun-
tiss in the Third, Fourth. Fifth, First
and Ninth districts which will not be
30 content. Have the counties al
ready heard from been so content? In
MI. Perkins own congressional district
Cummins gets ten counties to Perkins
three and, outside of Mr.. Perkins home
county, in which no contest was made,
Mr.. Cummins will have from Mr.. Per-
kins' congressional district ten more
votes, Woodbury. county eliminated,
than he had from that district five
years ago Cerro Gordo gives him II
which he did not have in the conven-
ton of 1901. Butler 10, Marshall s.,
Polk 8, Palo Alto 6, Cherokee 10, and
Clinton 10. If the 80 counties thus far
recorded have done so much better than
they did in the convention of 1901 why
should the remaining counties not de-
liver an increase also? Why lie about
the situation anyway? Why not make
1t unanimous and pull Perkins out, as
was done prior to the convention of
1901?
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who look beneath the surface that the
leaders of that party would rejoice If
another should be given the nomina-
ton. They believe in that event that
their party would stand something of
show in the Iowa election next fall"
Judges, like all other people, are
human, and 1t would be surprising if
they did not err frequently and occa-
sionally, willfully,'' says the Cedar
Rapids Gazette.
The Davenport Times says that the
court review amendment to the rate
bill leaves the circuit courts free to do
what they please-as they generally
do.
The Keokuk Gate City observes that
Captain Hull made terms with the
Cummins machine to serve his own
personal interests and ambitions, and
that several other members of the Iowa
delegation are under suspicion of like
conduct "Juch tactics may be of tenn
porary advantage" says the Gate City,
"but they will not win in the long run.
They are a direct invitation to defeat,
which is none the less certain because
briefly delayed"
The failure of the attack on United
States Marshal Knott by w. w. Miller,
of Waterloo was one of the commend
able incidents of the Third district
convention" says the Dubuque Times
Noting that the text Of Uncle
Georges sermon in the Sioux City
Journal of a recent Sunday was the
story of Mr.. and Mrs A1anias, the
Odei,olt Chronicle. admitting that they
were pretty fair liars in their day, de-
clarps people of their class couldn't
hold down a job in the Perkins cam
paign factory"
"a man don't have to go very far up
tree Just now TO see the not very
spectacular finish of the Perkins gu
bernatorial aspirations remarks the
Manson Democrat
.There are few office holders, and
those who hope to become such in case
Shaw is elected president. who try to
convey the impression that Iowa wants
Shaw. The truth is that Iowa has had
too much Shaw now" declares the
Wall Lake Blade, and says: IF the
of Iowa were to choose be-
tween LaFollette and Shaw. it would
not he difficult matter right now to
guess their choice. Times have
changed and both Shaw and the Hub
bard machine have record"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-09

comes in competition with gasoline
Easily manufactured anywhere and
everywhere in the United States 1t
means an end to the monopoly of the
| Standard Oil Company. 1t means all
| cohol stoves for the home, alcohol en-
gines for the farmers. the elevators,
the manufacturers and the automobile.
Ii means that we can raise potatoes
here in Iowa. and supply all of the al
cohol necessary for the consumption OF
the whole country, where now gasoline
IS used as a motive power or for light
ing purposes. Is it strange that AL
drich of Rhode Island opposes the
passing of such a bill thru the United
States senate?
This man Aldrich has opposed the
rate legislation bill another measure
passed by the house by big majority
vote If 1t is killed in the senate. Sen
ator Aldrich can claim nearly all of the
credit for thus standing in the way of
needed legislation This man today
represents the worst features of all the
damnable trusts and combines with
which this country is afflicted. Does 1T
unblushingly and almost defies public
sentiment. Worse than all, only death
prevents Il continuation of his reign and
power. He has the wealth and in
clination to buy a dozen legislatures II
necessary. The same element that re-
elects Aldrich to the United States
senate. will see to it that his successor
is like unto him. How long will the
people submit to 4 system that makes
1T possible for an Aldrich to nullify all
legislation, called for by an outraged
people,
1t is fact that we, with all of cur
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-09
Wonan's Trials.

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MUCK RAkfNG IN IOWA.
If,lorion f'Iippar

Never before has a campaign within
the republican party in Iowa been
marked With such virulence and pas
sion as that manifested by the news
papers that are making war on the
republican governor of Iowa. Never
has any public man been so persist
emily misrepresented and misquoted by
his opponents Newspapers Of hither-
TO good repute and having common de-
cency are filled with muck rakings in
tended to besnirch the reputation OF
Iowa's governor and drag the name of
the state in the mire. The recognized
corporation organs continually exhibit
a malevolencc plainly due to COM
bined anger and despair; while the
whose editors are weak
than corrupt circulate the most
specious arguments based on what his
enemies say OF Governor Cummins.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-09
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

Just how long the people of these
United States will submit to the DOM
ination of United States senator's Of
the Aldrich type, remains to be seen.
Here is a wealthy old man, elected
from Rhode Island, state but little
larger than some counties in Iowa.
Related by marriage to the Rockefellers
he has now assumed new role, that
of antagonizing the free alcohol bill,
passed almost unanimously by the
house of representatives. The motive
of his actions is altogether too plain,
too transparent. Free, denaturized all
cohol, made from any vegetable sub
stance containing starch, means a
cheap heating and lighting product
some claim, to be put on the market
at 125s to Is cents a gallon. In a word
it is proposed product that at once
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-09
Decisions;
DUTY TO WARN EMPLOYE.

DUTY IO VAIN EMGLO Il.
Plaintiff, boy of fourteen years OF
age, was injured While removing a
table top from sanding machine by
having his hand drawn between the
rollers. The machine consisted of a
table with four sets of double rollers,
between which the lumber passed, be-
ing drawn forward toward plaintiff S
end of the machine when in motion
Between the lower rollers were the
sanding drums. The construction of
the machine was easily understood and
in plain view Held: That the ques-
ton as to whether reasonable care re-
auired that instruction should have
been given to the plaintiff as to the
manner of doing the work was ques-
ton for the jury, to be determined in
view of the fact that is was obvious
that plaintiff would be injured if his
hand was drawn between the rollers.
Plaintiff had verdict in lower court
which was reversed on appeal.
kolodZiejski VS.. Seestadt ct al. d. L.
n. Vol. 10, page 91S.
COMMON CARRIERS.
Plaintiff brought action for injuries
received in consequence OF defendants
attempting to run it's car thru mob
without warning the plaintiff Heidi:
that in approaching any place of dam
ger it is the duty of common carrier
of passengers to exercise the utmost
care and skill which prudent men
would exercise under such circumstan-
es.
Bosworth VS. Union Ry. Co. SIS Ak.
Rep. 400 OR. -
PROOF OF CRIME-IL'ENTITY
Defendant was indicted for robbery.
During the trial of the case the pros
ecution, for the purpose Of establish
ing the identity of the accused, offer
ed proof to show that about three
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''1'he two young men duly went to
the meeting. Ingersol was in excel
lent form. and gave one of his usual
adroit and ingenious speeches. AS the
friends were leaving. he admirer of
Ingersoll turned to the boy from the
farm.
Wasn't that great?' he asked. Did
you ever hear anything like it? Didn't
he just sweep away every stick and
stone. every argument and theory of
the orthodox side? He simply didn't
leave anything of the ether side at all
he certainly made clean sweep.
al know one thing lie didn't sweep
away" said the boy from the Indiana
farm.
"'What was that"
"'My old mothers religion