Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-05

stands on the curb and watches the
autos go by and wonders how he'll ev-
err get across the street in time for MS
6 o'clock dinnsr.-Cleveland Plan
Dealer.
IOWA OPINIONS AND MITES.
THE state tody is in more danger
from Cumminsism than from the cor
porations," asserts the Sioux CITY
Journal.
THE fact that you are always hear
ing of men with two or more wives
and very seldom of women with more
than one man just goes to prove that
women are more economical than men,
agues the Cedar Rapids Optimus.
Give the voters chance, quotes
the Mason City Times-Herald. from
Jealous Eleventh district Perkins pa
per, and comments: yet Perkins
himself bitterly opposed the primary
bill, and the Perkins managers We're as
dumb as oysters when it has been sus-
gested that the Cummins and Perkins
candidates. be submitted to the voters
of the Eleventh district"
eff Cumn1ins is defeated and with
him the progressive republicans, he and
they will still be republicans, believing
that reforms should be worked out
within the party" says the Knoxville
Journal 'If, on the other hand. Mr..
Cummins is nominated, those who re-
fuse to support him will only be
small splinter of the good old republic
can war club"
In a spirit friendly to Colonel Young
the Register and Leader essays to
point a moral From the day Colonel
Young deserted men like Senator Funk
and abandoned his own previous posi-
ton, it has been he and not his old
time associates who have been losing
ground in the serious consideration of
the state" points out the Register and
Leader. Colonel Young does not have
a friend in Des Moines or in Iowa who
will not confirm this statement"
Governor Cummins advocates reg
ulation of the tariff. railroad rate reg
ulation, corporate control, statewide
primary, anti-pass legislation and pure
food laws" statse the Eldora Ledger,
and asks: as there anything so rad
ical about that? And yet" continues
the Ledger, you will hear standpat-
tiers rave about Governor Cummins
leading the people into dangerous
paths You will hear them ask if it
is necessary to follow every whim of
the governors. The people merely be-
lieve in the above issues, and so. does
Cummins, and he has the strength Of
the leader.
.If the sweetness of Easter and
Christmas says the DEBORAH Repub
lican, were stricken from the worlds
great influences, and in their places
greed and selfishness had been permit
ted to run riot in human lives. what
wretched world this would be. Let us
be glad. then, it is as it is, and not as
it might have BEEN"
20, business. business! What crimes
are committed in thy name sorrows
the Grinnell Register.
The Harlan American is not ready to
say that Mr.. Perkins is bad man, or
that his following is wholly bad, but
at is evident that the special interests,
those who oppose a primary law. and
those who are against any tariff adj
justment, are lining up for him. On
the other hand. Cummins is opposed TO
graft and grafters an dto the 4nting
of special privileges: he wants to COM
pei the railroads to obey the law and to
treat all people and all interests alike:
he is in favor Of an effective primary
law SO as to give the people the largest
possible share in the government; he
stands for progress in tariff legislation.
in short he stands for the square
DEAL"