Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-21

Taft.
"EIis rale position in the cabinet IS
Official Jollyer. He's TIL Happy
Hand. Whin there's ruction amy
where Taft starts out an cleans II
up "A. man goes into th' White
House with 8. letter firm James j..
Hill There's sound Nv break1n
plass an furniture, an TIL visitor is
fired out Nv a window. Where sSes
! he fan? into Taft's waitin' arms.
Where ARE We goin'. frind? says
Taft. TO hardware store TO BUY
me gun says TIL man. I have an
other letter in me pocket firm Haitcn
Hatch Rogers he says. An, set
here awhile says Taft pullin' MIN
into chair Have a good see-gar.
Put wan into ye'er pocket to smoke
iafther supper. Isn't IT. fine day,
amt 1T? I've got conundhrum |
want to tell We some time. Ye're not
mad, are We? Don't mind tn little
fellow inside. It's his fun Why,
yesterday. he threw lighted lamp at
me an I'm his best frind' An tn
man goes back to Herkimer county
and showes tn place, where Rosen-
felt hit him.
We want men iv sound practical
common sense. Such man Is Emu
Root. No name has aroused more
enthusiasm thin Elihu Roots since
Levi p. Morton. He has rayceived tn,
strongest endorsements M1sther
RYAN writes: He will uphold tn ira
ditions Nv TIL raypublic as he has
mine, iMisther Hartman writes:
.Altho differin in SPECIAL policies
our idees Nv ginral govermint are tn
same. 7 prefer him to Rosenfelt.'
Misther Rockyfellar writes: I have
niver used .Elihu, but have heerd
him spoken highly iv be frinds, L
wondher if he wudden't like to tear
UP. his accommodations an start
fresh. | wisht I knew all he knows.
If I did I'd want to know more an
know 1t arly in life"
Foraker.
zoe Foraker is an ideelist IN
pollyticks, He's a crather iv impulse.
He's a soul apart, as Hogan says.
He oughtn't to be in pollyticks. He
ought Ito be monk. Whin there was
no wan else to defind tn poor naygur
firm persecution, Joe Foraker come
to TIL front He niver thought Nv
reward. FIR tn mute, disfranchised
black, who has no vote except IN
Southern Ohio, he hurled hi1nsilf
against dishpotic power. What can
We do with such a man? Ye can't
help likin' him; but is 1t safe to put
dhreamer like him in tn highest office
in the gift Nv tn nation? We all know
that corruption exists in pollyticks,
FIR pollyticks is human. Other men,
practical men, face It, Joe Foraker
ideelist, gives 1t a back. He's tn
kind iv a man that, If some Nv tn good
fellows were upholsterin' ballot-box
to suit tn taste, wud say: Gentlemen,
7 will not stand idly by an permit
this infa1ny. Onless We desist will
lave thu room, an whin We have COM
pleted this proclamation. if | hear tn
slightest whistle firm wan iv We, I'll
return with polisman. Have care!
We want no vague philosopher FIR this
high office. Lave Joe FORAKER TO MS
dhreams, says T.
Fairbanks.
Fairbanks is too divvle-may-care.
There's Puritan sthreak in our blood,
hide it tho we will Undheri TIL polite
veneer. as Hogan says, Nv drunken
ness we ARE still a conservative peo-
pie. an It's question whether
we can trust man that can be 50 car
ried away by tn tumuit iv tn time as
to exclaim in a gust, Nv passions: I
considher it the more fortunate, il We
will f'rgive tn Whence iv tn expression,
an I concede that ivry man has
right to differ with me on this or amy
other question. an I will gladly shake
| TIL hand ~ amy man In this vast
aujeence who honestly disagrees with
me. that in this country iv ours.
blessed, as some say an some say not,
be universal suffrage. it shud happen
!! that tn sacred festival iv our freedom
the Foorth " July, tho those that be-
lieve in st. Patrick's day are entitled
Ito their opirryon, an q betther lot Nv