Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-02
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES


IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES
The Cedar Rapids Saturday Rec
ord says: 80 far as regulation of
partisanship is concerned the primary
is a failure. Half a dozen votes are
usually enough to elect ward COM
mitteemen, delegates to county conven-
lions and other managers of the po-
litical machinery. The average voter
does not care enough to write In the
names of candidates. 1t is left for a
few men to control the whole matter
more easily than they could at a eau
Gus"
The Knoxville Journal says: Listen
to this wall from the Marion county
democratic resolutions: Inasmuch as
We are now passing thru one OF the
most disastrous business panics in the
history OF this country ETC.. ad naus-
cam. Shucks! What's the matter
with Uncle Jim. anyway? Eight dol
lar cattle and six dollar hogs are In
compatible with panics. The average
Marion county farmer will only grin
at that kind Of a panic"
whatever there is in the republic
can platform, If anything. that may be
accounted objectionable by the con-
servative members of the party" says
the Burlington ,Hawkeye. rs SO COM
pletely overshadowed and atoned for
by the emphatic and Overwhelming
vote by which the convention sat
down upon the minority report and It's
vagaries, that there is general fee;-
ing Of satisfaction over the party dec
laration Of principles
The Inter- County Journal says Gov
ernor Cumnins made fitting elo-
convention. 1T was free from the re-
hottest offense to his opponents and
an earnest and convincing appeal for
the support OF republican candidates
without exception. Regarding 1t in
the light Of political adversely 1t dem-
onstrates matchless equanimity."
Despite his explanations, 1t looks to
US as IL Iowa could have had the vice
presidency but for the opposition--the
dog-in-the Manager attitude of LATE
Young" says the Traer Star-Clipper.
Georgia has elected a governor who
can not make a speech and now the
Georgians wait to see If he is likely to
contract the message habit" the Iowa
Fails Sentinel remarks.
when E. Il. Hart, national committee
man, said in substance that the NOM
ination of Senator Dolliver for vice
president would mean anarchy In
Iowa, he insulted the state and proved
beyond doubt that he is too narrow
a man to represent this grand state.
The Cedar Falls Record says that
neither Mr.. Carroll nor Mr.. Garst
touched the real cause of the increase
in taxes" in Iowa during the recent
primary campaign. The Record de-
clares that the whole difficulty can be
laid to the state board of control. 1t
says: ut makes demands for huge ap-
preparations, hangs on to every cent it
gets and never returns a balance to
y..
autocratic. arrogant, and interprets
statutes to. suit its own pleasure. Peo-
pie are going to learn some things
about this board in the next year or
two which they have not known in
the past"
The Maxwell Tribune says: Iowa
now realizes the truth of Whittier's
words in the poem about Maud Muller,
when he said:
of all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: 1t might have
BEEN
."rhe three dictators, Young, Perkins
and Lacey will be called to account
by the republican voters of Iowa"