Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-28


to continue in the peaceful pursuits
Of duty, presenting the truth as it
appears with the light we have re-
CARELESS of whether Senator Gale
wins on his merits, wins by progress
sive endorsement" or wins thru pro-
greSSive default
The Davenport Democrat comedies
that lit must be admitted that the Al
lison literary bureau is we'll organ
lied 1t is running Il publicity de-
partmcnt that the readers of the
standpat Iowa newspapers cannot es-
cape.
The Sioux City Journal burns its
bridges III the rear by the demand
that If the republicans of Iowa or
any other state are earnestly in favor
of candidate for the presidential
nomination, the thing for them to do
is to instruct their delegates to the
national convention TO vote for that
candidate so long as his name shall
remain before the convention.
For twenty years the cities of Iowa
in the center of the state have suf-
tered from rate discrimination at the
hands of the railroads. says the
Capital. The railroads may have in
tended to discriminate. or they may
have Disseminated incidentally. They
may have been willing to straighten
out the tangle. but have never entered
upon the task because they have new
er been seriously asked to do it
Says the Carroll Herald; The ques-
ton OF dealing with convicts has out
grown the old manner of treatment.
and it seems necessary to change the
whole machinery of prisons and pris-
on government.
To be logical, the Rockwell City Adj
vocate remarks that the argument
being used by the standpatters that Il
man is as old at SO as at so is no
more idotic than a great many OF
their other so-caled arguments. If
they believe the argument, why can't
they be generous for once and let
Cummns go to the senate for three
years, and then return the young man
from Dubuque? He would then be
just in the Vigor of his young man
hood, according to the standpat way
of figuring
Don't forget that you are subject
to $500 fine if you sign the petition
of more than one candidate for the
same Office" warns the Bristow Times.
AS the Northwood Anchor sees 1t,
Bob Cousins bases his withdrawal
from congress on the necessity of do
ing something for himself financially.
This is pure rot, for three reasons. LIST.
He is already wealthy owning one of
the biggest and best farms in Cedar
county. md. He is a confirmed bach
elor, and has no family dependent on
what he may accumulate. 3rd He is
getting $500 annually in Washington
working five months per year, and
prior to going to congress he never
earned $500 in any twelve months of
his life. Bob has always sneered at
the common people, and now he is too
proud to ask them for their votes"
IF whisky were not manufactured it
would not iniure the sale of corn" as
serts the Cedar Falls Gazette. when it
is considered that only , per cent of
the corn crop is converted into whis-
Ky"
"All this talk Of onslaught on the
single blessedness of the bachelors
during this leap year seems to arise
thru desire of the bachelor to place
himself in the light of a party plotted
against. Much against his desire, the
onslaught has not yet commenced,
explains the Waterloo Tribune
The Webster City Freeman Tribune
comments that Secretary Shaw would
not be averse to the election of such a
man as j. P. Morgan to the presi-
dency. The only difference between
MIR. Shaw and many other Iowa stand
patters is that Mr.. Shaw has the hon.
esty to tell the truth about it, while
the others are pretending to favor the
Roosevelt policies.