Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-14

servant of the public has a cinch on
his job"
Clear Lake has row on between
the churches and those who desire to
listen to Sunday evening band con-
certs," the GAINESVILLE Star says, THE
churches claim that the playing of the
band disturbs religious services. Like
ly, the disturbance is mostly that of
the drawing power Of the music, rath-
err than the noise the musicians make
Perhaps there are those who can tell
what grade and style of music should
be played, and the expression that
should be given it, to constitute a
nuisance. Nevertheless, Clear Lake is
to be pitied."
1.-THE machine that is in and the ma
date and permit you to vote at pri-
mary and then make you believe that
you had part In nominating the cam
didate," the Cedar Rapids Gazette re-
marks. TT is certainly great game"
IA long and protracted drouth from
now until August u would please us
ALL" the Fonda Times observes. 1--WE
could make hay while the sun shines"
Senator Dolliver recently rode
goat as the expression goes when one
joins a secret organization" the Ce-
dar Falls Globe relates. I'VE predict
a harder ride for him the next time
he aspires for Office If Governor Cum
Minis is his opponent"
Says the Keosauqua Republican:
Nearly $4,000 horses, including some
donkeys and mules. went to the
slaughter houses of Paris last year to
furnish meat for the people of that
city. 1t is said that if person does
not know he is eating horse, he likes
the meat and assumes he is eating
beef. However, if you tell the average
American that he is eating horse
steak, he doesn't taste the meat but
Just eats horse, and that spoils the
flavor"
The Oskaloosa Herald says it should
US hSpI III IIllu0 LIldt
who is finding so much fault with the
republican platform, is democrat.
1.-The ranters are now exploiting
their incendiary theories at the chau-
tauquas, and labelling them reforms.
May the good Lord save the common
people," prays the Eldora Herald.
The Webster City Freeman Tribune
recalls that the republican defeat in
the presidential election of 1892 was
ascribed largely to overconfdence, and
it suggests that republicans do not
year. Let the battle be Waged earn
estly and persistently all along the
line" the Freeman Tribune urges.
The Cedar Rapids Republican, re-
ferring to the case Of S. f. Smith the
former Davenport man who is seeking
a pardon from the state board Of par
dons, says he has probably been suf-
ficiently punished. There is little
more left for him at best" continues
the Republican. Ellis years on earth
cannot, in the nature Of things. be
many more. If in his old age with dis
grace lowering over the honored name
that he inherited from his distin-
guished father, he should be allowed
to breathe heavens sunlight and air
again, probably no harm would come
to society. We see no reason why
mercy should not be extended to a
man whose imprisonment was not the
result Of a life of crime, but Of f1nan-
cial misjudguents."
According to the Des Moines Capt.
tai the democratic party has gone in
to the hands Of receiver, and Will
liam j. Bryan, of Lincoln, Neb., is the
receiver.
"Once In long time" says the Ida
Grove Pioneer, I'VE lind an honest man
in politics"
"The present Iowa primary election
law don't suit anybody" the Bre-
mer County Independent asserts. The
primary idea Of the law-that is to
provide plan which will give all the
members of the different parties
chance to say who the candidates Of
their party shall be--is all right. The
law is too cumbersome. 1t must be
and simplified or abolished
There are chances for abuses
under this primary as great as under
the old caucus system. We hope some
wise and honest statesman will come
to the front who will give us a pri
mary election law that will be reason
ably satisfactory to majority of the
Tho Thompson Courier says:
Thompson ladies do not seem to take
very readily to that new creation of the
art, known as the sheath
gown. However, as they grow holder
they may summon courage enough to
don one for the benefit of the man
from home These suits are the very
latest out and are said to be very at
can exchange figures that twenty
years from now the boys of today will
be doctors and drunkards, lawyers and
liars, senator's and sneak thieves, edit
ors and idiots, ministers and murder
ers, republicans and democrats, and so
on down the line" the Algona Cour-
Ter observes TT is impossible to tell
to certainty in just, what class your
boy will be. but is possible for your
boy to be put under such influences as
will steer him in the right direction"