Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-08
Topics of the Times,

uproariously funny because the Her
aid says that Lacey and Kendall Will
redeem the Sixth district this fall -
while the Register says that C,immins
and Kendall will do the redeeming.
But the Times-Repubhcan must agree
THAT the main point is that 1T will be
| redeemed-the question of who Is real
ly a secondary matter-Grinnell Her.
aid.
Well, IL the public We're in full pos
session of facts Wouldn't it be funny?
Welcome, the good old European
war cloud from dts vacation.
Mr. Bryan's attempt to carry Iowa
may encourage some one to attempt
ITO lug off brick block.
Vote to keep the meat and the pie
in your dinnerpail.
The democratic papers should con-
tinue their fiction serial OF what Nick
Longworth didn't say.
Now that President Roosevelt has
produced that letter, Governor Haskell
is in state of mind precisely opposite
to that accredited to Oliver Twist.
The Wisest men make mistakes, but
1T is not likely that that editorial writer
will continue making mistakes-in the
Omaha Bee office.
The more light thrown on Haskell
the darker 1t looks for him.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, is being
worked harder by the news correspond
ents than dn the carpet factory.
Uncle Joe Cannon says ''the for
eigners do NOT pay any of our taxes"
BY the way, Uncle Joe does; on how
much please?
Instead of being vindieated, Haskell
is still further indicated.
With the base bail season closing in
a blaze Of fireworks, and the campaign
just getting good, what chance has
the good roads congress?
Bulgaria should have delayed. the
announcement that she Is done with
Turkey until the week after Thanks
giving. Now she is likely to have the
hash served first.
Au bunch Of Des Moines girls have
been selected TO solicit money for
charity and tag those who respond
to their appeals. 1t is not unusual for
Des Moines girls to tag the men.
President Rosevelt's mail IFS stacked
high these days with letters concerning
the Commission on Country Life,
which he recently created, and the
number of Communications on the sub
jest is growing greater daily. A rather
strange feature of this correspond
considering the ching signifi-
canoe of the commission, is that SO
far 1T has contained no word of adverse
comment from amy quarter. The sug-
gestions are all constructive, and many
of them will prove of great help to the
commission when lit formulates its
plans of campaign.
The October Forum opens with the
customary survey, by Henry Litchfield
West, of the months happenings in
American politics, with special en-
pha!sis ON the probable influence of
business depression as "a serious factor
in the coming presidential election. I'm
der the caption of Foreign Affairs, Mr.
A. Maurice Low has some interesting
things to say regarding the annexation
of the Congo by Belgium; the present
relation between Japan and the Saxon
apropos of the enthusiastic welcome
accorded the American fleet by Aus
tralia; and the Moroccan inbroglio
which ne describes as a bomb that
spluttered but failed to explode. Alex.
ander D. Moves contributes his quar-
terly summary of the financial sit,la-
SASsaA
sighted exposition of the causes that
have recently made the cost of living
higher in the face of a steady average
decline in the prices of commodities.
Clayton Hamilton Tesuning his cur
rent criticisms of the seasons drama,
estimates briefly bur to the point. un-
der the title plays that Pass dnl
Night" no lass than ten of the month
new productions. THE special articles
in the current number include highly
suggestive and somewhat caustkc dis
cussion, by Harry Thurston Peek. OF
MIR. Roosevelt and his Future" a Wig
orous article. by Attorney General
Charles ]. Bonaparte, of the response
bality of the newspaper, in its aspect as
representing Government by Public
Opinion"