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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29
1T WOULDN'T DO IN IOWA.

Seventeen suffragettes who We're re-
manded Oct. IA. the day after the at
tempt to storm the British house OF
commons. were tried in a London po-
lice court Thursday and ordered to
find sureties for good behavior or to
go to Jail. Three were sentenced to
thirteen days and thirteen to a month
all refusing to furnish sureties. Mrs.
Mary Leigh, the Scottish woman who
has already served two months for
breaking the windows in Prime Min
lister Asauith's house and threatenins
to use bombs next time, was sentenced
to three months, the longest sentence
yet imposed on a suffragette.
In this country such wholesale i'm
prisonment of women would raise a
storm Of protest. When woman is
elected forcibly from a public office
or handled roughly for any reason,
trouble begins. There is something
about the American man that rises to
physical revolt when he sees a woman
manhandled or submitted to rough
treatment. If woman horsewhips a
man for real or fancied cause the
victim of her attack gets small SYM
pathy and but slight notice in the
courts, if he is foolish enough to carry
his troubles there. If the arrests and
rough usage to which English suffra-
gettes have been submitted were to
occur in this country the cause of
woman suffrage would multiply its adj
herents and find thousands of advo-
Gates from pure resentment.
Perhaps the English know what they
are about, but it will appear to the
American mind that some better way
might be found to deal with the OBJ
streperous suffragette than to fill the
jails with women. Of course the wo-
man who breaks windows ought to go
to JAIL but the average American
doesn't believe it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29
Bryan the Acrobat.
New York Tribune.O

lA<CW Ioi N J. iibNhN'l
Mr. BRYAN while in the west attacks
the republican party because it's poll
cies in regard to the regulation of in
terstate commerce and of corporations
engaged in interstate commerce have
not been radical enough. When he
comes east he is glad to intimate that
those policies have caused depression
in business, and emptied the working
mans dinner pail The agricultural
west is highly prosperous: therefore
the democratic candidate for president,
campaigning beyond the Alleghanies,
denounces the republican program as
overcautious and hating. Industry In
the eastern states is depressed; there
fore when east of the mountains he
seeks to put the blame for the depres-
sion on republican legislation 1t is
pettifogging device, but Mr.. Bryan in
his attempts to- be all things to the
people Of all sections has shown him
self an adept in pettifogging arts.
There is one fact. however, which
Mr.. Bryan cannot escape or explain
away. He cannot expnnge the repub-
Mcan party's record of positive
achievement under Mckinley and
Roosevelt While he was still claim
ing to be President Roosevelts natural
heir he put "a high value on the poltt-
ical inheritance which he expected to
enjoy. He was willing to admit that
the republican party had accomplished
something worth while, and was ready
to give President Roosevelt credit for
having done things which he himself
had only talked about Now that he
has been disqualified as heir expectant
he can see only that the republicans
have emptied the dinner pail. altho he
has more than once declared that the
administration was in no way respon-
sible for the business contraction which
followed last falls monetary disturb
ance. The freeing of transnorta-
ton and industry from the shackles put
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29
Could the Country Afford It?
(Philadelphia Press)


If William j. Bryan were elected
president there would be an instant
halt in the now steady revival of bus
mess felt everywhere and practically
in ali lines.
Could the country afford it?
If William j. Bryan were elected
president there would be four years
OF turmoil. Authorization and hysteria
with no possibility Of making progress
With any of the great questions OF
government.
Could the country afford ito
If William J. Bryan were elected
president all business, all manufac.
lures. all industries would be held ur
under the menace of a democratic re-
/ duction to practically free trade
basis.
Could the country afford it,
If William j. Bryan were elected
, president the congress would be de-
luged with all sorts Of crude and inn
practicable demands. the effect OF
which would be to keep the country
in a state of continual unrest if moi
actual alarm.
Could the country afford it?
If William j. Bryan were elected
president the lawful regulation Of cor
porations would be suspended to ex-
pertinent with chimerical and impos
sible schemes from which nothing bu
harm could come.
| Could the country afford it?
If William j. Bryan We're elected
president there would be every danger
! that appointment of judges Of the
courts would be made for special inter
ests without regard to the rights o.
all the people.
| Could the country afford 1t?
| If William j. Bryan We're elected
president the postal savings bank pro
ject would be held up and defeated t;
permit of experiments with wild
scheme for the guaranty Of bank de.
posits-the honest banks to pay fol
| the crimes of the dishonest ones.
| Could the country afford it?
| If William j. Bryan We're elected
president the country would be ir
daily peril of a revival of repudiatei
and unlimited greenbacks, for these
have never been repudiated by the
democratic candidate.
| Could the country afford it?
| If William ]. Bryan were electef
president the proposition for the gov.
eminent ownership of railroads anf
other propositions equally absurd
would hang like dark clouds over the
I people for four years.
! Could the country afford it?
| Does any thoughtful person feel thai
| this country now or at any time, coult
afford an administration at Washing
ton that would mean uncertainty, bus
mess paralysis and in all probability
national humiliation?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29
La TOILETTE IN IOWA.

Iowa republicans are fortunate In
securing La Toilette for even the few
dates he will be enabled to fill in this
state. When he comes to Marshall-
town Saturday 1t is certain that he
will draw a splendid audience. Men
are anxious to hear him. Why? Be-
cause LaFollette stands for human
rights in politics, for the rule of the
people rather than the sway of tho
bosses. He represents the new era
in political partisanship, instituted by
himself, and Cummins and Van SAINT
and Hadley, and the best of all parties
and fostered thru two strenuous terms
by Roosevelt. the era of business adj
ministration of office for the people
and the principle of the square deal
Toilette.
1t is the reason why Curnmins never
speaks to slim crowd. He stands
and has stood for the rights of the
people over the bosses. His seven years
of office holding in Iowa have been de-
voted to progress for the many instead
of a ultra conservatism for the benefit
of the few. He has been leader as
LaFollette has been leader. and as
Roosevelt has led The reasons for the
popularity of the men are the same.
The incentive for the hatred of each
is the same But the people know them
and need them.
1t is good to have LaFollette in Iowa.
He will strengthen the party, and aside
from mere partisanship, bring a mes
sage to all men who love their country
anad desire its welfare and progress
sion. None should miss his meetings.
LaFollette is great man in many
ways: he is greatest as an advocate of
the rights of the common man whose
voice is never heard beyond his own
doorstep. but whose welfare and OPP
portllnity is the welfare and opportun-
ity Of the nation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29
E7''r4rvat rrnna 0rtnher % 1908

he could have sat IN congress without
attracting notice and acquiring prom
! inence as n statesman? What did Mr.
Bryan do in congress"
|
Every farmer has a personal inter-
est in the road front TO his farm. In
J the matter of identifying the roadside
1t is in his power to do much thru
| the somplc process of running IN"
mower over the grass ITO the end OF
cleaning out all weed growth. 1T is
| likewise q matter OF appealing to the
along the road front. But these Is also
the element of utility present in all
this to u degree beyond the usual con :
ccption of the matter A mans sue
cesses are Judged by appearances. 1t
pays In dollars and cents to keep your
road sides in presentible condition.
Send drag down the middle of the
road day or two following every
rain that makes mud and Your neigh
bors will stand up and call you be-
loved, and your horses will make bet
ter time over the roads with less wear
and tear. There should be II comnun-
ity of interest in every neighborhood
to the end OF beautfying the roads
and making them more passable.
y =
The custom of warranting farm an
imalS as free from disease when sold
to butchers is spreading in England
In Sussex. where the custom has made
the most progress. the farmer pays a
small fee to an insurance company,
which is percentage of the sale price
of the animal. II the carcass Is con-
demned and destroyed. the butcher Is
reimbursed by the company. me
ing warranties for all animals bought
for Strengthening after Nov. j and rec
ommending no compromise. This Is y
different matter from the voluntary
agreements used up to now. and farm
ers' associations are resentlng the de-
mand The government has declined
to move in the matter and the ques-
ton must be settled between the farm
ers and the butchers
third off on ribbons would set
most women frantic. One third off on
every railroad ticket bought in Iowa
has done worse than that to some rail-
road attorneys. but will one-third Off
on the cost of every railroad trip re-
mind the man in the election booth
who ii was that got him the discount?
VIII the people stand by Cummins
with II vote for senator Others have
been standing there with club 10,
these many days
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29
THREE OPINIONS BY GOLFERS.

Golfers Weekly, a journal Of pro-
nounced opinions, offers the basis of
it's reasons for preferring Taft above
Bryan for the presidency thus:
Our reasons for preferring Mr.. Taft
to Mr.. Bryan are known. They can
all be reduced to the belief that he is
better equipped, for the presidency.
Either would be free from improper
influences. Either would be consci-
entious. Mr.. Taft is of better eXper-
fence and Of sounder mind. Mr.. Bryan
is q believer in panaceas. His latest
the insurance of bank deposits-seems
to us full of peril; almost as clearly as
his free silver; and we are rather
afraid of the supreme court appoint
ments he would make. Mr.. Taft is less
addicted to theory, more sure-footed, of
more proved ability. His appointments
in all departments will probably be ex-
cellent. Other things being equal, we
should this year, have inclined toward
the democratic nominee. But other
things are not equal. Mr.. Taft is ex-
Bryan has not the kind of mind to
WHICH we ike 10 see tIl0 american PEG.
pie entrust themselves.
When we take time to analyze senti-
ment against Mr.. Bryan, Golfers has
expressed the general fear. Its analy-
sis of Mr.. Bryan is true. The people
are afraid Of him for the reasons stated
by Golfers. There is a general feeling
that he is unsafe. There is as general
feeling that Taft is safe, properly
equipped for the executive office and
to be trusted. "Mr. Bryan has not the
kind of mind" to which the American
people may entrust themselves without
grave misgivings.
Golfers goes on to say:
Missouri usually goes democratic. On
the governorship she surely owes it to
herself to go republican. Hadley be-
longs to one of the best types of cit
izenship; his opponent to one of the
the senate as thoroughly as Gumshoe
Bill deserves to stay at home.
OF the Iowa situation it refers 20
Mr.. Lacey's well known attitude to-
ward progressive measures and pro-
gressive men, and believes che ought
to be defeated in favor Of Cummins."
Summed up, the opinion Of Golfers
is the opinion Of the majority of I'M
subsidized journals which have
watched the trend of public affairs and
the attitude of public men in sincere
estimate of their worth to the nation
The final arbitrament of men and is
sues will come before the voters next
Tuesday 1t is for them to protect
themselves against the vagaries Of
Bryan and the ultra conserva tism
which would hold progress back.
In Iowa the question for them To de-
eide is whether Lacey, standpatrer
from Standpatterville. or Cummins, the
advocate of the legislation of the past
FIVE years which has placed Iowa in
the lead of the states, shall best rep
resent Iowa III the senate Nationally
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29
Topics of the Times.

The reason the railroads pay every
tiers of million more in taxes than
they did seven years ago is that Cum
minis was nominated by the republicans
for governor. The opportunity is now
afforded to nominate him for senator
simply by asking the election clerks
for that separate senatorial ballot and
voting it for Cummins for senator.
The new panacea for all diseases s
a diet of sour milk. The panacea for
all political ills according to himself
is four years diet of Bryan and Bry-
anism. Each is equally attractive.
Was Mr. Bryan right in 1896? Does
the history of the past twelve years
show him as a wise counselor and a
fit executive? Mr.. Bryan hasn't
changed much since '96. But the times
have.
One reason that factionalists have
been so willing to let the primary set
tie the senatorship is that they have
hoped that Cummins men would
neglect to ask the election clerks for
that separate senatorial ballot.
Any man who wants to do some.
work for Cunlnains can go right at il
by explaining to every Cumnins man
that he must ask for the separate bal
lot by signing an application blank be-
fore he can vote in the special pri-
mary for senator.
MIR. Bryans congressional service is
rarely alluded TO. Is it possible that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29
Iona Newspapers
sLANDER1NG GOOD WOMEN.
(Des Moines Forum.)

The Clarinda Herald, in noting the
recent moral downfall of member of
the legislature and Pharmacy Commits
sioner Russell, comes to the conclusion
that there is something wrong in the
atmosphere in Des Moines. The Cedar
Rapids Republican. edited by Cyrenus
Cole, formerly employed by the morn
ing paper in this city-and man who
ought to know something about the
Atmosphere" in Des Moines. says:
ut is not the atmosphere. 1T is the
system that obtains in the state house.
The state house has been filled up with
boards and commissions to look after
one thing and another and generally
it is the other thing that they are look
ing after 1t is the system of idleness.
There is little or nothing for these
commissioners who sit In easy chairs
to do Their offices are honorary ones.
the secretary in nine cases out Of ten.
doing all the work. That gives these
country politicians time to loaf
"around." 1t id the loafer who falls
into bad habits and If q fluffy woman.
with pretty clothes and scented hair
comes within their reach. they are all
IL.
us to believe that portions of the state
house in Des Moines have been teeming
with affinities. all the way up and
down There is Il great deal of petit
coating going on. There is therefore
no wonder that now and then one lun-
attic gets clear off the track and flies
the coop" the coop being the $1,000
600 building with the gilded dome.
Russell il the second man OF his kind
within the year.
s"The way to reform it is to abolish
the offices of idleness (which are now
used largely for political promoting
Get down to hard work and business
again. The men who really have some
thing to do, do not go wrong in that
way. There ought to be no offices Of
illeness in Iowa. This is working
people's state"
There are no more boards and COM
missions at the state house now than
there have been under former COVER
nors for the past twenty years-not
even excepting that great "reformer"
Governor Larrabee-Mr. Coles especial
favorite. There are no more, not as
many fluffy women with "pretty
clothes and scented hair under the
present administration than there Were
under former ones. The trouble with
Mr.. Cole is that he allows his hatred of
Governor Cunmins to warp his jude-
lnent and blind his vision.
The fault is not in the Des Moihes
atmosphere, nor In the number Of
boards and commissions at the state
house. 1t is in the men themselves
who violate the laws of morality ana
decency "Fluffy women who wear
pretty clothes and scented hair" do
not decoy men of good moral fibre
away from their homes and their wives
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29

Such talk is the rankest nonsense
There Is no excuse for the men. Those
who are overcome by the ilattery and
heartlcss affection Of such sirens are
moral degenerates.
We do not believe Mr. Coles accusa-
tons against tho women employed in
the state house are justified by the
facts We believe they are false and
brutal II he knows there Is too much
"petticoating" at the state house--if
he has proof that the capitol building
is "teeming with affinities all the way
UP and down"--lct him publish the
names of the guilty ones and the To-
cations of their departments. If he
has not the courage to do so. If he VIII
furnish the names and evidence -
back up his assertions. The Forum
Will print them. But If he cannot
produce the names and the evidence
he has done irreparabe harm to ali
the honest, virtuous and Woodworking
women employed at the state house
He should be ashamed to allow his
hatred of Governor Cummins to lead
him TO Islander and defalne decent and
Industrious women.
We have seen n great deal of the
state house during the past thirty ODD
years. We have reported session AFTER
session Of the legislature from the Six
teenth general assembly in 1877 down,
and know about as much concerning
the Things Mr. Cole is discussing as
he does himself. And we do not now
remember of ever hearing the name
of a regular woman employe at the
state capitol dragged into the mire or
her character questioned. During SEES
sions of the legislature we have seen
some things that did not look right.
but the women involved We're in al
most every case. those brought from
country towns by members Of the
legislature and given committee clerk
ships. These women could not With
stand the excitement and temptations
Of the city during session OF the
LEGISLATURE and some Of them returned
home with a certain kind OF knoWi-
edge concerning life in a city that
was not beneficial to them and which
thew would not dare impart to thelr
parents. But the women employed at
the state house the year around are
not of such a brand. Some of them
have been there for years, during sue
cessjye administrations. and not a
SYLLABLE derogatory to their good names
has ever been heard. we thlnk ME-
Cole owes them an apology
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29
Outside Point of View

If some foreign statesman snould
visit the United states at the present
time. this for the purpose OF studSlns
into and understanding our national
election methods, he would have a most
difficult task set before him. He would
find the two prominent candidates on
the road making hundreds of speeches
and really but little difference in the
platform they stand upon. Both con-
denim trusts and combines. Both pro-
nose to revise the tariff One wants
postaI savings banks, the other guar
anteed bank deposits. And said for
eigner would be unable to understand
why such an uproar was going on with
so little difference in the utterances
and platforms of the candidates.
Then too. he would fail to com
prehenl the Hearst Independent move.
the socialist party and the national
prohibition party This for the reason
there are more voters in he republican
and democratic parties that believe
Theoretically. an Independence social
ism and prohibition, than Will vote
these party tickets For instance, a
democrat voting against Bryan is by
no means an exceptional case. Yet such
a democrat may believe in socialism
and prohibition and yet vote fol. Taft
Such a political combination would be
a sumner" for the foreigner. IL he
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29

looked up Hearsts record, he would
find that at one time Roosevelt almost
accused Hearst as being accessory to
McKinleys assassination. yet Hearst
today by his attack on Bryan. VIII
probably carry New York for Roose
velt's friend and party selection l. O.,
Mr. Taft.
And some one calls his attention to
the attack on Candidate Taft because
he is a Unitarian To his surprise he
finds that Mr.. Taft has strong work.
ing friends among the free-thnkcrs.
He hears that many Roman Catholics
are strong for the election of this
Unitarian. BECAUSE Taft gave us q
square deal i'm the Philippines" Then
once more he finds certain labor I'M
ions moving everything possible to
elect the republican candidate. while
others are trying to influence votes
for Bryan To add to his confusion
he finds republicans In one part Of
the country wanting free hides, yet
voting for the protectionist, Taft. Mas
sachusctts has thousands of such cases.
He hears that the solid south wants
protection on tobacco sugar and many
manufactured articles, yet almost to a
man they are democrats, and vote for
the free trade candidate, Bryan.
SO he gives up trying to solve our
political problem. And the voter this
year of 1908. is much in the same
frame of mind 1t has settled down to
the choice of men: whether to elect
the man of words. Bryan, or the man
of deeds, Taft
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29

upon them by spread of monopoly and
special privilege was an achievement
which will make the Roosevelt admin
istraton memorable. 1t was an
achievement which never could have
been accomplished under q democratic
administration and 1t is therefore one
which the democratic nominee for pres
ident after vainly trying to approprf-
ate it, now seeks to ignore. But the
voters are awake both to what the re-
publican party has done to improve
political and economic conditions and
to the futilty of Mr. Bryan's efforts,
first to serve writ of attachment on
that splendid record and then to de-
preciate it and explain it away
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29
Nation Needs cummins.
Baltimore News)

The nation needs men like Cummins.
He would be powerful figure in the
increasing group of men in the sem
ate who have been upholding the poll
icies of progress and enlightenment.
He was the man on whom the presi-
dent and Mr. Taft united, in the last
analysis. as the right candidate for
second place on the national ticket.
They knew he was strong in the mid
die west and with real progressives
everywhere 1t will strengthen the re-
publican party in the west if the fight
against Cummins ceases, proving that
there is room in the party for progress
i've men of his type.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29

we are to make choice between a man
exceptionally fitted to he president Of
the United States and another who be-
lieves in political patent medicines.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29
IOWA nPlMluNs AND NoTEs.

The Spirit Lake Beacon thinks Can
non could be spared without Earring the
political fabric and Smith would he
one of the best to WELD the savcl in
the house"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29

"'rhc way to vote this year is to
make II cross in every square on the
republican ticket and hand the same
to the judges of election. conciseiy
sums up the Scranton Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-29

What kind of punishment would it
be for bad boys to sentence them to
attend Sunday school for ~ specified
time?" suggests the Iowa Falls CIT
izen.