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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
What Democrats Say.

himself as warm supporter OF MT.
Taft. In a signed interview given to
the republican national committee, Mr..
Jones gives his reasons for renouncing
Mr. Bryan and the democratic party.
The interview us as follows:
II shall vote for Mr.. Taft because l
believe his election will insure pros
perity to the farmer. the mechanic, the
business man and to the country gen
orally.
'He is a wise, safe, conservative and
courageous thinker on economic ques-
tions affecting the people and the pub
lie welfare.
"He has had large and responsible
experience in public affairs and has
discharged his many important pub
lie duties well. faithfully, and patriotic
ally with repeated proofs of his great
administrative ability.
"He is a strong, forceful, straightfor-
ward man, direct and frank In speech
and act and without subterfuge or eva
sion. He is a man of the people, full
of sympathy for his fellowmen, hating
oppression and unfair dealings and de-
voted to the best development OF this
country on Just and fair lines that
shall insure everyone his just and fair
proportion of this country's prosperity.
"The country needs Mr.. Taft to carry
on the Roosevelt policies on calm,
thoughtful, conservative but positive
/ lines Influenced only by what he be-
lieves to be for the best and per-
manent good of the people and the
maintenance Of this government upon
a righteous, upright and dignifled
| plane
Il have great respect for Mr.. Bry-
ans personal character and patriotism
and as public speaker he has few, If
any, equals, but regard him as an
unsound and dangerous thinker on
economic questions. Unsound because
his public utterances for the last
twelve years or more prove it. Danger
Gus because he has the courage Of his
convictions, and has a wonderful
spell binding oratorica1 power in adj
vocating and advancing his views, but
no position he has taken on economic
questions for the last twelve years Gun
less it be the tariff and on this he has
wobbled some) has stood the test Of
time. thought and investigation and
one by one they have been repudiated
by the people of this country as I'M
sound and dangerous to their best In
| terests.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
THE LAW IN CARROLL.


The saloonkcepers who kept their
places open on the Fourth of July
have not been indicted by the grand
jury just adjourned. This will be
learned with distinct feelings of dis
appointment by people who believe
that saloonkeepers as we'll as other
law breakers should be punished
for crime. But as a practical ques-
ton it has never been possible to in
duce a Carroll county grand jury to
return true bills against vio!aters
of the liquor law, and the grand
juries have had final consideration
in these cases. In our opinion, no
exception should be made and violators
of liquor laws should be punished just
the same as violators Of any other law
against crime
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
JUST TWO STORIES.
CGrinnell Herald.D


Once upon a time there was nan.
And that man lived in Grinnell. Ana
he had lots of money but no friends.
one day another man spoke to him
about making friends and he re-
piled: Il don't need friends: I've
got money" And then one day he lost
all his money and he had no friends.
Moral-But what's the use of point
ing the moral--it's too easy.
Then there was another man. He
might have lived in Grinnell. but ne
didn't happen to. He didn't have so
very much money. but he had lots OF
people who called themselves his
friends. That was while he spent
his money on them. And one day a
real friend took him to task for
throwing his money around so freely
when he really didn't have so very
much whats the difference? I've
got lots of friends who will take care
of me il anything should happen,
And one day he lost his money. He
also lost his friends" the same day.
And last week they buried him at the
public's expenses
Moral = But what's the use? It's
too late for the moral to do any good
for old people. and young people know
too much to profit by other mems eN-
perience.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
LACEY's CAMPAIGN METHODS.
(Sioux CITY Tribune.)


Major Lacey's campaign for the SEN
ate has already fallen to it's proper lev
ell. Already he is making use of the
methods of indirection and false sug-
gestion to accomplish his purposes.
His literary bureau is busy sending
broadcast over the state printed matter
setting forth that he is the republican
candidate" for the senate. Support is
asked for him on the ground that he is
''the republican candidate"
This ignores the fact Of the candi-
dacy for Governor Cummins. 1t ignores
the tens of thousands of republicans
who voted for the governor in the
June primary and the thousands more
who will vote for him in the November
primary And more than that 1t is an
impudent assumption that the bare 15O
standpatters who met at Des Moines
and selected Mr.. LACEY to represent
their faction in the senatorial primary
contest are the republican party OF
Iowa 1t alp implies that the stand
patters still hold to the view that 1t
should be the privilege OF few men
chosen by themselves to get together
in back room and allot party favors;
that they still hold to the view that
the people are too ignorant to rule
without the guiding hand of boss.
It might seem to the careless thinker
that Major L4acey's defeat for congress
tive years ago and the reform work
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
m,cLrARy DISCOVERS SOMETHING.

In series Of debates with his DEM
iocratic opponent In his Minnesota dis
trict, Congressman McCleary has con-
tributed to politics an edifying exam
pie of representative government.
Pushed by his opponent for an express
sion as to where he stood as to Cannon
for speaker OF the next house, McCleary
said:
LAS said at Fairmont, in the first Of
these debates, l recognize the right OK
the people Of a district to instruct their
representatives in congress on any sub
ject on which they have reached a con-
clusion. Having interviewed represen-
tative republicans in every county m
this district, am in a position now
to declare myself on the speakershlp
of the next national house of repre-
sentatives. And this closing debate OF
the series seems an appropriate occa-
sion for mailing the announcement.
IT am under no obligations whatso-
ever to vote for MT. Cannon as speak
er Of the house Of representatives IN
the next congress. find that the sem
ti1nent Of the republicans of this dis
trict is against his reelection to that
office And, feeling it my duty to carry
out the wishes of the people, l now
declare that If elected to congress l
shall not support Mr.. Cannon for
speaker"
If tot1ler members Of congress would
take the trouble to interview the peo-
ple Of their districts as to Cannon ana
other evidences Of standpatism in our
congress, President Roosevelt and his
right hand man Taft would not have
to make the fight of their lives for most
of the reforms they ask from congress.
In this respect good. stiff democratic
opposition has served a very useful
purpose in that 1t has forced an inf1u-
entail member Of congress to consult
the wishes Of people at home. 1t Is
likely that If moro Of them We're sent
home to inquire as to whether this is
to be a country Of conservative prog
ress or Of senile inaction there would
he more congressman announcing to
the world that under no circum-
stances are they to vote for the Joe
Cannons Of American politics. NC
Cleary has discovered something.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
oJD DOC mccoy.

"Reminiscences in Centerville Citizen.o
Doc Mccoy had the respect of all
small boys. On one occasion. q boy
by the name of Hillicker, Strickler,
Ewing or Overstreet, was very ill. 1t
was said in sepulchral tones, that the
boy might become IAN angel" The
gang of which I was one. had never
seen a boy about to become angelic
and we went to the house and were
admitted. I remember the house
fronted north and that there was an
east window. The bed upon which
this 'embryo- ange1" lay was in the
southwest corner Of the room and
door opened on the east wall to an
other room Us kids all stood at the
foot Of the bed looking at the pale.
wan and weary sufferer, whose eyes
were the biggest part Of him in sight
and as we stood there, Doc Mccoy
came and the boys mother came in
and said. willie won't take the medi-
cine" and Willie, in duty bound to
show off before us kids" said, '1ll
be dogoned. if take any more
stuff Old Doc. in the mildest tone
Imaginable. said, IF mamma will get
me a glass Of water and spoon,
think Willie will take it for me-" Will
lie rose up in bed and said. mo,
won't" Old Doc smiled a smile and
said, ooh yes you will"
The water and spoon were obtained
and Doc mixed dose Of some kind
Of white powder and stirred it M
with the spoon and then asked, the
mamma" to leave the room and he
thought Willie would take it better
if she left the room. The mother left
the room and then to our surprise and
CONSERVATION. old Doc pulled an old
fashioned dirk knife out of his pocket
1t was about an inch wide and about
six inches long. 1t had spring In the
back Of it and he set the spring and
! opened the blade which looked fierceI
than a butcher knife. He then
approa ched the bed and said to Will
lie. in very different tone of voice
than that he used to the mother
"Now then. you little devil. do you
suppose that my reputation as a doc
tor is to suffer because you won't
take the medicine? You sit up in bed
and take this medicine, or will cut
out your glzzard right before these
boys" We were all scared. We oil
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
THE NOD CARRIER WAS MISSING.

In the course of the last twenty
four hours a Times Republican man
has been casually approached by two
building contractors with almost the
identical complaint that they can't get
men to carry a hod. One spoke OF
conditions in Marshalltown, and the
other, independently of the first, spoke
of the troubles he had in another Iowa
town where building had been active.
IT tell YOU" said the first man, 'if
our storekeepers would quit trusting
so many men. more fellows would nave
to work. AS it is, you and l, who pay
our bills, have to pay the same price
as other folks pay and the price IS
made high enough so that we make up
what these loafers don't pay, then
when I try to get man to carry a hod
I don't get him, see?"
And this employer was speaking IN
real earnest for the building session IS
closing, and he is being pressed to get
work finished.
The other man spoke of walls he had
lying partly finished, and of stone ly-
ing on the ground waiting to be laid
in the wall which he probably would
not be able to touch before winter set
in. all becauses of the difficulty in get
ting men.
1t is not likely that the custom OF
giving credit has a great deal to do
with men refusing the common labor
Of carrying a nod, because even this
much-abused and senseless custom
among merchants has it's limitations,
and men who prefer to loaf rather than
do hard work would soon get on the
dead beat list if they did not have
some woman In the family willing to
rub out poverty stricken existence
at the wash tub. The trouble lies
mostly in this much boosted prosper
ity. Too many men do not have to
carry hod. They can get other and
better jobs. And that led the news
paper man to look wise and observe
that perhaps we three had better vote
for Bryan and less prosperity. Hav-
ing some building to do next year he
thought that he might save $1,000 on
lower prices, but both contractors
seemed to look upon that suggestion
as a Joke. With all their troubles get
ting men to carry the hod they seemed
to prefer them to conditions under
which men would. be clamoring for
hod-carrying jobs with no buildings
for them to climb. If we could only
have engaged lew hod carriers in the
conversation we might have been en-
lightened as to how the hod carrier
expects to benefit himself by soaring
the life out of business with a change
Of administration.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23

The true worth Of man can best
be judged when his friends are giving
their opinions of him candidly Be-
fore he became the party nominee the
New York Stats Zeitung. the news
paper owned by Hermann Rider, now
treasurer of the democratic campaign
fund. said of Mr.. Bryan:
Ignorant on Economic Questions.
MIR Bryan's election surely would
cause disturbance of industrial and
economical development of the country.
We deem republican victory less dan
gerous for the country than the cleo
ton of Mr.. Bryan. Nothing better
could happen to the party than to get
rid Of >this incubus. The east is too
conservative and level headed to give
a majority to a man who on economical
questions is ignorant and who, prompt
ed by his confused notions would
grasp the first opportunity to cause
terrible catastrophe. He does not pos
sess real knowledge or comprehension
of the problems with which he seeks to
concern himself"
Only Negative Results Expected.
Henry Watterson, in the Louisville
Courier Journal of Feb. "a, 1908, also
contributes to that literature in which
the democratic candidate is condemned
by the big men of his own party. MI.
Watterson is in charge of the demo-
cratic campaign press work but then
he wrote:
CAS- one of the guilty in 1896, tho not
in 1900. 1 am so sensible of my lack
of desert that, whilst in the coming
campaign / shall labor to elect him
still distrusting him-I shall not eX-
pect any other than negative results
from his advent to power, nor dream OF
crossing his threshold after his cleo
ton"
Just before Mr.. Bryan's return last
summer and his bad break at Mad
ison Square garden, Mr.. John G. Car
Isle said to me I know Mr.. Bryan
I know him Welt like him, but he
has no more idea of the responsible
ties of government than child
A Banker Fears Business Disturbance.
Frank II. Jones, secretary of the
American Trust and Savings bank OF
Chicago, who served under President
Cleveland for four years as first as
sistant postmaster general, and who
has been identified with the democratic
party for thirty years, has declared
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
FOOT BALL, NOT YET SAFE.


Cedar Rapids GaZette.)
An Iowa young man who participated
in a high school foot ball game last
Saturday died as a result of oNer-ex-
ertion. Thus one more is added to the
list of fatalities of the strenuous game.
The foot ball season is yet very young
barely a month has elapsed since the
collegiate and high school season be-
gan--and yet there have been several
fatalities, and scores of players have
been more or less seriously crippled.
Either foot ball ought to be abandoned
altogether. in thd opinion of a great
many people, or at least only those
young men who are physical giants
ought to be permitted to participate in
the game.
There is an element of danger in all
games In the course of a season not
a few base ball players are injured: oc-
casionally a base ball player meets
death: but the percentage of Injured
participants in base ball games is very,
very small in comparison to the num-
Der injured in foot ball. The game OF
base ball is safe and sane compared to
the game of foot ball as now played.
We were assured few years ago
that foot ball had been debrutalized;
the players had been rendered less
liable to injury or death by the adop-
ton Of rules which players and public
would applaud. But if there is
smaller percentage Of casualties, the
public does not know about it.
Athletics are a necessary part of the
life of school at a college, but foot ball
&c of nresent n1ayed hardly seems
necessary The greater percentage OF
the people would undoubtedly be
pleased if the game could be really de-
brutalized or a substitute Of some kind
provided.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
Iona Newspapers
MINISTER'S SONS GOOD.
ODecorah RepublicanD

A Des Mones Clergyman last sun
day discussed the morality and ten
denotes of ministers sons. The idea
prevails that such youth are predis-
posed to go to the bad. There is no
reason for such conclusion. A dis
tingulshed bishop of England once in
vestigated this idea from the reverse
standpoint. He took the names of q
135 persons named in n national bio
graphic library as distinguished men
OF these he found $50 were sons of
physicians, 500 were attorneys boys.
and 1250 came from the homes of
clergymen The latter (the clergymem
We're Undoubtedly fewer in numbers
than the attorneys. perhaps were
equalled by the physicians.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
ADMINISTRATIONS CITIZEN.

The case Of Banker Culbertson Of
fers It's lesson to all men OF business.
He was one of the big men of the
town, the president Of the First Ma
tional bank. His home was the nome
of elegance, the big house in the town.
His wife a social leader, Other men
turnout that county went to Culbert-
son for business advice. They once sent
him to the legislature. They all
respected him and honored him, every
day in the Difference they showed him
when meeting casually as business men
do. In every characteristic, gilbert
son was the leading citizen and every
town in Iowa has its leading citizen of
almost Identical type.
Apparently life was one great bowl
Of happiness for Culbertson, overflow
ing with its Joys until Monday morn
ing when he shot himself because he
had involved his bank in some
speculations in which he had
overreached. At the age 81 he
must send bullet thru his
own head in order to escape the
humiliation of financial disaster. Death
was preferred to the fall Of his pride.
Why was not Culbertson content
with reasonable prosperity? Why, at
the age Of GA, was he not enjoying the
ease and comfort Of quiet living while
the safe investments of what he once
had could have sent him to bed free
from care or worry until he and his
entertaining wife had enjoyed their
possessions until very old age? Oh,
why would Culbertson, a rich man, risk
all he had when past the meridian OF
life merely to become richer? The pic
ture of Russell Sage's widow, at the
age Of 80 years, weeping amid plush
carpets and unaccustomed luxury, at
the burden of knowing what to do with
So. 0OO, 900, should have been shown to
him.
It is time for more of our success
Rul citizens to know how to live There
Is a man Of about Culbertson's age
living on a beautiful Iowa farm today
who can teach the leading citizens Of
most Of our county seats their A. B.
C.'s in correct living. He made a for
tune by hard work and good financier-
ing in some industrial enterprise in the
east. He came back to Iowa and
bought the big farm. setting aside
enough of his money to thoroughly
stock it and operate it. He enjoys a
mansion like Culbertson's, an automo-
bile, travels every year, livea quietly
and well and never worries. The farm
is paid for and when men approach
him with attractive investments. he
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
A TUMBLE WEED.
(Oelwein Register)


1t was only a tumble weed that
rolled down Frederick street Monday
morning propelled by the wind. but it
recalled to several bystanders that
thirty or forty years ago, when they
were barefoot boys with cheeks of
tan the tumble weed. would skiddoo
before the wind across the prairies,
and when they came to a fence the
place would soon fill up till the wind
row was level with the top, when over
the weeds that followed would go to
continue before the wind. To the
boy the weeds had a sort Of fascina-
ton, and many a lad recalls racing
with them across an eighty With
cultivation Of the land they are not
as common as they were in pioneer
days, and in town are almost a cur
iosity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23

opportunity to get work. The man with
a. lob, however. should take no chances.
There are worse things than high
prices.
Young man. ask your merchant
friend. your closest personal adviser
who has had business experience be-
fore YOU decide to vote for democratic
candidates. His Judgment is as good
on tho present issue as it is upon the
Investment of money.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
CEDAR RAPIDS WOMEN swEAR?-

Cedar Rapids Republican,
"Some how or other it seems to
me that women are learning to
swear" said travelling man. WON
en- that would scorn to do anything
that would reflect on their honor think
nothing Of ripping out an oath that
would shock even a man. While I am
speaking Of it, to my mind there is
nothing that so disgusts a man as pro-
family in a woman. Somehow or other
we have come to consider a woman as
little more sacred than ourselves and
it is hard for us to reconcile ourselves
to the fact that our woman relatives
are learning to swear in a very I'M
ladylike manner. mentioned this mat
ter in a. small town in Wisconsin some
weeks ago and another commercial
traveller gave it as his opinion that the
ladies are learning to swear from the
stronger sex. At any rate it is a shame
that woman is coming to point where
she will degrade herself by using
blasphemous language"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
ga,ess eu,hlieay zlaltdr.s, Horra 0rtuhrr q aus

done in Iowa and the nation in the past
four years should have taught MN
something, but that would be to ignore
the fact that the true bourbon never
learns and never forgcts. Major Lacey
Is typical standpatter aud the meth
DDS he uses are typical of the inter-
csts he serves.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23

"They say Governor Hughes is not a
politician" remarks the Cedar Rapids
Gazette. "And it is true that he isn't.
The governors a statesman" asserts
the Sioux City Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23

s.Wbat would Lincoln do?" asks the
Dubuque Telegraph Herald The
chances are that he would grab club
and show those standpat republicans
where to head in.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The Mason City Globe Gazette says:
"All that Mr.. Bryan needs is time in
order to be able to answer all of his
own arguments"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23

"As a matter of fact, however," con-
fesses the Des Moines Tribunee, (dem.)
"the man who argues that the repub-
lican party is responsible for this high
priced fod is either ignorant or dis
honest"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23

IuC HILL w llO Stl uCo SAAehS SAAS ASl'Ao
lican party is responsible for this high
priced fod is either ignorant or dis
honest"
'The Lacey campaign is In full
swing" notes the Des Moines Capt.
tai. "And it might have added that
we all know who are pushing the
swing" rejoins the Sioux City Trib-
une.
'The Cummins candidacy is positive
and aggressive and is grounded on the
record of achievement which marks the
governor as generally of the Roose-
welt type. 1t is a sure winner, de-
RAILROAD reform may be interesting
as an abstraction, but who has ever
seen a reformed railroad?" asks the
Sioux City Tribune.
The Davenport Democrat says: IF
Judge Taft could vote at the primary
connected with the election on the Sd
of November, it is believed he would
be found ardently supporting Cover
nor Cummins for United States sena-
tor. But there are other ways IN
which he can get in his work"
The Cherokee Times notes that
"some narrow minded sheets are at
tempting to belittle the fact that Taft
gave special honor to Cumnins by say
ing it was to the office he holds down.
not to the man, the honor was shown.
This might do for Iowa, but it does not
explain why Taft invited him to speak
with him in other states. The fact is
that Cummins and Taft are in accord
on public questions, and therefore it
was natural that he should elect Cum
Minis rather than lacey TO expound
those views a...~A