Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-30


If Mr., Taft can discuss tariff revision
in almost the Identical language mset
by Cummins four years ago in hi.
Minneapolis speech. it ought to be easy
for any republican to support Cummns
for senator.
The man who drives a tank wager
will now have to forgo all his chances
for a public career
Standard Oil thinks enough of the
power of publicity ITO put up $4,000
for the purchase OF a newspaper 1t
ought to suggest the value of adver-
Using to those who can buy 1t by the
column inch.
Down in Alabama they are evading
| the liquor laws by selling sandwiches
loaded with whiskey. There should be
general rejoicing that the needed slim
ulant is now so accessible for the poor
victim of the average lunch counter
snker.
|
| The Iowa standpatters and progress
ives seem to have fought each other
to a standstill. They are merely glar-
| ing tiercey and waiting for chance
to do the knitting at the polls.-keokuk
! Constitution (dem.)
| The difference lies in who is to be
knitted Iowa republicans are prepar-
| ing to keep whole skins while they
! lay the Keokuk papers party wide
open. Keep your eye on the knife!
There must be more to this moral
awakening than hot air. else whence
| the power to cause AID of these pre-
cipitous designations.
Down with the dictator!" roars the
Des Moines Tribune The Tribune is
the junk for which no good use could
be found in the republican fleet and
was sold to the democrats, raced.
painted and converted into a sort Of
harbor defense. Shooting at Roosevelt
it must feel like a popgun directed
against a Dreadnaught,
The peach is dead. Long live tbs
oyster.
General Apathy marched into Iowa
and looked around and marched right
out again.
The airship has some commercial
possibilities. 1t is pretty certain
agent to the realization of accident In
surance.
,, The Omaha World Herald seems to
have been more than pleased with the
campaign correspondence, saying:
Theodore Roosevelt has met his mas
ter; his master not only as a con-
troversialist, a dialectician. a wielder
Of terse, picturesque and forceful Eng
lish, but his master purely as a fighter
his master in boldness, in daring, in
GOODNESS, in skill. In intellectual equip
ment and in sheer audacity, tho these
are his particular forte, in which he has
been held unrivalled. More, The has
met one infinitely his master in some
other qualities, gentler, but none the
less desirable, such, for example, as a
self control that is perfect and a
studied courtesy that is Chestertieldian
and unfailing, Nebraska, THE west,
the entire country may we'll be proud
of William J. Bryan"
Whatever the excuse forty years
ago for the convict lease system, It
does not exist now. Georgia is to be
congratulated on having abolished a
barbarism that has long been re-
proach to the state.
With the opening of public school
No. 81 at New York City a course in
saleswomanship was inaugurated and
it proved to be the most attractive on
the list. Under the direction of Miss
Diana Hirschler the young women are
to be instructed in the ethics and sub
tleties Of selling goods. The name Of
the instructress suggests inherited
ability in her line.
|
And now the business agent Of a
painters union objects to Hermann
Ridder succeeding Haskell on the Bry-
an campaign committee, because Rid
der is said to have discharged a re-
porter who wrote too friendly an ar
ticle about painters strike. This
business of holding the labor vote has
its difficulties.
Boss-What do you mean, sir, by go
ing to sleep at your desk in broad
daylight"
Clerk-My baby kept me awake all
last night, ard I'm dead tired.
ROSWELL, tomorrow bring the child
with you!
AN advance in freight rates on shoes
is said to be scheduled. However, it
does not affect those of us who have
only one pair.
The prohibitionists are said to have
selected the camel as the party emblem
Why, because of its ability to go with
out water, or because the party vote
only grows shorter the more it's humps
itself?
Dress to fit your pocketbook," adj
nj