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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
MAINE AND ITS MAJORITY.

Maine went republican, but in drop
ping from the $4,000 it gave Roose-
welt to less than 10000, it MAGE new
thirty-year record for small republican
majorities in Maine. However. it Is
safely republican in state government
and in congress and when the national
vote is counted Maine will be found in
line with her normal republican plur-
atty.
The election just concluded in Maine
dealt almost entirely with state issues
and its bearing on the general election
is thus minimized. Prohibition and
the question of resubmission was the
main point The state was divided
and torn over this question and the
vote must be counted and considered
more upon this issue than any other.
When Maine comes to choice be-
tween Taft and Bryan the liquor ques-
ton which has time and again dis
tracted the state, will not enter into
the argument The democrats have
little to rejoice over in the news from
Maine
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
Iona Newspapers
WILL ABIDE THE PRIMARY
tGrand Junction Globe)

Greene county's representative. p. f.
Stilman. in this weeks Jefferson Bee.
comes out in a manly way and an
nounced his position on the senatorial
question. While the Globe cannot
agree with him in the position that
he has taken, we are glad to see him
take stand and can assure him that
he will have the support of this paper
in the campaign. We believe that the
county Is about evenly divided for
choice of the republicans as to wheth-
er Governor Cummins shall be our
next senator or not. There are some
voters who believe that their choice
in this matter should outweigh their
personal preference for Mr.. Stillman,
but We believe that Mr. Cummins
would more nearly represent the wish
es of the republicans of the state than
any democrat possibly could This
paper will not favor the election of
Mr. Cummins before the primary, but
should he. prove the choice of the re-
publicans Of the state, we will abide
by the decision of the ballots.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
EVERYBODY is IN.

The standpat conference in De!
! Moines has not labored altogether il
vain, it has nominated a, typical rep
resentative of the old regime in lows
| politics, a man of clean personal rec.
ord, of experience in congress, thu
| originator of conserving our natura
resources, a man of ability as cam.
paigner and native from the reserva-
ton. His candidacy will immediatel!
make the issue clear in Iowa and II
the majority of the republican party
ter from Standpatville as it's United
States senator, the republican party !:
welcome to take the consequences.
Major Lacey is a stronger candidate
than Frank Jackson would have been
much stronger, altho either Shaw OF
Congressman Smith would have beer
stronger than he. However. Lacey has
the desire to run the race which Is
worth much more than other accom-
plishments in a candidate. The inter
est of the Protective Tariff League in
the campaign will also be keener with
Lacey running than with Jackson o,
even with Smith
When the first of October comes and
the campaign begins in earnest, let us
hope that personalities will be ruled out
of the game. There are public issues
enough to make lively contest
Lacey has been opposed to tariff revis-
ion; he was opposed to the two-cent
fare, to the statewide primary: he
ridiculed the anti-pass law and he is
not the kind of a man who is afraid
TOT defend his position, to bet his hand
in the language of the game. His SCI
lection is a good one since 1t brings
and the chips can pass over the cloth
without involving losses to the can
didates for legislative or state offices
standing around the table. The thing
to do now is to have every legislative
candidate pledge himself publicly to
abide by the result of the primary.
This will remove the temptation of fac
tionalists to slaughter republican votes
in the next legislature and make i:
possible for the winner Of the primary
to gather the fruits of his victory. The
next thing to do would be for Lacey
and Cummins to join in a request upon
their partisan advocates to stipulate in
their pleadings Jointly that both the
plaintiff and the defendant are honest
men. With these things settled we
can try the case on the law points of
public policy involved.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
Viewed from the Side Line.
(Kansas City star.)


The organization opposed to Cover
nor Cummins in the Iowa legislature
is bold and manifest alliance with
the special interests to keep out of the
senate, even for n brief period, man
who is pledged to support the people
and the peoples reforms. The plea that
it would be better to defer the election
until the people can express their
choice thru the medium of a primary
election is mere subterfuge The state
has no law under which such an cleo
ton can be held. The legislature is In
session at this time primarily to enact
such a law. But pending the operation
of this new act, there Is no valid rea-
son why the vacancy caused by the
death of Senator Allison, should not be
filed in the same way that Iowa mas
elected all its United States senator's
thus far. The Iowa standpatters have
played a part that merits the contempt
of the republican party at large. They
turned down two chances to secure for
Iowa the vice presidential candidate,
and solely because the railroads were
opposed to sending Governor Cum
Minis to the senate, just as they have
always been opposed to his election as
governor And now the railroads, by
controlling minority of the republic
can members of the legislature, are
preventing the election of n United
States senator for the remainder of the
Allison term. But this arbitrary
course ought to insure the nomination
of Mr. Cummins unden the primary
system IL the people of Iowa are to be
depended upon to get on the right side
of a great issue.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
Sanity Prevails in Japan.

(E'rom the New York Times.)
Japan now betrays symptoms of that
sanity and conservatism that must
precede real development. The period
of excited speculation that followed
upon her triumph in arms made the
exhausted country still poorer. An ag-
gressive diplomatic policy could be
sustained only by costly battle ships
and an expensive army. The, trimming
of the military and naval budgets an
nounced this week and the further an
nouncement that the Japanese EXPOSE
tion will be postponed to time when
her industries may. indeed, command
the respect of other nations, are an
earnest OF Japans resolution to pay
little heed to further counsels of ag-
grandizement.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
THE GOVERNORS NEGLECT.


Several details in connection with
the calling of the extra session of the
legislature appear to have been
neglected by Governor Cummins. If he
had to do it over again he would un-
doubtedly be more explicit in outlining
the duties of the legislators to the end
that there should be no subsequent
wrangling over the purpose of the as
sembling of so many wise men in such
important conclave.
1t now transpires that the governor
uttered no word conveying to the as
sembly the knowledge or instruction
that they, as individuals would be en-
titled to per diem or mileage while
busily employed with the business OF
the state. Along the same line 1t may
be noted with regret that he was
equally silent as to the amount of re-
enumeration for such services. This,
from personal standpoint is of prac-
tically the same order and constitutes
the same kind of grievance as his
other failure or neglect to advise the
members in the call that they were to
elect a United States senator to fill the
existing vacancy.
True the law governing the per diem
and mileage of legislators is specific,
as is also the constitutional command
to proceed to the election of United
States senator, under existing condl-
tions, but what right has the governor
to assume that the legislators will read
the law or heed the constitution?
In his message to the assembled wise
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16

| embrace of the dark rushing waters.
But more pitiful and more tragic still
was the fact that those lives, and oth-
ers in the same family were stfled and
starved from the cradle because a
| worthless and degenerate father lacked
even the brute instinct of providing for
his own offspring, or making any ef-
| fort to do so.
The picture of those little tots walk
/ ing hand in hand down to the river
bank and then on out into the rushing
waters to be swept so pitifully and
! helplessly into eternity was indeed
tragic But more tragic still was the
picture of those same little tots walk
ing hand in hand half clothed and UNI
| kempt. to homes OF neighbors TO beg
a morsel of food which their unnatural
father was too indolent to provide.
And more tragic still is the knowl-
edge that in that same household is
another child, hardly out of her pima
fores, mothering a nameless babe
What pity that she, like her baby
sisters, had not walked down to the
river bank and on out into the rushing
current before the criminal neglect OF
brutal father set her adrift TO become
I
the victim of moral lepers lying Ia
walt for the unfortunate and aban-
doned.
We read and shudder and shudder
and read as day in and day out the
papers record their never ending re-
cord of fatalities and sufferings and
bereavements and anguish. And as
we read we are wont to believe that In
this gruesome record is embodied the
climax of human tragedy and mortal
pain.
But back of it ALL suffering, in ST.
lenee, are the victims of life's real
tragedies. Submerged in the morass
of immoral environment and spiritual
starvation, palsied and helpless, they
suNerson until some day the nauseous
vapors are dispelIed by the rays of the
setting sun as 1t crimsons the western
heavens and then walking hand in
hand down to the river bank" = the
river that runs thru the valley OF
the shadows of death-they leave be-
hind the certain miseries of life for the
uncertainties of that existence that lies
beyond.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
THE NEW NATIONAL CURRENCY.

The treasury department is prepar-
ing for any demand that may arise
for the emergency currency authorized
by the Aldrich- Vreeland law. Already
s100, 100000 of the new notes have been
printed and the presses will be kept
running night and day until reserve
fund Of $50O,OOO,OOO is ready for in
slant distribution.
The present indications are that lit
tie. if any, of this currency will be
called for during the present year.
Banks turnout the country are abund-
antly supplied with money and there
is no apparent reason for scarcity in
the near future The stiff tax i'm
posed on emergency currency makes it
certain that no bank will want to take
it out unless the demand for money
is far greater than it is likely to be
during the remaining months of the
year.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
GUS PAiNzER's LEGISLATURE.
(Waverly Republican,


There is a pasture just across the
road from the writer's cabin used by
a stock buyer. Last week he put in
some sheep and they held a special
legislative session right away pretty
quick, and rival stock buyer pass
ing along stopped his team and
laughed and snickered and ha- ha- ed
had a jolly time indeed. One white
sheep of the male persuasion, was evil
IDENTIFY a standpatter, another a pro-
gressive. and they challenged each
other. without waiting for the drop Of
the hat, and another old he-feller who
was brown Che was probably demo-
craft stood and watched the combat
and at every opportunity charged head
first into standpat or progressive
indiscriminately. To the writer this
looked like the most foolish thing inn
aginable-this unreasoning desire to
knock out the other fellow by head-end
collisions, but as the reports of the
special legislative session at Des
Moines came in, it appeared conclusive
that there are other capers just as
foolish and far more costly enacted
right under the gilded dome of our
$3,00O,Ooo capitol building They show
as little sense down there as Gus Pan
zer's old rams, and there are more Of
them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16

men, the governor did specifically ad-
wise them as to the constitutional com
mand for a senatorial election. but VI
to the present time he has left them
utterly in the dark as to what the state
is to pay them for their services anc
their only recourse to information COW
erlng that point is the statute. Con-
sidering the hair splitting dispositions
of minority of the membership of tht
present assembly there is liable to b'
large embarrassment unless the gov
ernor in a special message tells them
what the statute says their services are
worth.
The governors anxious ambition
seems to have led him into grave
fault. that of assuming the legisla-
ture knew its general duty and that he
was merely to call attention to it's ex-
traordinary duties.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
SENATOR JAM1soNs CASE.
(Sioux City Tribune)

(SlOuX CILy ITlDuneJ
These boilers have many queer no.
tons Senator Jamison, of Clarke
county, is one of them. He refused to
go into the caucus. Presumably, he Is
one of the boilers who put out that
manifesto which the Evening Sioux
City Journal incautiously printed and
the next mornings Sioux City Journal
prudently KILLED" He has queer no.
tons also.
One of these is that the constitution
of the state of Iowa should not inter-
fere with his finances. If his finances
can be augmented by defying the con-
stitution then will the constitution be
defied. The constitution of Iowa very
plainly and concisely says in section %
of article 8: No person holding any
lucrative office under the United States
or this state or any other power shall
be eligible to hold seat in the general
assembly," Postmasters whose salary
does not exceed 800 are exempted
from this bar.
Senator Jamison is holding the office
of receiver of a national bank in Chari
ton, in Lucas county. Senator Jamison
represents the Eleventh senatorial dis
trict. Lucas county is in the Fourth
senatorial district. His compensation
as receiver is paid by the United States
1t is a lucrative office. The constitution
makes him Ineligible to his seat in the
senate. Will he resign? Hardly. Will
the senate expel him? That remains to
be seen. Should it? Yes if it vener-
ates the organic law of Iowa. Will the
other forty-seven standpatters say the
senate should do it? Hardly. What's
the constitution between standpatters?
They will ask Not much, we admit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
Topics of the Times.

The Thornton Enterprise quotes
what it terms "a sample of standpat
vindictiveness' from Raymond, of the
hampton Recorder, whom it criticises as
being old and experienced enough tc
be more fair and reasonable:
"a. b. Cummins may go to the
United States senate. We cannot tel
as to that. But after he has done
his best to wreck the republican party
and has gone and left it, as he will
we shall live so long, of knowing that
we never contributed to his advance
ment, beyond voting for him when he
was the nominee of his party
The Enterprise is probably mistaken
The paragraph smacks of a smaller
man than Raymond.
Walter I. Smith will have to keep
busy in order to get back to congress.
--Odebolt Chronicle (prog)
Is there bolt being organized ?-Des
Moines Capital.
Respectfully referred back to LATE
Young and George d. Perkins.
=
Mr. Haugen's candidacy was the hope
of the standpatters, not the decision of
Mr.. Haugen. 1t is out of all reason
that Haugen Would permit them to
use him as good enough Morgan"
The presentiment of Scent hogs
breaks in on the Bryan slumbers.
e~*
Young Theodore Roosevelt is now
competent to vote. and it Is rumored
that he will cast his maiden ballot for
Taft.
It's a hard task to turn a hog. The
packers realize this now that the OBJ
stinate animal is headed toward $500
cwt.
Isn't it possible that the smoky at
mosphere results from Bleakley's fierce
paving of the dust?
Eight dollar hogs are another evil
dence that the pen is mightier than
the sword.
Let Senator Deliver, if present at
the Hateful conference yesterday, con-
slider how much easier it is TO break into
than general conference of Metho-
dists.
-S . 0
AS the investigation OF the big Booth
failure goes ON it indicates that less
formaldehyde on the fish and more on
the trust has been needed.
In Belgium married men have two
votes, and single men only one.
Priests and other privileged persons
have three votes Here privileged
persons" vote whole townships. Bel
GUMS privileged persons" aren't SO
many!
{ Dr.. v. A. Moore Of Cornell Uni
versity, in paper read before the
convention, of the American Veterinary
association, urged that the only course
that offered hope Of checking the rapid
increase of bovine tuberculosis in
America is to segregate the healthy
herds and pass laws to control the
sale of cattle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
BEHIND TIE VEIL.
lRelle Plaine IInion.l

There, are many tragedies along the
path of life that pass practically un-
known. We note in the Glidden
Graphic the story of the drowning OF
two babies, one something like 1S
months old and the other a trlfle older,
They lived near the river "The mother,
tired, worn and weary had fallen
asleep" The little ones Were last
seen walking hand in hand. The next
scene was the taking of the lifeless
forms from the water.-Hardin County
Citizen.
The case mentioned above was In
deed sad one but the real tragedy
was not recorded in public print. 1t
was a tragedy and deplorable one
that two little lives should be so
pitifully choked out by the smotherins
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
AucTIoNEER

PueLic sALEs--M. NJ Kendall,
Auctioneer-Sept. 10, 1908, house and
lot and household goods. 11o4 West
Summit; Sept. IA. 1908, house and lot
and household goods sos South Sixth;
Sept 20, j. L. knight, s miles west, a
mile. north OF Marshalltown. miles
north Of Lamoille, horses, cattle. hogs,
corn In neid, hay. straw, machinery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
What Do They Cure?

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

While there is some heat manifest
am ing republicans on each side Of the
unfoi .unate fractional line, the Spirit
Lake Beacon docs not for one mo-
ment assume that they will so far for
get the reasons for their party devo-
ton Of the past as to contribute any
measure of comfort to state or nation
al democrats at the election. If repub-
licanism is now or ever was worth
while no quarrel within the party
should result In trailing the party col
ors in the dirt of factional spite work.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
| year.
The Difference.

PA, what's the difference between
the drama and melodrama?'
The seats. my son. You will never
find any empty ones at the melo-
drama
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16

harmony with the majority after the
votes are counted and his own job is
assured predicts the Rockwell Phono-
graph
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16

"Now to U.s." cautiously admits the
Maquoketa Excelsior, "the bank insur-
ance plan properly safeguarded doesn't
seem so socialistic as the postal saw
ngs bank, and appears practical and
expediant but we are not prepared to
secede from the republican party be-
cause its leaders think differently"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16
For Constipation.

Mr.. :. 81. Farnham. prominent
druggist Of Spirit Lake. Iowa. says:
sChamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets are certainly the best thing on
the market for constipation Give
these tablets trial. You are certain
10 find them agreeable and pleasant In
e1tect. Price, Is cents. Samples free
For sale by all dealers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16

with the temperance, church and
labor people after him, reinforced by
the democrats and some politicians in
his own party" the Glidden Graphic
thinks Joseph Cannon of Illinois,
seems to be up against the real thing"