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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12
BIG THlEF...LITTLE BOND.

Pittsburg seems to be determined to
continue in the van q city of scan
dal, SCOT and stealing. The latest bad
news from there is that William Mont
gomery, a friend Of the late Senator
Matthew Stanley Quay, and for over
twenty years cashier Of the Allegheny
National bank, has been arrested,
charged with embezzling $4,000.
It is set forth in the accounts Of the
is nearly half a million Of dollars, yet
the United States commissioner, WILL
lam T. Lindsay, accepted bail in the
sum of $4,000, which was furnished
Bail in a sum equal to the defalcation
would have been more reasonable on
the part Of the commissioner, If law
full, but evil doors and transgressors
in high places generally get the best
of 1t when they get into such pinches.
Such acts as these on the part Of the
judiciary tend to incite people to loss
of respect for law. A man who puts
his money into bank and reflects
that if it Is stolen, 1t will be protected
by bond equal to only 10 per cent OF
the amount lost. cannot feel very safe.
And with this story we have the
suggestion Of Bank Examiner Folds
that Montgomery used the money to
help friends and did not get the bene-
fit of 1t himself The bank examiner
thus expressing his opinion, further
lends fuel to the tendency to unrest.
for as a prosecutor It looks bad for
him, having made the charges, to i'm
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12
Topics of the Times

The Woodbine man who got re]ig
ion and began to pay his debts has
started a custom whsch, if practiced
often, would swamp .hc cl,nrt hes with
voluntary offerings of support.
Those who have heard Mr.. Goods
addresses in Marshall county will be
amused to know that Mr.. Trewin's or
gan, the Republican, in Cedar Rapids,
is accusing Good of uttering demo-
cratic doctrine. Most of the mem
bers Of the do-nothing congress would
doubtless take the same view were
they to hear Mr.. Goods remarks.
A man may be the attorney for
corporation and not sell his manhood
or his patriotism, but the lawyer who
has served the railroad faction in the
struggles of the past twelve years Of
Iowa politics needs to be watched.
Even a wooden man ought to be able
to see that our forests should be pro-
tected from inconsiderate cutting.
Well may uncle Sam take tip from
Germany. where there is little over
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12
Looker-On In Iona

Eagle Grove, May 12.-It was an I'M
expected pleasure to meet here Mr.. B.
! Murphy, candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor. Mr.. Murphy having been err
roneously reported, it seems as one of
the faction of Iowa republicans that
feel they are not bound In the matter
of the candidate for U. S. senator, be-
ing determined by the state wide pri-
mary, this scribe plainly asked him for
his position in the matter, and his re-
ply was that he accepted majority
rule and while he would not support
Cummins perhaps "cheerfully," he
would support the candidate for U. s.
senator that received the largest num-
Der of votes at the primary election.
For the past few years travellers over
the c., r. I. & P. r. r. from Iowa Falls
thru to Rock Island, have noticed the
tremendous crop Of mustard that
grows with the small grains. Hun
dreds of oat fields with the yellow
blossom in evidence seemed to be a
larger crop Of mustard seed than oats
Grain dealers and farmers admit the
increase each year, 1t being apparently
impossible to raise any small grain
without the mustard maturing thou
sands Of bushels Of seed at the same
time OF the oat harvest. So what fol-
lows from the New York Sun is es-
pecially interesting just now as exper-
iments along this line may be made
this season:
'1t was in the spring of 1905 that the
American Steel and Wire Company
called attention Of the agricultural ex-
perts to a by-product Of their iron and
steel mandatory, an iron sulphate So
luton, which seemed to destroy weeds
without injuring grain. The chemists
Of the company conferred with the
agronomy experts. The iron sulphate
was diluted in water.
"The remedy did not always act the
same. 1t was found that it would not
work early in the morning during the
dew or after rain, for the simple rea-
son that moisture diluted it too much.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12

mediately begin to mitigate, II posi-
bic, any punishment which might en-
sue.
If there was any assurance on the
part OF the bank examiner. or anybody
else, that nobody would lose any
money thru the thievery of Montgom-
cry. it might act as an offset to the be-
lief that Montgomery tilched for
friends. But what business had he to
fitch for friends? Where is there any
right to sanction it? We are accus-
toned to think it hard enough for any
man in a position of trust to take
what is not his own for the benefit Of
wife and children, but to steal for
friends seems something worse.
Now did he steal for friends?
Would anybody that was his friend
let him steal and knowingly benefit
by it?
to get money from their banker friends
without security, have enough insight
to know that it is running the bank?
We are very much inclined to answer
aye to that question and to say that
they are equally culpable, tho. posi-
bly,, not equally as guilty. as the
cashier
Everybody should hope that Mont
gomery will not escape the full pun
ishment of any offense of which he is
guilty, and that may be developed the
identity of these friends" that they
may also get their just reward at the
hands Of the law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

The Rockwell City Advocate says:
""That Rockwell City people are great
ly wrought up over the typhoid fever
situation is Enthusiastically true, and that
exaggerated reports have been put into
circulation turnout the state regarding
the matter is equally true. AS nearly
as can be ascertained there are eigh-
teen or twenty we'll defined cases of the
disease in and about the city and sew
eral more that have strong symptoms
of developing into the fever"
According to the Fort Dodge Chron-
icle "Delos Porter planted corn three
weeks ago and says that it escaped
any bad effects from the frost and that
it is coming along nicely. Delos says
that he hasn't farmed here for forty
years without learning something. He
surely has a big lead over the ma
jority of farmers"
t"The fact is Senators Dolliver and
Allison and our Iowa congressman re-
fused to listen to the members of the
national railway commission in their
supplications for relief and did not
make move until Henry Wallace, the
Corn Belt Meat Producers association
had thoroughly aroused public sentf-
ment turnout Iowa and the entire
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12
g,rrs-Rrpb1irat, Nlarsta11tu,urS joa g1ap " 1903

northwest, and literally compelled them
to act," says the johannesburg Demo-
crat. Then they apparently became
very enthusiastic for railway legisla-
ton. tho in the end they did all they
could to effect a compromise that was
advantageous to tho railways.
BRYAN has q friend in the Seymour
Sun. which remarks: Democrats are
praying for the nomination OF Taft on
the republican ticket. Union labor Is
bitterly and unalterably opposed to the
big secretary With Bryan and Taft
as the opposing candidates., Appan-
Dose county will go to Bryan"
ut has been demonstrated beyond
the shadow of a doubt that on Tues
day of this week the cash balance
in the state treasury was exactly ST.
012,374," says the Delaware County
News "Stod Deputy Treas @. A. Willis
yesterday: The fact is that 1T has
been above $1,000,000 every year that
| have been connected with this of
| flee. reaching that point in the month
/ of May usually
why will the standpat press con-
| tinue to lie on this subject in the face
| of these facts?"
In the Boone News-Republican it is
written: ut would be lonesome
Memorial day, indeed, IL there were no
celebration in Boone. The G. A. r.
should be encouraged to continue the
commemoration of that sacred occa-
| sion as long as there is one of them left
to march to the cemetery. The lack
| OF a small fund, which has heretofore
been furnished by the city. but which
the law forbids, should not be allowed
to stop the celebration. Citizens
should freely. subscribe this fund,
which the old soldiers do not feel
able to raise among themselves. A
subscription paper and a few gener-
Gus people will insure Decoration day
for Boone
1t is the opinion of the Cedar Falls
Gazette that when a political cam
paign has progressed so far that the
opponents begin to allude to each other
as 'unvoracious vocabularians,' 1t is
high time to have the primaries pulled
off and accept the consequences"
The Butler County Press remarks
that some families are so friendly
that they drop in on each other with
out knocking, but they seldom separate
without indulging in a bit of It,"
This is the advice of the Clinton Her
aid: Let us substitute the garden
rake for the muck rake, the glad smile
for the look of woe, lively hope for
that petulant pessimism. and We'll all
feel better, do better and be better"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12

| three-fifths of an acre of forest for
each citizen, or 100000 acres of for
est all told, and where wood imports
have exceeded wood exports for over
| forty years. German forestry leads in
| scientific thoroughness and is work
| ing out results with almost laboratory
exactness.
| From HEX, sarcastic slang sculptor
that the slang term for a person of the
masculine gender is no longer gazabo.
but gazimbo. Even the oldest of
slang words met downfalls.
We read that one woman wears a
mask with her Merry Widow" hat.
She's hold-up woman at Pttsburg.
but the item is silent as to whether she
supports family. incidentally, a
tale comes from the same city to the
effect that a woman could not get out
of Pullman car because of her spa
did she get In? Was the car built
around her?
Young John d. Rockefeller is still
talking to that Bible class in the
Fifth Avenue Baptist church, New
York, following the footsteps of his
septuagenaran father. 1t is to be
inferred that both are oily orators.
Bishop Anton Bang, once secretary
of the late King Oscar. is over from
Sweden Wonder If he breaches in the
explosive style?
Frank Gotch, the Iowa grappler. will
not wrestle In England. He says the
Britons have blood that's not sportive,
but too painfully azure. There's moth
ing fancy about Gotch, and he does
not wish to get out of his class.
A burglar was repulsed in Young
Women's Christian Association the
other night, and fled In terror. The
true Christian spirit is one which will
uphold valance, and the victory Of the
girls is in line with that fact.
1t looks as If one OF the members
had escaped from the Doukhobor herd
and was in this state, for in Iowa City
there is night prowler attired in
nothing but coat, who is frightening
children and women.
It's a safe conclusion that the term
race for office" will apply when rul-
ers are selected at the Ben Hur con-
vention at Sioux City.
If the good old German composer,
Franz Schubert, now in his grave,
could hear tune called Red Wing"
which is going the rounds. he would
be glad that he composed Jolly Farm
er" for the benefit of an American
who is short on ideas and long on crib
bings.
The Washington Post quotes Con-
gresham Hammond. the Gopher state
democrat, who will make the nomi-
mating speech for Governor John A.
johnson, as saying that the Mime
sotan has a chance. Certainly he has,
but it is even smaller than that of
William j. Bryan, and his, goodness
knows, is small enough, for election.
1t seems too bad for a smooth spoken
man like the governor to take chances,
however
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12
PASSING OF The TOURNAMENT.

Inc state nremenS tournament IL
going begging for meeting place
Des Moines, selected to do the honors
this year, has declined them, therefore
no tournament may be held. With the
passing Of the old and wonderfully eff
ficient volunteer departments. these
annual gatherings have degenerated
into horse races. The contests OF
speed, strength and endurance be-
tween men have been supplanted by
races between horses Of paid depart
ments, to the regret of thousands OF
Iowa citizens.
The state firemen's tournament once
was a great institution. A quarter of
century ago dignified business and
professional men who made up the vol
unteer departments in villages and
embryo cities atttred themselves in
seldom seen except among family heir
looms, HE'D to the tourney and
sprained their backs working at the
brakes of the old hand engines. There
were contests royal between the Alerts,
the Wide-Awakes and the Never
Sleeps, to determine who could force
the contents OF convenient cistern
the greater distance.
High pressure water systems
brought about transformation in fire
fighting methods, and the hose COM
pany came At the tournaments teams
of eighteen sturdy men INDUCED in
contests Of speed and endurance and
skill, and frolicked between times.
These gatherings were the inspiration
that conceived and maintained volun-
teer departments so efficient that
paid" crews were kept out of service
many years. Scoffed at by strangers
from the east, the volunteers usually
got there when duty called.
The hose house was the fireman's
club, and he lived in an atmosphere
six months of tournament contempla-
ton and preparation, and five months
and three weeks Of retrospection. AS
rivalry grew apace and the purses Of
fered increased, professionalism en-
tered. Davenport's Germans, Iowa
City's Bohemians, worshipers of the
Mentzer team of Marion, and enthu-
.;..4;a ,,o1,,o+oar, fror, Co,,ynil P1rffc
Corning and Grinnell came hundreds
strong to cheer their respective semi
professional teams, teams made posi-
BILE by city councils which literally but
illegally voted support from the public
treasury.
AS professionalism spread, records
went to smash. The early amateur
mark Of AN seconds was clipped off
by fractions until the score stood at
314-5, a record made by the famous
Pierce team of Marshalltown, both at
home and in Cedar Rapids in consec-
utive years.
The pace was too swift for the
smaller towns, the thriving cities in
stalled paid departments, and for a
half dozen years the reunions Of the
firemen have been deteriorating. The
old volunteers who served with no
other compensation than a knowledge
of duty we'll done, and the privilege of
attending the annual tournament, are
living in the enjoyment of the past.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12
EASTERN OFFICE
r. J. Shannon. Manager. Brunswick
Building, New York, N. Y.
THE FACTS ARE.

Here Is most interesting course o
reasoning produced by the Des Nome:
Capital which dares not deny thu
great benefits of Cumminsism In TIL,
legislature Of the past few years, bu
which must rely upon the false as
sumption of promises in the Torber
letter.
Says the Capital:
| 1.-THE Torbert letter gave Governor
Cummins sufficient support in north
eastern Iowa to give him control OF
the state convention
The facts are the Torbert letter was
| never shown in that campaign to any
| one save friend or two in Dubuque
| and the Dubuque delegation, after hav-
ing been carried for Cummins, was
basely sold out by one Kretschmer
| who had the naming Of it. Cummins
lost the county.
Says the Capital:
But the Torbert letter gave the
SOfGEIOE COHlEOl VI lIG VII
credentials"
The facts are that the fight Cum
minis made in every county in the state
gave him delegates enough In the con-
vention to control the committee on
credentials. 1t was planned to have the
state central committee throw out
enough contested delegations to seize
control, but the danger of disrupting
the party deferred them.
The Capital says:
Joe Lane, who was chief member of
the committee on credentials, would
not have been supporting Cummins at
that time except for the knowledge
that .Allison's friends were supporting
the governor"
The facts are that the fight was
made in Scott county between the
Cummins and anti Cummins men be-
fore the letter was written to Torbert
and Joe Lane had been sent to the
convention as q Cummins delegate.
He had been a consistent Cummins
man for seven years.
The Capital says:
They thought it queer that Dolliver
would be helping Governor Cummins
out in the convention two years ago.
Deliver knew that the governor was
pledged not to be candidate against
Allison"
The facts are that Dolliver said to an
anti Cummins leader on the floor of
the Slavery lobby: Don't scuttle the
ship, for I'm on board and that ex-
planned fully his attitude.
The Capital says:
Bernard Murphy had no fears at
that time that the governor was after
Allison Hence he was devoting him
self to the prevention of bolt"
The facts are, Bernard Murphy knew
when he was licked. He had in mind
then being candidate for the nomi-
nation for lieutenant governor, for
which he is now campaigning, and he
needed united party. He sought to
prevent a bolt for the same reason
that Dolliver did He couldn't afford
to scuttle the ship. for he was on
board.
The Capital says:
'If Governor Cummins had not writ
ten his famous letter he would now be
in private life"
The facts are that the letter refused
to promise that he would not become a
candidate against Allison and because
it so refused was not used in that
campaign. If it ever had deceived any
one, which it did not, Cummins was
absolved from responsibility when Du-
buque county went against him. The
Torbert letter is part of a classifying
campaign against Cummins. 1t is the
whine of a whipped child, you said
you wouldn't do 1t, Boo-Hoo."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12
iTIaENwHN LINED UP.

VOCVtiI ISdJIUS VSePVVIICd1III
The reports from the congressional
campaign. in various parts Of the Fifth
district, all are more than favorable
to Senator I'rewin. The senator has
placed himself in harmony with the
majority sentiment in his district. The
Fifth district has never catered after
Des Moines gods. 1t has had a short
welcome for the coterie candidates.
This year it is ree-fifths, or more.
for Senator Allison and the men who
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12

are working and talking for the return
Of the senator are naturally in favor
Of the congressional candidate who IS
not afraid to say where he stands on
this, the most absorbing issue in tho
coming primaries.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12
DEGREES Of een.e.

There's a ''ane sense" and coarse
sense"
Each good in Its way;
But the man who has horse sense"
Knows when to say neigh"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12

scarce. We really need a wireless de-
livery system in Iowa to eQualize
things.
az MAz-1|
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12

This is the advice of the Clinton Her
aid: Let us substitute the garden
rake for the muck rake, the glad smile
for the look of woe, lively hope for
that petulant pessimism. and We'll all
feel better, do better and be better"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12

The Butler County Press remarks
that some families are so friendly
that they drop in on each other with
out knocking. but they seldom separate
without indulging in a bit of It,"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12

Entered at the postofrice OF Marshall
town as second class mail matter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-12

1t is the opinion of the Cedar Falls
Gazette that when a political cam
paign has progressed so far that the
opponents begin to allude to each other
as 'unvoracious vocabularians,' 1t is
high time to have the primaries pulled
off and accept the consequences
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Breed the Type of Horse That You Con Use
in Your Daily Work, on the Farm, or the Road

trot. which is not only very attractive
to the eye, but being their natural gait.
1T Is simply Wonderful the number OF
miles a good hackney team can travel
during q. day, and at the same time pull
a good load.
/ notice IN southside Virginia that
the farmers want horse that is built
on the blocky order, IS easy to keep"
so they say. The hackney Is surely
built for this purpose as rule The
most of them are very good feeders, al
ways ready for The feed. one 40, OF the
not too leggy,ye they have a wonder
full stride. Tho result of the French
and German coach horses crossed on
like the good individual that the hack.
ney. has given US. In my opinion. the
that haye paid anywhere from $1,000
German coach stations arc going to
find out that they will never get their
money back. much less mako anything
on tho investment. and the worst of 1t
Is crossing the French and German
coach on our native mares. has not
given, as a. rule. an individual horse
that Is particularly good for any pur-
pose. On the other hand, would not
hesitate to buy several young hackney
to sell in Virginia In the next two
years, as I am sure could make.
money on the proposition. believe the
hackney is going to prove TO be for
has proven to be. for tho Valley and
some of the counties Gin Albemarle.
Orange and other counties the Perch
eron has made aname as sire OF farm
horses that no other horse can take
from HIND in other sections where a
good team of half-bred We'll grown
geldings by q Percheron stallion wild
bring from four to five hundred dol
liars at the ago of four years most any
| time. rs
haye seen the results OF the PERCH
eron stallion on the native mare in the
counties of Albemnrle. Orange. Madison
and Greene. and in nearly, every case
the cross gives a very useful (hnd for
that reason q salable horse) animal,
one that would not only do the best
and good looking enough, too, to drive,
Ito church or tosthe$ city Just as a car
4 riago horse.
White in Southside Virginia I have
seen the very best results from mating
| the hackney stallion on tho native
mares.
Southside Virginia, MS wo all know,
Is q flat country CO., comparnt!yelyS speak,
require as largo a team to pull the same
load as tho hily country requires. The
large team VIII, OF course, require more
feed to keep s,a LIN good order than the
lar the work requires only a medium
size team, and the melium size team
4 is cheaper to the farna-, as 1T is Kent
ION less feed. provided you will breed
q medium size horse that Is saleable
land recognized az a saleahle breed tho
world over, or course, 1t goes without
lisaying that the proper thing to do in
lsncli a section Is to breed the most at
1tractive medium size horset that you can.
In the hackney conformation (the gem
eral form, shape Of the horse) Is BY
far more important than size. VIII in
my opinion for a useful animal this
i Is true With most any breed, yet II