Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-14
Topics of the Times

topics OF 1ne lmeS
when the farmer will guy" the man
who talks about the unemployed"
Lets call it a bill for emergency
speculation, and let the currency out
of it.
Senator Foraker is now booming
Roosevelt for the second elective term.
TO Taft it must sound like that cry
of law enforcement that once dnned
around Cummins ears.
Cummins for senator, Garst for gov
ernor, Clarke for lieutenant governor.
and Hopkins for auditor, are all men
with strong legislative and executive
records in the governing of the state.
They are able, sincere men. and con-
stitute as strong list of candidates as
up.
Any man familiar with the politics
of the legislative sessions in which
Jim Trewin served as senator from
Allamakee knows that there We're rail-
road and anti-railroad bills constantly
at issue there, and that Jim Trewin
was the leader Of the railroad crowd.
1t was for this reason that he was
made the railroad candidate for gov
ernor in the 1901 convention, and it
may be presumed that he would con-
he We're sent to congress. A voter can
have no personal feeling or acquaint-
ance with the man and yet consider
these matters candidly in politics.
The Register and Leader has given
up its attempt to get several promi-
nent Allison dailies to promise that
they will support the winner in case
Cummins carries the state at the pri-
maries. The T.-R. tried and failed
long ago.
w ny Sdu SOulC faIiSOl iIdH Tell us
what Allison has ever done for the ex-
tension of markets abroad for Ameri-
can meat products?
Every republican can accept Secre-
tary Taft's statement that tariff re-
vision involves revising some of the
schedules up, provided not too much
of the up revision is done. 1t may
safely be presumed that the up revis-
ion was very largely attended to
when the Dingley bill was framed;
however, protection which has proved
sound in principle can be safely added
to some industries not now provided
for.
Emory w. Clark, vice president Of
the First National Bank of Detroit, and
representative of the Clearing House
La lame, representative of the Phil
adelphia board of trade, and Horace
White, former editor of the New York
Evening Post, before the committee on
banking and currency of the house,
Friday condemned the Aldrich bill.
Our great tinancier and senior senator
paired in favor Of it.
The real responsibility for the crime
of rape in the south is disclosed by
Ray Stanard Bakers article in the
American Magazine upon THE Prob
lem of the Mulatto" concubinage on
the part of southern white men with
negro women is revealed in a sensa-
tional manner.
Asbestos can fairly lay claim to the
title of being the most useful of all
minerals. 1t has been called a miner
illogical vegetable. 1t is both fibrous
and crystalline, elastic, yet brittle,
floating stone which can be readily
carded, spun and woven into tissue.
In Germany it is known as stein
fachs (stone flax, and the miners Of
Quebec give it quite as expressive a
name-pierre cotton ((cotton stone).
A French savant proposes to put
wireless plant on the Eiffel tower of
sufficient force to send hertZian waves
completely around the world. Either
at noon or midnight the operator will
send out the exact time, according to
the meridian of either Paris or Green
wich, to every ship in the world
equipped with wireless biography.
Mariners will thus regulate their own
chronometers and be independent of
sun observations" Think of a town
clock for the whole world!
Didn't tell you to take the ak an
cut wood enough to keep the house
warm?'
YES; but hain't you been preachin
this long time bout the preservation
of the forests?"
And thereupon the old man wore ont
two fence rails on him. and told him
he was too young TO understand that
politics didn't mean all it said-At-
ianta Constitution.
I'm discussing the convention that
nominated Shaw for governor, Editor
Perkins admits that prior to the adj
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