Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-04
Looker-On In Iowa

Toledo. Nov. 3.--Here'S colieGc
town, that is a model town in many
respects. Noted for its beautiful res
licences. well kept lawns. miles OF
cement walks. fine churches, college
buildings and public schools. settled
by very intelligent people, close
thinkers, good logicians. on every pub
lie question, but when it comes to
local politics, then good bye John.
there's a crowd here that seems to
forget the A. b. C. of logic, or of cause
and effect. Years ago, in the good old
days of prohibition, here was one of
the proceedings of this element. The
republicans would nominate a good
man for the legislature. SO would the
democrats. The former perhaps fav-
ored the mulct law. The latter was
always a high license man. Now then,
when the republicans needed every
vote they could get to elect their can
didate, certain prohibitionists would
get together, put up prohibition can
didate, and give him votes enough. so
that the high license democrat went
to the legislature. This year the same
unWise tactics are being used = not
only here, but elsewhere in the cOun-
ty. 1t Is more than probable that
Tama county will be represented in the
next legislature 10y democrat. How
is that possible in republican coun-
ty? Simply because the standpatters
will give him votes enough to go TO
Des Moines and vote for democrat
ic United States senator They COM
pletely ignorek Lacey's claims. for with
a democrat IN the legislature from
Tama county, in the event of Lacey's
carrying the state. their representative
sent to the legislature by their re-
publican votes, will certainly cast his
vote for a democrat Such Is the logic
Of the situation. The prohibitionists
had at least the consistency of voting
for principle. What have these stand
|patters to put up as fair argument, out
side of anything to beat Cummins"
A farmer brought in some sorghum
and sold il to a grocer the day the
writer was here. He received rs cents
gallon 1t was boiled down good and
thick, almost jelly. Made to eat, not
to SELL 1t is different from the cans
of sorghum our wives buy at the store
labeled sorghum, in large letters and
in smaller type this can contains %
per cent of corn syrup" and omits to
mention it was almost as thin as wa
ter before the % per cent of glucose
was added. This, referred to farmer
told the writer that he only put in a
small patch, that it yielded at the rate
of 225 gallons to the acre. This
amounts to s166.75 and acre at
75 cents per gallon. He said the cost
of seed, labor, and preparing for mar
ket is only little more than for corn
or potatoes There is an unlimited de-
mand for such sorghum. Wholesale
grocers anywhere will pay spot cash
for all they can get, are even adver-
Using in this paper that they want
to. buy it. Yama Jim is going to en-
courage the raising of tobacco on Iowa
soil, says we can raise as good quail
ity of tobacco as Wisconsin or Penn
| sylvania. Wish the secretary of agri-
! culture could have had sample of this
Ta1na county sorghum for his Grundy
county buckwheat cakes.
Any item concerning Billy Sunday
the great American revivalist, is in
! teresting. A prominent Iowa Falls cit
izen tells the writer he has publicly
offered $50 for the name of any one
now a church member in Iowa Falls
that was converted by Rev. William
Sunday. when he converted so many
hundred people in Iowa Falls a few
! years ago The name of this citizen
can be given if necessary.