Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-25
Topics of the Times

Ex-senator Healey put it very nice
ly at the close of the recent repnpll-
can state convention when he declared
that he had never seen convention
minority in such a confident mood and
so Well pleased with the outlook. OF
course all Iowa republicans are look
ing to June . And at the state con-
vention there Nas good nature smiles,
confidence and good word for ALL
The Iowa idea was sure to vindcate
itself if it's friends yielded nothing.
Yes, it is true that bossism is an
in 1901 When the convention gave
an ovation for j. w. Blythe it raised
the issue anew.
When the Iowa republicans were be-
ing tested to the limit by the Hunter
Perkins demand for split convention
August I, 1906 the first person to de-
clare openly and to go on record as in
favor of split in the convention and
u bolt on the part of the Blythe crowd
was a certain gentleman who has been
repaid by ticket to the national con-
vention as a delegate. Why should
real republicans want to commission
as leaders men who less than two
years ago wanted to disrupt the repub-
lican party in the interests of the
democrats?
Some persons are chatting under the
White House suggestion that if it is
not Taft then it will be Roosevelt. But
it is not threat only a prophecy.
Possibly those six journalists who
challenged Groeber did so with the
knowledge that the centrist leader is
one of the foremost and outspoken OPP
ponents of dwelling in the Fatherland
Bertie-I have suit for every day
in the week.
Willie-Where are they?
Bertie-This is it I've got on.
ess
Standpat editors of county weekles
all over the state are falling over each
other. as it were, in their haste to in
form the world that they always fav-
ored tariff revision in 1909.
A Newton octogenarian has proven
the truth of the homely old saying:
Every dog has his day" in his early
a
sightedness and now at his advanced
age he reads books and papers like
a man in his twenties.
Thirty-three millions of dollars is the
Capitalization in stock and bonds of
the Central Georgia Power company
of Macon, a company which has been
organized by prominent capitalists of
Macon and New York, for the eX-
ploitation of the water powers of the
rivers of central Georgia, from the
development of which electric current
will be supplied to operate factories,
car lines and other enterprises in prac-
tically all parts of the state.
The tobacco growers OF Kentucky
are certainly in a position just now to
fully realize the appropriateness of the
single term which signifies dark and
bloody ground.
The price of eggs would indicate that
the hens have left the ranks OF the
unemployed.
That rolling stone gathers no moss
has been disproved by Mr. Rolling
stone. Of Chicago, who has retired from
business with wad Of moss valued at
s2,OoO,000.
The fire escape is also problem of
higher education that should be con-
sidered in every school house.
In times of long ago there were ter
rible losses of life in and around Jeru-
salem. And the other day the first
automobile arrived there!
Why call Latin dead language,
when you can't try lawsuit or get
a prescription filled without it.
1t may not prove to be a good thing
for school teachers that Miss Eta
P. Grove, of Chicago, tasted success
fully for forty days. Boards of edu-