Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-14
Topics Il the Times

"Fingy" Corners, chairman of the
democratic state committee, has in
vented slogan which he says would
sweep Governor Johnson into the
White House if the democratic ma
tional convention would name Johnson
for president From the Washtub to
the White House would be a winning
battle cry" said Mr. Corners Satur-
day. How would they beat the DEM
ocrats if we had that for a campaign
cry, From the Washtub to the White
House?"
The main objection to the proposed
currency reform is that Senator Aid
rich proposed it. The country at large
has no confidence in Senator Aldrich
but how many men are willing to see
that senators are sent to Washington
who are able and willing to fight the
Aldrich class of statesmen.
Wonder is expressed that the general
fire loss Of the country in 1907 should
exceed all other years except those of
the Chicago fire, the Baltimore fire and
the San Francisco earthquake, but
was not 1907 a year of liquidation?
Davenport voted down the commits
sion plan of government, her saloon
vote going solidly against it. Now why
was that?
Business is reviving. The patient is
on the mend 1t all depends upon the
crops as to whether we have recovery
or relapse. Look to your seed corn.
The Dubuque Times says that the
state central committee based it's ap-
portionment of delegates upon the vote
for governor so as to punish the coun-
Minis. Could it not possibly have been
done because the appointments Of the
past have been based on the vote for
governor?
Better than a million and a half of
the passengers who ride on street and
subway railroads of that city in one
day number more than ride on all the
steam roads in the United States in a
single day. Who wants to live in a
city anyway? Do people really live
when in city?
wife--What do you mean by bring
ing those muddy feet in here?
Husband-'Scuse me, m'dear, (hic);
didn' have any othersh 'tbring. Had
hard time gettin' theesh in.-Bohemian.
The immigration problem is about
to settle itself. Letters home to their
cousins from immigrants here are tell
ing Of mills closing down.
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The tobacco farmers Of Kentucky
have formed a union and in order to
compel all farmers to join the union
they have entertainment committees
which burn barns and shoot into the
houses of non-union farmers. They
are called night riders. Human ma
ture in Chicago is not so much differ
ent than in Kentucky, when a class is
hard pressed in the industrial strug-
gle.
Marriage" remarked the moralizer,
"is lottery
eyes," rejoined the demoralizer: "but
it's one of the games of chance that
clergymen do not try to discourage"
Philadelphia Inquirer.
If we were sure that Taft would be
nominated on the first ballot it would
MT make any difference who went to
the national convention from Iowa but
suppose he wasn't? Would Iowa re-
publicans like to see Mr.. Blythe of
Burlington voting the delegation as he
did four years ago?
The renting of wedding outfits is a
prominent industry in France; here
they buy furniture on the installment
plan.
The Sioux City Journal now walls
about the disfranchisement Of the Sec
ond district in the state committee be-
cause the law prohibited the Second