Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-25
BILLY" Sunday Takes Long Dis
lance Shot at Fourth Ward
Councilman
DYNAMITE FOR LOCAL MEETINGS
Sunday Declares Mon of Herman''
CaIiber Are Not deuce High" and
That Before Meetings Are Over
Councilman Will Think Tail End Of
Italian Earthquake Has Struck Him.

Evangelist w. a. SUNDAY mas ldkci'
a long distance shot at George Her
man, and has trained his batteries on
the councilman from the Fourth from
away Spokane. Mr.. Sundays ire
has been aroused by the remarks Her
man made In open council not long ago,
in which he declared Billy Sunday 9
meeting to be nothing but circus, and
that Sunday was CRATER.
Thursdays. Evening Chronicle, at
Spokane, tells OF Sundays shot mt
Herman which is made In the shape of
letter to Or. George E. Wanberg. in
this city. The Spokane paper says:
charge the Billy Sunday commit
tee circus license because the evan
gelist is nothing more than a clown
and the meeting no better than q cir
GUS
This remark, made by one OF the
aldermen in council meeting at Mar
shalltown, Iowa, where Billy Sunday
will hold revivals just after the Spring
field meetings, has aroused the ire nj
the evangelist and he has turned loose
on that alderman in way which
shows him working at full speed. In Il
letter to DR.. G. e. Wanberg, of Mar
shalltown, under date Of Jan. 20, Mr.
Sunday writes:
Dear Doc: have been receiving
your letters from time to time and
assure you 1t always is a source eff
qualification to keep In touch With The
situation.
sit has been reported to me that one
of the aldermen in council meeting
said was clown. that the meeting
was no better than a circus, that the
evangelistic committee should pay CIR
Gus, license, etc.
Word picture In saItpeter.
eff he said this, he will And out be-
fore the meetings are over that they
are battleship feet in action, a sub
marine torpedo boat flotilla, a masked
battery Port Arthur and Gibraltar
combined, an infantry and cavalry
charge of shot, shell. shrapnel. grape
and canister, full of dynamite mines,
live wires, charged with 5000 volts,
ipecac, rock salt, barbed wire; a six
cylinder auto, with her carbureters all
WOrKlNR, the oNoTIGIlO l/lIflIcu Will
her throttle wide open, travelling sixty
miles an hour; a searchlight penetrat-
ing the municipal rottenness and filth
that for years has cursed the city l
love: and the game will be called about
March %, with the devil in the box
and his, ''spit BALI working, and the
forces of. decency lined up on the OPP
posing side, and I hope and believe
when the umpire calls time that the
score will be 1000 to o00000000 In favor
Of God, home and native land and the
best thing for fellow like that to do
is to hit the grit for a bomb proof cell
lar. gsSl
Will Think Evangelist Hit HimsS
"'Fellows Of his caiiber usually pass
on the first deal; they are not deuce
high and he will have all he can do
to shuttle his own cards. My gospel
gun ist loaded to the muzzle; NERVES
are as steady as a republican majority
in Iowa; my powder is dry; he will
think the tail end of Italy's earthquake
has hit him.
"'Tell the people to get in the game.
We will pitch some time religion
curves and swat out some home runs
for God and make the devil and his
crowd saw the air. Yours, on the fir
Ing line. W. A. SUNDAY"