Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-27
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
THE colonel (1afe Young) is like the
fellow who aimed to hit If it was "a
bear and to miss if it was calf If a
! downward revision is secured and
proves satisfactory the colonel will
claim he did 1t. If it proves unpopular
the colonel will say insurgency is re-
sponsible. The colonel is the slyest old
fox that ever came down the pike" as
serts the Webster City Freeman Trib-
une.
Come to think of it. it was eminent
ly fitting that Justice Brewer should
speak in Milwaukee," observes the
keokuk Gate City.
This time Massachusetts, has taken
professor from Ames. Iowa has hard
work to hold it's trained and expert
enced educators Every other state is
after them. Some think it is due to the
fact that Iowa tries to get along with
too low salary list" says the Cedar
Rapids Republican
Suppose the politicians of both the
old parties should decide that the way
to safety in having no traffic with
the Iowa prohibitionists next year
What would be the result politically? 2"
inquiries the Sioux City Journal.
So far as the Waterloo Times-Trib-
une is concerned "Mr. Weston can
walk back home again. We do not
wish TO interfere with the rapid strides
of any man"
The Sioux City Journal considers
that The amazing thing about that
Chicago graft scandal is not that the
graft was there, but that it was I'M
covered"
''Why did the Gideon society select
Sioux City for the installation of the
first two hundred bibles in the hotels
of the state" demands the Waterloo
Reporter.
Harry Thaw's mother has written
twenty-page condemnation of her sons
prosecutors. If Mother Thaw had done
her duty she would never have had any
excuse for her present literary produce
ton, for Harry would probably never
nave been prosecuted. Some of these
sassiety' mothers are their childrsn's
worst enemies" moralizes the Cedar
Rapids Gazette.
1t is announced by the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil that Every time a new
name is suggested for the republican
nomination for congress in the Eighth
district. Congressman Jameson hires
an additional stenographer 60 increase
the output of letters to his constitu-
ents."
The Burlington Hawkeye has dis
covered that The fellows who are
ostensibly travelling across the country
afoot on wager of some sort are be-
coming so numerous that the game has
ceased to be interesting. 1t is not the
Professionalism of the eighties, nor is it
tho walking for record or on a wager
that will hold the interest of the peo-
pie. But the man, woman and child's
own walking that Is something that
should never go out of fashion, and
that should be something of unfading
interest"
THE new state board of education
has been holding it's meetings behind
closed doors. There is generally some
thing about the executive session that
eNcites suspicion. And the story that
gets into circulation about what was
or was not done is always an exag-
gerated one" criticises the Davenport
| Democrat.
The Centerville Citizens regards the
! spectacle of Harry Thaws mother
writing book in which she seeks to-
malign the prosecution against her son.
as only another indication of pitiable
family trait"