Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-31
Topics of the Times

There was a local election in Mar
| shaltown Monday, and the Times
Republican took sides in the cause OF
good government. Today this newspa-
per can sympathize with the Register
and Leader and Capital when they read
the returns from Des Moines' city cleo
ton last year.
Billy Sunday has come and gone al
Ottumwa, and yet the old regime on
the wide-open platform was reelected
by ITO majority.
Oskaloosa elected the ticket which
stood for stricter enforcement OF law
What is Oskaloosa bidding for?
| Boone offers to other towns sug-
gestion Of what might have been in
Mondays election defeats. Boone elect
ed a it's socialist candidate for mayor
over its citizens ticket.
1t is reported thatthe Iowa delega-
ton is not united in it's determination
to stand for free lumber. Name the
man who falters.
IL those redskins on the war path
with Crazy Snake could only be driven
into Oklahoma City, the police force
would arrest them and put them in
Jail.
Senator Peterson evidently has heard
Of Senator Sammis before.
The growth OF the T-R. want ad.
department is due directly to the size
Of the T.-R circulation. which is larg-
er this year than 1t has ever been be-
fore in its history, and which is grow
ing larger now that the new press has
made bigger and better paper posi-
BILE.
The votes polled for wide-open pol
icies in Marshalltown and Ottumwa, in
the face Of heroic efforts on the part
Of law enforcement leagues. should
suggest the impossibilittes which con-
front statewide prohibition.
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The Cedar Rapids Republican says
the country is with Mr.. Cannon In a
sense this is true. It does not seem to
be able to get away from him.
1t is serious pity that among so
many farmer and near farmer legisla-
tors not one can be found able or will
ing to put up an earnest fight for good
roads.
Senator Delivers tender solicitude
for the junior senator is much like that
of the passe mother whose efforts to
keep her manageable daughter in short
dresses are painfully ludicrous.
Senator Sammis' assault on John
Mcvicar is one thing. Senator Sanlmis'
public utilities bill is another. The
thing Immediately in question is the
senator's bill. The real interest of the
state centers about its dangerous pro-
visions. The legislature is not investi-
eating McVicar.
No more striking illustration of the
absolute evanishment of the once
mighty pine forests of the northwest
could be afforded than the insistent de-
mand for free lumber by Minnesota
and Wisconsin.
OF course tariff on stockings means
the opportunity of the paragraph to
warm over the suggestion that they
will come higher
Thirty-one days of a March such as
out today is a great plenty, thanks.
Inverted work baskets, even if
frayed somewhat at the edges, are
available material for the ground
work Of Easter hats.
The Mason City Times-Herald has
dispensed with the latter half of its
name and is now and llenceforth to he
known simply as the shines" 1t also
promises Improvement rather than
curtailfnent in other respects.
Something occurred in quite num-
her of Iowa cities Monday and as us
ual much of it was the unexpected.
Let us have as few executions of
criminals as possible, especially of
women. The very contemplation of it,
to say nothing of the revolving details
causes a shudder of horror and recalls
the dark ages.
AS we understand it both men and
women are eligible to membership in
the "Cow Culture Club" recently or
ganized in this state.
Defeated candidates in town cleo
tions are reminded that duck hunting
is tolerably good.
Nothing but an aboriginal kind Of
Bravery could cause a hundred In
dams to make war upon the United
States in this day and generation.
Trhasa CITIES in which the wide Open