Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-06

is sixty or seventy miles by the river
and there is not q way station in all
that distance. Pella and Oskaloosa and
Knoxville are good towns, but they are
so far removed from the river bank
that reshipping and drayage would
make them impossible for river traffic.
The whole scheme means political
bunco and the men behind 1t know it
as well as anyone.
| WANT BALLINGER OUT.
| GSioux City Tribune.l
| It can not be too strongly empha-
sized at this time that the people are
tired of Ballinser and the notoriety
| connected with him.
| They are tired of the investigation
that has long ago proven what the
people knew before the investigation
began, that Ballinger is unfit to be in
the cabinet.
/ The fact that such a man was ever
allowed to get into the cabinet in the
| by the president, is an offense and a
humiliation to every man who is trying
| to believe in the honesty of the admin
| istration. This investigation, as it
| drags along, is a constant advertiser
ment of the poor judgment of the pres
ident. and the performance ought to be
| concluded and the advertisement dis
! continued.
! The exposure of Ballinger and his
gang was a proper move in the first
place, just as all exposures are prop
| er. for their purifying effect, but the
! long drawn out investigation is now
becoming an advertisement Of the in
efficiency and apparent reluctance of
! the congressional committee. The peo
| PIE are tired of the Cunninghams and
of the Guggenheims, of their plots and
| conspiracies against the public proper
| ty, of the gossips about the millions
/ they pretend TO have invested already
and the other millions they are expect
| ing to make, all dependent on the pat
enting of the Cunningham claims, and
/, these claims dependent on what Bal
niger will be able to do as cabinet Off
Ger that he was not able to do while
he was only the attorney for the Gun
bingham claims.
! The Cunninghams and the Guggen-
helms got their attorney into the cabi-
net and the public wants him out of
the cabinet, and that is the only issue
now in the case. The sooner the inyes-
| tigat ion is brought to close, what
ever the verdict may be, the more the
general public, and especially the re-
! publican voters of the country, will
| feel relieved.
| RESURRECTION BY GALvANISM.
IColfax Clipper.1
| Elsewhere we print "A Voice From
the Tombs,' an editorial from that
bowling insurgent reform progressive
| newspap per, the Marshalltown Times
Republican, which we find copied into
that other devoted free trade boosting
tariff-ripping periodical. the Wesley
News World. The reader will notice
! it is in reply to fourline squib in
our paper of March 3, and is intended
to dig up and scatter to the winds the
lifeless remains of this writer In do
ing this the T.-R. man docs not hest
tate to draw upon his imagination by
saying we used to speak in Iaudatory
terms of Dolliver. We have never had
any faith in Delivers republicanism
since, years ago, he was only restrained
from being an Iowa ideaiist by the in
f1uence of Senator Allison. So far as
the Clipper falling down in hero wor-
ship of any man, this is the first time
we have ever been accused. The T.-R.,
on the other hand, glories in lickspittle
Cumrnins tag; it swallows without
mastication every bastard dogma born
of the unholy cohabitation Of insurgent
reform progressives and free trade
democrats, and revels in it's political
apostacy and treachery. That is some
thing of Which no man has ever ac-
cused the Clipper, and no one will ever
truthfully do SO. The T.-R. may de-
light to parade it's assimilation of mod
ern copperheadism while reviling as
ancient and WORKOUT political Danites"
republicans who have proven their
party loyalty for half a century, and
it may hope for the retirnent of
busted political hierarchy" as it is
pleased to dub US. but We glory in the
animadversions of such party traitors
now as much as we used to being called
by southern traitors Yankee"
a northern mudsill," an in
lvader.'' etc, when we were touring
with Gen. Sherman in the sunny south.
The T.-R. is training now with the
remnants of the defeated southern In
surgency Of 1861 65. We can afford to
read with equanimity the despairing
growls and abjurgations OF such rep
tiles, as they realize that day by day
they are losing caste With the people
lileS nave DeSh Duliy1H S dId ASSCiSIhS
ever since since the birth of the Iowa
idea. IF Deliver wants to be in poll
tics, and do something, he will have to
cut out finding fault. Nobody has any
use for a man who is simply an OBJ
| structionist. He may succeed, in the
same way the skunk does, in kicking
up enough stink to make legislation
uncomfortable and disagreeable: but
Iowa people won't long stand for the
| brand of maIodorous stuff he and Cum
Minis are stopping over Both will be
| moked out and Iowa will send in men
to take their places who will work with
the republican majority instead Of
against it for "the interests" of the
whole people. The T.-R- realizes this
| just as we'll as we do. "A Voice From
| the tombs'' has said it.
POLITICAL HOMICIDE.
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