Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-25


Very likely Mr.. Clarkson had reached
that age when retirement was expedi
ent. He is esteemed for his past rec.
Iord and his criticism of the party will
mot be seriously taken.
IN THE NINTH.
[Guthrie Guthrian.l
The friends of Congressman Smitf
of the Ninth district, are becoming
panicky and badly alarmed over tn:
situation in this district. The inroads
Attorney General Byers is making ir
the preserves of Judge Smith makes ii
necessary for every friend of the
judge to throw out the life line" A
prominent lawyer, of Guthrie Center
is in receipt of a letter from T. j
Mahoney, a democrat and a corpora
Ition lawyer OF Oamaha, in which he
urges him ID do something to retain
Judge Smith in congress. Nothing
doing, Tim, in your old home for Jud Sc
Smith. Your old friends in Guthrie
want a man who will represent Iowa
and not New England, and the "in-
/ terests," therefore they are going to
vote for Webb Byers.
WHO LOOKS AFTER THE ROADS:
! [Cedar RAPIDS Republican,
| We talk a great deal about macad-
amizing roads, but what is the use of
/ II, If, after they are macadamized
they are not kept in repairs. There
! is a piece of road between Cedar Rap
! ids and Louisa that was macadamized
once upon a time, but no one has ever
paid any attention to it since and it is
! said to be in a rotten condition now.
with no one 10 look after it. Whose
I business is it anyway. here in Linn
county, to look after the roads? Even
the road to Marion has chug holes in
| it big enough to jolt was on and they
are apt to some at the en is of the
bridges. There is one al one end of
the Milwaukee crossings that is six
inches deep and getting deeper every
day.
Whose business is it to look after
that piece of road? Is it any one's
business Is there any one who is
charged with the esponsibility? #
there is that person ought to get busy
and if there is not some one ought to
be set over that job 1t would take a
man with a wheelbarrow about thirty
minutes to fix that hole with crushed
stone. Or, he could do it with fe-'
shovels full of dirt But there iht
hole is and men who travel great
deal say that it is apt to remain there
for weeks before it is brought to some
ones attention.
Whose business Is 1t to look after
such things. Let US begin to find olt
why we are the most careless people
in the VOID, when 1t comes 10 keep
ing up the roadways.
GOV. CARRoLL.S ANNOUNCEMENT
IGlidden Graphic.l
Mr. Carroll should be given credit
for frankness OF statement. He has
affirmed the chief contention of his
opponents. He insists that he is a
neutral and claims it as a virtue. 1t
is on this very point that progressives
differ with Mr.. Carroll He not only
wishes to maintain neutrality between
the senator's and their opponents, but
he is a neutral on most everything
else about which there is any differ
ence of opinion. Only a few weeks
ago the allied temperance forces of
the state met in Des Moines and asked
him to address them. He did not
have time, he was busy, he was neu-
trail.
There is no neutral ground between
right and wrong, and the man who
seeks for such a haven is of Little
value to his fellow men.
Imagine, If you please. what would
have been the status in Iowa with a
neutral in the governors office in
place Of Samuel j. Kirkwood. In
1S61-5, the soldiers of Iowa at the
n
whose sy1npathies were with them.
In the battles of peace, for the reign
of righteousness, it is no less import
ant that the states representatives at
Washington have the support Of the
governor at home. Cunmins and
Dolliver have made a most noble fight
for civic righteousness. They have
taken their political fortunes in their
hands and cut loose from the shores of
policy and neutral stagnation. They
have headed boldly toward better
ideals Governor Carroll knows this
to be true but he is constitutionally
constructed along Tory lines. If he
may but hold his office in peace, Cum
Minis and Dolliver may be crucified on
cross Of greed, Aldrich and Elkins
may run the government at Washing
ton and the state itself may go hell
wards on an endless river of rotgut.
Give US in the governors office a
Crusader. Give US a man in this
chief office who will put the power Of
the state behind every organization
that labors for the uplift of mankind.
Governor Carroll confesses his chief
fault It is a lack of initiative, an
absence Of force, lack of interest in
the great conflict of right and wrong
which goes on all about him.
The senators at Washington are
either right Oh wrong. IF wrong. let
it be so expressed in Iowa. If right,
and we surely think they are, then let
them be sustained at home, not only
by a formal resolution in state ocn-
vention, but by the election of a. gov
ernor who would, if opportunity pre-
sented. appoint successor to either
who would carry on their great work
along the lines they have marked out.
This matter Of government is rot
boys play It is not merely parcel
ing out of loaves and fishes. We do
not aim to follow one policy in Iowa
and another in Washington. Our
purpose is to consistently stand firm
for better things all along the line.
What Oregon Has Done.
william s. URen in LaFollettes1