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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
PREFERS DoUGHNUTs TO
"MELON"
TWebster civ Herald.


Seemingly every one and most ami
mails have their likes and dislikes.
some more pronounced than others.
But to conceive of any person or ami
NAL having a more pronounced liking
than "Old Doc" has for good, round
doughnuts. would be a hard matter.
horse, but it is still more difficult
matter to conceive of horse having
more horse sense than Doc.
For year or more Doc has been a
regular midnight customer at the OIL
son bakery. Seemingly horse instinct
tells him when the clock in the city
hall tower strikes twelve bells. Hitch
ed to his wagon he. unattended, makes
his way to the front Of the Olsen bak-
cry, and there he awaits someone to
bring him six or seven doughnuts
If not one takes note OF him, he ulti-
mately wends his way to the rear.
and his winner is a signal to the
baker to grab up handful Of dough-
nuts, which Doc eagerly devours. Re-
CARELESS of how busy he may be. the
baker never fails him. Following this
procedure he seems to be satisfied.
but until Doc has been provided with
his favorite midnight lunch. Express
man Corbin states that he refused to
do his work with the same willing
ness
Doc Is not young. He has been
travelling the night beat in this city
for many years. But the passing of
these years have not come about, with
out leaving Doc more than ordinary
horse sense.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
SAMUEL McNuTT.
lpayenport Tines. /

One of the interesting wartime fig
ures of this part of Iowa passed away
Yesterday at Muscatine. Reference is
made to the death of Samuel McNutt.
Student, lawyer, teacher, editor and
legislator. a war democrat and later a
strong union advocate. a Scotchman Of
strong convictions which he was always
ready to defend, he aroused enthusi-
assn, made enemies and attracted
friends For ten years he was in the
state legislature, and during that time
was leader in those preliminary steps
for the control Of corporations which
were taken so tinlidly when there was
danger that the building of new roads
might be prevented and the develop
ment of the state delayed by too much
regulation. Mr.. McNutt came to Mus
catine before the war. bought a farm.
intended to practice law but became a
school principal, went to Dubuque as
an editor, started a paper of his own
but could not make it go, returned to
Muscatine, began to recruit men for
the war and was elected to the legis-
lature. He was somewhat imperious
in his bearing, but Notwithstanding
this he was highly respected by every
one in Muscatine and this part OF the
state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
THE TRUTH ABOUT s1RAppLERs.

In the contest between the saloons
and the opposition to renewal of con-
sent in Cedar Rapids the daily news
papers do not reveal their synapathies
If they have any either pro OF con.
The Republican which has counseled
moderation and deprecated battle
praises the spirit which has. it asserts.
been manifested on both sides and pre-
diets no great division between individ-
alals on account Of their opposite views
and labor for and against. 1t also
offers bit Of good advice and criticism
well worth reprinting. when it says:
"The best policy is to tell everyone
who has reason to be interested Just
where you stand We can all have
respect for the other man provided he
differs from US in a manly, straight
Forward way and stands by what he
believes. The only men that most OF us
xaespise are those who truckle and fawn
and try 70 play the good fellow on both
Sides
To be sure one wonders why the Re-
publican doesn't indicate its own posi-
fion on this important question, but at
any rate wherever it stands It has the
ri94nt Of its assertions. 1t Is always
good advice to avoid two stools between
which one falls to the ground One
should be man, mouse or long-taied
rat. No man was ever wide enough to
stand on both sides at once.
When the fight comes. as it must
.sc.:e te ell Iowa saloon towns, the
watchword should be keep sweet"
Get on one side or the other. The Re-
publican is right when 1t says the men
who earn contempt are the fawning
1rucklers, who endeavor to be on both
sides of the fence.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
OUR slum ARs1ocRAcY.

When the English aristocrat said to
the American woman, "You have no
aristocracy, no leisure class who do not
work. she replied, Yes. we have it,
hut we don't term them aristocrats,
but tramps.' She might have included
another leisure class, the men who are
part Of the time in Jail and the rest Of
the time stealing or begging or living
on the labor or shame of women or the
anistaken charity Of men. II there is a
sleisure class in the United States It
- the Jail population and the popuIa-
tion which ought to be in Jail but isn't
There are many hundreds Of these in
Iowa, big, ablebodied lazy thieving and
begging louis, some of them drunken.
soino too utterly lazy to lazy to slim
sulato themselves into action even with
I WhiA1gy. Every town and city has its
Nu01e Of these. Some OF them steal,
Goase are too lazy and cowardly to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14

result. Professional baseball costs a
great deal more than 1t comes to out
side the big towns and the larger
leagues. There's lots of ways to spend
money to more advantage to town.
One Pat German has mysteriously
disappeared from the Oskaloosa Jail
without leaving sign or trace. Perhaps
he drifted away with the saloon ma
jority.
Uncle Ike Stephenson 1t would seem,
is old enough to have known better.
Large flakes of whitewash continue
to fall off the trembling frame Of the
Illinois senator. Government white
wash isn't what it used to be.
Perhaps Lafe is even now sorry that
he bought those cigars.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
THE LODGES
MAsoNlo sMorlc1a

4 MASONIC st1oTOc9o
XyTaall in New Masonic Tsmpie.
"AVisitors always welcome.
MARaEIAI.L LODGE. 100. A ~ =
A. A., Friday. Jan. 80. 1880 p. m. Work
on drst degree.
r. w. Chamberlain. W. u.
John w. Wells, Secretary.
slGNET CHAPTER No. 20, r. A. u.
Regular convocation Jan. 16, 1850. Ia
the new temple,
Fred Wallace. u. H. r.
I. 8. Mflard. Secretary.
KING SOLOMON Council. No. 20. r.
= 8. M, stated assembly. Monday.
Jan. 1s. 1911. 7:se p. m.
!. T. Forbes, Recorder.
A. D. Meeker. T. I. II.
st. ALDEMAR CoMMANDERY. No.
80. K. T. Stated conclave Tuesday even.
ing. Jan. ~. 1911. At 1850 O'Clock.
]. T. Forbes. p. G.
Fred Wallace. Recorder,
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. q. o. =.
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday even.
ing. Feb. is. At 1880 p. m.
Edna c. Fularton, W. u, !
Lillian Norton. Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
WISE lANDLoRD---GooD RENTER.

A Hunt oldt county ,andowner-rnay
his tribe ncrease-writes into the
lease Of his farm the provision that the
tenant must cut all weeds to the mid
die of the road and use the road drag
on the main highways of the farm bor-
copied in and out of Humboldt county
10 individual and public advantage.
No doubt there is sentiment as we'll
as common sense in these provisions.
This retired landowner without any
doubt was good farmer; he kept the
place neat, cut the roadside weeds and
dragged the roads while he lived on the
farm earning the competence upon
which he has retired. He doesn't pro-
pose to go out and look at the old farm
with regret over untidiness and neglect.
Moreover, he is shrewd. He left a good
farm and proposes to keep it good. He
knows that the best renters" are look
ing for neat and we'll kept farms and
leaving neglected places to the neglect
full; that a good renter" will not OBJ
ject to the conditions imposed and that
there is always competition for farm
which has been conserved instead of
exploited II the truth were all known
it is likely that the lease provides
against selling straw off the place and
insists on a certain amount Of feeding
on the farm.
II is a safe bet that he has a good
tenant who is in the way to become a
farm owner. Notice that most of the
renters who buy and pay for good
ditions of this lease would be no bar
to a bargain?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
TEAR DOWN THE SHACKs.

It Is almost as necessary TO tear
down as to build up in order TO make
q beautiful and sanitary city. In a
modern town there is neither use nor
decency In the novels which a short
walk will unearth in any city which
may be specified, houses unit for hu-
man occupancy. unke1npt. unllept sheds
scarcely fit to house hogs in. And the
city can be beautiful and clean and
healt11ful only as these eyesores and
plague spots are obliterated.
Every city has them, strung along
tats railroad tracks, down on its flats"
or grouped about its edges. Some good
citizens grow up in them. but they are
the weed spots where citizenship
chokes, not where good citizenship.
hourishes and develops. They are to
the cities what the slough is to rhe
farm. places to dump offal. the bone
yards Of citizenship. They ought to be
burned, torn down and carried away
Men who are willing to thus house
themselves and their families should
be unable to md a TOlten ana tuHl oie-
down old shack within the city limits
No man who will work every day need
live in them. Those who are willing
ITO do SO lack the essentials of citizen
ship.
If there Is an incentive to children to
grow into worthy and useful members
of society 1t is to be found in a good
home No kennel in - midst Of squalor
can furnish, except in a neglected way,
the stimulus needed to develop thrifty
and useful members Of society. There
must exist sense of equality in citi-
zenship not a sense Of equality in deg
radiation, physical civil and to a large
DECREE social. The shack Is a degrad
ing influence, not stimulus. No child
thinks well Of itself who is kennelled
there. No woman holds up her head
who is thus imprisoned.
Destroy the decaying, implanted how
els. Condemn them thru the health
boards and fire departments There
ought not to be permitted in any city
a house which any man can rent at a
profit for $50 a year.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
Topics of the Times

When it comes to the question Of
inheriting a big bunch Of money, Mrs
Eddy's will gets into the common class.
"Des Moines has nothing to say
about the state fair" asserts a Des
Moines paper. This must be a 1911
New Years resolution
The legislature should view with
Urbandale car and arrive at the sena-
torial station on time. Otherwise the
common people are likely to grab the
controller and get busy.
A man writes to Des Moines. saying:
Il have lived less than 100 miles from
Des Moines for nineteen years and have
travelled over lot of the northwest
but ! never knew that Des Moines had
the opportunities that you set forth in
your magazine Wealth. Now do you
suppose he was sincere and ignorant,
or simply kidding?
But how is Walt I. Smith to be
spared from congress? Our standpat
brethren have designated him as the
only real representation Iowa has in
the national legislature. Why are they
anxious for his appointment TO the
federal judiciary
Heavy storms along the Pacific
ast"-and eternal sunshine over Iowa.
with the country.
The Iowa Brick and Tile Association
will convene at Boone, Jan. %. Come
together like a thousand of brick, as it
were.
1t is said that the survey report on
the Des Moines river as q navigable
stream will be favorable. But what's
the difference now? Cap. Hull's beaten
and Lafe's no sailor.
Professor Morehouse, Of Drake, says
the planet Venus is a very busy place
Without doubt Venus advertises.
A booze lecturer told Cedar Rapids
| lldI lGii SGSi liCIi 90 oihy ouAOdJ
would demoralize the nation. 1t all de-
ponds on ones conception Of morals and
morality and the booze lecturers as
sertion is valuable as defining the
booze viewpoint
| Shenandoah business men concluded
that a professional baseball team is
an expensive luxury and declined t
finance baseball for the coming season
! 1t takes about three years to bring this
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
HARsEAlITowN. IOWA.

road to enactment. Sever2 tlmeS-poF'
haps . half dozen in all-the lower
house has expressed Its approval OF the
popular election OF senator's. There
have been expressions Of sympathy with
the proposal In the upper house, but
the body a. whole has always looked
coldly upon 1t. There is no expectation
that the matter will come to a head at
the present session. But 1t may In the
means impossible that the amendment
may be submitted for ratification by the
states.
In recent years the movement for
the popular election of United States
senators has been making. progress in
two other directions. There has been
persistent campaigning to propose the
amendment by means Of a constitution
al convention. which must be called
when demanded by two-thirds Of all the
states. To this end various legislatures
have passed resolutions indorsing the
popular election Of senators. Recent In
vestigation has shown that within the
last few years thirty states have been
committed to the principle. Not all OF
these have formally demanded OF con-
sress that 1t call = constitutional CON-
vention to propose the reform. But II
the formal resolutions now on record
are supplemented by similar resolutions
from most OF the legislatures now in
session the required two thirds may
easily be counted.
While this campaign has been gain
ing momentum the states have been
busy trying on their own account to
popularize the election of their senators.
The primary law was the first step in
this direction. 1t has not worked very
we'll because the constitution leaves
the legislature free to elect whom 1t
will, regardless Of primary instructions.
But ever this difficulty seems to have
been effectually overcome in the Oregon
primary plan. which affords a clever
method for pledging legislators In ad-
vance Of their election to accept the
result OF a popular senatorial referen-
dunn. For all practical purposes the
states that have adopted the Oregon
plan have attained the popular election
of United States senators without walt
ing for national approval Of the prin-
ciple.
The symptoms OF yielding to the
popular demand now noted in the SEN
ate probably are due to conviction that
in one way or another the change, so
long resisted in the interest of conserv-
atism. is coming anyway If 1t Is COM
ing the conservatives would rather
have it come thru a constitutional
proposed by congress than
thru an amendment proposed by
constitutional convention. conven-
ton could not be restricted to propos-
ing that single amendment. but might
be induced to attempt the revision OF
the whole constitution. Also it may be
advisable, if the change is
to be brought about. that the federal
congress shall indicate the regulations
(, aler which the states shall conduct
their popular elections for senator.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
A Comic Courtesy.

ISL. LOUIS CtODc lOeIllOCIdt.J
A country long mystifled as to the
most delicate meanings and fullest
depths Of senatorial courtesy will not
be enlightened by the latest announce
ment in the Lorimer case. That an
nouncement is definite and positive.
tho not, of course, official. 1t is
that, in deciding whether MIR. Lorimer
shall be disqualified for further sena-
torial service, bare majority will
be enough to disqualify him il it be
said only that votes were bribed to
elect him. while, if it be charged that
he was personally party to or cog
infant Of the bribery. two-thirds of
the senators voting will be necessary
to his disqualification. This is said
to be the undoubted and unchallenged
rule of senatorial procedure in all
such cases. Whereas the common
mind will be mystfied more than
ever.
The common mind will see that
Mr.. Lorin1er should not be disqualified
at all without the most positive. in
conference.-the evidence Of bribery
Having seen that, what the common
mind will see next is that, II the evil
dence taken in proof of bribery shows
Mr. Lorimer to have been party
thereto, and the fact is set out in the
motion upon which the senate is
called to act In his case, bare ma
pority should be as effective in unseat-
ing him as if the evidence did not
disclose his personal participation. II
will strike the average intelligence
that, if a discrimination is to be made
between a senator who buys a seat for
himself and one whose seat is bought
for him without his knowledge OF
consent. the advantage should be In
favor of the one who has been made 8
victim Of misplaced confidence. The
man in the street will wonder why II
takes more votes to unseat a senator
shown to have bought votes for him
self than are needed to unseat one
shown to have been seated by votes
bought for him by friends and sup.
porters who dared not inform him OF
their corrupt methods. The stree
man will conclude that, II a difference
is made between the two. it ought tc
take more votes to unseat the more
decent man. His reasoning will bring
him to two conclusions. The first. Of
these will be that any senator fol
whom votes were brihed, no matter
by whom. should be unseated. Thu
next will be that the senate is strain
ing it's courtesy to the point of alb
surdity in saying that senator Is 81
Immaculate and immune that a larger
Jury is needed to convict him of brib'
cry on the same testimony on which 6
smaller jury can convict his friends.
This rule of senatorial courtesy !.
more laughable than dangerous. Al
the thing works practically, it prob.
ably never will happen that senator
holding thru bribery clearly proved
can take advantage Of the two third!
rule when the major sentiment Of thu
body in against him. The rule hat
worked. and will continue working
toward forms Of senatorial procedure
which will leave that body in the dig
nified attiture Of shutting it's door
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14

steal, none Of them work one day out of
thirty. But they live and in complete
leisure in Jail or out. And somebody
W orks for every cents worth they
consume and the shelter which covers
chem.
Nothing is so demoralizing as idle
ness. A leisure class of one kind or
the other is a demoralizing influence
public and individual. No man should
eat what he has not earned. In Amer
lea there are few who do except this
aris1ocracy of the Sums. Iowa is far
behind on this problem which Is not
a problem at all but a neglect. The
state of Washington finds public work
for it's jail birds on her forest lands.
California builds roads with them:
Louisiana sets them to work in drain
age bitches: Indiana has reclaimed a
wide swamp with this labor; Illinois
brushes stone for highways with them;
most of the southern states put them
on the highways Iowa supports them
in Jail and fond and foolish women do
washings or worse to keep them in
leisure While they are out.
1t is time the state set about collect
ing its due from this class. Other
states have set the example and shown
the feasibility and success of working
prisoners out of doors. What is needed
is a law which shall reach the resident
as we'll as the transient vagrant with
a three to six months sentence at hard
labor which shall suffice to support
those dependent on him. If some leg
islator is looking for fame and gen.
eral appreciation let him father bill
which shall include the essentials nee
essary to make an able bodied loafer
earn food and shelter and clothing for
himself and his family.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14
POPULAR ELECTION COMING.
lSioux CITY Journal.1

Two new records have been estab-
lished recently in the movement to
bring about the popular election of
United States senators. The nrst was
made when a subcommittee Of the
senate judiciary committee recommend
ed to the full committee that constf-
tional amendment embodying the
proposed reform be sumbitted for the
approval Of the states. Now comes the
news that the full committee has ac-
copied the report OF the subcommittee
and will make favorable report to the
senate on the proposed amendment.
This means that the question will be
submitted to the senate sooner or later
with the full weight Of the judiciary
committee thrown to the affirmative
side It will be the first time In the
history Of the upper house that such
Ia measure has travelled 50 f6t. on the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-14

against any Of the representatives or
benenciartes q the wicked world out
side. while refusing to admit that It
has been contaminated by the presence
OF anybody familiar, with such wicked.
ness. or any one worse than one Of tho
wicked worlds victims, whom It will
be much easier to expel as victim
than az sinner.