Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-29
Topics of the Times

Perhaps the talk of Ernest Moore and
Professor Holden as opposing candi
dates for governor is joke But it is
time to separate the governorship from
a joke.
Clifford Thorne and George Cosson
have abundant energy. splendid ability
and strong disposition to serve we'll
the public no part of this
energy or disposition to serve Iowa
should be dissipated in what the late
r. 2. Clarkson would have described
as divisive strife
Primarily the interests Of labor and
capita! are identical. They are in
separately bound to oppose dynamite
and all other forms of violence Nothing
can be settled until it is settled right
Dynamite can have no part or share
in settlements Of this character
Refusing 20 vote for senators who
voted for Lorimer is a slow way of
reaching that astute gentleman, but il
will get him in the end, and, In the
absence of a more direct method, is
ne pest that can be done.
What's the use of getting excited
e."l: who goes 70 congress or is
=-sc-s: governor a year hence? The
-=al ae=d % the hour IS reliable corn
cure
n comparing democrats the Wash
i1g-oa STAR calls attention to the fact
thai "Ir. Wilson had considerably
more success in taking charge Of New
jersey man Mr.. Bryan has had with
Nebraska" BIT Mr.. Wilson's hold on
New- Jersey is not in the same class
win the grip Mr.. Bryan got on the
Gem ocrats of the whole country in that
Chicago convention and he has held 1t
most Of the time since. New brooms
sweep clean"
The boy scout movement can be
popularized with the farmers now if its
promoters will add blowing to the cur
riculum.
If the mothers and daughters had
met in Washington on the same date
te record would doubtless have been
pitched in different key.
Sherlock Holmes will now have to
go away back and listen while Mr..
Burns analyses a few signs.
Il is asserted that the railway dining
cars are losing money However. trav-
elers never seem TO find any of it.
A Berlin man has invented a dummy
that can whistle. That fellow should
be suppressed. Whistling is an art that
doesn't need cultivation. Like the
dandeIion, it il able to contribute it's
share 10 human misery without cult
walton.
There has as yet been no way dis
covered Of telling the age Of a fish.
This information is likely to add ps-
catorial subjects to missionary. Shake
spearean and other club study pro-
grams not otherwise devoted 10 ma
ture subjects.
a biographer says Colonel Roosevelt
has an ambition to reach his final end
by being shot on the field Of battle.
This is probably due to his early train
ing Theodore spent his youth in a
country where most deaths were
among men with their boots on.
A Buffalo preacher secured crowded
church by announcing that he was going
to preach a sermon about family
scandal. There was some disappoint-
ment noted on the faces Of the listeners
when the pastor had completed a
discourse on the temptation Of Eve by
the serpent
Wash, has an anti treating ordinance
carried by a referendum vote. We al
ways had an idea that this law would
carry in a referendum with an Aus
| tralian ballot. When a fellow gets to
liking liquor real strong he usually
wants to drink it all himself.
|
| Most likely as an echo of Roosevelts
hobnobbing with King George, that
!, ruler has issued a decree that no
Divorces shall be received either on
| the occasion of his coronation or any
other old time. That's going to reduce
the number Of New Workers at the
coronation a whole lot. But it will
! have no appreciable effect on business
in the town where Jack Johnson was
coronated-