Evening times-Republican., 1911-07-15
Topics of the Times

Two CheckerS nave 1OunC more muck
In the Pottawattamie county admin
istration that an entire democratic
congress has found in four republican
administrations at Washington.
Governor Deneen of Illinois is reason
ably certain that jackpot was part
OF the proceeding OF the Illinois legis-
lature that elected LorimeI.
The king and queen OF England hav-
ing been duly crowned and the Prince
may now proceed to take little more
evidence in the Lorimer case
rhe chief charge against DR. Wiley
seems to be that OF cutting red tape.
He served under Roosevelt.
They had i little excitement in
! Washington this week when a box OF
matches III the pocket of ConSressma IL
Willis We're ignited. Discovering that
he was Oh fire Willis started to rush
from the house. Some of his fellow
members captured him ard extin-
guished the flames. This poor fellow
only got a taste OF wha, a lot of other
fellows around Washington would get
if they had their "nee0n's."
L-aFollette says the Canadian pact is
little brother" to the Aldrich tariff
law. The most its friends claim for It
is that it is sort of John the Bapt:s
prelude.
In the assault OF the Des Moines
people and newspapers on the retail
ers trust in that city they are hitting
the cost of living a solar plexus blow.
We are raising nine billion dollars
worth of produce in this country and
it costs four and a half billion to dis
tribute it.
In spite of the fact that LaFollette
has beer bomoarded and riGlculed by
the press of the entire country when
he rises to address the senate every
body sets up and takes notice Lal'ol-
lette is the strongest personality in the
United States senate today
John Hays Hammond did one thing
in London for which he should be COM
menced. He nudged the king in the
ribs at swell dinner, much as one
politician would nudge another in the
lobby Of hotel at a state convention,
and asked him a commonplace Ques-
ton about the state Of his health and
as to whether he was not pleased that
the show had been pulled of without
any hitch in the program. The king
answered the questions Of the Ameri-
can inquisitor just about as any other
politician would have answered Some
OF the ex-American ladies' present
noted the familiarity of Hammond and
were properly horrifed. 1t is doubtless
refreshing to the king to get next to
the uine American spirit. What he
usually meets in the way OF American
ism is not Americanism but sickly
aping OF royalty by title hunting syco-
phants with more money than sense.
Miss Nan Aspinwall Of the wild west
has just completed horseback ride
from San Francisco to New York. She
SoS SA1e las gone east 10 Ie0Ch So
ciety how to reduce their weight by
riding horses and throwing a lariet
Her version Of the eastern women is
similar to that expressed by John L.
sullivan concerning Cleveland When
Cleveland was president John was in
the heydey of his pukilistic career He
was also a good democrat and on the
occasion Of a visit to WASHINGTON con-
cluded to call on his fellow dem ocrat,
Cleveland. On his return from the
White House he was asked what he
thought Of Cleveland. Hes in very
bad FORM exclaimed the noted pugu-
ist.
Il am not asking that any duties on
farm products) shall be retained" said
Cummins in his speech in the senate
Il am simply asking that the piai..eses
and commonest justice, that when the
farmer must enter into free and un-
limited competition in respect to what
he sells he shall have the same compe-
tition in respect to what he buys
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.