Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-15

and do the early passengers on the
I.aFollette band wagon get rain
checks?" asks the Des Moines Tribune.
Joseph Tuffree, Of Marshalltown, is
lO2 years old and said to be the old
est Elk not only in Iowa but in the
world. Who can prove by their Elk
teeth that Tuffree is not entitled TO
the age laurels?" asks the Waterloo
Reporter.
IF Senator Cummins can not get the
presidential nomination, then Theodore
Roosevelt is the man Iowa people
want" says the Sioux Rapids Repub-
lican- Press
"Nowadays when you see man with
an extra broad grin you are in doubt
as to whether he has become proud
father or has a laying hen," says the
Cedar Rapids Gazette.
"If actually nominated Cummins
would poll more votes than any other
republican except Roosevelt. and we
are not sure that he would not poll
more votes than Roosevelt" says the
Brooklyn Chronicle.
From the way the reporters follow
Teddy around" remarks the Waterloo
Times Tribune. they seem to think he
intends to blow his own horn every
time he pulls out his handkerchief"
The Dubuque Times journal seems
%o statement
of "a Connecticut couple who have
been married seventy-seven years and
declare that a cross word has never
passed between them. Before long,
adds the Times-J Journal, 'it may be
necessary to provide veteran MEMBER
ship in the Ananias club"
Weather Observer Cox, who has
been in charge Of the station at Chi
cago which furnished the Iowa fore
casts, has been transferred to the east.
and Milwaukee man is now holding
down the Job. From the way the new
mans been forecasting warmer wealth
err" complains the Ottumwa Courier,
there is a suspicion that he must have
brought with him from Milwaukee
some of the product that made that
town famous"
The Chinese lmperialists may ind
some satisfaction thinks the Musca-
tine Journal. in knowing that "Pu-Yi
lost his lob before he had reached an
age where the world could lay the loss
of his throne ito his infatuation for
dancing girl"
x$y1 inc a
dictionary newspapers just now to know
whether to turn their guns on LaFol-
iette. Roosevelt or Cummins," says the
Sioux City Tribune. Whoever it to
lead the progressive republicans of the
country in the presidential campaign
will be the center of attack. Conse
quently there Is much anxiety in the
standpat camp to have the matter
settled"
I'VE may not have grown in popula-
ton as much as some states but after
all it doesn't require any organized eff
fort to sell an Iowa farm" observes
the Sigourney Review.
Champ Clark carried the democratic
primaries in Missouri SO overwhelm-
!ngly," says the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
that the only conclusion warranted is
that the show-me state doesn't care
anything about Joe Folks presidential
aspirations"
poet Kemp and Mrs Sinclair have
parted. Just another instance" sug-
gests the Burlington Gazette. "of the
fact that two empty stomachs are more
powerful than two souls with but a
single thought"
according to a Des Moines paper a
citizen of that community has just re-
turned from California with the con-
viction that Iowa had 1t on California
in the matter of winter weather" says
the Waterloo Courier. "a Waterlooan
who returned from balmy Los Angeles
in January said the temperature OF that
locality went as low as aboxe zero.
Think of shivering around in tissue
houses in an average Iowa winter tenn
perature."
The Sioux City Journal rejoices that
'tthe first 'women's bar in this country,
an adjunct of the new Vanderbilt hotel
in New York City. has been closed. 1t
has been closed. not because anybody
objected to 1t. but because it did not
receive enough patronage to warrant
continuance OF the experiment. Score
one for the women on the side Of real
temperance reform. Every time bar
goes osit 90 business tc- lack cf pat
ronage it IL an object lesson of prac-
teal temperance"
I'm the democratic house Of congress
the peerless leader has become the
peerless buffer" says the Boone News
Republican.