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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-04

Kenyon and Clarke Garry Dubuque.
Special to Times Republican
Dubuque. June a three to one
vote for Kenyon was polled in Du-
buuue county. Clarke has . strong lead
for governor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-04
Van Law Carrie. Jasper.

Van Law Carries Jasper.
Special to Times Republican.
Newton, June 4-Complete returns
from twenty nine OF thirty precincts
in Jasper county give Kenyon 1,153,
Young 1,O25, Clarke 1904, Holden 591.
Proudfoot 423, Hamilton 404. Dunn
377, Van Law 1921 Harding 7o1. Allen
s65, chassell 44s. Van Duyn 6aa. otte-
sen 76S, Ketchum 1853, Kendall 1867,
Allfree 962.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-04
lpseial. 70 rinss Rspubliean.

9peeiai 20 Tinss Republican.
oSs oaoinss, June 4.-At noon the
manager FOR the progressive cam
pailno. claimed that Kenyon will
Svo not less than 10000 majority
ovor Neung, and that Clarke will
have 3o,e00 over Holden. The latest
Aaur6s On governor gave Clarke
2e2sz, Holden 16,726, Proudfoot g.
o65. Friends of chssssIl are claim
ing his nomination. but Van ouyn
does not conesds the Same. In Polk
county tFe majority for Kenyon
over Young 90 far a. footed up 10
$3.50.
rive sountiss complete on GOV.
srror are:
Frankiinciark s4s, Holden 7so,
proudfoot 100.
!tvinnsbaso-clarke esq; Holden
zoe, Proudfoot 42.
Adais-cIarIss 621, Holden 300
Preudfoet 22s.
Madison ~ Clarke sss. Holden
$50, proudfoot 4e7.
carroil-cIarI<s ~, Holden 4o4,
proudfoot 1oe.
Dss Moinss, Juno 4-Rsturns
from 647 prseinots cut Of 1900 give
Kenyon 41,25o, Young 21yo2e;
+ Clarke H,S72, Heidsn 1e,5sa.
IN the donpeoratie eubernatorial
e6nteot rsturns from 155 scattered
sesosiness 0ivs Dunn 4,226, Hamil
gten 2s61.
sssssa the 1psshliean iissAsWan& Sow-
Srsseses reeo 312 preeinets give
HAedjne fzAeo; Van Law 1852.
The SANS number Of precincts in
ttse eontest fer SECRETARY Of state
show chassslI 9,017, Allen 9,492,
Van Duyn 6,377.
For raiiroad commissions. Kst.
ehum s,477. ottoson 6,6s7 in the 312
4nraeineta.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-04
ARKANSAS MEETS ACCIDENT.
Report Reaches Navy Department The
&, New preadnousht 10 Damaged.

Washington. June 4.-lnf0TmattOn
that the new dreadnought ArkAnsas
has met with an accident on her trial
trip of the main coast has reac.seA The
navy department. The details are not
Availa0ic Dut IL !. ,:::sc - g: :.sse slsss the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-04
Van Law Carrie. Tama.

Van Law Carries Tanra.
Special to Times Republican.
Toledo. June 4.--Van Law for lieu
tenant governor carried Tama county
by a vote Of 1,1O1 to 261 for Harding.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-04
Holden Carrie. Pottawattan,i i

Holden Carries Pottawattamie.
Special to Times Republican.
Council Bluffs. June 4.-Pottawat
tamie county complete gives Young l.,
532. Kenyon, 2,0S7, Holden 1857
Clarke 1854, Proudfoot 800, Chassell l..
562, VanDuyn GA, Allen 1,047.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-04
T..R. BULLETIN
Noticeable News Of Today
The Wsathsr.

The Weather.
Sun rises June at 4:30. sets at 1851.
Iowa---Fatr tonight and Wednesday;
warmer In northwest portion tonight
Illinois-Fair tonight and Wednee-
day: not much change In temperature.
South Dakotn~--Fair tonight ana
wednesday warmer tonight
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-04
Ksnyen Carries johnson.

Special to Times Republican.
~ ;,,, s.!t e. y.::ss A. .sss lreturns are l.
slow. senator kenyon carries lows
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-04


day: not much change In temperature.
South Dakotn--Eair tonight ana
Wednesday: warmer tonight
PAGE ONE.
relssraphio News; al
Landslide for Kenyon.
Clarke Claims State by 10000.
Van Law Probably Beaten.
Close Race on Other Places
Campaign Kills Congressman Hub
bard.
Diese While Receiving Election Re
Tai s ,ntrols Ohio Convention.
Re > .!anary Uprising in Belgium
; 6Es TWO AND THREE.
low : sw.:
< Machines Fail in Primary.
:. g Shot in Domestic Quarrel.
ng Rlames Taft for Defeat.
3 /, Hurt In Auto Accident at Traer.
PAGE FOUR.
I oriaI:
1ne Senatorship.
Tired of 1t All"
A Jews Comparison.
Topics OF the Times.
Iowa Opinion and Notes.
PAGE FIVE.
iowa News:
Marshall Township. Pocahontas
County.
Corn Nearly All Planted.
PAGE SEVEN.
Story:
Stanton Wins.
PAGES SIX, EIGHT AND NINE.
Kenyon Clarke Sweep County.
Progressives Win by Big Margin.
Cause, Wordcn and Miss Miller VIII
County Contest.
Scholarships by Boy stock Judges.
Father Searches For Runaway Son
Mrs. divers Funeral Wednesday.
General News OF City.
PAGE TEN.
Markets and General:
Drouth Reports Boost Wheat.
Corn Mart Hardens With Wheat.
Hogs Down Cents.
Cattle Nominally Steady.
Too Much Politics Hampers Con-
Eress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Most of US can find fault with our eyes
shut.
If you would be popular you must be a
good forgotten.
Life is a comedy to the optiTnist and a
tragedy to the pessimist.
No man is half as brave as he wants
some woman to think he is.
If faint heart ne'er won fair lady," it
kept out of a lot of trouble.
If a man is ruled by his feelings he's
apt to travel in a zigzag course.
Many a man is woman hater despite
the fact that he has never married.
A man can easily acquire a reputation
for being swift when he's on the down
grade.
Once in a great while man acquires
wealth and fame without forgetting hts
old friends.
And the average man is forever com
planning that the world isn't giving him
square deal"
The man who is running for office can
see great danger to the country in sEe
success of his opponent.
woman may not be able to keep
secret, but when it comes to suffering in
silence she has a man beaten to a fragile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18
GLOBE SIGHTS
az rHr ATcH1soN GLOBE.

A good deal that ought to be done. isn't
and won't be.
Admitting you are wrong doesn't help
the house out much
If you don't worry, it is safe to assume
some one will attend to that matter for
you.
A lot of people are in favor of govern
ment ownership because they can't get
it themselves.
Our notion of vigorous youth is exem-
plified by anyone who can enjoy dane 1g
In hot weather.
One trouble with most of us is that the
ability to forget is almost equal to tI e
learning power.
number of town people want to be
farmers but there are more VINO would
like to be retired farmers.
There is so much useful work to do that
the marching club has some difficulty 10
eating a suitable excuse
Winning on a foul may not be cor
vincinE evidence of superiority, but IT IS
preferable to losing that way
Be cheerful, of course, but not to the
extent of trying to make everyone JOIN IN
your chorus of hilarity.
INV wife is an excellent woman; she
will do anything I ask II she wants IT,
said Link Preston this morning
while never could work up much m
terest In the ColonePs writing, have long
been an admirer of the fancy price he
gets for it'-Rufe Hoskins
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18
JAYHAWKER JOTy

A yeast company is going to start
factory in Wichita-if the Wichita
commercial club can also raise a little
dough.
DR.. C. E. Eye, the health officer of
Marion county, ought to have no trou-
BILE in seeing the things that demand
his attention.
1t is useless to hope for the best,
advises the Wilson Echo, if you are
determined to keep thinking that the
worst always happens.
Chicago man committed suicide
because it was too hot for him, notes
the Lindsborg News, and it comments:
Wonder what he thinks of the tenn
perature now?
DOC Woods Hutchinson has joined
the third party, and may be able to
prescribe something which will rouse
the tagging interest of the Bull
Moose" is the rash guess of the Atch-
ison Globe.
The Emporia Gazette prints politi-
cal announcements on the editorial
page, thus insuring the candidates
that their appeals will be read by a
number of exchange editors who vote
in other localities.
Plain, unadulterated truth, from
the Gridley Light: People would rath-
er go to a fortune teller or fakir and
pay several dollars for some good
advice than to accept it free from
an old friend or neighbor who has
Deen through the mill.
There are members of congress
who recommend Washington as one
of the best summer resorts in the
country, says the Hutchinson News.
Others would rather be repairing
fences at home than to enjoy the Of
fetal climate of the capital city.
Asking embarrassing questions is
one Of the fayorite indoor sports of
the Newton nsan-Republican, but it
ought to draw the line at anything
like this: Suppose Mr.. Capper should
happen to receive the most votes at
the primaries. what ticket will he run
on?"
F. NJ. Chapman of Oslaloosa, has
curiosity in this year of peachless
peach trees, reports the Oskaloosa
Times. He has a tree that is so
loaded with fruit that he has had to
put several props under it to keep
the limbs from breaking down from
the weight of the peaches. The tree
is in his chicken yard that has a north
exposure. He does not know the name
of the peach, but it is a budded va
riety of early white peaches. Trees
near and around it have scarcely n
peach on them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18
QUAKER MEDTTATIoNs.

[From the Philadelphia Record.]
irrigation makes thing grow, especial
ly a thirst.
The fellows with liquid eyes don't al
ways nquidize-
Many mans will is contested long be-
fore he is dead.
A girl is never happy till she falls in
love, and then she's miserable.
When a girl becomes convinced that
crying makes her nose red she stops
The man who borrows trouble generally
gives his peace of mind as security.
Some people are always too busy to do
anything but talk about how busy they
are.
NeIl-"'would you say Mr.. Guzzler was
well bred?' Belle-'Well, he generally
has a little bum"
The one time a woman always keeps
her word is when she says she wouldn't
marry the best man living
II feel like a fish out of water re-
marked the old bachelor when he realized
that a summer girl had landed him.
Some men are like postage stamps in
hot weathr. The only time they stick is
when they get stuck on themselves.
The Optimist had been disappointed in
love. '.Oh, well.'' he unused, Il should
probably have been disappointed in mar
rage, anyhow
First Suffragette-''D you know M
Observation-Disclosures husband2" Second
Suffragette-"I don't seem to remember.
What was his name before she married
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18
SAYS UNCLE CAV

The man who is so good that it
hurts isn't really good at all he's a
bigot and an enemy of society. There
is no goodness without broad human
sympathy; no moral excellence with
out that charity which suffereth long
and is kind. Real goodness never
hurts any one; especially does it not
And there's where he who imputes
unto himself righteousness and in
siSts that everybody else live accord
ing to his warped yardstick falls
short. 1t is this consideration that
makes the b1got an abomination.
Narrow virtue is vice. There is
nothing absolute in human relations
all things are relative. The moral
conviction that is strong enough to
give stamina blesses him that pos
that which becomes SO highly in
famed as to tingle when another dis
agrees with it, is the sin of the busy
body and the moral martinez.
Goodness that does not admit good
in another of different convictions is
no more good than a boil is healthy
flesh. Its abode is a fostering con-
science out of w&ich naught but evil
has become bad through lack of
healthy conditions.
Bigoted virtue. is dead thing and
a stencil in the nostrils of normal
IOlk. II cannot i've because II Is
negative and without life. Ordinarily,
it consists, not in doing good, but in
refraining from conventional evil. 1t
has neither moral perception nor NOR
al impulse. Its only claim to goodness
is that in a world where murder some
times occurs, it never stains its hands
with blood; that while other men
sometimes steal, it has laid itself
liable to the law against larceny. 1t
insists that this negative standard be
the standard of its neighbors and
damns those who disregard its yard
stick. 1t is the Pharisee that lives by
the ritual-a whited sepulcher full of
the bones of the dead moral POSSIBLE
tiles that died at birth.-(Copyright
1912 by w. E. Williams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18

| delegation two of the alternates were
permitted to vote. Well, the regular
delegates were sent to the Chicago con-
vention for a purpose. The alternates
were sent there to act in the incapacity
of regular delegates. The regular dele
gates refused to take part in the con-
Vention. Why should not the alter
mates be permitted. as Senator Root
ruled, to vote in that case?
Kansas sent eighteen delegates to
Chicago to vote for Roosevelt. The
delegates, at a critical time, declined
to take part in the proceedings. The
alternates had duty then.
Last fall, after the big progressive
program of President Taft had been
crystallized into action, there is no
doubt that while Colonel Roosevelt.
not desiring to take any part in the
nomination, fully intended at that
time to support President Taft should
the latter be the nominee of the Re-
publican party.
How is it possible for President Taft
to have become such a bad man in
SO short a time when he had been
heralded and tested by his intimate
associate President Roosevelt.to be one
of the great men of the times?
record of the progressive meas
ures, currently printed, endorsed
or secured by President Taft's
administration classes the President
as one of the greatest. practical, sane,
progressives of the day.
1t may be unpopular just now in
Kansas to say kind word for Presi-
dent Taft and his splendid record, but
the state Journal must say this word
and declare that he has been a much
maligned and much misrepresented
man, entitled to reelection. President
Taft is not getting a square deal from
the insurgents, who claim that as one of
their main tenets; this without re-
fecting upon Colonel Roosevelt, one
of the greatest men in the country,
with fine record behind him, but who
has been misled by over-zealous
friends and by seekers after Office, who
striving to profit by his per-
sonality, have plunged him into
a campaign for a third term
which first splits his own Republican
party in twain and now seeks its an
Inhalation by means of third party
in certain states. and self-destruction
in others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18
EVENING CHIT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

Love that asketh love again.
t1nds the barter naught but pain;
Love that giveth in full store
Aye receives as much and more
Love, exactlng nothing back,
Never knoweth any lack;
Love, compelling love to pay
Sees him bankrupt every day.
Michael Field.
Do you know her-the girl who thinks
1t smart and attractive to parade the love
some luclzless man feels for her; tell YOU
how. perfectly wild about her. he is;
same time, assure you that she cares
absolutely nothing for him?
OF course you do. We all do
street.
1t seems TO me that this attitude IS
one of the most unpleasant. as well as
one OF the most universal, faults of the
young woman of the present day.
dsv I'm not Nc 'ne a, S,ouhg women OF yester-
ter Only I just wasn't acquainted with
them.
To love is the greatest thing in the
world
To be loved is only secondary.
Ine greatest tragedy in life isn't not to
nave inspired love, but not to have loved.
Inc beautiful woman who drives half
a dozen men half wild with love- and
never once feels the stirring Of it within
herself, seems to me greater failure in
life than the girl who secretly loves her
heart out for the man who never even
knows.
The power of love inspired has never
STOOD PACK OF any great work, while the
power OF love felt, even when unreturned
perhaps more often under this condi-
uon-nas been the motive power of much
OF the greatest work of the world.
when VIII our girls realize these facts
ana cease to think it something to be
proud OF when men love them and they
are unable to feel in return the stirring
OF that wonderful seIf-oblIterating thing
genuine love?
Dora Melegari. a Russian philosopher.
makes a whimsical. but thought-pro-
Voklng' little guess about this strange
Perhaps 1t is because, being conscious
OF our own unworthiness. despise 9TH
ers 1nstinctively for the love they give
u.s. she suggests.
Perhaps that is what actuates this kind
OF girl, although I doubt very much II
she would admit IL she were taxed with
But the strangest thing about this girl
VINO assures you so vigorously that she
cares nothing for this man who is $50
wild about her" is the fact that half the
time she is telling lie
Hair the time she does care for him,
only with that same perverse belief that
1t Is finer to inspire love than to feel II,
she likes to pretend that she doesn't
Silly little girl.
could almost find it in my heart to
wish that her folly might lose her the
precious jewel she holds so Hghtly-a
mutual love.
All, no, couldn't quite wish that-only
that 1t might bring her to the brink OF
loss and teach her to cherish this price
less treasure as II should be-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18
DOONsIDE.

Doom,
And as the water touched my lips. be-
hold,
1t seemed a scroll before mine eyes
unrolled
As from the cloudy battlements of noon.
Mortal" wondering, 1 read, though man
so soon
Departs to his dark chamber in the
mold,
The seed of his Hfe's work grows never
old,
If it unto the nations yield a boon.
So fares the singer of these banks and
braes;
So springs and twines his soul about
mans dream,
That still he seems to live. to be not
far,
To be a part of nature-Iike his lays,
And like the mavis here, and like this
stream,
And like the ageless glory of a STAR"
&C. G. Blanden, in Chicago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18

A LIFE INSURANCE ENIGMA

LII Il 1NoO RANCE ENIGMA.
Life insurance statistics have been
vltalized into more than ordinary in
terest by the discovery that the suicide
rate IS increasing alarmingly in the
Snlaller cities, whereas that doubtful
ulstlnctlon hitherto has belonged 10
large centers of population. The the
DRY that the strain of existence cor
tsriputes 10 proneness to suicide has
Deen accepted as accounting Sor the
nlgh city rate, but the insurance stat
lsuclans are mysti1ed over the tend
ency TO work downward They are
aslarneq, too, for when the death rate
from that cause increases from On ~
AZ per 100000 annually the matter
forms serious menace to the insur-
ance interests. AS the Anomalous ir-
crease occurred in such widely sepa-
ISeeu points as Elmira, N. Y: San
Diego' Cal; Davenport, Ia; Salt Lake,
Otah; Newton, Mass, and Portland.
ore, II would appear that except for
the south the smaller cities are AZ
1eceeo tne country over. Richmond,
va, marks the farthest point south
reporting an abnormal number of SUI
cideS The freedom of the cott,n
states from excessive self-destruction
IS not explainable, though the proven
Dial optimism of. the coIored espopuIa-
ton might afford the solution. THE
total number of deaths by suicide ir,
the United States for 1911 was about
10000, slight decrease from the pre-
v1ous year, or. about enough to offset
the increase in the smaller cities. The
general average of 1915 per 100000
population for 1911, compared with
1913 for the decade ending with 1910.
SHOWS an increase, but not so pro-
nounced as guesswork had indicated,
However, the high average of 10 or
20 per 100000 is a matter of grave
moment not only to the Insurance
world, but to all who would curb alb
normal causes of death.-Washingto
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

People who go after commentator
seldom get any.
It's generally the other fellow who
profits by your mistakes.
4 n
Everything that most men do is per-
fectly proper in their own minds.
- X
Nor is it a rule that the largest
pocketbooks contain the most money
4 " y
Many husbands are careful to bor-
row back most of the allowances they
give their wives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18

The statewide convention of farmers,
to be held at Hutchinson August 2, will
be of more benefit to Kansas than all
the political disturbances held during
the whole season. Just as soon as the
farmers of a great farming state fad
out that job-hunting political dis
turber cannot make it rain by issuing
circular letter. or that a new political
party will not raise the price of wheat,
this perfectly good state will be gamer
in many ways.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18

Reform and science, working in har-
mony, has done much to improve the
human race. Compulsory medical ex-
animation prevails in the public school
management of many of the larger
tities, and the results have been salts
factory generally. And if the medical
examiners could. by investigation and
treatment. prevent the development Of
just one case of degeneracy, such as
exhibited by Swartz. the New York
murderer Of a little girl. all the ex-
pense and trouble Of their work would
be justified.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18

Herbert Knox Smith, Taft-appointed
commissioner of corporations, has re-
signed his job to join the Roosevelt
party. Maybe Mr.. Smith doesn't need a
job, but if he does, and is figuring on Il
better one under the Bull Moose stand
ard, it might be well for him to review
the late Hon. Aesop's yarn about the
canine who, while crossing a clear
stream. saw another dog carrying a
Much Larger Bone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18

And when Willum Alum White wrote
OF Mckinley: He has uttered no SEN
timent that lived thirty minutes after
it was on paper" he did not realize the
advantage of a short-lived printed SEN
timent. His own has lived more than
thirty minutes. Carefully embalmed
for future reference), and ten years
later, swats him in the eye like the
rubber band affected by circus clowns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-18

If the Kansas prairies are burning
up with enthusiasm for Colonel Roose-
welt and his new party, as Governor
Stubs, William Allen White and
Henry Allen insist, why Go they deem
1t necessary to have not only the colo
rel but also such a distinguished COM
parry of his satellites as Clifford Pinchot
James r. Garfield, Governor Johnson
ard Senator Clapp, come here and
make a whirlwind campaign in the in
terest of the colonel's third term can
didacy