Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-30
give Satisfactory explanation OF his
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Didnkote0 In the history OF lowo CSAA-
paiens ~ the Connolly candidacy.
No democratic estimate has been given
In any OF the newspapers that did not
begin with confident prediction tor
Hamilton, with sort OF postscript
suggestion that there was doubt about
Connolly. Connolly has never come
first anywhere.
But getting the president to put
his oar in where nobody else was doing
anything, and getting Mr.. Bryan to
come to the state to talk for cause
that nobody else is boosting. Is not the
only feature OF the situation calculated
to make the president and his advisers
wonder For what after all does the
wonder What after all, does the Ham
ilton campaign mean for the Wilson ad-
ministra,ion? What foundation Is be-
ing laid in the confidence of the people
for the campaign of two years hence
when the Wilson administration VIII
need all the favorable advance adver-
Using 1t can get.
For the purposes Of the fight for
little Iowa the letters Of David
Brant, and John Cownie. and Cap
tain Head and old Senator Doran, are
all well enough. But how Is that sort
of campaign material to be utilized to
Ak the confidence Of the state in the
president? How can Mr.. Bryan adjust
himself to the exigencies Of a campaign
that is relying on men OF that sort?
Mr. Hamilton can use them. That has
always been the Hamilton part in poll
tics. But what does 1t all come to In
the end, for the main cause?
A campaign could have been made
that would have dignified the Issue,
and commended the Wilson admins
tration to the favorable consideration
of even rock rooted republican state
like Iowa. But it would have needed
broad. virile. aggressive leadership,
that was looking beyond merely CAPT
talizing the discomfort Of men who
have been forced to pay their share of
the taxes and contribute to the up
building OF bigger Iowa.
Not only has such campaign not
been made. but on the contrary the
president has been made 10 look
ridiculous. Nothing he has ever writ
ten since he first appeared above the
horizon of national politics has fallen
so fat as his letter for Connolly. simply
set for it. And never has Mr.. Bryan
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as he will be when he comes to Des
Moines TO talk for the national ad-
ministration. simply because the stage
has not been set for him either.
1t is most certainly an interesting
situation for those who enjoy the
strategy OF politics But just wha; Mr.
Connolly can find interesting in 1t. or
what he can say to the president or
Nat latt fy,r a -
tention get wholly away from them
as well as from himself Il would be
hard to surn!se Mr.. Connolly is play
bad second at that
CRUSADING IN WATERLOO.
waterloo Courier.l
Auto Collision Near Holstein Causes
Death"
Fort Dodge Couple H=.: Il Motor
Wreck"
Boy Struck by Auto; Injuries Cause
Death"
charles City Boy Killed by an
Auto
Farmer Killed When Car Turns
Turtle"
injured in Collision"
These are the actual headings picked
from news columns Of the Courier and
Reporter. They We're not published
with any intent of emphasis on the
subject OF automobile accidents but
were included In the regular routine
of the days news And they were not
gathered in from the entire United
States They all fell under the head
OF Iowa news.
A sad climax on the first page OF
the same issue announced the death OF
Matthias Frost who was struck by a
Within the past two weeks child
has been run down on the streets OF
Waterloo and an elderly woman with
out leaving the sidewalk was knocked
over and seriously injured by wild
car which had been speeding.
This is the story of recent automo-
bile casualties in Waterloo and the
state Has It no meaning for resi-
dents of this community.
Law enforcement is somewhat like
soul saving. There is a general rally
before the mourners' bench Cor police
COURT. a profession Of repentance and
resolutions to turn over a new leaf.
Then all goes fine for a while. But
when the driver yields to temptations
with impunity, breaches OF the law and
the faith begin to occur oftener. Lapse
Of vigilance soon leads to recklessness
and then-the wages Of sin.
That Is just what is occurring in Wa
terloo right now. Drivers were sobered
for time by the wholesale arrests for
cutting corners. But those who drive
recklessly from choice are now sobered
by nothing. They are less heedful
about corner cutting. They speed up
quite obviously OF any law or any
Sods's safety They yank out the muf-
fer cut-out and roar rattlety- bang thru
the principal streets at any time OF
day or night. We are living-those who
are not being killed--at the crest OF a
wave Of auto-anarchy.
II the depth OF our fall from grace
Is TO be taken as cue for action 1t II
high time for revival in motor law
enforcement Examples should be made
OF all those who continue to defy the
law in spite of warnings A general
cleaning up should be made. And the
cut-out fend should be In the front
rank OF the culprits.
ks LyesterdayTp. mrviouyf rsl
There is a class Of law abiding drlv-
ere and a class OF devil-may care vari-
ETY.. The former class regrets the
transgressions of the latter for the
reason that the latter give the whole
driving fraternity black eye. Preju-
dice does not often discriminate as to
the objects Of it's hate. And there is
Undoubtedly great deal OF hate In
Waterloo for fool drivers