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Evening times-Republican., 1914-01-12
POLITICS IN THE SEVENTH.
Knoxville Journal.l

The congressional situation in the
Seventh district continues to excite
seine attention from the politicians
The truth of the matter seems to be
that neither Dcwell nor Payne is
looked upon as being calculated to
arouse the enthusiasm of the votors.
Neither possess any particular ac-
quaintance in the district at large
and neither has announced any partic-
ular issue upon which he desires to
make campaign. In a general way
Senator Dowell apparently seeks the
nomination because he thinks he is
next in line in Polk county for the
honor and Judge Payne seems to base
his candidacy largely upon the fact
that he resides outside the limits Of
Polk county and that the outside is
entitled to the plum this year. In a
measure both candidates are OF the
negative sort, whereas the situation
seems to demand an aggressive out
spoken candidate who is willing to
state his platform and stand thereon
defending 1t against all comers. 1t
seems to The Journal that in the
present temper of the people the vot-
ers of the Seventh Congressional dis
trict are not very apt to send a man
to congress because he happens to
belong to this political party or. that
or because he happens TO reside with
in or without the limits Of Polk couh-
ty. In the present chaotic condition
Of politics the district il demanding
leadership not merely candidates.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-01-12
G|lle5.l(eYnb6
Puhlished Daily By Tho
iflNGs. NEpuolicAN PRINTING co
TERAR:
ca,nE m FACT AND IN FICTION.

with the arrest Of York, the Colfax
0rocer IN aw hite slavery charge, the
lowe mystery which began with the
death Of Wheelock. a banker at Col
fax. deepens instead OF clearing. In
the prisoners pockets were found clip
pings from newspapers which may in
dicate q great deal or very little as
they are traced and their purposes un-
covered. So the case stands, Wheelock,
victim or suicide, dead in the midst
of mystery and lacking sufficient
motive for self destruction, York,
whose connection and peculiar privi-
leges at Wheelock's bank are still un-
accounted for, under arrest as a white
SLAYER, nothing definitely proved and
almost everything possible.
Fact is strange as fiction. The
Wheelock- York case as it stands is as
peculiarly mystifying as one of Ga
boriau's novels, as full of lideous pos
sibilities as one Of Poe's tales. The
newspsper accounts read like extracts
from Monsieur LeCoq." The mystery
in real life is as tangible and twisted as
any ever conceived and written by a
novelist.
It must be cleared up. Surely there
exist Investigators who may go to the
bottom of the ''ColfaX Mystery" Let
us have them on the job. If a king
criminal exists in Iowa let us find and
punish him. And if any suspected are
innocent let it be made certain beyond
a doubt
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HOT AIR VS.. CONCRETE.
srRoone News-Republican.l

D. w. Norris Of the MarshalltoWn
Times Republican 10 earning the title
Of Watch dog OF the Lincoln High
way" He Is giving lot of thought
and study to the proposition and ne
is airing it for the benefit of those
living along the route and affected
thereby. He has discovered that the
promoters of the Lincoln Highway
are not going to appropriate any OF
the $10,0O0,00o fund to aid in build
ing the road in this state, but the
same Is to be used in sparcely set
tied states where the people cannot
afford to contribute. and where the
mountains and deserts make 1T
colossal Job to build any highway at
all. This Mr.. Norris states throws
the whole bill Of expense. s25o,oO0
per county. back upon the people OF
Iowa. He then pentinently raises the
Question of how we are going TO get
It, and demonstrates in leading
editorial how they quit talking In
Tennessee, down south, and COM
menced building highway from
Memphis to Bristol past farms that arc
only worth s2500 an acre.
The News Republican agrees that
the Lincoln highway in Iowa up to
date has been a beautiful thing TO
talk about. Some few signs Of pro-
gress are being made, but the fact
remains that the main progress
has been in the great incI ease Of the
visable supply of hot air.
1t is only too true that the Lincoln
Highway promoters simply designated
this line as an official site. but this is
far from building the road. They left
the little, Job OF rnaca damizing to the
people along the officially designated
highway, and there is no law against
several ether roads, like the River TO
River or the Great White Way, etc.,
beating us to it.
1t is time for us to quit congratulat-
ing ourselves upon how lucky we are
to secure this officially designated
route, and to begin to build. In this
we are sorry to be In
formed that in Boone county the oni-
ciaI designation sef the Lincoln high
way. which is a capital IL" on bands
Of red. white and blue. has not yet
been installed. We certainly shall
have to have more enthusiasm than
displayed to date II we are going to
get this great transcontinental route
going.
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a.
IN A SALOON TOWN.
IIowsa City Republican,


The Press is very worthy because
gambling has been exposed. The Re-
publican agrees with 1t that the paper
making the sensational charge went
about Its reform in very mean way,
with evident intent to misrepresent.
But the fact remains that a gambling
Joint was run all summer in a secluded
place up the river. when county Off
GERS knew all about it. They should
have raided the place and closed IL UP.
Then the joint was removed to the city
and 1t should have been closed long be-
fore action was taken. But everybody
knows that it is not the easiest thing
in the world to handle the gambling
question. The mistake made consists OF
leniency. when the arm OF the law
should have been vigorously invoked.
If the officials had done their duty.
there would have been no cause Of
complaint. The Nepublcan is looking
to tha future, MOTTO the past. and It
hopes that no gambling house will be
permitted to run for even month.
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matter Of future purchases stocks are
low and Requirements large.
Woolen and worstsd mills are fairly
we'll engsged on old orders and wool II
| moving steadily. with some grades
tending to advance. owing to the
strong statistical position.
Full resumption Of operations 10 re-
| ported at New England footwear fac
! tories. which have a sufficient volume
OF contracts on their books to keep ma
chinery busy for some time to come. A
| moderate expansion is noted in leath-
| er, and firmness is manifest in all
branches.
While the demand for iron and steel
Is still confined mainly to actual needs
scme increase in business is apparent
and the situation is more encouragin ing.
Numerous blast furnaces of the leading
interest. which were recently banked
to prevent accumulation, have started
up but the output Of pig iron was
sahrlp curtailed last month, the COM
pilation Of the Iron Age showing the
smallest total since August, 1911. There
is a continued absence of activity in
copper, and the December statistics re-
vealed a further large addition to sur
plus stocks.
AS was expected. the furry in money.
caused by the annual settlements,
proved only temporary. and rates have
again returned to comparativ easy
basis. The reduction in the minimum
discount charge of the Bank Of Eng
land on Thursday was a prominent
feature of the week, and considerable
attention was also attracted by the
pronounced strength Of foreign ex-
change, which has advanced sharply
since the opening Of the year. This
is a most interesting development in
view of the fact that before the close
of 1913 gold imports were freely pre-
dicted, whereas it is now the belief
that ii movement does occur It will
be in the opposite direction. Current
statistics OF bank clearlngs are more
favorable than of late, the total last
week showing an increase of IL per
cent over the previous year and 1876
per cent as compared with 1912, yet
railroad gross earnings thus far re-
ported for December are "A per cent
yea preceding. altho showing a gain
Of 80 per cent in comparison with
1911.
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CENSUS REPORT, ETC.

mason City GlObe-GaxetteJ
The Powder street colony has added
another crime and another blotch on
the page Of Mason City's history. This
time it was Austrians celebrating
holiday and they kicked young Mon-
tenegrin to death. It wAs case OF
murder no matter what the beginning
and the officers should not stop q mo-
ment till they bring sll the perpetra-
tors to speedy Justice. That's the one
thing just now to teach tho ignorant
influx to this city from Southern Eu-
rope. II they begin to discover that
brawlins. stabbing, beating ana taking
OF human life is followed by quick and
certain retribution, 1t will cease and
there ought to be enough policemen
assigned to that district to do the
work.
These same policemen should con-,
fiscate the large quantities of booze
dropped OF in this district which cer-
tatnly 10 not used for private consump-
ton. The men who handle 1t, and the
companies who drag 1t In are amen
able to some law and the legal end
OF the city and county should get busy.
and wipe out the outrage. People are
getting tired Of hearing It said that
things can't" be done under the law.
sobriety, protection Of life and pre-
perty can ba youchsaked by law and
ordinances alEeady enacted and unless
Evening times-Republican., 1914-01-12
Topics of the Times

When people in central Iowa admire
the stretch of newly constructed grade
on the Lincoln Highway Ill Boone and
Story counties, they can realize what
the federal governments engineers can
do in making road for they su-
pervised this construction because of
the $4,000 which came from the fed
eral governments aid fund.
General Wood says the army as now
equipped couldn't fight a day. Per-
haps the equipment isn't what it ought
has been in such shape that it couldn't
put in single day in rather effective
argument. Nevertheless it might be
sensible to cut out a dreadnaught and
buy something for the army.
Perhaps we shall have to intervene
in order to keep the whole Mexican
popula ton from wading across the Rio
Grande looking for a place to stay.
Now they have found the last will
Of Martha Washington in the library of
J. P. Morgan and Mr.. Fairfax is de-
manding its return. The will was
looted during the civil war. So You see
that there were other collectors beside
MIR. Morgan who held ideas similar to
his regarding the way to get things.
What would happen in the United
States if an army officer said boldly
that he had intended to shoot down
with machine guns citizens who failed
in the respect for the army" Isn't it
enough to make the kaiser swear off
on on the hard stuff?
Since most persons have learned it,
there isn't so much fuss making over
the tango. Vice is a monster, etc.
S. r. Bashor was one of the promi-
nent persons at the b. m. conference
the other day. Steve should write a
very interesting historical monograph
on In and Out of Party" Mr.. Bashor
can certainly qualify as political pio-
neer, one Of those who move as soon
as the neighbors get within three
miles,
Among those demanding that Con-
gressman Prouty shall stand for an
other term are Cassus NJ. Dowell and
William o. Payne-not.
The only real political amusement on
top in Iowa is staged for the Second
district
Mr.. Brya. says he is always scared
when he gets up to talk Bu' Mr..
Bryan shows no evidences of fright
when he makes lecture contract-un-
less there is a suggestion on that he
Is afraid he isn't charging all the traf-
fic will bear.
Now that there are eighty miles of
paved roads in the country near De-
troit the farmers who are not vet
served are so impatient to get a paved
road that offerse to pay half the ex-
pense are not infrequent if the county
will only pay the other half and a few
oners from private owners to pay all
Of the expense If the county will su-
pervise construction have been known.
Seeing Is believing over there.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-01-12
N 1nE BUSINESS WORLD.

There 10 little tangible evidence that
the turning point in business has as
Yet been reached, but general ser1ti-
ment is more hopeful. Wholesale trade
- rather more active. while retail de-
nAnds have broadened under the
stimulus Of the usual clearance sales
and more seasonable weather in some
sections. Many buyers are beginning
to appear. in the dry goods markets,
axld tho conservatism is the rule in the
Evening times-Republican., 1914-01-12
Hieh School Democracy.
Minneapolis News. ]

Minneapolis NeWS.J
A high school lad was discussing the
senior dance.
"rd like to go all right: but where
would l get the price? You see what
it would cost, don't you? The least
could send to the girl in the way Of
flowers would be 100 violets. That's
a dollar. Then I'd need new gloves
g.; and the rent Of dress suit. say
81 more Add In the taxi going and
coming (for girls are too swell now
adays to ride in street car or walk)
and the cost Of the ticket and. you
see, it comes pretty close to eating up
a ten-spot. like to dance and to fuss
all right but this pace is too swift"
So this youth passed up the crowning
social event of his public school days.
along with number of other lads; and
what was meant to be a dance of the
whole senior class, a final function Of
school democracy. became. instead. a
pleasure limited to the we'll to -do-al-
most as much a caste affair as are the
exclusive dances of sassiety.
For every boy thus kept away from
an innocent pastime, some girl was also
deprived: while each girl who went on
the terms just described received les
son in dependence, in expectation Of
luxury. which helped to make her fu-
ture as wife and mother doubtful. For
II boys at high school age learn to stay
away from nice girls because Of the
artificial expense which the parasitical
theory of womanhood thrusts upon
them. then 1t Is sure thing that later
they will shy at the expense of mar
riage.
How good It would have been had
the principal Of that high school. while
the dance was being planned. called the
seniors together and made O speech
something like this:
"Young ladies and young gentlemen,
you are about to end the most truly
democratic experience of your lives
Never again will you come together as
long on q footing Of equality. How
ever. you may differ in fortune, social
status, worldly position beyond the
school boundaries. here you are on q
level OF personal merit only. Don't, I
beg Of you, mar this fine experience in
human brotherhood by introducing fac
sc-s cS division into your class dance.
Late the girls say to the boys: Either
no taxis and no flowers or an equal
sharing Of the cost But better, even,
than to share the cost would be to cut
It out, 10 that the poorest may be on
equal terms with the richest"
n school principal who should inspire
such q spirit among his pupils would
make himself famous. er
d i
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WHAT SHALL THIS MAN DOT

He is young man who has made
good He has executive capacity and
the talent for handling business in
chunks and for making ten customers
where one grew before. With the tai
ent to get business he combines that
Equally important element Of success
the desire and ability to take care of
1t. Under 80 he has touched the high
est salary he can hope for in his pres
ent environment and has opportunities
to go out into the wider fields of busi-
ness. AS it Is he IS in little place
handling a business that has grown up
under his care and making more clear
money than he might net on a half
section farm and his inves tment repre-
sented entirely by his ability and SER
viceability to the company he serves.
Now that young fellow could probably
get Job that would pay him more
at the start, could if he held his health
probably be drawing $4,000 a year
within the years and be in the way of
IA AO1Al0b1S AAS III q OOASll uIcC-
tion. Given reasonable expectation of
health and life he can get rich before
he is so. good and rich.
Or he can stay where he is. lay aside
perhaps $1,000 a year, buy farm and
see it double in value perhaps, have a
good home, call every one within ten
miles by his first name and live and
die in country community. Which
would you do?
II he goes he will fall right into
the lions den the first jump. He will
lind himself in struggle where no.
body gives quarter and few ask or re-
ceive it. He will need to take care
Of himself first, last and all the time.
He will go to war for big business in
these days Is war. He will spend his
days away from home and his nights
will be long to his business And some
day, he will be able 20 retire rich. bu,
will not. He will have a bad liver and
stomach sooner or later, and will call
few men by their first names and still;
fewer wonren-if he is sensible. And
IN the end he will be buried with pomp
while the accountants are going over
his books to see how much he left,
IT he stays where he is he will have
good automobile and drive here and
there OF evenings and Sundays. He will
be in touch with the old neighbors and
the boys and girls ne went to school
with, run over to this sisters or that
brothers for Sunday dinner and have
the family" in of Thanksgiving or
Christnas, get his three meals a day
At home, send his boys and girls TO
Ames and perhaps for a wear or two at
the greater universities and finishing
schools, shave few notes, buy and sell
lot OF stuff, take an interest in the
crops and in the men whom he knows
help bury his neighbors and f1nally
die regretted and have "one of the
largest funerals ever held in Podunk."
He will Live with his wife and his chill
dren and his people while he does live.
live simply. be quietly happy and suf-
fer quie- sorrows.
Which would you do? Who has the
best OF it, the captain OR lieutenant Of
industry or the man whose wants and
care few paternal acres bound" who
IL content to breathe his native air IN
his own ground?" What shall the
young man do?
m 1Ng Rus,ness wns,n
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eoxy..
Foxy.
There's no use talking, womel

There's no use talking. women are
foxy"
What do you meant"
Take that wife Of mine. Last year
she casually asked me what size gloves
I wear"
Il see. AS II you couldn't guess that
she was going to buy YOU glpves?''
That's Just the point. She bought
slippers the size Of my hand"
Then what did she ask you about
the gloves for =. - II
80 that wouldn't know she; IN
tanAed to buy, slippeso. I, .DetxoIt Fsso
Evening times-Republican., 1914-01-12
Tn1sREPUBIIcAN, AARsHAI4TowN IOWA JANyARY - lslA

bo wiped on the map. They were
honest In their belief and probably afs
rejoicing now. that they were barkisl
UP the wrong tree" says the Burlingr
ton Hawkeye. w
Every boy should get It into his
head early that II IL going to prosper.
he's got to work." says the Hampton
Chronicle.
'The Cardiff Giant. now resting at
Fort Dodge, IL as big as the ordinary
Fort Dodger feels" says the Webster
City Freeman Tribune. Tf the giant
were standing erect he would be 10 feet
inches tall"
1.-The Knoxville Journal says. "Sena-
tor Cumming Grant Club speech has
served to reawaken republican conf
dence in this state, and in the nation
at large. AS the public mind turns
again to things political 1t becomes
more and more apparent that the
overwhelming defeat Of 1912 was in the
nature of a warning to the party rather
than the ultimate rejection Of its prin
ciples."
IF Editor Rowley's exchange list
compares in any way to ours. he can
not be deriving much comfort from
his candidacy for governor" remarks
the Grundy Republican.
"The tenor Of the press ought to in
dicate to some degree the popularity
that a political movement is likely to
take on" says the Anamosa Eureka
eff this be true the Rowley candidacy,
based on the capitol extension tax, will
never get a start"
iowa City seems to have to be bad,'
regretfully observes the Boone News
Republican. Now it Is gambling that
is agitating the parents who have sons
down at the state university.
"The candidacy of John w. Rowley,
Of Keosauqua who is to oppose Gov
ernor Clark on platform Of opposi-
ton to the capitol extension, has not
met with favor on the part of the
press Of the state,' says the Man
chester Press. "The opinion is general
that Mr.. Clark has served the state
with the utmost fidelity and that he. Is
entitled to second term"
Evidently Mr.. Rowley Is not going
to be bound by the results OF the June
primaries as he expects to carry his
contentious to the poles in November.
Rowley ought to get wheelbarroW,
says the Cedar Falls Record.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-01-12
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Not 30 very long ago, good men who
believed in what they were preaching,
were going up and down the state,
warning against the terrible results
that would happen If the parcel post
were introduced. They said that the
retailer in Iowa would be driven to
the wall and the smaller towns would
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AN OUTRAGE.
TEagle Grove Ea4k.1

The Iowa state board of parole has
committed another outrage against
common sense and common justice in
bringing a paroled convict from the
state of Washington and condemning
him to serve out his term in the peni-
tentiary. His offense was leaving the
state against orders. 1t is very natural
for such person to prefer to go where
he is not known that he may not be
handicapped in his efforts to lead an
upright life by his past record. This
convict had gone out OF the state to
Washington and was making good
there in every way and from every
standpoint. He also offered to make
the reports to the governor OF Wash
ington that are required he should
make to Governor Clarke, but all to no
avail and he Is now again in the pen
itentary. This is another case, of the
miscarriage OF justice that offends
every instinct Of huma nifty and Of JUS
tice. The legislature should hedge
this board, so incapable Of sane ac-
ton, with such limitations as will pre-
vent repetition Of such !nhuman ac-
ton.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-01-12

Guthrie, Okla.-The state Of Okla
homa may have for the next governor
an ex-convict and train robber. Al j.
Jennings, who was train robber In
Oklahoma and the southwest for sew
eral years before he was sentenced In
1897 to serve five years in the prison at
Columbus, o., has announced that he
will seek the democratic nomination for
the governorship. Jennings won the
Evening times-Republican., 1914-01-12
A Prosps,sus stats.

From several counties In South
Georgia come reports that Dame Hen
is at work again just as II 1t were the
glad springtime and that the egg short
age is being made up rapidly. Which
Is but another evidence OF the unusual
prosperity in this state. The hens could
Evening times-Republican., 1914-01-12

stsistsr snsasvrss are enforced. there
viii ~ teNnA Z civic law and order
league tAA4 VIII dsnnonstrate that
Macon CITY shall not have written
Against her name these murdsrOus
braWls svAry time IN express company
wants 10 UNLOAD . wagon Of booze.
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Iona Newspapers
REAL MEN.
TTroov Ctor Gilman

[Traer Star Clipper]
The hypocrite may deceive even the
very elect for time. but in the long
run his true character is discovered
and then people have no use for him.
All people love that which IL genuine
and therefore the genuine man has the
confidence and respect Of all-sOme-
thing which the sham can never have.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-01-12
WAS 1T A TRUST?
TGr11pdy PeprYhlfcan

One does not need more than q
glance at the Iowa patronage situa-
ton to know that the democratic edi-
tors OF the state had. made q secret
agreement among Themselves just how
things would be divided In case WILL
son was elected. And it was further
agreed that no plain ordinary demo-
crat was to have single piece Of the
pie
Evening times-Republican., 1914-01-12
ALBERT j. JENNINGS

democratic nomination for county at
torney Of Oklahoma county, Okla, in
1912, but was defeated by a narrow
margin. Jennings served five years in
prison before he was pardoned by
President Mckinley. President Roose-
Welt later restored his citizenship, Soon
after Jennings studied law and began
his practice under many difficulties in
Oklahoma City,