Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-24
Topics of the Times

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tors would be a useful process. After
a legislator has been elected he can't
be replanted. If he turns out dead
one or a cookie burr there's no use
cultivate him and he sticks for two
years.
So far none of the assemblymen has
sued Governor Clarke for $4,000.
Most people believe that six or eight
years imprisonment in an institution
for the insane is punishment enough
for killing man Of Stanford Whites
character.-Clinton Herald.
And most people also believe that
to keep Mr.. Thaw where he isn't
likely to kill anyone else is merely
matter of safety first
Much has been made by Iowa City
papers over the alleged drunk of leg
islator who voted with the drys. 1t
seems hard for some folks to under
stand that a man may have an unfor-
tunate appetite and still refuse to fol-
low its dictates when sober. "Whis-
key friendship" always includes vot-
ing for whiskey. expects perjury be-
fore a grand jury and defence of any
and all propositions that booze is in
terested in to it's own benefit. Why?
Those senators who were ready to
include the airship among the vehicles
to be confiscated If found transporting
liquors were only few years ahead OF
their time. If there's no other way to
transport it some bootlegging brewery
will begin building airships.
How soon they are forgot who retire
from Iowa to that undertakers YES
tibule-Callfornia. Even Leslie M.
Shaw had to declare for Roosevelt to
get a few lines in the newspapers.
What a land of ghosts and near ghosts
it is!
A little dragging in the spring when
| the frost is going or gone is said to
be more effectual than at any time of
| trying on city streets that would mire
a snipe right now.
The senate refused to go on record
as opposed to polygamy. Now what
do you s'pose those fellows have got
| in mind?
| The Russians have captured an army
represented in the Petrograd reports
by III in figures and lot Of ciphers
The easiest thing Russian cores
pondent does is to write ciphers.
| The teachers pension bill failed
again. The teachers recalling the
pleading letters sent by Mr.. Hamil-
TOMS press bureau regarding the pledge
of the democratic platform to teachers
pensions will be struck by the coinci-
dence Of Miller, leader of the fight
against the bill denying that the plat
form could bind him to vote as ii
| pledged.
! When an Iowa congressman hasn't
anything else to do and needs little
recreation he Immediately begins te
revise and amend the game laws.
II Bob" Henderson wins that S5O,.
900 suit against the Homestead ane
gets the money he needn't care
whoop in the legislature whether thu
| state printing justifies or is off it,
feet.
The funniest thing & the Iowa news
papers is not the work Of the para
grapher but the assertion Of newspa
pers that have until within few
months upheld the booze business tina
; Cummins knocked a hole In the waite
busket several decades ago.
1t is a long way from the day o
j. MEL Powers to the resignation Of tn
police chief OF Sioux City in siou
City.
, IOWA OPINION AND NOTES,
eff Jupiter P1uvius ever gets t
working in Iowa again like he did
dozen or more years ago, there will no
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