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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
Meredith and Harding on Road Problem,
HARDING.

In hia speech at Lisbons Now II had ny yvay on
this roads question would nrst to cut down tho
overhead expense. OF course should have some CEN
trail authority but would lot OF the machinerv
would AK 1t could fix washed out culyert In the
generation. would leave individual to nav
when where and how to build their roads would revrite
the law and make It short enough could be read thru
in winter by reading nights then would adjourn the
legislature for fifteen and let people build good
roads go along. not 30 in debt for them"
In letter to G. D. Glass; OF Waterloo May 15 1915:
the people vote the proposition or bonds and
II they afford either they win build the roads"
At Belle PLANE: sraveled are all rislt am In
favor of them"
At Blakesburg: Graveled roads are no rood becausa
there is to fasten them to the ground and they
can't last They cost from $500 mile up when YOU
have to ship in gravel"
To F. J. Tischenbanner. Gilmore City jan g. 1877
pleased to know that interested good roads
This is subject that Ia dear to that the
coming legislature will be able something that will
help in building good sraveled roads in Iowa"
At Ames Would you abolish the highway commits
sion" Asked the Taxpayers League. Answer yes from
Mr.. Harding.
At Forest City: II opposed to the highway
commission but am in favor Of cutting great deal
of unnecessary red tape and expense"
At Otturnwa: II opposed to government by com
missions This highway commission example Of row
eminent by commission.
At Lisbon: I'VE don't need any paved roads in the
state Of Iowa" .1fr
At Des Moines in the Thirty Third A. Il vote aye"
paved road bill g. F. 217 Il amend by adding
the words not less than so cent Of the
sessed to adjacent property"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
WHAT WILL the oRYs 90 ABOUT II,

Republican leaders in the Seventh
congressional district held meeting
in Des Moines. DR.. Judkins, republi
can chairman for Warren county, pre-
dicted that there would be enough
democrats vote for Harding to of. e.
the dry republicans lost A V. Proud :
foot, candidate for the senate, made
the same prediction. r. {. Mccall,
chairman for Story county, confessed
that Harding would fail to get the nor
NAL republican majority because Of
dry republicans boiling him. James
Peters, Of Perry, predicted many dem
ocratic votes for Harding. Senator
Berry admitted that his own ward in
Indanola would 60 for Meredith be.
cause of so many Methodists but knew
of places in Warren county in which
wet democrats We're for Harding. The
general coHcenSuH OF opinion at the
conference was that wet democrats
were goins to support Harding suffi-
GENTLY to offset most OF the dry repub-
lican vote for Meredith.
What the the Cry republicans COINS
to do about it? If wet democrats are
going to vote for Harding are dry re-
pubIicans going 70 vote with them?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
INSURANCE IN POLITICS.

Every man who pays for fire insur-
ance and every workman who expects to
be insured that he will receive compen-
sation for his injuries has a business
interest in this campaign. Fire insur-
ance rates are up. The companies took
advantage of law compelling unifor-
nifty of rates to mean that they could
combine as to rates. The present insur-
ance commissioner has ruled that they
can't combine. When Harding was in
the house he introduced a bill to re-
peal the anti-combine law and permit
insurance companies to combine and
every fire Insurance company together
trying to elect Harding governor. His
success will intrench the insurance
companies and aid them in keeping up
rates.
Yesterday an insurance company
withdrew from Iowa and hereafter will
refuse to insure worknen's compensa-
ton. There is said to be an under
standing that others will withdraw until
there are only a few left and all liability
insurance written in Iowa will be
pooled, it is alleged.
The law of Iowa now compels an
employer to insure his risk for COM
pensation to his workmen. The en-
ployer is forced to buy insurance. The
commissioner of workmen's compensa-
ton has advised that the state insure
the workman and charge the cost to
industry. Harding takes the side of the
insurance interests and argues that the
state should not go into the insurance
business He is for the special interest
every time and the special interest is
for him. When asked by fellow MEM
Der of the Legislature why he always
stood by the saloon interests in the
Legislature he replied, They always
stand by me-"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
CATALINA.

Lucius Sergius Cataline was q
well-known Roman citizen who in
vented the modern home talent VII
lain, altho lacking the string moustache
and chronic throat trouble Of the lat
ter. He was born of q patrictan fam
lily and brought up in home which
had every luxury except the long
windcd gas meter. yet he became one
of the crookedest men in the Roman
Empire and died brutal and unpleas-
ant death.
Caialine was man OF great nat
ural talent and might have succeeded
in business way, but instead OF
opening a general store or first
class livery barn, he engaged in poll
tics, which has been the ruin Of so
many men who could not earn $l.50 q
day in any other way. One Of his OPP
ponents was Cicero, the silver tongued
orator, who was running for consul on
the prohibition ticket. Cicero was a
fine man, who limited himself strictly
TO one wife, and when they got thru
counting the votes Catalina could not
be seen for the dust, Enraged by this
rebuff. Cataline hired two of his cleo
ton judges to assassinate Cicero In q
steaithy and underhanded manner, but
Cicero's life was saved by lady friend
and he lived long enough to compile all
Of his orations in one book and hurl
them at the head OF the high school
student.
I Catalina then gathered UP an al
legged army and sought to put the
Roman eagle on its back. After fight
ing bravely. however his troops were
decimated and he was roughly handled
himself. being found prone on his stom-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
The CALL OF THE WILD.

When potatoes are 80 bushel
everybody wants potatoes When
potatoes are 10 cents a peck mother
simply has TO force them down the
tEroats Of the family
Now that there are neither ducks
nor chickens within range of AZ
centimeter cannon in Iowa the call OF
the red gods is insistent. We want to
&c hunting. When a hunting trip costs
$50 railroad fare and a nonresident
license it looks better than il ever
used to look.
But when this was a game country
We went hunting now and then Per-
haps the knowledge that the birds
were out in the fields waiting for III.
dulled the edge Of desire. At any rate
in a real game country no one person
goes shooting to where a dozen prowl
round with .lope deferred that
nakets the heart sick in the country
where a real game bird is surprise.
The old man coming up from the
river the other day where he had been
fishing without success told tales of
black bass and wall eyes thick as
autumn leaves along the same stretch
of river twenty-fiv years ago. He
used to go out now and then and
catch mess OF black bass, fine bronze
backed, fat black bass very much as
a farmer goes out to shuck q bottom
hox of corn to feed the hogs before
hUsking begins It wasn't half the fun
then that it is to get one catfish now.
And in those old days when spearing
was in fashion good hand with a
spear could fill the boat between the
claybanks and the dam. Gunners
could slip out after four o'clock and
bring in chickens enough to make q
feast and holiday in these gameless
days. But they did 1t only now and
then. The average man didn't hunt
Now it Is an odd house that doesn't
supply its gunner and It's modern gun
And there are few feasts in any house
nowadays where wild game is tbs
piece de resistance.
It's human nature, just human ma
ture. Blessings seem brighter as they
disappear. The futter Of grouse'i
wing sounds louder afar than evel
close at hand. The Ash are bigger ant
longer the farther they are away
Distance lends enchantment and
dearth aggravates appetite.
BY the way where are you going tt
shoot ducks this year? And do yot
hope to escape the nonresident licens'
by the same old trick?'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
WHAT II COST NEWTON.

The little city of Newton has
suffered severely from an epidemic OF
typhoid fever. SO far five persons
have died and tif.y-four cases have
neen reported. !AccOr1ir to reports
the outbreak was traced to dairy
which supplied milk to the inhabitants.
AT any rate the dairy has been put
under the ban by the authorities. But
that does not brrr- back the dead or
wipe out the suffering and loss of
those who are i'll or have recovered.
Under the law which lists a human
nfe at s5,000-which is certainly cheap
enough-Newton has lost $4,000 worth
Of human lives Fifty-fou persons
loss Of time for from one month to
three months is an item to be consid-
cred. The expense of fifty-f four cases
Of typhoid in nurse and physicians
bills for service will not run less than
5000 each which would total more than
$4,000. Altogether Newton has
suffered a coldblooded cash loss OF
more than $4,000 because a dairy was
dirty and unsanitary SO much for the
cCrdid side of the calamity,
A dirty dairy is as dangerous as a
dynamite storage house in the center
Of the business district OF a CITY. 1t is
a bid for disaster 1t is the forerunner
OF death and vast expense. Perhaps
dollar because of the outbreak but the
community of Newton has lost valu :
able lives and expended a great sum in
the aggregate because diaries are
suffered to conduct their operations
without sufficient sanitary supervision.
The dairymans premises may be
sanitary or not. his methods may be
dangerous or not, the water supply of
the dairy may come frvr, safe wells or
from the Lord knows where. The
dairy and the milk route may be sani-
rary and sweet or it may be a constant
menace to the lives and health Of those
1t serves and thru them to the city or
reighborhood.
1t Is time for an effective inspection
o. diaries. Such inspection. which will
cover the dairy from the cows to the
milk bottle on the doorstep Of the
home is merely commonsense precau-
ton. Some system should be in opera
ton.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
nan TAX N sco1r COUNTY.

Mr.. Meredith, democratic candidate
for governor, went into Scott count,
and said his say on prohibition. SCOT
county needs no bush. It is well ad'
vertised as the center Of pro liquor ant
pro saloon sentiment In Iowa. But thu
democratic candidate told Scott count!
crowds this:
II am absolutely for a dry Iowa
and am opposed to the saloon eyel
returning to the state. Ny every eff
saloon does not return. and any in
f1uence l may have will be exerted In
opposition to the saloon
Then he told them why. He said he
was convinced that a bigger and cleaner
state can be built without the saloon;
that the future of the state depends
upon the boys and girls of today.
He would protect them one and all
his boy. their boys and the boys of the
neighbors. 1t was straight shoulder
talk without wriggle or twist in it.
square on the platform of prohibition
for Iowa.
Republican or democrat, prohibition
list or socialist or what not in politics
everybody admires a man. 1t takes a
man to go into Scott county and tell
wet republicans and wet democrats
alike that my every effort. if elected,
will be to see that the saloon does not
return and any influence | may have
will be exerted in opposition to the
saloon"
Mr. Meredith can afford to win or to
lose on that stand and the republicans
who are supporting him can afford to
win or lose with him. 1t was man
talk
II affords a comparison between the
candidates that all voters in Iowa who
desire the advancement of the state
and protection for their children and
the children of the state should not fail
to heed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14

| NAL report has just been issued fol
the candidates coming up at the cleo
ton of Nov. l. The organizations par
tscipating in the report are: Iowa
Constitutional Prohibitory Amendment,
ance Association of Iowa: Iowa
Woman's Christian Temperance union
In dealing with the various candi-
dates in this report, which is issued in
pamphlet form, the following abbre-
viations are used to designate atti-
tudes: W.. wet" D., dry" y. c.,
noncommittal; n. r. no reply.
Letters Of inquiry. it is stated. were
sent TO all candidates in regard to their
attitude on temperance legislation.
Members of the last legislature who
did not answer the inquiry were listed
according to their vote on the resub-
mission of the prohibitory amendment:
On the republican and democratic
state tickets. w. L. Harding. republi-
can candidate for governor. is the only
nan marked with wv fweD.
Among the candidates for state SEN
a;or there are a number OF "drys.
"noncommlttal.' and mo reply" but
Only two labeled as wet" These lat
ter were William d. Sheean. of Ana
MEGA, democrat and r. p Hagermann.
OF Waverly. democrat. The republican
candidate for the state senate in Wood
bury county, c. F. Lyle. is marked no
reply"
In the PA house candidates listed in
the report only eleven are classified as
wet" Two of these eleven are candi-
dates from Woodbury. county-Frank
C. Lake and T. F. Griffin, both repub-
i;caHs
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
GRAVEL ROAD COST IN GREENE.
Jefferson Bee.


Tho futility Of a politicians attempt
to talk about something of which he is
ignorant. but which he thinks is pop
u,ar,' is we'll evidenced by the follow
ing from the official report of Harding
talk on roads at Ottumwa last week:
"Gravel'roads won't last" he declared
There Is nothing TO hold them to the
grour and they go TO pieces and are
no good after very long And they cost
from. $500 mile on up when you go
tc building them with gravel that you
have 10 ship in"
We suspect the general unreiiability
of these statements Is representative OF
the knowledge which the mud roads
champion has of the whole highway
question. Greene county farmers know
all about graveled roads, and know that
they represent the reasonable and prac-
teal solution of the country road prob
lem they are the common ground on
whi2h all sorts of road people can meet
and agree. To knock on the graveled
| road is very poor recommendation in
this county, even for a mud roads can
didate.
Az to lasting quality, the graveled
road always pays for itself dozer
times over in utility. And while theil
| life varies. we have some of them right
here in Greene county which were
built thirteen years ago, and withou,
| any attention to speak of, are practi-
| cal1y just as good as the day they were
| made.
AS to the $500 per mile, the
average graveled road in this county
is known to have been put down a,
$500 to $500 per mile: this year the
board of supervisors have put in q
sample half mile. at the Lincoln Me.
mortal Bridge, Of standard two.
course graveled road under state high
way commission specifications. This
cost at the rate Of 5000 per mile. With
gravel more remote it might have cos
twice as much: but this is very fal
| from $500 mile. The difference II
the cost of the "shipped-in" gravel may
| be cleaned from the fact that the paw.
Ing contractors in Jefferson found II
| just as cheap to bring gravel on trair
from Lake View. fifty miles away, as t
haul it a couple of miles from the river
| a man attempting to ride into office
on a cheap appeal to prejudice amont
4 farmers. wants to know sometime
about what he IS talking about.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
Topics of the Times

Coal dealers predict an advance OF
nrjce with the first cold snap" Which
is to be depended on as true prophecy
from those who have the snap and con-
troll the profits.
The U. S. department of agriculture
has discovered that bread may be made
partially with mashed potatoes to ad-
vantage in saving -four. The Z. s.
d. of a. must have been visiting some-
body's grandmother. That's the way
they used to make it forty or ffty
years ago.
From now on the word will be
Overwhelming" That's what the win
ming football team does to the other,
"overwhelms" 1t. B-r-r!
Walnut lumber Is worth 1910 per NJ,
At least that's what the state paid for
it the other day. And we used to make
mighty poor fence posts out OF big
black walnut logs.
The more you think Of that expedi-
ton after Villa the sorrier you are for
the enlisted men and officers who had
to hold the sack for the politicians.
A Waterloo maiden has just received
the deed to a 320-acre farm as balm
for the breach Of a promise to marry
| made by al Iowa real estate dealer.
1t was very comfortable transaction
and one which many women might
envy whose present husbands kept their
prenuptial pledges.
John F. Riggs. former superintendent
OF public instruction In iowa and q
stakeholder in the Idaho land company
OF which Meredith is also q stockholder
lis out with letter fully exoneratinG
Mr.. Meredith from any blame In the
matter and advising voters to support
him as a clean man. Riggs says The
attack on Meredith Is merely an at.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
MEREDITH.

Il am not for paving. not for increasing taxes.
am not for S100000000 bond issue charged do
believe that hills and grades should be down. that
our road beds should be drained that permanent
bridges should be built to cut repairs
bridges that beds should be where
ID accessible and present will pay for it. in
favor of such law will give communities desiring bet
roads opportunity to build them but which will
orce such improvements communities not desiring
them
II believe that improvements authorized
by vote of the people, the city and country voters ballot
ing separately and that such improvement should be
authorized unless carries in both city country
II would build permanent bridges by anticipating
taxes that are going to come in just do when
build school, Whether county where conditions IA
-"he should anticipate enough gravel the
roads is for the county determine Whether the township
should do this for roads is forthe township to determine
Whether road districts shall be organized is for the people
Of the district to determine"
am for better roads than now have in Iowa am
not appealing to for votes mud platform.
not seeking to be elected nothing policy
wrote a large number Of farmers living i'm
proved roads in several states and pledge you
that without exception there living
improved road who would take his money back and
back to the old road In they paid out OF
their own funds large portion Of their cost. Every
average being sl3 the 400 farmers heard
FROM
do feel that is vitality important taxpayers
of Iowa that should be elected who will apply
business principles the states affairs who will
stand for what he thinks Is right before and all audi
ences and compromise himself proposition just
get
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
Ripping Rhymes
Ghosts
By WALT MASON

Ghosts
Often when 1 cannot sleep, in nv
dark and quiet room, ugly phantoms
round me creep, grinning at me in the
gloom. OFT they come in grisly bands,
to my sorrow and my shame, beckon-
ing with neshless hands. clanking
chains and breathing flame Many sin
full things I've done, in the days that
are gone by; that advantage might be
won, have sprung the vicious lie. Add
ing to this wad Of mine, I've been tricky,
mean and low, and skinned a learned
divine in horse trade, long ago. In
my scheming for the kale, at no trifies
would I stop; when had some spuds
for sale, all the biggest were on top.
I've committed many crimes; confess
it, now I'm gray: l have voted seven
times on the same election day. And
when sleep from me recedes, and I lie
in bed awake ghosts of all these evil
deeds come and fill me with an ache
Man of his achievements boasts. Of the
Killings" he has made: but he can't es-
cape the ghosts-spectres which are
never laid.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
REGULARITY GROWS WEARISO ME
Nevada Representatives

The Representative has had good
deal of trouble all along about getting
up enthusiasm over the Harding cam
paign: but we have regarded Harding
as smar. and have believed him to be
surrounded by smart men. This fake
telegram. however, will have to 60 into
the class OF bunste such as there is
really nothing to be said for. This paper
has intimated heretofore that the state
campaign was being permitted to afford
too many diversions from the national
campaign, and we think the above in
stance will do as an illustration for the
argument.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
OILED ROADS.

Boone I>eWS-1cPuUAiSdh'I
Down in Johnson county they are
discussing the question Of oiling the
country roads. Oiled roads are expen-
sive, and a thorn in the flesh. There
is nothing quite so disgustinsly dirty
as oiled roads.
Before Johnson county starts IN TO
oil its roads we would suggest that the
authorities take a ride over the oiled
roads between the college OF Ames and
the town OF Ames. It is like riding over
the top Of Mt. Vesuvius. There are
craters Of all kinds gaping at the trav-
eler In places the. oil sticks. and in
places it gets showed away. We do not
know what kind Of stuff they have go,
on the Squaw Creek bridge In this
stretch Of the road, but we will guar
antee that it is the toughest, and most
unpleasant place in the Lincoln high
way.
Crawling is great improvement
over oil. 1t is clean, and II properly
applied remains level, no matter how
much travel it is required to stand
One great trouble with gravel Is the
manner in which It is put on. Too
many times it is thrown on in Jumps
and the travelling public depended, up
on to level it. 1t is an impossibility
for the travelling public to do so.
But whatever material is used by al
means avoid using oil. 1t may lay
the dust for little time, but it furn-
ishes in the place Of dust dirty
greasy soil which will be tracked into
houses, and which will never come of
and in most cases 1t results in yer,
rough and uneven roads.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14

This interesting photograph of th'
rulers of Roumania and Russia was
made recently. II shows the meeting
of the head OF the Russian imperial
Romanoff family with member Of the
Hohenzollern family, Of which Emperor
William, Of Germany is the chief. King
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
\ Masonic Meetings.
y visitors elwsys welcome

STATED OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
shall Lodge No. 1OS A. +. & A. M. Fri
day, Oct 10, 1880 p. IN. Regular bust
ness. John w. Wells, Secretary, B. ..
Frazey. w. NJ.
sIoNRT CHAPTER. No. -. r.. A. NJ
Stated convocation Monday evening
Oct. Is, 1880 o'clock. Regular business
Carl Shatfner, H. P; John w. Wells,
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo
mon Council No. 20. R. & S. NJ. Mon
day. Oct Is. Regular business. l. 1.
Forbes, Recorder. George Gregory. ]. ID.
STATED coNcLAVE. st. Aldemar
Commandery, No. 80, K. T, Tuesday
Oct. IT. Regular business. l. T. Forbes
Recorder; H. c. Mueller. Commander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o. e.
Especial meeting for initiation Wed
nesday, 1880 p. m, Oct. IS. Eliza 5. Bat
tin, secretary; Cora NJ. Mcdowell, w.
NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-14
THE CANDIDATES. EXPENSE.

wv
The state government or Iowa VIII
be much better looked after by +. I.
Meredith. who Is paying his own cam
paign expenses, than by any man like
Harding. whose extraordinary ex-
penses are being paid Ter blythe Lcrd
knows who.