Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-10
LOCAL COMMENT

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Altho Iowa went against woman's
suffrage and Iowa republicans nominat-
ed for governor q man who does not
stand for many of the principles adj
vanced by his party, Marshall county
rolled up nice majority for suffrage
and plurality for George Cosson, a
man who has always stood for the bet
ter things and law enforcement. There
can not help but be much satisfaction
for those who have worked for these
better. things to have their county vote
testify to their efforts. Iowa may have
gone wrong as they view it, both in
governor and suffrage, but 'the home
folks" were counted on the right side.
To the many good women in MARSHALL
town who worked hard for a place at
the ballot box, there was keen disap-
pointment in the outcome of the vote in
the state. They are disappointed, nut
not disheartened. and via be ready IN
their untiring efforts when Iowa is next
called upon to say whether or not wom-
an shall have the ballot.
The smallest expense account filed
by any candidate at Des Moines is that
of George Herman, democratic candi-
date for representative in Marshall
county. Mr.. Herman's report of expen-
ditures states that he expended moth
ing which indicates that George
knows just about what a democratic
nomination is worth in Marshall county.
The Marietta and Iowa township
farmers and the Marshall County Mo-
tor Club, who have offered to build two
and one half miles of gravel road and
subscribe cash bonus for it if the
county will build a gravel road from
this city to Marietta, have good roads
proposition the supervisors can not af-
ford to turn down. For four and one
half miles of permanent re-u the coun-
ty can get seven miles connecting Mar
ietta and Albion with this city and
serving large territory in the north
western part of the county. Because
there is SO much less grading to be
done on this road, a permanent grav-
eled road can be built on these seven
miles at probably less cost than over
any equal distance in th~ coun-y. But
the road should be permanent 1t
should be built according to the state
highways specifications, and by the
trench system. This rear VIII be a
sample, and gravelcd roads locally will
be judged by it. Therefore. it ought to
be good sample. 1t will cost more but
to meet this extra cost the farmers of
the two townships and the motor club
should get together SO large an offer of
cash bonus that the supervisors could
not afford to turn them down.
Marshaltown will entertain big
convention next week. and bigger one
the week following Delegates to the
annual session OF the Iowa State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor will be with us most
OF the coming week. and the Iowa G.
A. X. and allied bodies the week after.
With the city full of strangers. let us
all make of ourselves members iof re-
ception and entertainment committees.
Let US make every stranger feel that
we are interested in having him enjoy
his stay among us. Let us decorate our
places of business in honor of our
guests, and when they return home
they will have occasion TO remember
Marshalltown as most hospitable city.
That Marshalltown is a leader in or
ganiZed baseball, as far as attendance
is concerned, is shown by the official
figures of the Memorial Day games
thruout the Central association and
Three-I league. Marshalltown, smallest
but one of the eight cities in the league,
showed by far the largest receipts. and
eclipsed by $500 the attendance at Pc
oria, the leading city of the Three-1
league, and a city five times larger.
MarshalitoWn supports her baseball
team like she does other things; not by
halves
A big purposeful man brought a mes
sage of purpOsefuiness to the gradu
atGs and the audience gathered at the
Odeon last evening-the message from
the democracy of one nation to that OF
another in the resolve to breed men in
America and maintain the principles
which are the foundations of the re-
public and the so-called dominion. The
message and the man matched each
other. Both are vital, virle and Of the
time. The address of ]. A. Macdonald
to the class of 1916 was by way of be-
ing epochal,
Celt, school man, student and editor
but above all citizen and democrat, it
was evolutionary that Macdonald Of
the slens whose forbears fell at Glencoe
for a principle. should come to the
prairies of Iowa and it's prairie people
thus. That he spoke the same Ian
guage and announced the same deter
mination of the middle west was evil
dent by the reception the audience,
representative as it was of the thought
and purpose Of the Mississippi valley,
gave his rendering of the Conflict Of
Ideas" The west agrees with Mac
donald that the great battles are to be
fought out in the fields of ideas and
that brutality of war is incidental to
be avoided if possible without the sa>-
rifice OF high principle but to be
borne and boldly waged under neces-
sity. Marshalltown will be glad to hear
Mr.. Macdonald often, and the class will
carry the equipment he gave it into the
great conflict Of ideas wherein they
have enlisted.
WANT MORE PAVING.