Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-09
AR[: MOI ANARCHISTS
Socialist. Democrats at Work in
Iowa Claim They Are Not
Anarchists.
Democrats Banking on Congress.
sional Success in the Second De-
pend on Germans.
State can not Recover Western
Union Taxes More Than Five
Years Back.
.pecial to es-Repub!ican.I

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 81. .Debs and 1may
not be elected said job Hartman,
candidate for vice president on the so
cialist democratic ticket, which was or
ganized by Eugene " Debs immediate
ly after the Pullman strike was over,
.sbut we are making an impression
Take the state of Iowa, for instance.
An agricultural state, a state in which
there are no real factories as the term
is understood by the labor of the east
and the old world, and state which is
dotted with colleges. One man has
! been working in this state for three
months and Yet our party Will poll
| surprising vote in Iowa. The socialist
labor party, as Understand it, has de-
/ Icided thru its ndiviaual members to
| join with US this year. We may not
4 poll the . per cent of the votes re-
4 quired to insure US d place on the OIL
cia ballot without petition next year,
iEbut it will be the nucleus OF vote
(which Will run Iowa eventually. We
are not anarchists. Men of money who
i fear and siluddsr when they hear the
word socialism come to me after they
4 hear my definition of our socialist
4 siprinciples and say they have misunder-
l5stood them. W-e8are not anarchists.
Il We are$for governmental system
(which will give men the right and the
i Wherewithal to live, even tho they are
a unable To compete with broader intel
4 5lects and surer tiduciary genius. Mr..
4 sHalrinan spoke to a fat, sized audi
a fence nere8last night, tried to assure his
lshearers tnat socialism is not 50 bad
8 and left an unfortunate impression.
4 This movement is primarily among the
8 Sl6populists Of the state and Will draw
Il from the democrats. The Sixth dig
sItrict. wfiehis filed with miners, is the
a first to be organized. This and the
"A Driver counties viii be handled this
s year, said A. w. Kicker. Of Lone Tree.
.sI5the state organizer, and for this cam
i; lpaign the work wiil not ioe carried west
j, aos Dest Moines. The Western halfsof the
/ state Viii iia organized the coming
( year. We * pect 10 bring Debs into tfe
state this fall. bring him in at Du-
1 anque, perhaps, take him down tbs
j fiver To Burlington and bring hltn uI
q taru the sixth district to Des Moines
. George u. HERON Will be With him il
/. sse can 50 arrange lit. IIerran has
!, agreed Ia be With Us this campaign
$ The stfs;e convention viii be he'd -Au-
Z gust 12at Oskaloes "a.
a. w c. Weeks, pi Wint erset, chair
man of the state central committee ..
{ the middie-df4t haioad populists. say:
d dlsthis socialist movement amounts g nil
Z 1t Is compiling With him. He anc
: Ts!ckei useti TO b. the whole siloys il
i the rsliddle-of- tne-road party, Just lik.
Il Gen. Wta.ser Is the whole show IN th.
J. fusion branch ofpppulism in this state
= Jsieker and AN'feiIs had a falling out
l. When they Went TO the national popu
81 HIST convention AZ Cincinnati Rjcke
i tried TO s1.ing the aliddlA-of- he-load
= ers 10 the Ioe9s movement but failed
: Fie himself vent. lie is now traveiin!
y the state ofgal3iztlg secret lodges n tn
Il interest OF the movement. Weeks re
y CARDS ii, therefore, with Gisfayol
q Weeks ssill hold his stafe conNsntio
n in 4Dss5 Moines August IS. Barker an
y Ioonnalig Will both attend he say:
ie 5onnetly spoke in Des Mpines in 1sa
y at ths court house and made about th
= poorest speach ever made here. Bal
I ker vas never sesn in loma.
A. -Four congfssional nominations hay
:. been made by tha democrats as 70
IS lcws. First district. d. j. O'Connel
it iaMye Burlington; Sixth. 4. g. stsel
IS stock man, Ottumwa: Eighth, Y.
" McGianis. Leon. lawyer; Eleventh
~ Wiiliam Mulvaney, lawyer, cherpke
As q matter Of fact the democrats 1
not hope to DO Anything in consre:
this year eyeept perhaps TO carry II
e Second district. They are depenair
on the German tlisaffectien. Wilf
st Henry Noilmerand George L. Baker
he Davenport. former gold democrat
he came back 10 the ranks of the part
there was great rejoicing among u
managers here. But since botn ha'
positively declined to be candidates Il
nd congress or for state office. there is
e- distinct gloom over the faces Of u
ad democratic managers. They claim tn
l.: they can win the First, the Sixth, z
e- Second and the Eighth districts east
ng They do not attempt TO lay claims
in any Other Repu bliean managers gil
tie no attention TO the claims respectii
his the districts other than the Secon
II THERE'S an unfortunate situation in L
,I Second. ~ lSheftae are several s Tei1uDIicH
who believe that the nomination b
I longs to them. Fred James, OF Clinto
has been dsaffected by being fore
s =, out of the race on account Of local col
=, plications at Clinton: j.. y. w. Rump
of Marengo, thinks thai the nominate
is justly his; the deciination to aga
consider it was issued at a bad time
ort5I Congressman Lane; the Germans a
III inclined to return to the democrat
party, and altogether the situation
ne, the Second district could be more G
he couraging and Will be after nomin
tions are made and the campaign h
Ia. really begun.
of
hit. Talk of the appointment of John
sn- Kasson for United States senator is
wo garded among the politicians here
9 ridiculous; not that he is not gre
enough fox the place-for he is enc
les, the greatest men Iowa has produced
on Isbut his position as reciprocity trea
ific agent Of the United States governms
of gives him work which is to his likil
being in the line Of diplomacy. OF VIII
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