Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-17
FROM BLACK 10 WHITE
Some Talk Of Democrats Adopt.
Ing Prohibition and White
Ribbon Candidate.
Hope to Gain Prohibition Votes
Thereby. Coates Appeal to
the Voters.
Eiboeck's Strong Endorsement
Of Cummins. opulists Meet
Next Week.

OF Cummins..P P0pulists Meet 4
Next Week.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines Aug. 17.-Can the demo-
cratic party be induced to become the
prohibition party Of the stateo That is
question agitating some good demo-
Gratis of Des Moines at the present time.
They think the acrobatic feat is not be-
yond the power of that party. At any
rate, they are seriously considering a
plan to capture the democratic conyen-
ton next week and place at the head
OF the ticket a prohibition democrat.
The scheme is being quietly worked and
In earnest here in Des Mones. Those
who are urging it point out that the re-
publican party, by passing the mulct
law. ceased to be the prohibition party,
and by nominating Cummins clinched
the matter finally. Now they say there
is nothing left for the democracy to get
into camp on the spot abandoned by the
republicans. As this has been the dem
ocratic custom. on national questions it
is possible 1t can be done in the state
The man picked out with which to do
this is Rev. DR.. HI. o. Breeden, pastor of
the Central Christian church, in Des
Moines. DR.. Breeden is unquestionably
democrat. He stood squarely on the
Kansas City platform and he has been
democrat many years. He is an original
thinker and an investigator. He comes
pretty close to being socialist in his
political reasoning. He is the idol of the
laboring men in Des Moines and the la
bor unions would warm up to his candi-
dacy with ease. He is also prohibi-
ZIONIST. Members of the Polk county
delegation who are in this movement be-
lieve DR.. Breeden would be satisfactory
to the old-line democrats and would
catch the republicans who are prohibit
l tionists. They believe that the bulk of
the vote which will go to Coates other
wise would be got for Breeden. He is a
splendid speaker and would be able, IL
he consented to run. to make a GOOD
Icanvass. He was one OF the few minis
tiers in Des Moines who favored the cleo
ton of Jerry Hartenbower as mayor. He
is out Of the city now and probably does
not know what liberties are being taken
with his name: but those in the move
n1ent are serious.
Incidentally it may be mentioned that
Governor" Coates. of Perry. has writ
ten his letter of acceptance, in which he
fails to take note of the movement to
make the democratic party the prohibit
ton party of the state. Among other
things he wrote:
81 am proud to be member Of par
ty that stands as does the prohibition
party for all the highest and best prin-
ciples in government The only party
that has sufficient integrity and moral
courage to antagonize the American sa-
loon and Its horde Of attendant evils
THE saloon has been re-established In
the state without regard to whether it is
right or not and the prohibition party,
always for the right and against the
wrong. denounces the traffic in intoxi-
cants. whether 1t be under the Martin
mulct law drug st1re saloons or boot
Logging joints Ours is the only party
that dare antagonize the licensed liquor
traffic which now exists in this fair state
clothed with the sanction of law. rob-
bing and pauperizing childhood, bring
ing shame and disgrace upon woman
Rood, debauching and destroying man
hood, while cursing and blighting that
sacred place-the home. A business that
dictates the policy Of the two great (?)
PARTIES and in their greed for votes be-
come its abject slaves.
in the name of Justice and humanity
let not this enlightened and Christian
commonwealth longer withhold from
women the ballot which is her naliena-
BILE right: that which will elevate and
enlarge her usefulness by imparting to
her greater ability to be the helper and
i Ico-wefker with man under all circum-
stances and conditions. making her his
4 equal before the law and placing in her
i hands the most efficient weapon with
which to defend her rights and protect
her home.
"In refusing to submit to the voters a
proposition Of equal suffrage the
Twenty-eighth general assembly out
ragged the intelligence Of the women of
the state and disregarded one of the
fundamental rights of the sovereign
voter The people can safely be trusted
on all great questions Of morality and
political policy when divorced from par
tisan trickery and personal greed"
I
As illustrating the topsy- -turvey condi-
ton of the politics of the state at the
present time the following from Col. Eli
boeck's State Anzieger endorsing Cum
minis may be considered:
1.-The nomination of A. b. Cummins
by the largest political convention ever
held in Iowa against the most desper-
ate efforts Of the most powerful and un-
scrupulous political ring the state has
ever been cursed with is partly a per-
sonal triumph and partly victory OF
the republican masses. The magnifcen,
personality of Mr.. Cummins and his un-
surpassed abilities as public leader
had endeared him to the people of Iowa
irrespective Of party. His indomitable
energy. his courage. his daring to re-
buke the blunders Of hisSown party and
/ his independence in lighting the bosses
, who had intimidated and manacled
I with the corporation powers OF the state
a to back them, both the republican an6