Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-13
FUNK IS NOT APP[AS[D
Iowa Falls Mayor Persists In
Paying His Respects to
Billy Mason.
y sPEwED OUT OF THE PARTY
Scores Him Numerically for Lack Of
Sense of Propristy, for His Copper
headism-For His Opposition to iii :
nois Republicans in the Senatorial
Fisht-PoIiticaI Leper.

Special to Times Republican.
Iowa Falls, Sept. 13.-rhe republican
avowed the responsibility of bringing
Senator w. E. Mason into the Iowa
campaign, so wrote ex-Speaker j. III.
Funk, of the Iowa house, and in reply
to the letter Mr.. Funk said: In seek
ing to shift the responsibility of bring
ing into the Iowa campaign that politi-
cal mountebank. w. r. Mason, as an
exponent of pure republicanism I do
not wonder at your desire to shirk any
such responsibility. You. will pardon
my dullness when / say that UP to the
time of the receipt of the communica-
ton from the republican headquarters
did not suppose that any one would
be sent into the state to whom the re-
publican managers strenuously OBJ
jected. Spewed out of the party in Illi-
nois, this man who has been selected
to speak In the Iowa campaign is now
engaged in aiding, so far as a man of
his character and antecedents can aid.
lin the election of democratic legisla-
ture in that state, thus insuring another
democratic senator to oppose the adj
ministration, as he has continually
done. So dead is he to the sense of
fitness of things, that when invited.
some two years ago. to deliver an ad-
dress to a graduating class in the city
of Des Moines, ignoring the amenities
of the occasion, he took advantage OF
the situation to launch into diatrtbe
against the policy of the then president.
the loved and lamented Mckinley, &C
cusing the administration of being false
to the principles Of the party as taught
by Lincoln and others, and of having
designs of imperialism for this country.
AT the outbreak of the Spanish-Ame
can war he did everything in his power
to embarrass the administration. work
ing hand-in-h hand with the democrats
to plunge this country into war with
out any preparation, without even q
second round Of ammunition for our
then insignificant army Then, as soon
as the war commenced, joining with the
lcopperheads in a cry for an ignOminl-
GUS peace, and violation of our treaty
obligations with other countries. IN
fact he has been mischief-maker and
marplot all of his political life. Yet In
the face Of a political record like this,
an Iscariotism that would put the devil
to shame. he is put forth by the powers
that be as the exponent of republican,
ism in Iowa, to teach republicanism to
the sons of the men who have given
Iowa her peerless position in the proud
galaxy of republican states! Oh, bosh!
Out upon such hypocrisy! No. much
rs / appreciate the invitation to Tend
my mite in advancing the cause OF re-
rublicanism in our proud state, can
not accept it. have never mixed In
that kind of company and am too old to
begin now. Send for Wellington of
Maryland, Teller Of Colorado, Boies OF
Waterloo; the two last have at least the
merit of personal honesty and may de-
cline to trot in such company. Call on
the men who have some political hon
esty and decency, but do not insult
those who have been consistent and
loyal to the principles of the party dur
ing all the years OF their political life
by asking them to debase themselves to
the extent Of having TIC speak from the
same platform with this political leper"