Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-01
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| Eldora, Oct. S1.-This Third congress
sional district is trying TO have poiiti-
cal campaign of some interest, but 1T IS
uphill work. Judge RirdsaH and ex-
| Governor Boies neither of them are
fitted to make q Fourth of July speech.
They can not make the eagle scream.
and the consequence is that each only
interests an audience who enjoy facts
and figures. Judge Birdsall presents
This unanswerable arguments in a plain,
business-like way, ana Ex-Governor
Boies Is indulging in more demagogical
and populistic talk than ever before.
Mr.. Boies is getting old; he shows it
physically and mentally It's an old man
OF rs who is now potterlng around. try
ing to make himself and hearers believe
hes as young as he used to be-" but
as one man here said, .sThe democrats
would make votes il Boies himself
stayed at home and let others do the
campaigning.
Nevertheless, 1t 'behooves every re-
publican In the Third district to get out
and vote on election day. During the
past three weeks the writer has been
every day in the west end Of the district
and 1t was universal talk in favor of
Judge Birdsall But ct Ackley last
week good, conservative republicans
feared that Boies would get some re-
publican votes around there. Why?
Because Boies killed prohibition" In
this burg the writer has met few re-
publicans who say they will vote for
Boies. Why? Because OF some of
Judge Birdsall's decisions While on the
bench" And Mayor Martin, of Water
loo, the manager of Boies' campaign
claims that the republicans of Waterloo
who were "agin Henderson" will still
support Boies. And travelling men from
Dubuque say BirdsaH VIII fall short of
1900 votes of Henderson's former cg
ures in that county. Martins state
ments can be taken with some degree
OF allowance, as coming from their
source, but the situation in Dubuque
is generally admitted. So that the
republican voter in the Third district
of Iowa who fails to vote his ticket next
week, and does so because ne thinks
Birdsall has a &Walk-over, makes a big
mistake.
It's the German vote that will settle
ii. Ninety-nine per cent of the Ameri-
can republican vote will be given for
Birdsall. There is no feeling of sore
ness left that might have shown itself
If any of the other mentioned candi-
dates had been named as the standard
bearer. But if the German voter for
gets the present prosperity, or rather,
is willing to ignore 1t, for the sake of
electing "the man who killed prohibit
ton IN Iowa." why, Boies will go to con-
gress. Boies Is making no Roadway in
his plain talk Of tariff for revenue on
IL" Few democrats, farmers or towns
people, are anxious "for four years
more of Grover" The farmers don't
want any "freer trade" in any of the
products of the farm, and the mechan-
les in town had all Of the free trade ex-
perience they wanted in the low wages
of ten years ago. But large class of
our German voters never have forgot
ten and never will forgive the repub-
Iican party of Iowa for the prohibitory
law on the statute books of the state of
Iowa. That this is not an issue this year
makes no difference In their kindly
feeling towards Boies. It's a difficult
thing to get at their intentions. Wheth-
er Boies gets these votes or not settles
the question of who goes to congress
from the Third district. And so the
writer again hopes, as the Acllley re-
publican said he did, that every re-
publican in the Third district will get
out and vote next Tuesday"
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