Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-22
County Democratic Campaign.

"A very unusual county campaign /,
| Just drawing to close in this county
1t Is unusual because of the method,
employed by the democratic candidate.
| through their organ, the Advocate.
To go back little let us say there
was u radical difference of opinion
among republicans at the time OF the
republican county convention as tc
whether the party should renominate
| for third terms the candidates fol
treasurer, sheriff and superintendent
That issue was tried before the caucus.
es and the convention and the above
mentioned candidates were renominat.
ed by vote of about two to one, moi
so much on the question of whether il
was good policy to give third terms
as on their personal strength and
popularity, for no one had questioned
their honor, integrety or efficiency.
AT this point the democratic leaders
and would be bosses of the county
thought the opportunity of years had
come. They saw there had been a
strenuous struggle in the republican
party and they started out with
the hope of enlisting in their
cause large number of the republi-
cans who were on the losing side in
the republican caucuses and converts
ion. They nominated ticket compos-
ed OF representative men, good citizens,
but leaders in democratic politics. Then
commenced their campaign. Indeed
the campaign had commenced weeks
before the democratic convention, for
the convention was rather formal
affair, as it did its work principally
by aclamation, approving the select
ions made by the leaders. The plan
OF campaign was to have the party
organ, the Advocate, make a general
assault on all republican candidates,
accusing each of them separately and
all OF them collectively, of being
thieves and robbers of the county,
and that they were covering up their
robbery. The editor of the Advocate
has carried out this plan made for
him in the best manner he could,
clumsily and awkwardly at times, but
always devotedly. Every man on the
republican ticket, BRENNAN, Ander-
son, Farquhar, Hoegh and Mott, has
been repeatedly accused of dishonesty
in connection with their official bus
mess, or their business with the
county.
Most of these charges have been
made in an insinuatlng and insulting
and unmanly way, degrading the
newspaper profession in the eyes of
the public. To most of this matter we
have not cared to reply. Recently,
however, we have denied a few of the
statements and have given the proofs
of their untruthfulness. Speaking
now in general way we wish to say
again what we have often said before
that these candidates, BRENNAN,
Anderson, ,Farquhar and Hoegh, are
not only men of ability, but we believe
each one of them is man of absolute
official and personal integrity. Their
books are open to the inspection of
the public at any time. They are
honest men.
The only hope of the democratic
candidates lay in breaking down the
standing and character of the repub-
lican candidates in the estimation of
the public and the Advocate was di-
rectes to do it. A still hunt is being
followed.by the.democratic candidates.
No meetings are being held to allow
the discussion of principles. 1t is a
part of their game not to allow the
Advocate to call the attention of the
public to what democratic principles
are, for they want to get republican
support which they could not get if
they did not keep their democratic
principles in the back ground.
if they had confined their attacks of
dishonesty to one or two of the repub-
lican candidates the public might have
been deceived more easily, but to say
those five men are all rascals gives
away. the plan Of attack.
Are there many republicans who
are willing to be assistants of the
democratic party to gain a foothold
in Audubon County by any such meth
DDS? Will good citizens without re-
gard to party sanction such methods?