Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-23
N REPUBLICAN, RANKS
A. w. Maxwell, Former Demo-
cratic Chairman, and His
Paper Turn Republican
ANNOUNCEMENT AT SEYMOUR
This Weeks Issue of the Seymour
Leader Contains Editorial Stating
the Paper Will Support Roosevelt
and Fairbanks During the Campaign
Maxwell Gives Reasons.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Seymour. July a3.-"The Seymou,
Leader will not support the nominees
of the st. Louis national convention
This is the opening sentence in an
editorial by A. w. Maxwell, publisher
OF the Seymour Leader. the deposed
chairman OF the democratic national
committee, in which he repudiates the
party with which lle has affiliated. it's
candidates and its platform. Mr.. Max
well is a radical democrat and may be
fairly said to represent the sentiment
of democrats who believe as he does in
Iowa. He says In part:
In taking this important step we
are actuated by all honesty of purpose,
which we trust no one will question.
and by an earnest and patriotic desire
to do tina which will edound to the
greatest good to the greatest number.
We realize hat 1t is no small thing
to sever ones relations to a great po-
litical party. whose banner he has fol-
lowed Loyalty in victory and in defeat
in sunshine and in storm, yet when the
delegates to a great national conven
ton. representing themselves as demo-
Gratis of the school Of Thomas Jeffer-
son lend their aid to the honey sharks
Of Wall street to nominate q candidate
for president who is subservient to the
interests and demands Of the trust
magnates of the country. 1t is time
for democrats to cease being partisans
and become patriots. We are firmly
convinced that I'arker's election to
the presidency means h free and I'M
disputed reign of the trusts for the
mex four years. His nomination was
brought about by a coterfe Of trust
magnates, headed by the Belmonts and
the Standard Oil Company, and as he
cannot serve both God and Mammon
the natural conclusion Is that he will
serve the men ami the interests that
were responsible for his nomination.
Assuming this to be true we can
see little or no hope for the laboring
man and the producer in the event of
Parker and Davis election. With the
party machinery tn the hands of the
reorganizers we can see no immediate
hope for the party TO redeem itself in
the eyes of a critical people by repud-
iating the false leaders who have
bound. gagged and delivered it bodily
into the hands OK the stock gamblers
of Wall street in exchange for a few
million dollars as a campaign fund.
consequently there is little left for n
who believes as we do but to repudiate
the party.
Our apostasy lis o occasionei by
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at the hands of the party. and had it
remained steadfast n loyal to true
democratic principles we should
have followed it to defeat
year after year, If such a fate had
ii. but we cannot go with It
to defeat and disgrace at the same
time.
mot onten with foisting Judge
Parker on the convention. when 1t was
known that his nomination would be
.distasteful to the Bryan democracy,
the bosses added insult to injury by
nominating as a candidate for vice
a man who, while personally
a most estimable gentleman. is not
only a trust magrate of the first class.
but a high tariff advocate and a deadly
and implacable foe. of union labor and
a business partner of Divine Right
Baer of anthracite coal strike fame.
So bitter is he against union labor that
a union man is not tolerated about
my Of his extensive mining properties,
as the owner of the important
coal hauling roads of his state he goes
so far as to discriminate against other
operators who employ union men. Our
to the cause of union labor
would preclude IL voting the ticket il
had no other reason for opposing
Il. and II we do rot mistake the tenn
per of the union raen in and about Sey-
nour, not one OF them will vote the
ticket. Aside from dissatisfaction with
ticket there are other good and
reasons why it ought to be re-
oudiated. The party management has
allen into the hands of the old ma
gang of politicians whose party
oyalty is measured by what they can
get out of the party, and who have no
for the rights Of the masses.
THE Leader shall support the repub-
lean ticket In this campaign and until
'uch time as the. democratic party is
from the control OF the men
Who at present dominate it's policies
name its candidates"