Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-04
RICHARDS CHIEF
AIDE DEMOCRATS
Defeated For Nomination He
Sets Out to Defeat the Men
Who Won Out
LOOKING FORWARD TO 1908
Operating News Bureau Whose Sole
Object Seems to be tho Defeat of
the Republican Ticket -. Filling Col
umns of Certain ssandpas Papers
With siIIiest DriveI.
Special to Tlmes-Repunlican.

Special to Times-Republican
Des Moines Sept 4.-Julian Rich
ards has already opened his campaign
for nomination for secretary OF state
and to defeat Hayward two years
hence. He is grooming himself for
nomination as a republican. He new
er gave up the notion that he was go-
ing to be the nominee this year until
the vote was actually announced. Now
he is said to be infatuated with the
notion that he will be the logical man
for 1908.
In preparation for this he is at the
head OF a news bureau which is filling
such newspapers of the state as will
consent to print the stuff with a series
of fairy tales the like Of which were
never seen before in all history 1t is
evident that much of this matter is in
spired at headquarters of the demo-
cratic state committee: but it is as
serted that Richards is not on the pay
roll of the committee direct. He is
probably now, as he has been for many
years, at the service of the corpora
tions. Last summer he was summar-
lily fired" by the Chicago Tribune
just after the Waterloo convention. He
had been filing that newspaper with
such drivel that, altho he had been
entrusted for nearly twenty years with
their Iowa political information. they
could not stand it longer and he was
ordered to cease sending in the stuff.
Just now Richards is engaged in
magnifying the grievances of the per-
sons who are, for one reason or an
other, sore over the outcome of the
campaign last summer.
He is doing more TO help the demo-
cratic state committee than all the
men or the pay roll Of that -commit-
tee.s
In the Hawk Eye of last Saturday
Richards had column or two OF
falsehoods about the situation. Ha
quoted an anonymous individual as
saying that, for instance, in Warren
county many republicans will vote for
no one on the republican state ticket
but Dave Palmer. He then made an
attack on Cummins in regard to the
old soldiers and represented that they
are nearly all against him. and that
Cummins is opposed to the soldiers
holding offices. Yet it is a fact that
he signed the soldier preference law
and has appointed more soldiers to
office than any other governor. Then
he has reports from Buchanan county
about terrible State of affairs there
where the republicans are nearly al!
said to be going over to the democrats
A jump takes him over to Springfield,
where there is said to be lot of re-
publicans who will help the demo-
Gratis.
Julian tackles Polk county and gives
it out that of the $500 persons who
participated in the republican primary
and voted for Perkins, at least $500
are of the kind who will not support
the republican ticket just because they
did not win out.
All this is sheer buncombe. It is,
however, the kind Of information that
the democratic state committee IS
most desirous of having circulated in
the state. 1t is false and misleading
and wholly without foundation. Ihe
information, or rather misinformatlqn'
is not only published under the sigma
ture of Richards. but is being sent TO
democratic newspapers and aH those
newspapers which are anxious to ell
feet the defeat of the republican par
ty in Iowa, and some Of them are Civ
ing it space for political effect.
IT will be recalled that Richards IN
his story of the republican harmony
conference two weeks ago grossly mis-
represented the position of the neal
of the republican state ticket in long
article in which he stated that foV.
Cummins promised to be good ana
keep on the platform adopted at the
state convention" etc. HIS story
wound up with a compliment to the
meeting of the democrats and state
ment that they had found everything
satisfactory in the state.
There appears to be very close con-
nection between this news bureau, OF
which Richards is at the head, and the
to get signers to a pledge
TO bolt the republican party. 1t is also
certain that the news bureau is in very
close touch with the democratic man
ayers and that they are working in
perfect harmony.
1t is stated that this news service
which is being offered the newspapers
in the interest of breaking up the re-
publican party has been turned down
cold by a number Of the republican
of the state which 1t was
hoped at the outset would make use OF
the same. While they are not greatly
pleased over the situation. they insist
they are still republican and will sup
port the republican party, hence do not
care for ammunition for guerilla war;
fare against the republican party.
Attorneys for Matthias Baldes, of
Sioux county, who is in the:4Anamosa
penitentiary serving a life sentence for
his wife. have filed their
argument with the clerk of the su.
preme court, in which the attempt is
made to show that the evidence intro