Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-12
asaw county newspaper.
Signed this 9th day of June, 1905.
r. H. Mills, president.

These were the resolutions passed
by the republican electors of jack
sonville township. whose betrayal Ed
son Sewell and A. FL. Markell accom-
plished. Weigh one against the other:
what is, the momentary notice and APP
/ prevail of Il political eangster mile
age book and modest check to men
pillored az dishonest knaves In their
home township. and under the con-
tempt and condemnation of their own
neighbors? Young man, which Will
| you choose?
And yet, these countrymen are less
| to be blamed than the political thim-
bleriggers who were sent to Chickasaw
| to debauch them. ana the political she'll
every doubtful precinct of the state
are blameless compared to the men in
high places and aspiring TO high
! places. who are paying them for their
work and profiting by their success.
| The danger to the country from men
| like Ed Hunter and his hired men is
| iniinetesimal compared with the Ger
| tainty that awaits u country governed
/ by the men who hire the Ed Hunters
Il and pay them. The debauchery of the
| two men published and repudiated by
their own neighbors in Chiekasaw: of
Kretschmer, despised alike of stand-
patters and progressives and cast aside
as an unclean thing by Allison him
self: of all the instances of political
purchase that have come to light and
of the thousands that have been hid
den, must lie at the doors of the lead
ers and candidates of the interests
wide primary and the anti-pass law in
Iowa. and railroad rate control in the
nation.
What shameless campaign Of pur-
chase and debauchery the antiCum-
minis forces have waged is fairly ex-
pressed in little monologue alleged
to have fallen from the lips of one Joe
Toulouse, a man whose only claim on
public notice is his position as wad
unsuccessful in Delaware county,
where republicans this year insisted
on square deal and a primary vote.
Failure brought reproach, and reproach
is provocative of what Joe knows as
Soreness So Joe" was not displeas-
ed when his coadjutor and fellow
worker W. f. Parrot, "fell down" at
Black Hawk. Listen:
II am glad of it" he is reported as
having said. Il was sent UP to Della
ware county by Hunter and Parrot,
and they gave me the very dickens for
not doing more for the money l spent
there, but u man couldn't buy the
whole county If he had ten times $10,-
900, for almost everybody there Is for
Cummins But now that PARROTS
county has gone for Cummins l guess
they won't be so chesty. They treated
Tedford the same way about Lucas
county. not satisfied that he only spent
money there one week at Charlton
and got half the county. He thinkslI
he'll redeem himself down in Jasper
county, but he can't. They haven't
treated Howard and me just right, |
anyway, and l suppose that they may
take us off the pay roll when l 20 up
and answer some Of their kicking by
pointing to PARROTS county. Howard
is a nice fellow and he might have
stood some show in Jasper and Lucas
IL 1 had been with him all the time.
We are going to travel together the
rest of the campaign. / like Howard
Republican voters, how is it in your
precinct? Have you had Joe" and
Howard compeers to contend with? Is
the state primary movement the vi
cious thing MIR. Perkins would have
you believe? Do you favor the dis
tribution OF mileage books and free
passes and cold cash and postoffces
and treasury jobs as payment for votes
individual and delegate? How do you
estimate the attorney in one county |
who sold out body, soul and brooches |
for a local railroad attorneyship that
is entirely perfunctory except as to
railroad transportation for himself
and family? Is he patriot or simply
an ordinary purchasable knave? Are
you satisfied or are the statewide pri-
mary, the anti-pass law and rate reg
ulation reforms worth working and
voting for? Bezonian, under which |
king will you serve? The Chickasaw
incident may occur in your township
next. The Kretschmer method may
crop out in your county.