Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-08
WOULD PRETEND A,
VIOLATION Of LAv|
Denocratic-Railroad Alliance
Seeks Cheap Newspaper No
toriety in Campaign
CUSTOM OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS
Federal Office Holders Have Always
Contributed to Campaigns, and In
vestisation Proved No Violation Ex-
isted-Good Work Of Weekly News
papers-The Anamosa Wardenship.
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/ Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Oct. Sit is learned
that a systematic movement is being
engineered by the Democratic railroad
alliance. thru its intimate relation to
a large number of federal office hold
| ers, to bring the republican party into
! disrepute in Iowa by a loud cry to the
effect that the republican state COM
1 miltee is violating the civil service law
in inviting contributions from office
/ holders.
AS is usual, there are always a num-
| bel OF, these, including postmasters,
who feel that they are superior to their
help the cause, and they Immediately
become very noisy at about this stage
OF the campaign, when they are asked
TO put few dollars into the fund to
help elect republican officials.
1t has been the custom from time
immemorial for the republican state
committee, as 1t was with the demo-
cratic committee in days of demo-
cratic ascendency, to ask officials to
help In campaig2 work In various
ways. 1t will be recalled that three
years ago a great ado was made by
these complaining federal officials be-
cause the republican state committee
sought their assistance. Investigation
was made at that time with view of
determining whether or not any law
had been violated, and it was found
that there had been no violation.
The law does not contemplate that
a federal office holder shall be cut or
from all communication with political
committees. Now this year, with the
democrats able to get next to large
number of office holders, nominally re-
publican, thru the close alliance of the
corporate interests with the democratic
management. the effort is being made
tc, convince the people that something
unusual is being done and that the re-
publican state committee is violating
the law.
In this work the democratic COM
ntittee Is understood to have assur-
ance of the generous assistance of all
the newspapers that are opposed to re-
publican ascendency in Iowa. There is
not the slightest danger of anything
more than a lot of cheap newspaper
notoriety, got up for the purpose Of
adversely influencing the campaign for
the republicans.
In the past two weeks the republi-
can state central committee has sen:
out thru weekly newspapers of the
state total Of 250,000 copies of the
political supplement which contained
the opening address of Governor Cun.-
minis and other republican doctrine.
These supplements went out thru 230
separate newspapers that tare giving
their support to the cause of republi-
canism this Year. All save few were
weeklies, as the dailies had already
largely printed the same matter. The
counties in which none of the supple
ments were circulated were Lee, Davis,
Scott, Wapello, Adams, Union, Clay
and Ida. No newspapers were found in
these counties willing to circulate re-
publican literature. The largest num-
ber to any one county went to Story.
The Tenth district newspapers circu-
lated more Of the supplements than
any other with the Eighth close be-
hind. The smallest number went into
the First district.
The readiness of the weekly newspa-
pers of the state to circulate good re-
publican literature this year is cause
for, f,,Jo md ic toll
among those who know to indicate that
there is much more of harmony and
good will in the party than the mis-
chief makers would have it appear.
These supplements went to the very
best of the weekly newspapers of the
state, and newspapers representing
different shades of belief They were
circulated by such progressive newspa-
pers as the Wapello Tribune Iowa City
Citizen, Manchester News. Decorah
Republican, West Union Gazette,
Knoxville Journal, Ames Intelligencer,
Spirit Lake Beacon, LeMars Sentinel,
and Odebolt Chronicle; and also by
such sterling papers of a different type
as the Denison Review, Audubon Re
publican, Mt Ayr Record, Clarinda
Journal Shenandoah Sentinel-Post,
Osceola Sentinel, Adel News, vinton
Eagle. New Hampton Gazette Charles
City Herald, Hampton Recorder, Wash
ington Press, Manchester Press and
Carroll Herald.
The fact that editors, who, few
weeks ago, We're sturdily opposing each
other in the matter of the personnel of
the state ticket, are now to be found
working itogether for republican prin-
ciples, gives much announcement to
the republicans.
Two avowed candidates. and one
tentative candidate, are now in the
field for appointment to the position
of warden of the Iowa state peniten-
tiary at Anamosa, with the probablii-
ties that other candidates will be in the
field shortly. Both Of the avowed can
didates, A. w Mitterer. of Hardin
county. aud c. w. Jackson, of Wood