Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-10-25
A DEMOCRATIC VIEW
OF DEMOCRATIC MANAGERS
Leading Democratic Newspaper On
the Record Of Those Who Essay
To Control Iowa Affairs

In the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, the
leading and most consistent democratic
daily paper OF Iowa, edited by Louis
Murphy, the quarrel In the democratic
party as to who shall represent Iowa
democracy on the national committee
was discussed at length and the paper
said:
This newspaper purposes TO discuss, for
the Information of the members Of the
democratic national committee, the rec
ord of MI; w. w. Marsh or W adt LOO;
instead Of Mr.. Cato Sells OF VlntGa to
the Walsh succession.
1t has been charged against MT. MARSH
that he bolted the ticket in 1896. that he
was hostile to effective rate legislation
and that he is not in sympathy with the
progressive tendencies of the party.
What proof is there to sustain these
The truth of the frst change Mr..
Marsh admits. 1t therefore stands in
the record unchallenged. and not pal
Hated by a single circumstance, that he
refused to submit his will to the partys
WILL and that he allied himself with the
opposition to defeat the candidates Of the
party and the principles for which 1t
1t is for the members of THE national
committee to say If in their opinion II
would be fair to the 10000 Iowa demo-
Gratis who remained loyal in 1896 to foist
upon them as their leader and their rep
resentative in the national councils of the
party an individual who in 1896 refused
to consort with ahem and went over to
the enemy.
committee is directed to the published
| (pamphlet) proceedings of the interstate
| commerce law conventions In Chicago:
! One of these conventions was regular
| and the other trump" The regular con-
! Vention as the committee doubtless know
/ was in sympathy vita effective legisla-
lied by the railroads solely to enbar-
| rass legislation, and to cause 1t to ap-
I pear that the country was not in favor
| of regulation. On page 1873 OF the pamph-
| trump or railroads convention. is the
name Of w. w. Marsh. representing the
Waterloo Manufacturers association.
The names of several other Waterloo
| gentlemen appear IN the same list. two
| OF them democrats and conspicuous sup
poTters of Mr.. Marsh--Messrs. ]. T. Sui
| Ivan and F. !. Fowler. both acknowl-
edged boilers in 1896. There appears also
the name OF c. w. Miller OF Wsverly.
! chairman OF the democratic state com
| mittee. the leader Of the Marsh cam
palgn.
It may not be amiss to say for the
| benefit of the members of the national
| committee that the railroads picked up
every shipper who had In the past. or
| hoped TO in the future, receive favors at
their hands. and every politician court
ing railroad support, and shipped him
into Chicago as a delegate to the "rump''
convention.
Mr.. Marsh's presence at the "rump''
COnNenJloh III OppcSlllOu 10 rate TeBuld-
ton is a criterion Of his other conduct
He is not and never has been in sym
pathy with the progressive tendency OF
the party. Never, from 1896 until early
in 1906 did he count himself with those
who have been in the past and now are
In sympathy with Mr.. Bryan His change
to Bryan came after an interview with
National Chairman Taggart, and he gives
| II out now with assurance of its truth
that Mr.. Taggart Is the guardian OF hi!
interests. We can not think that Mr.
Taggart has taken care to learn tn,
other side of the Iowa situation that HI
understands Mr.. Marsh's relations q
! those who have constituted the rea
| democracy of Iowa-the 260, 900 who KEEP
the faith in 1896 and who have kept III
the fight in the Interests Of democratic
democracy. On every alignment In ever,
state convention held in this state sine.
Mr. Marsh's return to the party fold, III
has been active against the progressives
= against those who were for Bryan unit
the last state convention, when nobod,
, was against Bryan and no one agains
conservative radicassm.