The Oskaloosa herald., 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 Te1egraph-derald, 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 COMMITTEES. the rec
ord of Mr.. w. w. Marsh of Waterloo,
who is asking the committee to elect him
instead of Mr.. Cato Sells Of Vinton to
It has been charged AGAINST Mr.. Marsh
that he bolted the ticket in 1886. 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
charges?
Marsh admits. 1t therefore stands in
the record unchallenged, and not pal
lated by single circumstance, that he
refused to submit his will to the party's
will and that he allied himself with the
opposition to defeat the candidates of the
party and the principles for which 1t
stood.
1t is for the members of the national
committee to say If in their opinion 1t
would be fair to the 10000 Iowa demo-
Gratis who remained loyal in 1906 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 them and went over to
the enemy.
The attention Of the members of the
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 ''rump." The regular con-
Vention as the committee doubtless know,
was in sympathy with effective legisla-
lied by the railroads solely to embar-
rass legislation, and to cause it to ap-
pear that the country was not in favor
of regulation On page 1873 of the pamph-
"rump'' 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
porters of Mr.. Marsh-Messrs. ]. T. Sui
edged bolters in 1896. There appears also
the name of c. w. Miller OF Waverly,
chairman OF the democratic state com
mittee. the leader of the Marsh cam
paign.
It may not be amss 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 delegate to the 'rump''
convention.
Mr.. Marsh's presence at the "rump'
convention In opposition to rate regula-
ton is criterion of his other conduct.
He 10 not and never has been in SYM
pathy with the progressive tendency of
the party. Never, from 1896, until early
in 1905 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
1t out now with assurance of it's truth.
that Mr.. Taggart is the guardian of his
interests. We can not think that Mr.
Taggart has taken care to learn the
other side of the Iowa situation. that he
understands Mr.. Marshs relations to
those who have constituted the real
democracy OF Iowa-the 260,00o who kept
the faith in 1895 and who have kept up
the fight In the interests OF democratic
democracy. On every alignment In every
state convention held in this state since
Mr.. Marsh's return to the party fold he
has been active against the progressives
against those who were for Bryan until
the last state convention when nobody
was against Bryan and no one against
conservative radicalism