Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-01
NORRIS RUNNING THINGS.
Newspaper Editor Replies to Some
Personalities Used in This Cam

paign.
| To the Voters: About two weeks
ago. when Mr.. Trewin visited Mar
shalltown in the interest of his cam
paign for the republican nomination
| for congress, which honor he is con-
| testing with Mr. ]. W. Good, there
appeared in the Cedar Rapids Repub-
| lican three column dispatch under
| a Marshalltown date line which was
a fierce roast of me personally. I have
! been told by men on the inside of
| Mr.. Trewin's campaign that the local
information was furnished by Frank
Pierce and Henry Stone. and that Mr..
Trewin wrote the article Since then
the Cedar Rapids newspapers type
has been shipped to Marsllalltown and
the article printed in the political adj
vertising section of the Reflector A
large number of copies has been cir
culated with the article marked.
Aside from the small personal in
suits. which We're intended to make
me feel as bad as possible. and to stir
me to wrath, the gist of the argu-
/ ment is this:
The low wages which the T.-R. paid
its carrier boys melted a strike; that
: personally had prospered in Mar
shalltoWn at the expense Of small
boys: that I was a political boss: that
I brought out Mr. Good for congress;
that I will own him body and soul If
he is nominated and elected and
that wage-workers and others should
. know that a vote for Good is merely
a vote for Norris, who is unfair" to
labor. Incidentally I am charged with
turning against Mr. Tngledue because
he. as mayor, permitted the rioting
to continue. and that to get even with
him ] brought out Mr.. Van Law
against him.
I'm order that Marshal1town people
may grasp the insult to their intelli-
gence in this kind of campaigning
wish to discuss it. have been di-
rectly and indirectly an employer of
labor in Marshalltown for nine years,
thru times so prosperous that men
could get jobs anywhere if they were
not satisfied with their wages in my
employ, and today the large majority
of men employed in the business en-
terprises in which I am interested are
men who have been in the business
longer than have. and who are get
ting better wages under my manage
ment than they did, before. But this
is not an issue in our politics. I am
merely one citizen in many thousand,
possessed of only one vote.
Mr.. Good is an able lawyer Of Cedar
Rapids, an older man than am, a
man who stands high in his profession
and as a citizen. When he fought
"Jin1" Trewin in the gas case he
worked in overalls in a gas plant so
as to understand the business; he
cataloged the testimony of every gas
case that had ever been tried in the
United States, employed accountants
to examine the books of the company.
When the professional expert witness
es were called by Mr.. Trewn, Mr.. Good
riddled them with their own testimony
in other cases. Powerful business in
terests pressed him to compromise and
he refused. Members of the city eoun-
ell wavered and he threatened to fight
them on the stump. He Won his case
for the people of Cedar Rapids because
he had the three elements of courage.
integrity and ability This is the kind
of man who is being called creature
of a comparatively obscure citizen In
the opposite end of his congressional
district who happens to be giving him
newspaper support.
When I was first approached in be-
half of Mr.. Goods candidacy a large
gathering of Cedar Rapids men pre-
scented the request. and among those
who spoke Were three representatives,
of union labor in Cedar Rapids. Since
then Mr. Arthur Holder. ex-president
of the State Fedora ton Of Labor. has
published a letter n Cedar Rapids
newspapers accusing Mr.. Trewin or
having been corporation man when III
the sry,te. and Mr.. Holder supports
Mr.. Good. The president Of the State !
Federation Of Labor, now In office. Mr. /
A. L. Urich, publishes letter IN the :