Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-23
Local Comment

paid for reprinting one OF Elletts at
tacks upon Van Law, but 1t has en-
phasized the fact that Mr. Van Laws
critics are mostly third party prohibi-
| tionists who would not vote the re-
publican ticket at the general election
and therefore will not select a republic
can ballot in the primary. Mr. Van
Law believes in temperance and prac-
| tees his belief with very exemplary
life. He never has believed that a
state prohibitory law would prove the
most practicable restriction upon the
liquor traffic and therefore in this
campaign replies to the third party
prohibitionists that he must he shown
a very considerable public sentiment
for a submission OF prohibitory
amendment before he would ever con-
sent to raising the issue again. OF
/ course the third partyites are not sat
| isfied and yet Mr.. Van Law could be
| depended upon to support any reason
able or practicable Improvement over
our present liquor laws, which would
tend toward greater temperance. His
inclinations are all that way.
d
There has been injected into the
eleventh hour Of the primary cam
paign an issue OF which the people OF
Marshall county ought to be most aw-
full tired by this time. It is that I'D be
for Cummins or for Good or for some-
body else, all right, II 1t Were not for
the T.-R. Damn Norris He's trying
to run Things" The imputation is an
insult to every man thus approached.
r. ky~AA ~ hos fvHA np
his own. that the newspaper can't
elect to support the same candidate he
supports without putting him under
suspicion Of being bossed by the editor
The charge Is that Norris has enemies.
therefore we can turn them all away
from the candidates he supports. It is
well established that the laboring men
as a class prefer Cummins to Allison,
they prefer Good to Trewin. they pre-
fer Clarke for lieutenant governor to
Murphy, and they prefer Garst for
governor to Carroll. Now 1t so happens
that the T.-R. Is supporting all Of these
candidates preferred by the labor vote.
but, instead Of giving the laboring men
credit for sagacity in getting the T.-R.
to support their favorite candidates, a
bunch of sore-heads in this town would
treat them as q lot Of cattle to be
stampeded by the cry that Norris had
a strike, he's unfair" knife your own
candidates IL he Is for them.
AS rule the men who resort to
such speciousness in politics are either
those who have been defeated for Of
flee in the past because the newspaper
supported somebody else, those who
have held office and couldn't stand the
publicity Of their official conduct which
the newspaper gave them OK they are
men who once reigned supreme In the
caucuses and conventions of the party
and have since been kept off the dele
cations by men SO infantile in their
judgment as to be supporting the
same men and issues as the newspaper
supports. They can not see that they
insult the int igence and manhood Of
a man when they accuse him of being
bossed by young man who, they say,
is not even good mixer.
In line with these personalities 1t is
sought by coterie OF standpatters to
work up all Of their voting strength in
the city with the full expectation that
the farmers will be too busy to go to
the primaries and that the standpat
strength can be given greater rela-
tive showing. Meetings are being held
and persistent work done on the quiet.
road leaders in the state is kept up.
The primaries will occur one week
from Tuesday.
The banquet last night had the us
ual effect 1t stirred men with re-
newed enthusiasm for their own town.
1t demonstrated that there is re-
Spouse ready for a club which shall be
wide open enough to include every cit
lien regardless of his avocation. The
present organizations should be dis
solved or merged into one grand club
for the sole public purpose Of promot-
ing the interests Of the town. The
down town club with cafe attachment
and lounging rooms Is one move to the
permanent, regular getting together.
The broad, everybody club should be
another movement for the building Of
railways and promoting new factories
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The action Of the Iowa Central. in
seeking the aid OF federal courts in
an effort to secure protection for its
strike breakers is not unexpected in
view Of the developments Of the past
few weeks. While the outbreaks OF
disorder have not destroyed property
as yet, the company feels that 1t is en-
titled to protection, which it Is afraid
it can not secure from local authori-
ties. Appeal is made to the court. An
Iowa Central official who was in the
city this week said that such an action
would be taken because "Our people
are not at all satisfied with the treat
ment we have received at the hands
Of your mayor and the police. In fact
we feel as tho we might better pull up
stakes in Marshalltown and go to
some place where we are appreciated.
There is no reason why every employee
we have here should not be permitted
to go unmolested any place in the city,
and not have to be herded on our
property In order to protect their lives.
What Marshalltown needs is a mayor
with backbone" This, of course, is
the feeling Of one party to a bitter
controversy It Is not likely that any
administration could make the streets
absolutely proof against quarrels be-
tween strike breakers and strikers, but
it is true that a much stronger hand
Of restraint upon the class Of men who
frequent the saloons and gather about