Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-23
LABOR|NG MEN
|O HAVE rally
Big Political Meeting to be Held
in Interests of Republi-
can Ticket
Cummins, Carroll and Others Also Will
Give Addresses Des Moines
VIII Give Addresses - Des Moines
Business Men Unanimous for Cum
m.ns far Scnato,-Lacey Denies Re-
sp,ns;hiiity ttr Political Trick.
'pecial to Times-RepublIcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. oct 23.-The laboring
men of Des Moines are going to haNo
at least one big rally on the closing
night Of the campaign This work was
taken up by Hon. Edward d. Brigham,
and other prominent members of or
ganized labor, and it promises to be
big affair An effort is to be made TO
secure the attendance of f. Il. Clark.
the member of the interstate COM
merce commission. Speaker G.. W.
Clarke. candidate for lieutenant gov
crnor. will be one of the speakers. He
is very popular with laboring men
Governor Cummins, who is q member
of organized labor and is recognized as
one of the staunchest friends of work
ingmen, will be one of the speakers,
r. F. Carroll, state auditor. is to be
invited, and others The laborng nlen
of the city have not shown very great
political interest thus far and the plan
is to line them up at the close of the
campaign for the whole ticket They
resent some recent criticisms which
have been directed to their leaders and
insist that they will show how to get
up a really first class rally.
An interesting story is afoat to the
effect that the bankers of the state
have been quietly organizing for Bry-
an and are doing it on the theory that
they mucH preias the guaranty Of
bank deposits to the other plan of hav-
ing postal savings banks. The bank
ers are not pleased with the prospect
of having the government go into the
banking business. 1t will mean the de-
struction of great many small banks
in the state and great loss to the saw
inga deposits. However, the bankers
are divided on the question and the
republican managers say that it will
be impossible to line them up as a body
for anything.
Any Des Moines man whose feelings
lead him to boycott any merchant who
is friendly to Governor Cummins will
have to go hungry for some time. Prac-
tically every business house of Des
Moines will display pictures of the
Iowa governor. The local Cummins
committee had 100 Of the large pictures
of the governor framed neatly and went
p,,+ +o II nSinpcc hn11caS
would want them to be displayed in
windows during the remainder of the
The committee was grat-
fed to find that not a business house
of any standing in the city but that
wanted the pictures. All the big cloth
ing and dry goods houses. including
the department stores. will display the
Cummins picture. They will be dis
played In very many stores that have
never shown them before. The manager
of one big company put the picture in
his window despite that Charley john
ston. the local anti-Cummins manager,
is an officer of his company. 'I sup
pose I will have a row with Charley"
he said, "but the picture will stay up
I am for Cummins and against this
eternal keeping up of the old quarrel" :"
The local committee believes that Des
Moines will be almost unanimous in in
of the republican governor
Of the state.
There is deep regret here over the
fact that an effort has been madel to
turn the tide against Governor Cum
Minis by circulation of a dastardly ht-
tack upon him In connection with the
of Lacey literature. Trav-
cling men report that the Lacey cards
with the little yellow slips pinned
thereto are being circulated all up
and down the railroads, and wherever
the local anti -Cummins committees are
active this underhand work is being
done.
The perpetrators were shrewd
enough to cover their tracks by send
ing the work to persons in small towns
and cities out in the state. None of
the printing was done here.
job printer at Perry got a very
large order and turned out the cards
and slips by thousands. He does not
state who gave the order or who paid
the bills. Another job was turned out
at Adel Some of the cards and slips
were sent to Des Moines from Grand
Junction. A Des Moines travelling man
picked up handful at Boone. Some
others came to the city yesterday from
points in southern Iowa.
The ordinary Lacey cards which ad
yertise him on account of his having
oeen commissioned as a captain in the
army forty-four years ago. are used.
A little yellow slip is attached by a
wire, and on this slip is repeated just
4 few Of the many slanderous insinua-
ions against the governor which have
lone servic for so many years in all
she fights against him. The include,
also, what purports to be statement
that the republican manage
nent of Iowa has been dreadfully ex
and that the state is about
10 plunge into debt. This canard has