Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-24

1t would seem from the following ar
ticle written by the vice chairman of
the county central committee for the
prohibition party that real prohibition
lists are not satisfied with the candi-
date which Mr.. Ingledue has admitted
to the ballot under theNname. Mr.. Moore
has been selected to take charge of the
state organ of the prohibition party
and speaks with some authority. He
says:
Editor Times Republican,:
/ was greatly amused to read In MI
Ellett's sheet last week that the nomi-
nation petition filed for his candidate
had the signature of 100 voters. EN-
animation of this petition on file at the
city clerks office shows that there are
exactly twenty signers. II the much
touted petition of his patron and side
partner in this campaign said to con-
tain 1,947 names, pans out accordingly,
i do not wonder that no one has seen
it.
There are many things in this cam
paign to cause me to wonder. wonder
when George Herman got to be
good" democrat in ELECTS opinion
wonder how Ingledue could tell exact
ly what was to appear in Eiletts paper
days before it was published. Why In
gledue's attorney and warmest friends
are working so hard to boost Elletts
candidate, and offering to bet money
on his equalling his vote of two years
ago. There have been other "coinci-
dences" that have caused me to Won
der if Elicit has not mdsspelled the
word he writes principle" for which
he says he is working. And then Won
der if all these Condolences" COM
bined had anything to do with the de-
cision of Mr. Ingledue and MI. Her
man to allow the Prohibition" ticket
to go on the ballot.
Just a word as to the facts regarding
the attitude of prohibitionists OF this
city in this campaign. In spite OF all
claims of the discredited would-be-
leader of the party that his candidate
was nominated In convention the fact
remains that the convention refused to
nominate a ticket and that the candi-
dates appearing under the stolen head
of "prohibition," were nominated by
candidates. There are twenty names on
the petition; not more than half OF
these ever voted the prohibition ticket.
and half of that number Including
some of the men appearing farther
down in the ticket as candidates, are
actively supporting the candidacy OF
Mr.. Stanton. The fact is the petltlon
was circulated at a time when no other
candidate was even talked OF. OUTSIDE
of this list not 10 per cent of the party
nrohibitionists will support this i1ni-
tation ticket have ,'the names OF at
least. fifty men. who have been active
third party workers, who are now
working actively for Mr.. Stanton.
have not nor have any of us any quar-
rel with Mr.. Fort, except that he has
shown poor judgment in allowing him
self to be made Elletts goat.
why are the rank and file Of the
prohibition party supporting Mr.. Stan
ton? Chiefly because he has promised
to enforce the laws. If a mayor Will 90
that, he is doing his full duty. He
can't do any more even If he wants to.
He has declared that he will not be d
party to any compromise or "regula-
tom of vice. What more can any man
do? Ellett's platform, on the con-
trary, is the veriest tommy-rot. The
first plank has no more relation to
the present campaign than the sup
preston of vice in China The second
plank is a wrong conception of muni-
cipal affairs. The third is back num-
Der, the fourth every candidat stands
on. and the fifth is bosh The election
of a prohibition mayor would not close
the saloons. Only the people them
selves thru petitions, have that right,
as Elicit we'll knows. All that the
mayor can do is to enforce the law, ana
this we know Mr.. Stanton will do as
we'll as could the other man, and bet
ter because he has the backing apd
the backbone do 1t.
The statement that Mr.. Stanton IS
a boozer is false. He was, 1T is true.
present at beer party during former
campaign, but he went there in re-
Spouse to an invitation to attend
Smoker and he backed out as quick
as he could when he found what he
had gotten into. He found Mr.. Ingle-
due there when he arrived and left him
there when he withdrew. The story