Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-26
HIS BUSINESS CAREER
is 100 PER CENT SOUND
At the Request of His Friends Who
Have Been Working for Month q
Statement Is Made as to Who and
What Stanton Is and Is Not.-other
Items Concerning Him.

! 1t be Ingledue or Stanton for mayor
! These men are both merchants, both
members of the merchants CONNER
cial club and both willing to do ev-
erything they can to boost for their
town. Mr.. Ingledue has been mayor for
four years and his record does not
warrant reelection, but it is not nee
essary to repeat criticisms which have
been made since they have not been
answered and are unaswerable. The
question is, who is Stanton?
Mr.. Stanton was raised from boy
hood near yinton. The Ingiedue men
have investigated his personal record
there and have found it to be good.
He vert to Anes college until he had
finished his freshman year when he
had to go to work for a living. For
fifteen years he was in business In
Des Moines, where, in 1895. as the re-
suit of the terrible hard times of '93,
he failed and assigned to his creditors
who placed him right back in charge
OF the business again. Mr.. Stanton
paid out 100 cents on the dollar and
with the assistance of his former cred
itors, he went into business again with
Mr.. George Woodbury., under the firm
name of Woodbury. & Company. This
firm came to Marshalltown ten years
ago with Stanton in charge of the
; business and Woodbury. a silent part
ner. When Woodbury's health failed ne
sold his half interest, which invoiced
$4,000, to Stanton. agreeing that since
the firms credit had been established
the firm name should be retained just
as the name of Let's, Fletcher & Co.
is still retained, with Mr.. Fletcher long
ago out of the company Today Mr..
Stanton owns his $4,000 of merchan-
dise.y free from debt and has a first
class credit rating in the book pub
lished by the credit association in
which Mr. c. h E. Boardman is an
officer.
Two Failures.
These things are stated here because
the charge is being made in this CAM
paign that Stanton does not amount to
anything; he is only clown. he failed
in business. So did Mr.. Ingledue fail in
business. Will Mr. Ingledue dare tell
what his firm paid on the dollar? Fur
thern1ore Mr. Stanton has letters from
j. G. OImstead of Des Moines, a cred
itCr, saying:
'I have known Mr.. Stanton for
eighteen or twenty years, and have
sold him goods more or less during
that entire period. and am pleased to
make the statement that all of his
business transactions have been per-
fectly satisfactory, straight and hon
orable. We have been pleased
to sell him ever since on account of
his honorable, upright dealings.
He is a man of more than ordinary
business TACT
F. Brody & Sons. of Des Moines, say
practically the same thing in letter.
Likewise Lederer, Strauss & Co. Mr..
Fred It. Brins1naid, of Brinsmaid &
Co, was one of the trustees in the
failure. He recites the story as above
related and says:
There was never a more honest
failure precipitated-there was no
suspicion of fraud or undetermined
work of any character-everybody re-
ceived one hundred cents on the dol
lar and after the business was wound
up to the satisfaction of the court
and of the creditors, several of the job
bers offered Mr.. Stanton all the cap
ital to go back into business that he
wanted. We also believe that there
were several members of one of the
fraternities who offered him money to
go into business. We are proud of his
honest career, and proud to be living
and able to vouch for his integrity
Up to date no exhibit of letters or
endorsements has been made as to the
absolute satisfaction of the creditors
in the failure of Bromley and 1ngle-
due.
stanton's Capacity.
Mr.. Stanton has been known in
Marshalltown as a man of ideas and of
capacity. He is one of the best in
formed men on public questions who
has ever called at a newspaper office to
quarrel. He possesses a library, is
close reader of current events and
keeps posted more than the average
business man. When he writes for
public print he does his own writing
and it bears a stamp of individuality
which no one can counterfeit. When
he rises to address a public gather
ing he speaks off-hand, uses his own
language and acquits himself so cred
itably that he need not be ashamed of
any lawyer who may follow him on the
program.
But what is more to the point Mr..
Stanton is man of absolutely uniln-
peachable personal character. He is
clean and has high ideals. He is
backed by men of rather strict stand
ards, to be true, but these men should
be given credit for conservatism and
fairness in not selecting an extremist
of their own type instead of a broad
man like Stanton. There are many
Puritans whom they might have pro-
posed. They are backing Stanton be-
cause of their desire to be fair with
out compromising with vice and yet
safe while yielding to liberaiity.
They constitute the mightiest move
ment that has ever appeared in local
politics in this city. When 500 men
will gather three times week for a
month to be exhorted, when they will
leave their business to work in the
mire of politics in order to elect
one man and defeat another it is the
YerieSt rot for any man, friend or foe. |