Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21
RADICAL ELEMENT BLOCKED IN
EFFORT TO SWING VOTE TO
CARROLL.
HAMILTON URGED GARsT
TO BECOME A CANDIDATE
Was Brought Out Two Years Ago For
Sole Purpose of Defeating Garst -
Saloon Organization Trying to De-
feat Bysrs For consress-Jackson
Committees Real Work.
pecial to Times-Republican.

Special to 1mes-Republican.
Des Moines, April 21.-There is
much amusement over the sudden
among the prohibitionists and their
butting into the campaign for governor.
Their latest outbreak indicates that
they are very sore because Of the dis
covery that they will not be able this
year to lead the solid prohibitory
amendment vote into the standpat camp
and vote it for Carroll again. In their
organ they are out with the claim that
they got John j. Hamilton into the race
two years ago especially to beat Gov
ernor Garst, and now are whining be-
cause some time ago Hamilton urged
Garst to be a candidate this year ON the
ground that national issues are over
shadoWing all else.
1T is recalled that when Oarst was
governor, Barber, the head Of the anti
saloon league, caused to be printed a
gross libel upon Governor Garst and
most fragrant Misrepresentation Of Of
fetal records in relation to a certain
case. In that he also claimed that
he and his associates were wholly re-
sponsible for the election of Carroll
The facts regarding the case were
made public but Barber never apollo
gized nor retracted.
In order to clinch the matter it was
arranged that the church of which
Governor Carroll is a member should
pledge all members to the support Of
the prohibitory amendment to the con-
stitution, and to this day Governor
Carroll has given no sign Of dissent
from his pledge The prohibitory
amendment people are angered beyond
all reason because this situation has
not been accepted by everybody as
conclusive that Governor Carroll will
next time be for them clear thru to the
finish; but there is a faction Of the
temperance people who point out that
as a matter of fact while Carroll
claimed to be for the amendment he
used his influence on the quiet to have
the amendment defeated. They say
that if he had been with them in fact
they would have got the amendment
thru.
I'VE would rather have a man as
governor we know is against u.s." say
some of these people, than one sup
posed to be for us but ready to throw
us down any day"
In this connection 1t is discovered
that a Mr. Cline, head Of the liquor
dealers association OF western Iowa.
stated in Des .Moines the other day that
they would carry Pottawattamie coun-
ty $500 for Judge Smith and that their
entire organization is working hard to
defeat Byers.
Representatives Of the liquor ele-
ment deny the accuracy of the Barber
claim as to who nominated Carroll two
years ago and insist they are entitled
to greater credit for the same. They
say they were lined up solidly for him
and that he made good with them in
effecting defeat Of the prohibitory
amendment.
Mr.. Hamilton's idea has been, ap-
parently, that inasmuch as the legis-
lature and not the governor decides
the whole matter and great national
issues are foremost, temperance peo-
pie have a right to choose as between
the candidates for governor.
The evidence multiplies that the
Jackson committee, maintaining head
quarters here and ostensibly doing poll
teal work without any reference to
the pending campaign, is expected to
be the one great agency thru which
Iowa is to be made standpat or demo-
cratic, and the bosses do not seem to
be caring much which.
A dispatch from Washington in the
Chicago Tribune states that as the re-
suit of the report made by Congress-
man Mckinley, after tour Of the mid
die. west, the committee will send
twenty-five speakers to the middle
<ho oSv,,3 ~ cty and
extol the Aldrich tariff This is taken
to mean after the Iowa primary, but
the same committee originated the
scheme to organize the so-called Taft
republican committee in Iowa, and is
backing the same.
Some Of the politicians are just
catching on to what it means that the
Jackson committee is maintaining
nominal freedom from any connection
with the campaign and why Jackson is
SO insistent that his organization has
nothing to do with candidates for Of
fee or delegates. That is the only way
committee can be organized and en-
gage in political work, and expend a
large sum Of money in the manner
common few years ago, without COM
ing under the publicity provision Of
the Iowa law.
By maintaining Its s:oTnzai::1nia! position
as not supporting candidates at all, It
will be unnecessary for the Jackson
committee to make any report or file
statement Of expenditures: It is the
only committee actively engaged in the
campaign that will be in a. position. to
decline to make public what 1t has been
doing or how much moneyit has spent.
This is the real object to be attained
in keeping UP the fiction of indiffer-
ence to candidates for office. That the
committee will be able to draw on the
parent committee headed by the Illi-
nois street car magnate, whose attor-
ney here wrote the so-calIed Taft In.