Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-26
sTANpPATs HAVE ONE LAST
RESORT TO LINE UP
VOTERS.
WILL START PANIC sUeABoc
IN CLOSING DAYS OF cAMPAII.,
Resort to Appeal to Pocketbooks of
minimizing voters-Jackson Com
mittee Spending Much Money-vau-
deviIIe Corps With Moving Picture
Machine Stamping Seventh District.

Des Moines, May 26.-"If we can't
keep em from voting with Dolliver and
Cummins and following the lead Of
Roosevelt any other way We'll scare
them to death. All other arguments
failing we will appeal to their pocket
books. That's where a good many
people carrying their consciences. any
way"
Thus spoke one of the admirers of
the work being done by the Jockson
committee, under the guidance Of the
Mckinley committee. The standpat
organization is desperate.
He tipped it off that in the closing
days of the campaign they would start
some kind of panic or threat of a
panic and order their men to turn
loose with stories about the way in
which the banks would close down bus
mess and loans be called in and the
railroads reduce wages, etc., unless 1--WE
uphold Taft
It is recalled that two years ago,
which was soon after the panic Of
1907, in every railroad center there
was posted big scare posters to con-
vince the railroad boys that unless they
voted standpat their wages would be
cut right away At Valley Junction
and in other places men handed out
tickets directing that the railroad en-
ployes vote for the standpatters on the
primary ballot. 1t is now believed that
similar tactics may be tried, even on
larger scale and that merchants,
business men and all others will be
/! treated to narrowing tales of the dire
consequences Of dem ocratic victory,
and that anything not standpat is to be
regarded as democratic.
/ The Jackson committee has been
veryquiet for some time but is now
sending it's agents out over the state
in large numbers, not alone in this dis
trict but in almost every county. 1t
| is believed, tho of this the proof is not
yet convincing, that a great deal OF
money is to be spent. In one county 1T
| is stated that orders have come from
a very prominent railroad man in Chi
cago for all the railroad men to get
very busy in politics.
| Governor Carroll has tried to make
an issue out of his own assumption
j that he, more than others, knows now
to run the state economically. state
house clerk copies out of the report OF
4 the state executive council last pup
4 lished a very short and interesting
i table bearing on this point and mas
asked for explanations. 1t shows the
total cost of each department Of state
including salaries and travelling ex-
| y; ~1 rarin6c ending Univ
/. 1903. and July 1, 1908. For two de-
partments one presided over by Gov
ernor Cummins and the other presided
over by Auditor Carroll, the published
report says:
19O1-s 1so7-s
Executive depart
ment, Cummins. s31, 265.s6 $ 34,292.91
Auditing depart
ment, CARROLL. s4,102.34 104,102.33
About the most amusing thing which
has happened in connection with the
campaign is the organization of the
vaudeville corps to run out from Des
Moines and talk standpatism in this
district. The general manager is Joe
Toulouse, formerly one of Blythe's
agents, who Travelled the state at the
time an effort was made to defeat Gov
ernor Cummins. Toulouse is on the
payroll of the Jackson committee for
$50 per week. He is managing the
vaudeville show; but among the star
artists there is already much trouble
For instance. Berryhill and tHagar were
billed at Indianoa with the magic Ian
tern speciality, but both refused to 60
and Bob Haines and SANDY" Graham
were sent. The lantern man also fail
ed, but the progressives made it up by
circulating pictures of the old cannon
which Hull got for Indianola to show
how much he has done for the district
outside of Des Moines. At Perry, Joe
Toulouse pulled off a fairly creditable
show The band drummed up a fair
crowd and Hull and Wilcox appeared
with the magic lantern. The pictures
shown included the bridges in Des
Moines, the postoffice and the army
post, all OF which delighted the Dallas
county people. 1t is now stated that
Walter McHenry, democrat, will be
pulled off and not be allowed to go on
the stump for the standpatters with
the vaudeville show. McHenry has been
stumping the district for the democrats
for more than twenty-five years al
most every year. Some Of the stand
patters fear that his presence in the
vaudeville campaign will not have a
good effect on the old republicans
whom he has been abusing since the
days of Cleveland. So it is probable
that the McHenry section of the show
will be shoft-lived
The progressives are having great
sport with their opponents over the
desperate effort being thus made with
a vaudeville and magic lantern show
to divert attention from the main is
sues Of the campaign.