Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-14
DEMOCRATS cENTERlNG EFFORT
IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST AUTHOR
OF ENFORCEMENT LAWS.
TRYING TO PREJUDICE VOTERS
BY uNTRuTAFuL STORIES
Claim That cossen Has Been Endorsed
by Prehibitionists Untrue - Fool
Newspaper Friends of Governor Car
roll Embarrassing State Committee
hv Persistent Attacks on cownie.
to riu1es-Republican.

Special to Tiu1es-Republican.
Des Moines, Oct. 14-The democratic
journals are again circulating the story
that Senator Cosson has been en-
dorsed by the prohibition party Tor
attorney general which is not true. ana
q paper at Burlington declares that IN
this connection the pro hibiIionlsts
hold that his election means the repeal
of the mulcs law and that statewide
prohibition will follow" Perhaps notA-
ing could be further from the facls'
iSenaror Cosson has recently resigned
Ifrom the senate so that his influence
.as legislator is az an end now. but
There has been no person more insist
ent upon maintaining and uphoiding
1.-THE Tnulct law than Senator Cosson'
,and the chief purpose OF the law en-
sforcement laws which bear his name IS
to guarantee freedom from a return TO
the conditions of twenty years ago.
1t has become evident that a very
determined effort is TO be made by the
democrats to defeat two OF the repuo-
tlican candidates for state office. Vhese
Iare George Cosson and Clifford Thorne.
1.-THE corporation news bureau organized
there last spring continues 20 send OUT
state literature which Is offered free
! the main purpose OF which is TO aid in
this movement While there is no doubt
that some progress has been made IN
the direction of prejudietng the voters
against these two can didates, 1t IS be-
ylieved that not much will be accom-
splished and both will win handsomely.
The attacks upon Mr.. Cosson have
become so personal and bitter, and SO
TERRIBLY unfair and dishonest that in
way they are reacting In his favor. The
! Burlington Gazette refers TO Cosson as
the author OF the infamous and I'M
American Cosson laws, says that he
| is not good lawyer" refers TO him as
i"blinded by fanatical beliefs and a
,vatnglorious craze and having the
conception OF the duty OF a prosecutor
! to convict in all cases" He is brand
ed as a fanatic, sensarionalisr, and
dangerous man for any community 70
place in a high place" The voters are
| told that it is time for them TO real
1ze the folly of placing such men in Of
flee, Of giving them power TO harass
| business, 10 hamper progress and TO
I, make Iowa the laughing stock OF other
states"
The republican managers believe that
such attacks as this will have the eff
feet Of arousing the respectable people
LOT the state to sense of the situation.
They expect that Cosson will receive
1.-the highest vote OF any man on the
sticket
Reports which come to republican
headquarters from over the state indi-
cate that the campaign has not been
.helped, to say the least from repub-
faican view point, by the persist ence
with which some of the newspapers Of
the state have continued 10 grunble
about the Carroll libel suit, and es-
pecially by the fact tha, some % the
organs claiming to be very close to the
governor persist in circulation OF the
most inexcusable faIsehoods about the
case. This is anything but encourage
ing TO the managers vino are working
for a good republican victory this year.
The newspapers that were wont TO
criticise the governor were ready
enough 70 give him credit for a full
vindication before The law, but his
special champions have not given up
the discussion.
A number Of them insist despite the
most positive Instructions Of the court,
that the acquittal Of Carroll was a
conviction Of Cownie, ignoring the fact
that the defense was not bottorned on
any claim that there was any wrong
doing on the part Of Cowrie. and be-
cause Of this nothing was permitted on
the trial in the way Of defense Of
rCownie. The Fairfield Ledger nqeanly
asserts that IN regard to Cownia
enough was developed to show that
he was a man whollev unfit for 4 place
en- the state board Of control" Another
journal quoted by the Dies Moines Cap
ital goes further and says:
-
the trial were facts known 70 Cow
ernor Carroll which were not allow d
to come out in the evidence, but which
no doubt had a strong influence on his
actions"
This is only another way of repeat
ing the covert Instructions Of some
thing held back yet on the trial there
was absolutely nothing held back on
that side Of the question.
The radical standpat papers have
seized upon the opportunity to falsify
the records IS 10 the political phases
of the case. Some Of them had been
insistent that it would be shown on
the trial that the prosecution was a
political move, and not finding any
ievidence Of this they have still gone on
insisting that it was true.
The Humboldt Independent renders
the verdict that the prosecution was
a strong exhibition of malice on the
part of the governors political en-
emies." The Leon Journal finds "the
whole affair as Of political origin" The
Fairfield Ledger asesrts tina, there was
nothing but politics" in the libel suit
and "the Garst managers gave him
i(Cownie) opportunity"
/ The Cedar Rapids Republican, in de-
fiance Of all the testimony and the
facts. asserted that Mr.. Cownie lad
! mitted that Warren Garst, who was a
candidate against Carol for the nom
i1nation. had suggested the writing Of
the letter" The Denison Review is
even more bitter and unfair 1t refers
to fractional hatred on the part Of in
isurgent leaders" says the letter was
Submitted to Garst headquarters "
and that Mr.. Cownie "feil into the
thande Of gang OF politicians who
have constantly shown themselves ready
TO destroy any man who stood in their
sWay," and that he was induced to
print" his attack on the governor. etc.
jOf course Judge Conner goes back
nearly to the beginning OF the political
| phAses Of the case, for he refers to the