Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-04
sTANDPAT CAMPAIGN IN IOWA
ONE OF DELIBERATE MIS-
REPRESENTATION.
SEEKING TO CREATE PREJUDICE
AGAINST GARsT AND cuMMINs
In~sinuations Being Made Against Many
Progressive Leaders-soms Of the
Fakes and FaIsehoods Being Shown
Up-Prosressives Fighting For Prin-
eipIes Solely.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, May 4.-That the stand
patters hope to win their battle in Iowa
for restoration to full power by a cam
paign of deliberate Misrepresentation
and the poorest kind Of mud-slinging is
now very evident.
During the past two weeks they have
caused to be sent out to the daily and
weekly papers of the state some Of the
rawest canards eve conjured up in the
brains of desperate politicians. Their
p%retense that they are going to avoid
personalities has long ago been for
gotten. Flo one think they hope to
bolster up their state administration by
what amounts to an effort to show that
the administration Of Governor Cum
Minis was all wrong. To this end they
intend to attack anybody or everybody
having to do with that administrator
or having received any favors from
Cummins. Some Of these canards pro-
coed from the Jackson committee di-
rect and others from one OF the sub
sidiary organizations, but they are al
working together and maintain close
connection.
The standpat campaign thus far has
gone along these lines:
First - Attacks and insinuatfons
against men whom Governor Cummins
appointed to office.
Second - Misrepresentation about
Governor Garst and digging up any
thing that might create prejudice
against him.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. regarding the at
titude Of the newspapers and prominent
men of the state and attempts to force
a division among the progressives.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of h pur-
poses Of the progressives with regard
t o national affairs.
A sample Of the style of campaigning
being done by Governor Carroll, or his
men, is found in the letters sent out
to the rabid fractional press in which
Mr.. Keltz and Mr.. Garrett are referred
to with sneers and it is stated they are
"managers' for Governor Garst. What
ever may be the situation as to either
of the men they are abundantly abl
to take care of themselves. But Frank
Jackson knows, if he knows anything
at all about it, that neither one is IN
any sense whatever either managing
the progressive campaign nor making
any pretense Of doing so. Mr.. Garrett
is the progressive candidate for clerk
of the supreme court who long ago in
Cured the displeasure Of the executive
office by refusing to howtow to h Bill
Nye political bosses. Mr.. Keltz is not
connected in any way with h commit
tee in charge Of the campaign.
There have been insinuations against
John Cownie, against ex-Secretary
Thomas, against C. W. Philips, against
H. r. Wright, against ex-Commis-
sioner Brigham, and many others. Al
one time it was planned to make the
campaign almost entirely on the record
Of successfully getting control of the
board of control and state institutions
for the politicians and ousting the
farmer member. Something has hap
pened, however, which makes this in
advisable. Just now an effort is being
made ITO show how great Carroll has
been by advertising Harry Barmeier, of
Dubuque, as a bad mar because he was
a deputy game warden and one of those
who have seen fit to expose the record
on the hunters license.
The muck-rakers are at work to see
If they can find anything in the long
official record of Governor Garst which
can be distorted into a story which
might be used to discredit him or to
create some prejudice against him.
They say they are going to find ONE
thing if it takes all summer.
Falsehoods in regard to the attitude
of newspapers are being much used.
For instance, it has been advertised by
this Jackson committee or it's adjuncts
that the progressives have suffered a
great loss in the support given to Car
roll by the Denison Review, which is
by Judge Conner, who tried to
break into the state Institutions by
favor OF Carroll. The Review, under
another management, did. become an
eminently fair paper for a few years,
but Conner would hardly have done
himself justice to have failed to re-
c%iprocate for what Carroll did to him
last year.
Another sample of the methods Of
the standpat machine was to circulate
what purported to be interviews with
Congressman Good and others of the
Iowa delegation, indicating that they
gone back on their principles. De-
spite that these interviews were shown
up as fakes only a few of the standpat
have a~pologized.
This is the sort of a campaign the
standpatters have set out to make for
the people of Iowa. Columns might
be filled with a showing as to the sheer
dishonesty of the methods in use.
Thus far the progressives have con-
fined their campaign entirely to a mat
ter of principles involved. They will
not indulge in personalities nor be
drawn into o discussion of petty mat
tiers about the state. Neither do they
intend to make any capital out of the
many small matters which might easily
magnified into de%relicticns on the
part of the present state administers
ton. Perhaps no state administration
TOR years mas pee SO Vulnerable as
that Of Governor Carroll, but the pro-
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