Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-28
DEs MONIES MAN AMBITIOUS TO
WEAR IowvA's POLITICAL
GROWN.
NOT sAr.sF,Ep WITH
sElNo PRIME MlNisTER
Colonel Dreskhart Flags Latest Petit.
ieai Movement In Which Professor
Holden 10 Being Unfairly Utilized
Oregon Plan Discussion to Give Way
70 Talk Of Turkey Esss.
to rimes ; Republican.


Washington. Iowa, Dec. 2s.-Todays
issue Of the Washington Press. q paper
recently acquired by a company headed
by Col. Smith w. Brookhart, contains
q red-hot editorial anent the efforts of
q coterie OF politicians, headed by
Harvey Ingham and Henry Wallace.
to defeat Clarke for governor by the
bringing out Of Professor Holden. The
editorial is from the pen Of Colonel
Brookhart and follows:
Last week we predicted something
doing when Uncle Henry Wallace put
humping roads and schools and taxes
and politicians. Was 1t politics? Yes.
we knew 1t, but we did not suspect the
scheme, nor your great big Uncle Har-
vey Ingham. So sweetly he told us
that Clarke would have no opposition
for governor and now it seems at the
very time he had 1t all framed up and
tucked away in his insidest. inside
pocket.
Long years ago we served In
kitchen cabinet and Uncle Harvey was
its prime minister and we all listened
while Uncle Harvey talked. Finally
fate took Dolllver away and winter was
coming on and Uncle Harvey needed
Delivers shoes. They did not fit, so
Uncle Harvey gave them to another
man after Late had swiped them for
ninety days. Incidentally Uncle Harvey
turned against kitchen cabinets and
made us all ashamed that we had been
in one with him as prime minister. But
there is the rub. We didn't know it
then, now we know; prime minister is
too small a Job, the crown for Uncle
Harvey.
"And 80 it goes that in these Deem
Der days, your Uncle Harvey Ingham
slips out and builds q kitchen cabinet
all his own. Quietly, yes very quietly
and with your Uncle Henry Wallace;
slyly. yes. so very slyly, as its prime
minister.
"Then says Uncle Harvey to his cab
met, We need governor who 10 right.
No more senate appointments for Lafe.
tho next vacancy belongs to me- Then
replies your Uncle Henry and says.
Here is where start something. Well
run farmer and his name is Holden,
p. g. And for platform. just watch
me- All the cabinet then voted aye,
and the day was set for the electric
shocks.
1.-THE Christmas bells are just about to
ring. the sky is clear. the winter calm
and bright; there is stiffness every
| where; listen. 1t Is a loud and philo-
sophie wall from Uncle Henry. He
| bemoans the taxes, the roads. the
schools and the politicians. Everybody
hears. Next day your Uncle Harvey
takes a hand. He republishes all that
Uncle Henry says and editorially he
tells you to follow this wise advice.
But stop. another and bigger noise
is heard. The kitchen cabinet. Uncle
Harvey's own. Is now in public session.
Three or four friends have Joined
them and they all shout, Holden! What
an awful noise. Uncle Harvey says 80
himself. takes several columns in his
paper every daysto tell about 1t. When
they stop to spit and catch their
breath Uncle Harvey predicts very
heavy rain. but 1t will soon turn to
snow. Frame up? Why It is 50 smooth
it makes the smoothest railroad boss
that ever ruled Iowa look like jack-o-
lantern.
"And now for the platform. Uncle
Harvey has long claimed to put the
4 great progressive cause first. So en-
\ fight on standpat governor for Sec
ond term when there was no particu-
lar Issue and when all the progress
sive leaders were against 1t. Since then
he has stood for the Oregon plan OF
electing senators. He has also advo.
Gated the initiative. the referendum
the recall including judges and pres.
idential primary. Upon all Of these
questions we have been with him
They are still unsettled in Iowa and II
the nation. They are the greatest ques.
lions for political solution today and
we shall be for them until they win
"When Uncle Harvey brought out 9
candidate for governor we expected tt
find all these things in his platform
But no. He now thinks that Matching
turkey eggs is more important polit'
ical question than the Oregon plan