Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-17
RATIFICATION OF CHOICE OF
IOWA DELEGATION WOULD RE.
MOVE MUCH OPPOSITION.
SELECTION OF LABOR
LEADER is POPULAR
Old Diseord Caused by Standpat Junta
and the Boycott Against Iowa Pat
ronage Would Be Forsottsn-Uriek
in Harmony With Cummins and
kenyon-Appreciates Needs Of People
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of A. L. Trick. president OF the Iowa
Federation Of Labor, to be United
States marshal for the southern Iowa
district, would prove the most pop
ular thing that President Taft could
do now, and it would go a long way
toward clearing up the political situa-
ton in this state. Nothing put up TO
the president for a long time would so
dispose Of much opposition to him in
this state
! Mr.. Trick is the most popular man
among the workingmen of the state
and is fairly idolized by union labor.
He stands distinctly for the safe and
conservative element among the or
ganized laborerS. He is not boycott
ter and he does not sanction dyna-
hitting nor favor socialism. AS head OF
the state federation of labor the past
six or eight years he has guided that
body 70 its greatest era of success. He
has gone on about his work quietly and
earnestly and has commanded the re-
spect OF the people OF all classes.
Appreciates Needs Of People.
Mr.. Trick has been warm friend Of
Samuel Gompers and they frequently
meet for consultation. As head of the
legislative committee Of the federation
he has had a great deal TO do with
framing good Iowa legislation. He is
a cigar maker by trade and has deep
depreciation of the needs Of the COM
mon people. If he had been a college
trained man he would have been
srea, power, for he thinks clearly and
logically and is intellectually a strong
man.
In politics he has been Independent
He has been a long time friend of
Senator Cu4nnins and assisted him
many times in his work for labor. For
like reasons ne has been supporter
Of Senator Kenyon. He had more TO
do than any other with inducing
George ". Clarke to enter state poll
tics and backed him strongly both for
| lieutenant governor and governor
! Appointment Would End Labor War.
Should the president appoint Trick
to a fine federal position in Iowa it
! would go q long way toward offsetting
! the evil of the association with ]. T.
Adams. on the national committee. for
Trick has been active in resisting the
fight made by Adams TO destroy union
labor in Iowa. The connection Of
! Adams with the Taft campaign is sure
to have a bad effect not only in Iowa
! but all over the country, especially
among the labor!ng men. and Tafts
! opponents are sure TO make the most OF
4 that situation. The opportunity TO null
/ ify this part OF the fight is now pre-
7 h-- al a
/ choice Of the head Of the state fedora
ton of la Dor for a high Office in Iowa
would be immediate heralded all over
the country as showing that the presi
dent himself is no, aiding in the fight
| on labor interests. Mr.. Trick is not a
candidate for the position Of marshal.
Standpa Junta Causes Diseord.
When the president makes the ap-
pointments, which il IS assumed he will
! do with reasonable alacrity, il will also
! go very far toward disposins of the
| claim made for him that he is strictly
| a fsctional president and that ne will
make appointments only for factionai
| purposes. It has been insisted mere for
| long time that no matter what the
/ Iowa people desire the federal appoint
! nlertS in this state are to be treated
| as perquisites Of the standpatters. This
| was the basis of the organization two
years ago of the so-called Taft club
! which refused admission to many OF
the staunchest friends of the president
/ because they were not confirm ed stand
patters Those who organized this
! club claimed that they were to be per-
rnitted to parcel out the federal plums
in Iowa for the benefit of those VINO
! We're making the fight against fur
Their encroachment of progressive pcin-
ciples. Then came the evidence that
| Iowa had been placed on the famous
boycott list at the White House and
that congressman were being brutally
advised by the president himself to
turn over the right of representing
home sentiment 10 a standpat junta.
This situation had been accepted as
liking the status of the administration
factionally when later came the Nor
ton letter which announced that the
boycott was to be lifted.
Boycott Lifted Temporarily.
But as matter of fact the boy
colt was lifted only for short time.
An appointment was made for pension
agent for Iowa and Nebraska on merit
and without regard of factionalism.
Then came the question OF naming a
postmaster for Des Mofnes. Senator
Cummins had made recommendation.
A prominent standpatter was sent to
the White House from Des Moines
and he came home and assured Post
master Myerly that he need have no
worry. that the president had given
him assurance that no change would be
made, and that the recommendation of
the senator would be turned down. But
the Des Moines standpat postmaster
had hardly heard the news good to
him before new postmaster was in
! fact named. Apparently with this
change, the boycott went back or
, again. In a score OF coses In Iowa the
recommendations of Iowa members Of
congress as to postmasters have beer
held up. At Denison, for instance, the
standpat postmaster has been holding
over for a year or two, despite tina,
at one time the president agreed to q
change. Similar conditions prevail II
many cities and towns OF the state.
So the question that will now b,
put up to the appointing power I,
whether or not the principles of tn,