Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-03
Ioppesition He csntsrsd lts Efforts In
h Behalf % Young. Holden and Proud
Soet-Yeuns Sends Postal Gard to
cummins Begging For HE Vote =
Vicious Attack Against Clarke.

interesting.
There were two distinct groups. each
lone working against the other, but each
| one somewhat divided. One was the
progressive group, working for Ken
yon and Clarke the other the opposi-
tion, working for Young, Holden and
jProudfoot
For the progressives the campaign
was handled by number of active
young men. somewhat new to state
politics but making up in zeal and de-
Termination what they lacked TN ex-
perience. In this group was Senator
| Anthony McColl, Senator Fred LARA
bee and Charles e. Rawson. They
| worked together in perfect harmony at
all times. McColl had personal charge
OF the Clarke campaign and Rawson OF
the Kenyon campaign. In the Clarke
headquarters was Mr.. e. ]. Kelly, a
rising young lawyer, formerly of Perry.
but now located here, and most OF the
detail work fell to him. He had the
valuable assistance Of Mrs. e. J. Blaise.
whose long experience with the repub-
llican state committee and other po-
litical committees, was worth great
deal to- the, progressive icanse In the
Kenyon headquarters the detail work
fell to w. g. Weston, formerly court re-
porter and later Kenyon's secretary.
and he is tireless worker. There
were MANY. others who assisted and
who volunteered and did great work
for the progressive cause-Senator Joe
Allen. Of Pocahontas; S. M. Leach. Of
Abel: Charles R. Brenton, Of Dallas
Center: Emory II. English Charles 8.
Wilcox and others. The feature Of the
campaien was that the active work
was all in the hands Of men COMPARE
tfvely new to state politics.
The Skandpat Generals.
On the other side. the real leadership
OF the entire fight against the progress
sives was given over to James F. Jami-
son. of Osceola. one of the wheel
horses Of the old guard. The Lafe
Young end of the fight was handled in
the name Of Mr.. Young himself, but
Frank wiseman had charge Of the cler-
zeal force and much was left to the
| wisdom OF the junior LATE, who be-
lieves all progressives are hypocrites
and liars. The Young office work was
done in the building occupied by the
Daily Capital: Jamison had chief head
quarters in the Slavery, and the special
| work for the Holden end Of the fight
seemed to be in charge of one Prof. ].
Wesley Jones, but was In fact In
| charge Of Mr.. Meredith. who had for
counsel number Of men like George
A. Wells. Professor Bowman. Harry
Wallace, Harvey 1ngham. b. Murphy
and J. B. Hungerford. At no time did
Jamison maintain any large force at
the main headquarters but practically
all work was done at the Observatory
block or In the Capital office. It was
from these sources that most Of the
plate matter" was sent out to the
newspapers Of the state. and in the
closing days a vast amount Of litera-
ture was mailed. The heaviest postage
bills were, however. incurred: at the
Capital Office. The extent to which
the voters were attacked thru the mails
was shown by the fact that when Sena-
tor Cummins arrived home he found
one Of Lafe's postal cards begging him
for his vote.
Less Personal Work.
There were no campaign headquart-
ers maintained for other candidates.
What work was done by Chassell. Of
tosen, Van Law, Harding, Allen and
others was done personally by them
selves.
There was less of the usual effort to
convert voters by canards than usual
The most conspicuous use Of the late
sending out Of falsehoods was in rela-
ton to the anonymous circular mis-
representing Kenyon and intened to
take the vote of the railroad employees
from him. It was such a rank fake
that It was easily exploded when the
railroad employees got onto it.
The onlv other effort made to poison
the minds Of the voters by rank mis-