Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-23
JUDGE VAN WAoENEN VICTIM or
PARTY FoR WHICH he HAD
SACRIFICED MUCH.
LED MANY FoRLoRN HOPES
At LARGE PERSONAL Loss
Kicked Out Of Office BY President and
His Subordinate After Leading Fight
For Wilson in iowa-Amens First
to Be Rewarded BY Office BY Present.
Administration.

Administration.
Special to Times-Republican.
Sioux City. Dec. 23.-The mixup into
which Judge Anthony Van wagenen
has become involved with the United
States department of justice at WASH
ington and which has resulted in his
summary dismissal from the office of
United States district attorney for
northern Iowa is little less than po-
litical tragedy.
For twenty-five years, almost invari-
ably in the face of almost certain de-
feat, for Iowa ever has been strongly
republican state, Judge Van Wagenen
has been at the forefront of the demo-
cratic fight. AS young man. back
in the late sos, he did such enthusiastic
and effective work for the party that
when Governor Boies, the only demo-
cratic governor Iowa ever had, in the
early COS had vacancy on the district
bench to fill by appointment, he named
Van Wagenen for the place. but it was
only to I'LL out an unfinished term. and
therefore in a substantial way amount
ed to little by way of political reward.
a Labor Of Love.
Three times Van Wagenen ran for
congress on the democratic ticket. when
he knew and everybody else knew that
there was no chance for success. How
ever, it was necessary that someone
should hold aloft the banner of democ-
racy in order that the party might live
in the Eleventh Iowa district, and Van
Wagenen entered the lists over and
over again at sacrifice Of time and
money.
In all the councils of the party. thru
its long period of underdogism in Iowa,
Van Wagenen was prominent-optim-
istic and hopeful when others had be-
come discoura ged and always predict
ing a brighter day when democracy
would come into it's own" and workers
in the vineyard would receive due rec
ognition.
In 1896 Van Wagenen was one of
Bryan's first lieutenants In Iowa and
stumped the state in the interest of
Bryan and what was then considered
the radical platforms on which he
stood. He since has maintained a warm
friendship with the famous NeOraSKan.
In Advance Of Party.
Van Wagenen is known also as one
of the first advocates of government
ownership Of railroads in the United
States. He publicly advocated that
proposition and urged that 1t be made
a tenet Of democracy before 1t was en-
dorsed by Bryan upon his return from
his famous European tour. When Van
Wagenen declared in favor of govern
ment ownership he was prominently
considered for the governorship Of
Iowa. Since then he has written book
on the subject which was published by
q firm of prominent New York pub
fishers.
AS one Of "the original Wilson men"
OF Iowa, Van Wagenen from the very
inception Of Wilson's candidacy made
a hard fight for him. He went to the
state convention at Burlington at the
head Of a Wilson delegation from
Woodbury. county whose places We're
contested by Clark delegation, which
the Wilson delegation Claimed had
been named by fraud. Van Wagenen
made a half fight both before the Gre
dentials committee and on the floor OF
the convention-which was a Clark
lost his battle. he and
his delegation being ousted from their
seats.
High in Wilson's Estimation.
That he stood high in the estimation
of Wilson and the administration was
proved by the fact that he secured the
Of district attorney al
most without contest and that he was
given he appointment by President
Wilson in spite Of the opposition Of
the Iowa organizations. which had not
forgotten Van Wagenen's bitter fight
against Clark, and in spite Of the fact
that all other federal appointments In
Iowa except one Chat OF Louis MUIR
ply as internal revenue collector) are
yet being held up.
Van Wagenen always has been a
radical in politics, for years having
been an ardent advocate OF the initi-
alive and referendum and other re-
form projects which few years ago
We're not in as respectable standing
as they are today.
Hardest Jolt in Career.
That the hardest jolt Of his political
he has had many Of them
in the way Of defeats at the polls
should come now in the hour of de-
triumph-the very triumph
which he predicted when others
despaired-the very triumph for which
be Tough: so yaiian.ly thru Q quarter
Of century Of defeat and discourage
ment-is regarded here as a shining
example Of the irony Of fate.
The deposed district attorney is
graduate of the law department of the
State University of Iowa. He prac-
iced law for few years at Rock
Rapids. His partner was H. G. Nc
MILAN. who afterwards became United
States district attorney for the north
ern district of Iowa under a republican
Van Wagenen moved
from Rock Rapids to Sioux City.
Van Wagenen attributes his dis
nissal to too great activity on his part
IN the prosecution Of the alleged
plumbers trust and an attempt to en-
.orce the Mann white slave law. Attor-
ney General McReynolds says he
proved. himself legally unfit to carry
put the duties Of the Office.
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