Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-06
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IN SEC
oND DISTRICT ONCE KICKED
OVER PARTY TRACES.
OPPOSED TO BRYAN AND
CHICAGO PLATFORM
Declarations Of CONVENTION Which
Nominated :commonsr' Termed An.
arehisti-Speschss Of volimer Rise
Up to Confront Him In Present.
Campaign For Congressional Seat.
'pecial to Times-R Republican.

Special to Tiues-Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 6.-One Of the cam
paign managers in the Vollmer cam
paign for election to Office in the
Second district wrote to a Des Moines
democrat asking for some assistance
in the way Of literature, and the latter
who had not been very long in the
state. sought it in the files of the news
papers. After going some distance to
find out what claims Mr. Vollmer has
people he abandoned the effort.
However, he found some interesting
things. For instance. turning into the
files Of the papers a few years ago al
the critical period in the fortunes of
William j. Bryan and those who ad-
Vocate democratic democrats. he found
that Mr.. Nollmer was saying:
These are the times when the stick
lers for regularity had better be rele-
gated to the rear"
Opposed to Chicago Platform.
Mr.. Vollrer was not a candidate for
cAs DiIiCc t.dl l1IIip. Mt. Bryan was q
candidate. He had been nominated az
Chicago as the standard bearer Of his
party. A meeting was held in Des
Moines Aug. 4 and Mr.. Vollmer was
active. He had been made chairman
of some sort OF a provisional COM
mit,ee and stated that he bad spent his
time and his money freely in organic
ing the state. At the Des Moines on
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nominated Mr.. Bryan:
I've had in Chicago recently a howl
ing mob, which suggested to me the
p-ophesy Of Lord Macaulv hat the
Huns and Vanda's of the future would
arise from within modern civilization
and not from without it"
Again referring to the Chicago con-
vention output he said:
I'm the name Of t-ue democracy I
spurn that mongrel product of an
archy and populism that saw the light
at Chicago"
But he wanted a new party organ
ICED, which was done, saying:
above and before all things we are
here to defeat Mr.. Bryan. Blu. we are
not ready to permanently ally our
selves with a party that is dictated by
an element that proposes to do away
with religious liberation and IS the
silent partner Of the A. P. a" See
Davenport Democrat, Aug. 5. 1895.
Chicago Platform "Anarchy."
There also was a state convention
held later at which Mr.. Wilmer spoke,
hut later he had been criticised for
having hurled the accusation Of an
archists against those who We're at
Chicago, .and he took occasion % deny
this but added:
II have said and do say that the
promise of that platform is anarchy"
AS for the movement to organize a
separate democratic party in which he
tool the most prominent part, and was
in fact the organizer for Iowa. he said:
I'VE believe this movement to be
the most practical and effective way Of
saving the honor Of the country
through the defeat OF Bryan"
But it was not alone free silver that
he saw as a enace It was what he
felt to be the drift Of things in the
party away from what he called con
sentative" lines. for ne said:
Blu, in addition to the paramount
immediate duty Of beating Mr.. Bryan
arises before US the other duty OF
preserving to days of future usefulness
the grand old party Of principles that
are essential to the good movement Of
this II Are you going to let
the democratic party go down in this
maelstrom Of populism? Are you 60
ing to array the people OF this country
as they are now arrayed. with the radi-
cal against the business interests,
class agains. class? Do you want that
order Of things to continue? We have
had great political battles in this
country, but the only parties that have
been worthy of the dignity of political
parties nave been conservative, care
full and safe. The only way to insure
this safe conservatism Of the future rs
TO preserve the democracy OF glorious
and record. 1t is for this no
less than to accomplish the defeat OF
Bryan that we come together here to-
day.
These simple statements Of principles
which actuate Mr.. Voilmer and which
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