Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-05
GENERAL CoSSoN DE
FINES ISSUES OF NEXT STATE
CAMPAIGN.
LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
TEMPERANCE TAKE LEAD
Woman Suffrage Also to Be Among
Paramount Issues Of Next Primary
Campaign - No Disagreement in
Party Over Tariff -Question-state
Boards Defended.

les MONIES, April o.-lne temper
ance question, law enforcement and
equal suffrage will be the paramount
issues in the next gubernatorial cam
paign, according to George Cosson, at
torney general. He has been promi-
nently mentioned as a candidate for
the office.
The attorney general disagrees with
Lieutenant Governor Harding, who
also is said to be an asprant for the
governorship. that the issues in the
campaign will be tariff, law enforce
ment and local self government.
He declared that he did not believe
there would be an issue in the primary
of the question of tariff.
Must Be Controversy.
| 'tAn issue implies controversy"
=. said Mr.. Cosson. "All republicans be-
lieve in protection and are substan-
TALLY agreed that the basis of protec-
ton is the difference between the cost
of production at home and abroad, and
also are substantially agreed that the
tariff should no longer be partisan
log rolling affair, but should be dealt
with by nonpartisan tariff commits
sion.
Regardless of how anyone may feel
about the ACCESSIBILITY of repeating the
muict law, every member of the gem
eral assembly who either voted for the
repeal of the mulct law or the resub-
mission of the prohibltory amendment
must be sustained. To either turn
back or to look back would be as fatal
to the republican party as it was to
Lots wife. The candidate for governor
must be in a position to go into the
several districts and sustain the men,
bers of the general assembly who
voted for temperance legislation, equal
suffrage and law enforcement and must
also be in sympathy with the posi-
ton of Senators Cummins and Ken
yon and the Iowa delegation on ma
tional prohibition and national suf-
frage.'
Must Be Enforced.
The attorney general asserts that
the work of the general assembly will
come to naught unless the law is en-
forced in every part of the state and
that the people must not only select
a man who is in sympathy with law
enforcement, but who has demon
strated the ability to enforce the law
in sane but fearless manner.
Il do not understand what the lieu
tenant governor meant by local self
government" said Mr.. Cosson. when
most people use the terms local self
government, or personal liberty they
have in mind the right of local COM
munity to determine for itself whether
it will obey or whether it will nullify
state laws. II the lieutenant gov
ernor used the terms in that sense
there would be a real issue in the COM
ing campaign because he would fight
for the principle that when the state
exercises it's sovereign power in pass
| ing a law it must provide the ma
chinery to see that the law is enforced.
Questions Hardins's Stand.
Il hope the lieutenant governor will
| be good enough to tell the people
| whether he favored the passage of the
| bill for the appointment of one or more
special agents subject to the direction
OF the attorney general or governor to
enforce the law
! Mr.. Cosson said he believed in a
| larger amount of home rule for cities
and is in favor of the bill looking
to this, which was defeated in the
| house and which had the approval
of the Iowa League of Municipalities.
IT noticed Mr.. Harding's statement
! that the people object to government
by commissions he said. Il have also
noticed that the persons attacking the
| commissions always deal in generali-
I! ties.
"If the lieutenant governor had in
mind the abolishment of the indus
| trial commissioner and the repeal OF
the workmen's compensation law, OF
if he meant to disapprove the splendid
work done by the labor commissioner
in the interest of the employees and
wage workers Of the state, or if he
meant to say that the manufacturers
and jobbers could again flood the state
with adulterated foods, or that boards
of health should be abolished, or the