Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-06
Endorsement of Harding
by Whisky Journal Bone
of Contention.
G. O. p. CHAIRMEN
ACCUSES DEMOCRATS
Rawson Says Article Was Inspired by
Dss Moinss Politicians in Effort to
Injurs Entire Ticket, While Meredith
Managers Ridicule Rawson's State.
mont and Harding BIames Dss
Moinss Register.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican,.
Des Moines. Nov. s.-The editorial
endorsement Of Harding by Midas Cri-
terion, liquor dealers trade journal
published in Chicago, is the bone OF con-
tention between the republican and
democratic committees today and tele-
grams are being rushed to the daily
press pro and con.
Harding. himself has accused the Des
Moines Register of inspiring the pub
lication while State Republican Chair
man Rawson lays 1t at the door of the
democratic organization. He admits
that there is such liquor journal and
says that he does not deny that the IL
quor journal endorsed Harding and
urged liquor dealers to dig deep for
iard:nS's election but he claims that
the article was inspired from Des
Moines.
He wired today a statement In part
ee.s ee.s follows:
''I am not questioning that there is
such liquor journal as Midas Critic
rion. do not deny that such an article
as was published In the Register may
have appeared in its columns I do
deny. however, that that article was
published out of friendliness for w. L..
Harding. the republican nominee for
governor, and assert most emphatical-
ly that 1t has It's inspiration In a dem
ocratic source and for the purpose Of
furnishing campaign material to bolster
up charges which opposition newspa-
pers have been unable to convince the
voters Of the state are true to Mr.. Hard
Ing. Had the author Of the article
given 1t a less intimate touch 1t might
have been more convincing, but when
he gave that editor knowledge Of the
geography of Des Moines which extend
ed even to the relative locations OF the
Iowa Homestead and Successful Farm
Ing plants, the scheme ran close enough
| to the surface to make Its authorship
apparent. The article pretended to lam
lbast Mr., Meredith. the democratic can-
ldidate for governor. yet the author
could not refrain from boaeting that Mr..
Meredith has the greatest agricultural
magazine in the world. 1t pretended to
boost James NJ. Pierce for his work In
behalf OF the liquor interests, yet the
author could not restrain himself to the
extent Of giving Mr.. Pierce's publica-
tions the wide circulation which they
have thruout the middle west. but con-
fined his subscription list to the borders
Of Iowa.
1T was q grand hoax. planned and
executed within the democratic party,
or by it's aids, as an eleventh hour shot
which they believed we would not have
time to discredit before election day.
The leaders Of democracy believed that
they could sweep their party into power
In Iowa by tieing one Of their dis
reputable stool pigeons to the wheels
OF the republican party. The stool
pigeon had no alternative but to obey
the orders of the democratic master he
has always served
Let me say in addition that the re-
publican party in Iowa Is standing upon
the platform adopted at the state con-
vention. It has no connection Of any
nature with the liquor interests and
not one cent Of liquor money or cor
poration money has been received or
expended for the election Of the repub-
!!can ticket
Prominent Liquor Journal.
The committee managing Meredith's
campaign has telegraphed statement
ridiculing Rawson and Harding for not
getting together on their replies. Hard
Ing had stated In his speeches In Poca-
tlontas county that he had wired his
Chicago representative and had been
informed that the Des Moines Register
had obtained publication OF the article
in question. Whereas Rawsons state
ment accuses the democratic organiza-
tion. Both Rawson and Harding admit
that the liquor dealers trade journal
did boost for Harding editorially as
quoted first an the Des Moines Capital
and later In the Register and other
newspapers.
Midas Criterion is listed In the Amer
ican Newspaper Annual as liquor
dealers trade Journal published In Chi
cago. 1t subscription price Is IS per
year and it's advertising rate 1855 per
page. The issue containing the editor
ial boosting for Harding, urging liquor
dealers to dig deep for his election and
acknowledging that liquor dealers owe
the publisher Of the Iowa Homestead q
debt for his assistance to them also
contained 1o2 pages OF about the size
OF the Saturday Evening Post. Fifty
nine pages were Allied with advertise
ments of 1913 different brands Of booze
which at the published rate OF 1855 per
page would amount to ssL134 adver-
.tisinx receipts for years business. The
Meredith committee thinks It ridiculous
for Harding or Rawson to assert that
such a publication could be worked by
anybody except the liquor interests to
publish an editorial in which It's owr
publishers did not believe.