Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-03
OFFICIAL PAPER OF LIQUOR IN
TEREsTs URGES SUPPORT OF
IOWA'S WET CANDIDATE.
SAYS RETURN OF SALOON
TO IOWA is POSSIBLE
Gros Shop to Regain Foothold in
state-Refers to Jim Pierce as sour
Sterling Champion of Liberty" and
Meredith Is Scored as Foe of Liquor.


of Chicago, the official organ of the
American whisky and wine industry,
publishes u remarkable editorial in its
current issue. now being circulated 10
liquor men all over the United States.
in which the candidacy of William L.
Harding for governor of Iowa is en-
phatically Endorsed.
The editorial refers to James NJ
Pierce, of the Iowa Homestead as our
sterling champion of liberty" and de-
clares that the election of Harding in
Iowa is just as important to the liquor
interests as the holding of wet Cali
fornia.
The editorial declares that the
Homestead has succeeded in winning
the farmers over to the liquor cause,
but that the final blows of the CAM
paign in behalf of the saloon must be
struck in the cities of Iowa Follow
ing is the editorial in full:
PARADISE LOST OR PARADISE
RECLAIMED?
THE prohibit!onists may be classified
thus: The army OF fanatical agitators
trying to vote dry states that are vet,
and the garrisons trying ~ keep dry
those commemorative that have been
voted dry.
The fight against prohibition this
fail is by TO Ineaus confined to these
states in which the issue is to be put
before the voters. Michigan, Cali
fornia, Montana and the other states
that will consider the proposition of
aridity are not a whit more important
to our cause than those dry states that
must be returned to the wet lists.
Texas and Ohio were once out of ou:
ranks. And If we had taken for granted
that they were lost to US forever, they
would have been lost to us. But we
fought-and our fight in dry state is
sometimes much more important than
our battles to keep a state from hoist
Ing the desert signal.
For example, there is Iowa, now in
the grip Of the mollycoddle preachers
and the fanatics Of the !a!ty.. And Iowa
Is a state worth while. 1t is prosperous.
and 1t is populous. A most extraordin-
airy condition exists in Iowa, and the
color bearer Of the antis Is none other
than the democratic candidate, E. T.
Meredith. editor Of Successful Farming.
reputed to be the largest agricultural
journal in America.
Meredith has a weird platform, that
includes equal suffrage, good roads and
prohibition, and he Is stumping the
vince the voters that a vote for Mere
dith is a vote for prosperity.
Meredith, as a publisher, has boy
cotted US for years-has not only re-
fused liquor advertising. but has re-
fused tobacco advertising, and boasts
about it editoriaiiy every now and
then.
But Meredith is going down to de-
feat. For once his ambitions have run
afoul snag-and that snag Is none
other than our sterling champion Of
liberty. Brother James M, Pierce. pub
Usher Of The Iowa Homestead AN old
state farm paper. Mr.. Pierce Is giving
Meredith thousand times more trouble
than he is encountering direct from the
republican nominee. William L. Hard
ing.
pierce is conducting an attack that
has barbs on it, and in OUT estimation
there is no question that he has won
the hearts and votes Of the farmers
of the Hawkeye state. He has lam
basted Meredith until the Successful
Farming bunch must take their meals
off the sideboard, and vince every time
they look down the road to the home
Of The Iowa Homestead.
I'VE owe James NJ. Pierce a debt.
1t Is nothing in our young lives how he
attacks, or what issues he brings for.
ward. He is a fghter-in capital let
ters-and he has the farmers looking at
the things that keep them thrilled.
But we must not pause with
security in the rural districts. Iowa
has many cities-a considerable urban
population. 1t is invariably in mod
erate-si1ed cities that prohibition
makes it's most telling gains. Big
cities refuse to accept the discards Of
anti argument, but little cities, where
everybody knows everybody else. get
all het up and they are all 'hat' up
in Iowa now. We must work in Iowa's
cities and towns, and add to the farm
vote that Mr.. Pierce is securing for
US, those other vitality necessary votes
William L. Harding.
US: Iowa has population Of approx
mately 1000, 900 Its land values average
higher than any other state in the
union. 1t is rich. in manufacturing.
1t has coolies of ready money. It's
cities are modern. 1t is a network Of
railways and interurban electric lines.
1t is state less affected by panics in
stringent times than any other state.
Its people are spenders. And today it
is walled off from us-given over to
cur worst enemies And today, Mere
d.th Is doing his damnedest to hold it
rom us.
IF Harding is elected-as we believe
lie will be-then we may hope to have
Iowa back under the moist banner in
another. two years. But we must not
take things for granted. II is fool
hardy to fold our hands and say, I'VE
are doing enough" We haven't done
half enough. We must win the
urban votes. We must not stop
with winning the farmers-because
they have arisen nobly to an economic
call, and they will stay won. They
a lot more faith than they have in
Successful Farming But that does
not mean that the electors OF the cite.
are won. This we must not foolishly
| fake for, granted.
Frank Gotch is putting in some
lively ticks for his friend Harding
Frank always was q red -blooded Sport
-but Frank can appeal only to those
Ispertiyely inclined. Our cause II
Iowa needs one strong, final wallop
and then NE shall hare Harding bold
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