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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-04-04

and would result IN keeping al io'AN10
rho millions of dollars which we no"
send to other States for fire protec'
tion. 60
have never been very much IN Ia
,ror nf the States embarkinG upon any
Inc of business. 1 was opposeo ~
th<. establishment of the State dlspen-
sarv chic " on that ground. l "ouiu
never have proposed the State ware
house system if I had seen any otner
WAY to protect the farmers from Tue
aonua1 loss which they bore, ana II
7 cav anv other course which We could
TAX. with a proper regard Tor the IN
ter.sts Of a sovereign people, would
not he willing to advocate State lnsur-
arca But the individual is absolutely
rowerless against these great aggre-
cations Of capital, and unless the
stronq arm of the government is
brought to his relief I see no heip.
nave been hearing all my life about
a plutocracy and regarded 1t as
,agpe, unsubstantial ghost, conjured
ar nolitical orators and magazine
writer's FOR its effect. But now /
know that it is living Feality-a
sinister entity pervading and con-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-04-04

For the protection of farm property
and country property generally I
earnestly favor the organization Of
mutual companies. The laws of the
State permit the organization Of mu-
tuals. and foster them, but these laws
were framed with local county mutuals
in view, and would be extremely
cumbersome for a mutual covering a
CERTAIN territory not defined by county
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-12

The drouth is a long, dry spell fol-
lowed by a series of sharp explosions
in the wheat pit. 1t is also followed
by the agonized accents OF the rurai
.speculator who invested somebody
else's money and was promptly pune
tured while reading UP on the Sun
day school lesson.
The drouth is caused by a total
absence Of rain in places where
little would go long way One OIL
the strange and inscrutable mys-
terics Of this fleeing life below is
whv the rain should fall with such
fervor and exuberance in the spring
of the year, when everybody wants
10 Liant corn or try out new auto
mobile, and then as soon as summer
opens up withdraw from the I'M
mediate vicinity and allow everything
to dry up but the political orator In
the spring it is harder to head of
soaking rain than 1t Is to discourage a
visiting clergyman who Is accustomed
to speak without notes or mercy, but
lust see as soon as hot weather sets in
and raises large. luminous blisters on
the common people not enough rain viii
fall to properly water one perspirins
citizen.
drouth which has not been adj
yertised in advance Is a big asset
10 successful gambling on the price
OF December corn, wheat and othe,
breakfast foods. Many a Inan has
bought q few million bushels of No.
1 wheat long before 1t began to peep
shyly from the ground. In the hope
that a double geared drOuth would
] cause 1t to wither from the ankles up
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-12
THE SLIPPERY i'm PIERCE.

The Iowa Homestead is out with an
other enormous sample copy edition
for campaign purposes in which it
reiterates its insinuations as to the
Times Republican being a corrupt
newspaper together with it's carefully
prepared qualifications designed by its
attorney to prevent the T.-R. from
bringing an action in court under the
law Of libel.
The Homestead charges that the
state printers We're grafters, that the
T-R. defends the grafters because it
has refused TO believe all of the
Homesteads charges until there has
oeen an adjudication on the evidence.
Then the Homestead says:
ITO just such an extent as their at
tempted defense Of a corrupt system
and a corrupt gang Of men results IN
such pernicious methods, which have
already robbed the state treasury OF
many thousands Of dollars, We plainly
and unequivocaily repeat that the
Times Republican is corrupt news
paper"
Now if that were all the Tlmes-Re-
publican might force the Homestead to
recant or pay damages for Pierce has nc
right to call newspaper corrupt mere
ly. because it's attitude toward pub
lie question might shield somebody else
in doing corrupt thing. The news
paper could be mistaken and be free
from any CORRUPTION itself. But the
Homestead, having boldly called the
T.-R. a contingently corrupt newspa'
per for the effect it will have upon itl
readers who are not acquainted Will
the law of libel, then proceeds in tn
very next paragraph to fix Itself ST
i. can plead no intent to cast any sus
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-12
Ripping Rhymes
Sailed Down
BY WALT MASON

I saved five dollars every Week.
against the day that's wet and dank.
Sometimes it made my spirit shrek,
to put that plumber in the bank. For
there were sights / longed to see,
and junketings I wished to make: to
save was such strain on me. !
thought my old tin heart would break.
But Susan Jane my thrifty wife, was
always watching at my side: and she
would say. you bet your life. you 40
not let the kopecks slide. Our strong
box must not spring leak my wife
would say, in solemn tones; and at the
end Of every week, you'll pickle five
gunmetal bones" used to wish that
Susan Jane were more like other wives
l know, that she would think it safe
and sane to let the coin for pleasure
20. Then I lay down with divers ills,
and spent three weary months in bed,
my stomach full of drugs and pills. and
poultices upon my head. We paid the
druggist and the nurse, the doc, who
brought me back to health; and If
lodged the village hearse, 1t was be-
cause I'd saved some wealth. To every
man there comes day when Fortune
wears gloomy froWn; and, while
you're earning coin, say, It's wise to
salt some reubles down. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-12
Harding's Game Is Working

But the rub comes in two places. Mr..
Harding has the vote-making side OF
the road issue. He brands Meredith
as paved roads, million dollar bond
issue candidate for governor. To talk
paved roads and bond issues is like
waving a red flag. The farmers fee
Immediately. Harding condemns bond
Issues, paved roads and the cement
trust, the automobile trust and the
road machinery trust with the result
that the farmers believe he will have
nothing to do with the road question.
Getting Them Going and Coming.
Mr.. Harding uses the road question
to the limit. In Belle Plaine last week
he told the farmers gravel roads were
all right and he was in favor of them
And the farmers applauded loudly. In
Blakesburg he ran into taxpayers
league that doesn't believe in any
roads and won loud applause by de-
claring gravel roads were no good be.
cause there was no way to fasten them
to the ground and therefore they
wouldn't last
Boiling Evsrywhsrs.
Are the dry republicans boiling to
Meredith?
Wv Aos SOSSAb a SsOP hlduS ny SuCIc~
dith during the week was with him
that from one to twenty men did not
come forward and announce they are
republicans but expect to vote for
Meredith. I was really surprised at
the number.
On the other hand there was much
evidence Of democrats swinging to the
side Of Harding. talked to many Eoi
10 4 81 ,l,a a..
mitteemen. and postmasters-who d.
rected Merediths county tours who
said there were some democrats who
would vote for Harding. They named
men In their own community whom
they knew to be opposing the deIto-
cratic nominee. In many communities.
found that many democrats had
changed party affiliation to vote for
Harding in the primaries.
Wet Democrats For Harding.
In Ottumwa there were 1853 changes
in utilization. was informed. The
majority OF these occurred in one ward,
wet ward.
So there will be much crossing Of
party lines in November. The vets
WIN vote for Harding. The farmers
are going to vote for Harding in large
numbers on the road issue and the
road issue alone. The number OF re-
publicans who will vote for Meredith
will be surprising.
Mr. Meredith and Mr.. Harding are
both drawing good audiences Cres-
ton was an example. Mr. Meredith
spoke there few days previous to
Hardings coming He packed the
house and turned them away. So did
Harding.
To summarize the situation
Harding is the stronger candidate
today because Of the following he has
among the farmers on the road issue.
He Is making votes on the road issue
every day. If Meredith could win the
confidence Of the farmers on the road
issue, there would be a good reason to
believe Harding might be defeated
Thousands of republicans will vote for
| Meredith. Thousands of democrats
| will vote for Harding.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-12

The British armored tractors, or
tanks" which have distinguished
themselves in the battle Of the Somme
by smashing German opposition to their
advance. are made out Of Caterpillar"
tractors, built In America. The Brit
ish completed car, the American manu-
facturers believe. is made simply by en-
larging the platform on the tractor so
that it extends over most Of the ma
chinery and furnishes room for ma
chine guns and their crews and by COW
ering the whole with tortoise shell of
steel armor. The machine has a fore
wheel which is used only for guiding
Of farm tractors is absent No weight
rests on this wheel; it could be re-
moved altogether without causing the
frame of the tractor to dip more than
a few inches. The weight is carried on
the two "caterpillars." These consist
Of two belts with corrugated surfaces
on the inside of each of which are two
lines of steel rails jointed in short sec
tons and operated by sprocket wheels.
AS the endless belt turns with the pro-
gression of the machine the forward
sprocket wheel lays down the track
and the rear one picks 1T up again. On
the rails thus laid down roll the wheels
on which the machine is supported
five wheels to side. on trucks some
thing like miniatures of those used on
railroad cars. They run only on the
steel rails, and the rails are supported
on the belt of steel plates two feet
wide. The newest and largest of the
machines which are the basis Of the
tanks" are about twenty three feet
long and nine feet over all. The cat
erpillars," which are we'll toward the
rear. are normally about seven feet
long-that is to say, about seven feet
of belt and rails are on the ground at
one time. But it Is a simple matter to
Iengthen the Caterpillar" by inserting
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-12
As TO sKuHks IN POLITICS.

At Waterloo, Oct, .. Mr.. Harding
said: And the Sioux City Tribune
that is fighting me and accusing me
of being wet, telling the people that |
should be defeated because | am in
league with the saloor Mr.. Kelly. the
editor of that paper, when the fve-mile
limit bill was up sen. a telegram to
the senator from the w oodbury district
telling him to vote against the pill as
voted and he did, and yet | am such
a skunk"
Granted that you voted to keep sa-
looms at the state university as YOU
admit, Mr. Kelly says that that you
or somebody in your interest forged
that telegram and that he did not op-
pose the bill. The senator frora Wood
bury says that Kelly did not oppose it.
Who did the forging, Mr.. Harding and
when are YOU going to repuIiate such
politics?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-12

Carl Dixon, having travelled with
Meredith for a week and then with
Harding for a week representing the
Des Moines Capital says that Harding
is catching the farmer on the paved
road scare and will be elected in spite
of the revolt Of dry republicans unless
there is greater change between now
and election. He says:
The odds are in favor of Harding.
After visiting both fronts and
watching both men and their allies in
action / conclude that if Novembers
votes were counted tomorrow Lieuten-
ant Governor Harding would relieve
George w. Clarke in the governors
chair.
Four weeks can wreck most any po-
litical man % war. 1t has been dem
onstrated in our own state OF Iowa.
Six weeks before the primary election
Attorney General George Cosson would
have won the republican nomination
by a pleasant majority. In the four
weeks that followed the Harding
forces threw the road issue into the
sea and caused a storm that swamped
the Cosson craft. The lieutenant gov
ernor then sailed on to victory without
resistance. Anything can happen be-
tween now and November /. But the
forecast indicates political calm with
no revolutions on the horizon.
Harding Slick Campaisner.
Both Harding and Meredith are
making votes. But Harding is making
them faster A week with the lienten-
ant governor gives one reason to be-
~ 1oto MI ityop. n q
an eanal in the great game OF cam
paigning. Harding Is about the best
campaigner either party has turned
out in recent years.
And / say this without reference to
the merit Of the arguments he is using.
All the things he Is accused Of may be
true. but 1t would be hard to believe
them after hearing him. The lieuten-
ant governor is a very good orator. He
has a stock Of excellent funny stories
that break the ice. His geniality Is
catching. And regardless Of what may
be the real situation, the lieutenant
governor is convincing large numbers
of voters that the saloon question Is
settled
He therefore finds it unnecessary,
except in few instances, to pay, any
attention to the accusation that he IL
wet So he doesn't.
Meredith's Sincerity Noticeable.
Mr.. Meredith is not the campaigner
or the speaker that Mr.. Harding is. He
says what he has to say with just as
little interruption by applause as pos
sible. His style Is simple and direct.
have attended meetings where Mr..
Meredith has not given the crowd OPP
portunity to applaud until he had fin
ished. Mr.. Meredith is convincing In
his earnestness. He Is convincing
many voters that Mr.. Harding is wet
and his election would be detrimental
to the state. He is convincing many
voters that he is not the paved roads
bond issue man that Harding talks
about. And he is making ripping
good roads speech that Is winning con-
verts to the cause Of good roads.
So both are making votes-one with
the aid of his oratory and the other
thru his earnestness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-12
HE DOES NOT ANSWER.
[Des MoineS Register.

The charges against Harding re-
late to his fitness for governor. He
does not answer them. His friends do
rot answer them. They reply by charg
ing the Register with personal animus.
They seek TO limit the revolt against
Harding to one newspaper, when 1t Is
a state uprising. transcending the pos
sbility of being personal in character.
Mr.. Harding need not answer the
Register.
Let him answer the resolutions
passed by the Methodist conferences OF
Iowa (his own church,, the Congrega- :
tionalists the Baptists, the Christians,
the minist erial association OF his own
city.
Let him answer former Speaker Paul
Stillman. who served with him in the
legislature.
Let him answer the Fort Dodge
Messenger and the 200 republicans OF
Webster county who issued a signed
protest against his election.
Let him answer his home newspaper,
the Sioux City Tribune. and it's ex-
posture Of the Kelly forgery
Let him answer the Waterloo
Courier.
Let him answer c. B. Hutchins, CO.
worker on the insurance committee OF
the house.
Let him answer Bishop Stuntz.
Let him answer former Governor
Garst.
Let him answer his devoted follow
ers, the wet democrats OF Crawford
county.
Finally, let him answer this aues-
ton:
VIII you. II elected governor veto
! an- Ell locking re the return OK the
saloon or the legalization OF the sale
of liquor which may be passed by the
legislature?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-12
Topics of the Times

The subs might be working on the
whole British fleet just off the harbor
but they couldn't get glance for
that baseball crowd until after the last
man was out in the ninth.
OF course straw vote doesn't count
in the result but it is little notice.
able how the Harding managers avoid
taking them or if they have taken any
avoid publishing the results.
If some fellows knew as much about
finance as they profess to know about
baseball they'd make the Morgans and
Guggenhemers look like bush leaguers.
If this price thing keeps on a man
will have to send an order for groceries
in an aeroplane.
The sensational part of it isn't the
Mann law but the respectable and
wealthy" personages who seem TO run
afoul of it's provisions.
The new submarine" problem
does seem to be SO much of a problem.
When it comes to the sub as a war
weapon no nation would agree to elm
mating it. And if it has a right to stop
and sink an enemy's ship under condi-
tons and observes thosec onditions it
surely has right to operate anywhere
outside the three mile limit. What we
are trying to do without "proolems' is
to adjust rules for a game that in
cludes murder and destruction of
property and still keep our self re-
spect; and that's a hard problem.
There are different kinds Of fits, fits
and Fftz as it were.
The old Scotch drinkers used to as
sert that a man wasn't drunk 50 long
as he could lie still. Some folks in
sist that If man can navigate" he
Is still sober and some consider thai
z twisted tongue is the only test
However, some Of the symptoms usual
iy make thenselves manifest after 2
few four finger hookers.
Mr.. Meredith can afford to spend his
money and not get the governorship
Sioux City Journal.
1t is not against Mr.. Meredith thai
ne has gained wealth honestly anG
with credit to himself amnog thos'
who know how he got It. He can at
ford to lose for he is spending his owr
money. But can a candidate for whom
money has been poured out like waite!
by his friends afford to spend the
money and not get the governorship
And why not?
The Aerial Age publishes list O.
about 500 names OF American aviator!
who have flown heavier than air ma
chimes" and ends the long parallel col
umns with ito be continued" Aviatori
are getting pretty common in thu
United States. And it was only tn,
other day that 10000 or more people
gathered at the Marshall county fail
grounds to get their first glimpse Of |
| hying machine in action.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-12
picion upon the integrity Of the Times
Republican by saying:

picion upon the integrity Of the Times
Republican by saying:
The Homestead does not charge in
the above, nor has 1t ever charged. that
| the Times Republican shared In the H.
| legal swag taken by state printers.
Neither do we intend to imply that its
editorial policies are dictated by imam.
cial consiG- rations. These are things
| we know nothing about. A man is
| judged by the company he keeps and In
| Just SO far as the Times Republican
has chosen to associate politically with
| the corrupt state printing gang, to just
| that extent must the guilt be visited
upon its head as an accessory after, II
hot before, the fact"
This is the last paragraph in the
third of a series of long articles the
effect of which upon a reader Is to
make it appear that the Homestead
has called the Times Republican cor
rupt. If it should turn out after trial
in court that the state printers were
not grafters or corrupt then the Times
Republican has not even defended or
associated with corrupt gang and the
Times Republican Is in no position tc
prove that they are corrupt. Pierce, Of
the Homestead, tried that and the leg
lslative committee appointed by Har-
ding turned him down on his own evil
dence.
This sneaking kind Of journalism is
characteristic of the man. He has
jumped on to Steve Hill, competitor
in the job printing business, accusing
him of having been indicted for enter
ing into an illegal combina ton as TO
printing. Hill says that he was not
indicted personally but thae the officers
Of an association of winch he was
member were fined and that he helped
to pay their fines. He further says
that the manager Of Pierce's printing
plant was member of that same asso-
citation, paid dues and it was
understood he represented Pierce
in the association but, as Hill
says, Pierce got mad at the
other members and inspired the
court proceedings against them deny
ing that his company was ever men,
Der and making the manager the goat.
The association was one composed Of
fourteen print shops out of thirty six
in Des Moines who hired an expert to
figure costs on jobs and his figures
We're used by all of the members in
bidding just as fire insurance COM
panies base rates on the findings Of a
rating bureau, They thought that they
had a legal right to do this because
there were more printers outside than
in their association but they found out
differently. If Hits story is true
Pierce is the kind of a man who would
scuttle his own ship in order to get
even with his own crew. His attacks
upon other editors in the Homestead
cad like Hills story.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-12
The PREACHERS AND THE PROPHETS

Inc ministers who are now in this
political maelstrom will be the first to
regret their activities-they will find
mat they have subtracted the sum Of
their participation in politics from the
effectiveness in their pulpits. Who
cares ABOUT hearing man preach
ABOUT salvation after he comes in from
the political stump?-Cedar Rapids
Republican.
Who wants to hear minister preach
salvation after he has participated in
an election, after he has so forgotten
his holy calling as to have passed the
portal of the election booth and cast
a human ballot just as other men do?
Perish the thought that the ministry
Shall thus defile themselves. However,
if the preacher shall vote his senti-
ments and convictions on election day
why should he be estopped from vuic-
ing those sentiments and convictions
the day before? There is a' much sense
IN demanding that the minister shall
stay away from the polls as in the
Republicans twisted criticism of the
minister who speaks his mind in poll
tics and there isn't a lick of sense in
either.
No doubt the Hebrew Publican and
the Judean Times, had such papers
been in progress of publication would
have Illuminated against the prophets
after similar fashion. Isaiah and
Hosea would have come in for espe-
cially severe criticism. There was
strong faction Of wine pbbers and
specla! interests then who made war
on the prophets. But the prophets live
and their influences on government is
distinctly in evidence. They spoke
human welfare as all political questions
are Without doubt those who tarried
| long and had wounds without cause
| and contentious and babblings babbled
against the prophets as similar publ
cations babble today. Their babblings
ceased long ago and were not. Re-
iIalNS oI!y tudk luty UdUUleO. we
must guess as to what they said by the
babbling of our own time. But the
voices Of the prophets come clear and
distinct across the ages. For they were
men with purpose and courage and
conviction. No doubt the practical
politician and the keg party and the
sellers of wine red within the cup and
the like got together and knocked them,
but every knock turned out a boost
for the prophets.
Let it so at that. Religion is recre-
alton to some folks, a sort Of pious in
door sport and the church a sort OF
conscience clearing house. But it Is
an excellent sign of the times when the
clergy stand upright for good morals
in government outside the pulpit as
| within. Criticism of certain character
and from certain quarters is a certif-
cate of service.
The ten commandments are craven
| in stone; the attacks on the minis
| tiers are written on the wind.