Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-07
pRYs CANDIDATES FOR PRESt
DENT AND VICE PRESIDENT
ADDRESS MEETING.
SOME SAW PURPOSE
TO BOOST MEREDITH
Party Travelling Across Iowa in Special
Train Spends an Hour Here Late in
Day - Hanly Discusses Party Plat
form Planks-State Issues Mentioned
by Mystic Language.

Speaking in Marshalltown. the home
OF the third party prohibition candi-
date for governor with said candidate
sitting by their sides, the national
candidates on the prohibition ticket for
president and vice president avoided
reference to the prohibition party S
candidate for governor in the state by
name, but instead repeated the mystic
language used at Council Bluffs and in
Des Moines, which many took to mean
that prohibition votes to be effective
should be cast for Meredith in the
present campaign in this state.
They did not say 80 unequtvocally.
Their urging WAS for the candidate
who is the dryest but at Council
Bluffs they urged all voters to scratch
their tickets in the Iowa campaign and
at Des Moines they said they under
stood the local situation in Iowa. AT
no place did they name the third party
candidate for governor in this state
Eastward bound across the state in
their coast-to-coast campaign the
Hanly-Landrith party spent about an
hour in this city late Friday after
noon ]. Frank Hanly, Of Indianapolis
prohibition candidate for president, and
Rev. Ira Landrith ,of Nashville, Tenn,
candidate for vice president spoke here.
Earlier in the day the members of the
party had stopped at places west OF
this city. After leaving they stopped
at lama, Belle PLANE and Cedar Rap
ids. ............
A crowd Of 200 or 800 listened to the
snort talks that daniy and Or. Land
rith delivered from an improvised stand
in the court house yard. The soldiers
home drum corps played.
Warn Against Vets.
Hanly discussed platform planks OF
the party in a general way and neither
he nor Dr. Landrith touched on state or
local issues except by inference.
Referring to the liquor issue in the
state Hanly said to the drys: Your
battle in Iowa is not yet ended. Do
not be too sure you are in control. Wig
lance still remains the price Of liberty.
Elect no man to office, put no man in
control, and put your trust in no man
who does not stand four square on the
liquor issue"
Il would not send any man to the
governors chair who was not eternally
and everlastingly against intemperance
and the saloon. Such a one should not
be voted for in Iowa." was the warning
on the same subject DR.. Landrith left.
Drys Only Progressives.
Hanly described the dry party as the
only progressive party in the field.
1T stands" said Hanly. for woman
suffrage, not as d political expediency,
but because it believes the ballot to be
the woman's just right. The prohibit
ton party stands for reasonable. pre-
paredness. a preparedness to protect
our shores from foreign invasion. II
stands for the establishment OF a
worlds court of arbitration and d
worlds police force to enforce world
peace.
The party stands for national nom
partisan tariff commission. The pro-
hibition party believes in the Monroe
doctrine. We stand for an honest civil
service, an eight-hour working day, the
extension Of the employers liability
acts. and the conservation OF our ma
tional resources
Dr.. Landrith Jovai Speaker.
time allotted to him in telling stories
and jokes. He kept the audience
laughing.
He blamed the churches and societies
organized to fight the liquor traffic with
spending too much time fighting each
iother and not enough time fighting the
traffic.
Our campaign" said he. as to clean
fup America Nineteen states are al
ready dry. Nine have gone dry since
Jan. /. Twelve million people have
lived In dry territory in the last eigh-
teen months.
Hughes Is as dry as a bone He's
80 dry he can't even put punch in his
campaign was DR.. Landrith's descrip-
stion of the republican hope.
Wilson is as dumb as a wooden In
dian on the liquor subject" he con-
tinued.
LEGAL Workers With Party.
Hanly was introduced by Oliver w.
Stewart, Of Chicago, chairman Of the
national committee. Others in the
party were Mrs Hanly, Mrs Stewart,
TDr. D. M. Bottoms. Of Battle Creek,
Mich, medical attendant, press repre-
sentatives, and stenographers. The
special train arrived ii this city about
3:45 and left an hour later O. D.
Elicit, OF this city. party candidate for
governor. e. II. Buchanan, and w. NJ
Collins. the latter local committeeman,
spent part Of the day with the party.
Commends Meredith's Candidacy.
In an interview at Council Bluffs, fol-
lowing his public address there, DR..
Landrith explained why conditions in
this state made 1t inadvisable to come
out fiat footedly for Meredith. The
Council Bluffs Nonpareil Of Friday
evening says:
In a statement following his public
address, DR.. Landrith declared that II
was not considered good policy in states
where the prohibition party has tack
ct of its own to indorse any candidate
OF smother party. Were II not for this
fact he said, we should certainly have
come out and formally commended
Meredith as the dry candidate for gov.
ernor of Iowa in every speech we max,
in this state"