Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-10-20
Issued on Friday of Each Week
REPUDlATES HARDING.
Veteran Waukon Editor Writes from
Personal Knowledge.

Personal kn0WleoSe.
(Waukon Democrat
Mr.. Editor:-The Des Moines Minis.
tarial Association is composed of more
than fifty ministers representing the
Baptist, Presbyterian, Church OF
Christ, Methodist Episcopal, United
Presbyterian, Wesleyan Methodist,
Congregational, Protestant Episcopal,
Lutheran, United Brethren, Reformed.
United Evangelical Association, and
Volunteers of America. After careful
investigation and full discussion they
adopted emphatic resolutions against
Harding, and for Meredith, for govern
OF. Their signed statement says:
meredith is the hope and must be the
aim of all of US who want the right
thought to rule in state affairs. =
We must not let the liquor men blind
us with dust while they skulA behind
the good roads, or some other issue. "
The four conferences of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church of Iowa, thou
sand or more ministers; the forty-six
Churches of the Sioux City Presbytery,
ten counties, including Harding's
home county, Woodbury.; the Baptist
and Presbyterian, and the other church
associations of the state have adopted
similar resolutions.
Mr.. Harding claims, as a political as
set, that he is member of his home,
the Morningside Church of Sioux City.
The former pastor of that church, Rev.
w. C. Wasser, says: Gas pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in
Morningside, his home, ! came to know
him as being in the camp of the liquor
forces and the interests. Harding is
not the man Iowa wants as its chief
executive" The present pastor and
officials of that church have issued an
emphatic statement to the same effect,
and advocate the election of Meredith.
These ministers have not done this as
partisans, but as citizens who believe
in good government and the protection
Of the people from evil doors.
was chief door keeper in the House
during the 1911 session of the legisla-
ture and assistant door keeper during
the sessions of 1918 and 1915. l OBJ
served closely the career of VIM. L.
Harding, candidate for governor on the
Republican ticket, by the votes of
"wet" Democrats at the primaries.
From my knowledge and observation of
the man / believe the religious bodies
Of the state have sized him up correct
". do not consider Harding y fit
man for governor because he is and has
been allied with, pledged to and work.
Cd for the liquor and corporate inter-
eets and against the welfare OF the
people. He is as slippery, insidious,
time serving politician as / ever
knew; with wonderful capacity for
misrepresenting; with unlimited, sleek
and cool impudence; an adept in max
ing speeches that cover everything
with an indefinite uncertainty; can pose
q q lifelong believer in what will
please any audience, being "all things
to all men," so that no wonder he fools
many who do not know him and his
record which he and his advocates are
most carefully lodging.
Last week many county papers
throughout Iowa had four page sup
plement sent out by james NJ. Pierce
Of the Iowa Homestead, in which ne
slyly inserts and puts into the mouth
Of each editor . personal editorial In
dorsement Of himself as an honest man.
Ihave known the Homestead publisher