Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-16
ODLE AS AN ISSUE.
IDeS MnineS Register.

The Register suggested h other day
that the only sort of campaign now be-
ing made for Harding is the You're
another" campaign. and to h mali
cious lengths hat campaign is being
pushed our readers may judge from the
following paragraph from the Cedar
Rapids Republican:
Last winter the a~nti-saloon Law
enforcers unearthed a gang of high
UP druggists in Des Moines who had
been violating the law. along very
elegant social ways The attorney for
the anti-saloon forces COdie) received
a letter. signed by directors OF the
Chamber of Commerce in Des Moines
protesting against such efforts. The
druggists attacked happened to be
members OF that chamber. Among the
signers to this protest was +. I. Mere
dith, who was not then thinking OF run
for governor as the protested dry
est of the dry Hc was then still Mr.
Meredith. not the politician catering to
the third party preachers of the state
N a political campaign and shaping his
democratic party to win the votes OF
the few extreme republicans on the liz
uor issue"
Now everybody who is at all con-
versant with the facts knows that ode
made a raid on the Des Moines drug
eists that was repudiated by the anti
saloon league. and in consequence OF
that raid ode was forced to resign
from the league attorneyship and has
now left Iowa.
DR.. Hillman, pastor Of the First
Methodist church, put it up %squarely
that he would resign or ode must
leaders of the anti-liquor forces lined
up against ode and he went.
Nobody sustained the ode raid in
Des Moines. And nobody viii! sus~
tain it now. The Register-Tribune
a outspoken against ode, n no.
body will accuse these newspapers OF
being lukewarm on the general prop
osition. =
The Register would like nothing
better than to rest the whole case be-
tween Meredith and Harding on the
Oole raid in Des Moines and let the
verdict be rendered by the ant Liquor
voters Of the state.
SCARED IN SOUTHERN IOWA.
washington Press (Rep.)
There is now a specific hard road
question before the people Of Iowa.
1t is raised by the action of congress.
Up to date it has received no public
consideration. Still it Is the only hard
road proposition that will actually be
considered by the next state govern
ment. Congress has appropriated $751;
nm nm for hard roads Tvo million
one hundred ninety-two thousand has
been assigned to the state Of Iowa upon
condition that the state of Iowa raise
and spend a like sum. In other words,
Iowa will be paying S2.192,000 in taxes
to the national government and get
nothing in return unless she raises an
other $4,000 by direct taxation. This
must be spent within the next FIVE
years. 1t will make about $4,000. 900 for
hard roads in Iowa. enough to pave the
Lincoln Highway and the Great White
Way clear across the state and nobody
SAYING a word. This situation Is espe-
cialIy appealing to the genius of w. l.
Harding. He has already quietly in
formed the hard road boosters that he
favors enough tax to get the national
appropriation and this will make him
the father Of a great hard road system
in the state of Iowa. The hare roat
boosters are jubilant and lying low
They care nothing about how much
Harding Il the taxpayers leagues
fight imaginary bonds. what they wani
Is tax enough to build the $4,000, G0t
worth Of hard roads. II Harding car
get the votes of the farmers fighting
bonds he can also get the votes OF tns
hard road boosters by fayoring taking
up the government appropriation. II
J this game he is without. a peer in TN