Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-28
CHURCHES OF STATE ASKED To
FIX DAY 70 CONSIDER
CANDIDATE.
DEs MONIES MINISTERS
SEND oUT.APPEAL
Combined Churches Of Capital City In.
ausurats Movement TO Secure United
Action by Churches Of State to op-
pose Nominee For Governor Other
News.
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Special to Times-Republican.,
Des Moines, June ga state wide
movement to line up the churches of
Iowa in opposition to W. L. Harding.
candidate for governor, has been in
augurated by the Des Moines Minis
terial Association. Action was taken
at meeting Of the Des Moines minis
tiers on June IL and a statement was
prepared outlining reasons for oppos-
ing Harding. This statement was
unanimously adopted and is being sent
to every church in the state with the
request that action be taken on July
2. The statement follows:
Believing that the candidacy Of wv.
L. Harding for the Office Of governor of
Iowa involves vast consequences to
public welfare, the Des Moines Minis
terial Association on June 8th voted to
create committee to issue an address
to the ministers Of the state on the
perils which taco us.
In accordance with these instruc-
atiuns the committee present the fol-
lowing statement:
1t is only the presence Of a very
grave peril to fundamental interests OF
1.-THE state which impels us as christian
ministers to participate in this public
MANNER in the present campaign. We
sdisclaim at the outset any partisan in
sterest, in fact the majority of us are
members of the same political party as
Mr.. Harding. I'VE disolaim likewise
any feeling of animosity toward any
individual. Our participation has to do
with the larger issue Of morality We
believe that the christian and moral
I people of the state are entitled to this
statement Of facts which we propose
to set forth at the present time.
Legislative Record Bad.
We call your attention to the follow
. ing record of Mr. Harding in the Iowa
legislature He was a member Of the
thirty second. thirty third, and thirty
fourth general assemblies. On the fol-
lowing important measures relating to
temperance and morality the house
and senate files show Mr. Harding
absent or not voting"
House file No. 2S9 (requiring the
publication Of notice before beginning
the canvass Of saloon petition.)
House file No. ATS (making it an in
dictable offense to sell, give or pro-
cure Intoxicating liquor for minors or
drunkards.)
Senate file No. SO (requiring con-
secutive numbered blanks for liquor
; sales by druggists.)
Senate, file No. PIG (Which, was the!
\ Clifford 6. Roe white slave law, page
1.043D a
Senate file No. $40 (the cosson Red
Light injunction law, page 1879
Senate file No. 229, an act to prohibit
unmarried females under, IS in anIA
public place where prostitution is al
lowed.
Mr.. Harding did not vote for any
one Of the three bills to protect the
I girls from white slavery.
The passage Of bill requires twenty
affirmative votes in the senate and
fifty-five in the house; therefore when
Mr.. Harding failed to vote and had no
leave OF absence, he in effect voted
against the bill. When Mr.. Harding
is marked mot voting" no leave of alb
sence is shown in the house journal.
Not voting is equivalent to voting
mo"
House file No. 27s CIRCULATING the
purchase,-sale and shipment of intoxi-
eating liquors by wholesale druggists
to the retail trade page 1850
House file No. SIS (Which is known as
the anti-treating law These records
show that he was either absent or did
not vote upon these moral issues. An