Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-05
"SLACKER" AMONG
EPITHETS USED
Political Banners Torn From Automo-
biIes Of Thompson and His Friends
:. While En- Route to kankakss Fair
Citizens Join in Demonstration and
Pretend to be Naussatsd by Presence
Of fsMayor-Rapped by Council.

ing demonstration by soldiers here this
morning as hts party was mobilizing
fifty automobiles for a trip to the fair
at Kankakee, Ill. Banners Of political
nature were torn from his and other
machines.
The demonstrants were members OF
the Second Illinois field hospital corps,
,encamped in Camp Grant, on the lake
front. Civilians Joined in cries OF
"slacker" hurled at the mayor and his
followers, while passing automobiles
halted, some ostentatiously holding
their noses as If in the presence OF
stencil.
The banner stripped from the mayors
car bore the legend. William Hale
Thompson Republican Club"
The outbreak was quelled by the ap-
pearance of officers of the hospital
corps with the provost guard.
Citizens Hoot Thompson.
The automobiles were standing on
Michigan boulevard, which bounds
Grant park on the west when the sol-
diers began to$gather.
Stacker" they cried. and used other
epithets.
"A crowd Of hundreds collected and
the demonstration was carried along
the line. It was all over in a-few min :
utes, the provost guard having acted
promptly.
The jam Of automobile traffic was
Strengthened out and the mayoralty
cars moved down the streets amid
boots and cries.
The Kankakee fair is annually the
scene Of political rally and recent
gossip has had it that the mayors
friends intended to use 1t with refer
ence to his political fortunes as an
anti war leader.
Council Raps Thompson.
The city council yesterday afternoon
went on record with rebuke to Mayor
Thompson for permitting Sunday S
meeting Of pacifsts In the face Of Gov
ernor Lowden's order prohibiting it.
Sitting as q committee Of the whole
the council recommended for adoption
esolutions commencing Governor Low
den for his efforts toward stopping the
meeting and requesting the state, city.
and county authorities to prevent such
gatherings in the future.
Not content with thus taking a SLAP
at the mayors policies, the forty-twc
aldermen who favored the resolution
signed copy of the resolution and
mailed it to the governor, so that ne
would know that nearly all Of the
forty eight aldermen who attended the
session approved his efforts to prevent
the city from being made haven fol
persons opposed to the government.
Six Vote For Mayor.
The resolutions were recommended
by a. vote Of ~ yeas to 9 nays. They
can not be acted upon finally until Oct
1, when the council Is to hold its first
regular meeting. Yesterdays session
was special meeting, and as 1t re-
quires fifty votes to suspend the rules
no final action could be taken.
Mayor Thompson sought >to side.
track consideration Of the resolutions
by urging the aldermen to take a re-
cess until an opinion from the law
department could be had as to whether
1t was legal procedure for the coun-
Gil to resolve itself into committee
OF the whole. A majority Of the coun'
cilmen spurned the mayors sugges.
ton and insisted on going ahead witt
the session.
Aldermen NJ. A.. Michaelson. Edward
F. Cullsrton and W. f. Rodriguez. the
latter socialist, tried every possible
parliamentary move to prevent th'
council from taking any action on tht
resolutions, which were drawn up b,
Alderman Toman. These men attempt
ed to "whipsaw'' the council. but ever!
attempt was checkmated.
Mayor Thompson asked for permis'
sion to talk. This was granted, but the
patriotic forty-two would not consider
his point Of view.