Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-28
CHAIRMAN RAwsoN. or REPus
LlcAN COMMITTEE, ASKS SOME
POINTED QUESTIONS.
MUST PROVE CHARGES
OR CEASE ATTACKS
Rawson Issues open Letter to Demo-
cratic Candidate Asking Him. to
substantiate Charges on Governor
Harding and to Explain His cennee-
ton With Jim Pierce.

Des> Moines. Oct. es.-Chairman
Charles A. Rawson. Of the republican
state central committee. has issued an
open letter to Claude Porter, of the
attorney generals office, Washington.
and democratic candidate for governor.
asking him to reply to some pointed
questions about the manner of his vote
seeking in Iowa, saying among other
| things:
You say in a letter over Your sigma
ture that YOU are against Governor
Harding for reelection because he
! has not risen to loyal leadership in
Iowa. Please answer
state single place where Cow
nor Harding has not been loyal to the
federal government, to the soldiers
and the salons, to our allies.
Give one instance where official
Washington has asked Governor Har-
! ding for A thing they have not re-
ceived
Us it, in your opinion. disloyal
leadership to administer the draft law
so that Iowa is in the first six states
in every comparison OF states? Or
ITO fill every quota call OF the gov
eminent?
ITO increase the wheat acreage in
Iowa $50 per cent?
ITO increase the production Of Iowa
coal two million tons. as President
Lewis Of the Mine Workers says?
ITO get war contracts for Iowa
lof SNr
in Iowa?
ITO help 10000 farmers get seed
corn that will grow
ITO suggest a maximum price for
seed corn and save the farmers thou
sands of dollars?
| ITO help farmers and stock men get
| cars in which to ship their stock and
save millions Of dollars?
ITO get box cars for farmers TO
save their soft corn?
ITO keep the coal mines running and
furnish employment for 5000 men?
ITO keep Iowa factories running and
furnish employment for thousands Of
men and women?
Pertinent Questions.
why do you favor fixing the price
of the Iowa farmers wheat and not
the price Of the southern planters
cotton?
WHO do you condemn Governor
Harding for organizing Iowa before
the president let congress know war
| was impending. so that Iowa has re-
sponded to every, call and was first
to over subscribe on the big liberty
| loan drives? Why do you disapprove
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Iowa? Do you want the loyal people
to run the liberty loan. or the Stacker!
Where are you on the controversy
over use in schools and public meet
ings of the language OF the kaiser or
the language Of the Declaration OF
| Independence? At a time when loyal
| Iowans are driving sedition to cover,
| why do you invite the freest use OF
other than the English language? Have
YOU done or said anything that has
offended a single pro-German agitator
because of his use Of the speech
| familiar to the kaiser and his
| cohorts?'
"If YOU were governor would you
| sustain Judge Martin ]. Wade. OF the
southern Iowa district: Hon. F. A.
O'Connor, United States attorney
northern district. and Hon. w. w.
| Marsh. national democratic treasurer;
in ousting James NJ. Pierce from the
Iowa council OF defense and placing on
| record the fact that it Is our solemn
| Judgment that the efforts Of Mr.. Pierce
are disloyal and are aiding and en-
couraging disloyalty and sedition =?
After this indictment Of Pierce why
e. I'M
"If these eminent democrats were
right, why do you think Pierce is loyal
| enough so that you have entrusted
your political campaign to his sup
| port? Why do you select Pierce to be
recipient of your most confidential
| letters exploiting your views on loyal
| ty? Will you permit Pierce to domi-
| nate and dictate your administration,
or would you incur his hostility by
| refusing his demands? What sort OF a
bargainS have you with Pierce any
way?
"One Of your political associates.
also formerly from Iowa, sent word
| from Washington that the election OF
Republicans to Congress would be a
souce Of comfort and citation to the
Kaiser and his cohorts" Is that your
| view and do you Join in branding as
| a traitor every Iowa soldier boy who
dares to vote for republican candi-
date for Congress or for Governor
Harding?
do you subscribe to the doctrine
now put forth by your party leader
that for the purpose OF helping win the
war the election OF any democrat is
preferable to the election Of a loyal
! republican. Governor Harding puts
patriotism and loyalty to the Nation
above all else; why. do you stand for
the idea that partisanship is more i'm
portant than every other thing?
Governor Harding has stood with
his party and the American people fol
the whole war program, for everything
that will help win, for nothing that
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