Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-02


you are entitled to an answer.
Of course now if Governor Harding is the
man who filled every quota" or soldiers from
Iowa; who increased the wheat acreage
who increased the coal output "two million
TONS" who fixed the price of seed corn and
made it terminate; who obtained the cars for
the farmers stock shipments; who got "box
cars for farmers to save their soft corn (tho
how soft corn was saved by box cars is a
mystery known only to an accomplished far
mer like Harding) who kept the coal miners
at work and the factories running-he is in
dispensable and we can not spare him. But
some people in Iowa are foolish enough to be-
lieve that the fathers and mothers OF Iowa
gave their boys to fill the quotas; that the
farmers had something to do with increasing
the wheat acreage; fixing the price of seed
corn, and saving the soft corn; that the min
ers had small part at least in getting the
coal supply out of the ground and that the
patriotic laborers of Iowa should have credit
at least for keeping the factories running.
PERHAPS WE ARE ALL WRONG.
Maybe Mr. Harding did all these things, but
why stop there? He is entirely too modest.
and the drought-especially the drought?
Harding was real factor in making Iowa
dry. Why don't he claim all of his medals?
If Mr.. Harding had anything to do with the
rainfall in the northern and eastern part OF
the state, then by the same token, he should
be held responsible for the drought which
fired the corn in the southern and western
part of the state.
And then CHE ORGANIZED THE
STATE" Even before the president men
toned war We had intended to spare the
governor humiliation and say nothing about
the war organization of Iowa, but since he
claims the credit, LET HIM OR YOU AN
SWER to the people of Iowa and tell them
WHY, when the governor appointed you
chairman of the republican commlttee) to
supervise the county war organization OF the
entire state, you found not organization, but
disorganization and why, under your super
vision, the disorganization went from bad to
worse until about June this year-more than
year after war was declared-when band
of patriotic men from Council Bluffs, headed
by gallant Bob Wallace, appeared before the
State Council of Defense and in the presence
of the GOVERNOR told of the DEPLOR-
ABLE conditions existing in the state on &C
count of lack of organization and in big,
over out of the hands of the governor and
the council of defense, the organization of
every county in Iowa-the council turned 1t
over to the Council Bluffs committee and
they travelled thousands and thousands of
miles in organizing the state and had the
work nearly completed when it was inter-
rupted by the fourth Liberty loan and is to
be soon completed. Until these men took
over this work, the organization of Iowa for
war purposes was CHASTITY joke and the
governor knows it and every member OF the
State Council of Defense knows it. No, it
was not for war that Harding organized the
state. It was the Harding machine that ne
attempted to organize, to serve his ambitions
to defeat Senator Cumnins in 1920 for the
United States senate
Talk about 'loyal leadership" What did
Mr.. Harding do when F. B. Dawson, head OF
the Travelling Mems League, organized for
war purposes, composed of democrats and re-
publicans, wrote two page letter on the sta
tionery of the food administration booming
Harding for governor Dawson is also Field
Representative of the United States Food
Administration" He was also part OF the
machine Harding organized Did Harding
rise in the majesty of his LEADERSHIP
and throw Dawson out of his job because
he (Dawson) used his position in war work
for political purposes? NO. NOT ON YOUR
LIFE! He was willing to use the war or
ganization for Harding and as citizen OF
Iowa protest against such leadership.
TELL ME A FEW THINGS DID IOWA
DO HER SHARE in bond purchasing until
Mr. McNider and his organization swept the
state in the third and fourth Liberty loans
WHY DID NOT GOVERNOR HARDING
have the courage to sustain men like Colonel
French John Morrell, Senator Lafayette
Young, DR.. Oh. Fay, T. A. Potter and other
members Of the State Council of Defense,
who are republicans, and who Joined with
Judge Wade, Mr.. O'Connor and Mr.. Marsh in
asking Harding to remove Mr.. Pierce from
! the council. Why did not Harding have the
courage and LOYAL LEADERSHIP" to
either sustain the council of defense ap-
pointed by himself, or his friend, Mr.. Pierce!