Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-11-04
RAWSON GIVES
STRONG FACTS
Makes Further Statement
Giving Animus of Dem
Ocratic State Cam
paign.
1T is ANTI-PATRIOTIC
Porter Appealing to Every
PrO-G German in the
State.
T IS A~NTI-PATRIOTIC

Des MOines. Iowa. Nov. 2.-Charles
A. Rawson. chairman of the Republic
can state central committee, in a
statement today. calls attention to the
real issue of the campaign in Iowa
gives facts showing that it was deter.
mined upon from the first by the demo.
cratic managers, and reminds voters OF
the significance of the issue. He said
"On Tuesday the sovereign voters
have the privilege, and it is their duty,
to choose who among their fellow citi.
zens they deem best qualified by abil.
ity and correct principles to serve
them in the government Of the state
and of the nation.
Democratic Plans.
'Tlle issue of the campaign was de-
tcrmhed at a conference of the demo
cratic state committee with representa-
tiyes of the Democratic national com
mittee, in Des Moines March 7th
last, and candidates were selected for
whom Democrats should vote at the
primary, on March Dist last, when al
arrangement was effected by which
Claude Porter was to retire from the
Office of L. S. district attorney to give
way to another Democrat, and be given
a place at higher salary in Washington
on condition that he would undertake
to carry Iowa for the Democratic
party. The Democrats. under orders
direct from Washington, determined
upon a strictly partisan campaign
prior to last April.
Later the Democratic national
committee sent word to Iowa, for use
as a campaign shibboleth, that THE
election of a Republican congress would
be a source of comfort and elation to
the. kaiser and his cohorts In another
letter, September 18th, calling atten-
ton to the likelihood of. Republicans
being elected to congress, this same
organization said: 'What would Ber-
lin think if the administrations party
met with national defeat? You and
the balance Of us must not permit this
to Occury
Long after this the issue was again
disclosed in a letter by President Will
son demanding "A Democratic majority
in both the senate and house of repre-
sentatives.'
Democratic cabinet officials have
followed in similar vein. Lane bids for
a certain vote by referring to the
evolution of Il more intensely sOicaliZed
state:' Redfeld wants everybody
elected to be in political sympathy
with the administration and Daniels
gets mad and calls those who do not
agree, with him in everything 'reac-
tionary wOuld-be profiteers' and men
from plunderbmd.' Railway employ
es, at the mercy of McAdoo, are being
ordered by circular letters. to vote the
Democratic ticket, and newspapers and
farm journals behOlden to BurlesOn
and Creel for paper rights and postal
privileges are being filed with frantic
appeals for candidates of the Demo
cratic party.
Conceal Real Issue.
"In harmony with this purely parti-
san campaign, Mr.. Porter is sent back
from his office near the seat of power
to ask that Iowa throw herself into
the arms of the old bourbon democracy.
He and all the Democratic candidates
and their agents are trying to conceal
the real issue of partisanship they
themselves made seven months or more
ago. They invaded Iowa and are now
saying they did it in self-defense.
Ever since the plan of campaign
was brought from the shadow of the
White House last March, care has been
Ltaken that POrter's official activity
should he almost entirely outside of
Iowa so that not a single pro-German
voter in Iowa could be offended.
Neither the Democratic organization,
nor Democratic officials. not any Demo
cratic candidate, has been permitted
to do or say anything that would
ALLEVIATE the vote of any .pacifist,' any
conscientious objector.' any anti-war