Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-02
RAWs0h REsENTs
!. KAISER bUGAB00
REPUBLICAN klooLEs DEMO.
CRATIC CAMPAIGN
ISSUE.
G. O. P. SUCCESS At
POLLS NOT uNPArRIoTlc
Rawsen shows Democratic Plan Of
Campaign Was inausuatsd Months
Aao-Wilson Aides Engaged in,CalI.
ing opporsnts kames-Wilson Bid.
ding For evtss Of Paeifists.

Des Moines, Nov. CHARLES A..
Rawson. chairman of the republican
state central committee in state
ment today. calls attention to the real
issue of the Campaign in Iowa. gives
facts showing that 1t was determined
upon from the first by the democratic
MANAGERS and reminds voters OF the
significance Of the issue. He said:
ION Tuesday the sovereign voters
have the privilege and it is their duty
to choose who among their fellow
citizens they deem best qualified by
ability and correct principles to serve
them in the government of the state
and of the nation.
THE issue Of the campaign was
determined at a conference OF the
democratic state committee with
representatives of the democratic
national committee. in Des Moines
March : last. and candidates were
selected for whom democrats should
vote at the primary. on March 81 last,
when AN arrangement was effected by
from the office of United States dis
trict attorney to give way for another
democrat, and be given place at higher
salary in Washington on condition
that he would undertake to carry Iowa
for the democratic party. The demo-
Gratis, under orders direct from WASH
ington. determined upon a strictly
partisan campaign prior to last April.
Later the democratic national COM
mittea sent word to Iowa. for use as
a campaign shibboleth. that the
election Of republican congress would
be source Of comfort and elation to
the kaiser and his cohorts In another
letter. Sept. IS. calling attention TO
the likelihood of republicans being
elected to congress. this same orsanl-
cation said: What would Berlin~think
if the administrations party met with
national defeat? You and the balance
OF US must not permit this to occur.
Long after this the issue was again
disclosed in. letter BY President Will
son demanding "a democratic maJortv
in both the senate and house OF repre-
sentatives.' 81
Democrats Calling Names.
Democratic cabinet officials have
followed in similar vein. Lane bids fpr
a certain vote by referring to the
evolution of a more intsnsely. social
lied state; Redfeld wants evet1opdy
elected to be in political sympathy
with the administration: and Daniels
xets mad and calls those who do not
atre with him in eevrything reaction
ary would-be profiteers' and men from
plunderbund.' Railway employees. 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.
an 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 demo-
cracy. He and all the democratic can
didates 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.
Bid For Paeifist Votes:
.Ever since the plan Of campaign
was brought from the shadow Of the
White House last March. care mas
been taken that Porters official acu-
vity should be almost entirely outside
OF Iowa SO that not single pro-Ger
man voter in Iowa could be offended.
Neither the democratic organization
nor democratic officials. nor any
democratic candidate. has been per-
mitted to do or say anything that
would ALLEVIATE the vote Of any 'paci-
fist and conscientious objector. any
anti-war grumbler. anyone VINO wants
to use the kaisers language to preach
sedition. or anyone for any reason re-
sentful Of the effective war work under
republican leadership~by which Iowa
has made such a proud record. 4
direct appeal for whatever there IS Oh
an unpatriotic vote in Iowa Is mace IN
a letter in his chosen organ. the
Homestead, in>which Candidate Porter
saws he will oppose any policy that
will have a tendency to divide nefgh :
Dor class against class, race against
race. or creed against creed; or IN
other words he will continue to leave
alone those who in Iowa make class OF
creed a cloak for diloyalty.
The republicans. In the state ana IN
The nation, now as ever IN the past
are 100 per cent American.
Republicans, not democrats, united
the nation for the war: republicans,
not democrats, laid aside all tneii
partisanship and accepted service I'M
der a bitterly partisan administrations;
republicans, not democrats, set the
pace for placing loyalty to American
ideals and patriotism for the Ameri-
can cause, above all else and nave
never wavered.
THE whole world knows that the
republicans were first and have been
most steadfastly for the vigorous pro-
secuton Of the war, and that they art
now for peace through unconditional
surrender as opposed to peace by ne
sotiation. &
Nonssnsieai PIsa.
"Pretense that election Of republi'
cans by Iowa voters. to- be their SER
wants and not subservient to any out
side power, will be pleasing to the
kaiser or cause Joy in Berlin, or thai
any democrat, Just because he Is g
democrat, is more useful public SER
want than the ablest and most loya
republican, Is sham and a pretense
an insult to every one who cherishe'
the principles Of Lincoln, Mckinley
Roosevelt and Taft.
"Our allies at least know and un
derstand that with the republican
party maintained and strengthened
the kaiser must then reckon with thu
i - n1Sa N nricQn Y1eODla mt merely