The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-10-30
AN OPEN LETTER
Mr.. Porter. please answer:

lldtuIe tldI yOu art against NoFSi-
nor Harding for reelection because
he has not risen to loyal leadership"
in Iowa. Please answers
State a single place where Cover
nor Harding has not been loyal to the
federal government, to the soldiers
and sailors, ito our allies.
| Give one instance where official
washington has asked Governor Hard
ing for thing they have not received.
Is it, in your opinion, "disloyal lead
'ership" to administer the draft law
so that Iowa is in the first six states
in every comparison of states? Or
to fill every quota call of the gov
eminent?
To increase the wheat acreage in
Iowa $50 per cent
To increase the production of Iowa
coal two millions tons, as President
Lewis of the mine workers says? b,
To get war contracts for Iowa man.
ufacturers and keep Iowa labor in
Iowa? q. SIS
| To help 10000 farmers to get seed
corn that will grow?
To suggest a maximum price for
seed corn and save the farmers thous-
ands of dollars? ra@ y,
| To help farmers and stock men get
cars in which to ship their stock and
save millions of dollars? tss q"
To get box cars for farmers to save
their soft corn?
To keep the coal mines running and
furnish employment for $4,000 men?
| To keep Iowa factories running and
furnish employment for thousands Of
men and women?
Please answer these, Mr.. Porter:
Why do you favor fixing the price
of the Iowa farmers wheat and not
the price of the southern planters
cotton? 5& 49,
why 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 oversubscribe on the big Liberty
bond drives? Why do you disapproye,
| of systematic organized war work
for Iowa? Do you want the loyal peo-
| pie to run the Liberty loan? or the
Stacker? IS tn
| Where are you on the controversy
over the use in schools and public
meetings of the language of the kais-
err or the language of the DECLARATION
Of independence? At time when
loyal Iowans are driving sedition to
cover, why do you invite the freest
use of other than the English Ian
guage? Have you done or said any
thing that has offended a single pro-
German agitator because of the speech
familiar to "the kaiser and his CO.
horts?"
Take notice, Mr.. Porter, answer al
4 SO:
| If you were governor would you sus-
tain Judge Martin J. Wade Of the
southern Iowa district; Hon. F. A.
IO'Conner, United States attorney
northern district, and Hon. w. w.
Marsh, national democratic treasurer,
| in ousting James M. Pierce from the
| Iowa Council Of Defense, and placing
on record "the fact that it, is our sol
emn Judgment that the efforts of Mr..
Pierce are disloyal and are aiding and
Encouraging disloyalty and sedition?'',
1 After this indictment of Piece for Sc
EDITION by three eminent democrats,
Iwhy did you fail to prosecute him?
I, 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 10y
atty? Will you permit Pierce to dom
4 mate and dictate your administration,
or would you incur his hostility by re-
fusing his demands? What sort of a
bargain have you with Pierce, any
way? fe5l
| One of your political associates, al
so formerly from Iowa, sent word from
washington that the election of re-
publicans to congress would be a
source of comfort and citation to the
kaiser and his cohorts" Is that your
view. and do you join in branding as
traitor every Iowa soldier boy who
dares to vote for a republican candi-
date for congress or for Governor
Harding?
DO you subscribe to the doctrine
now put forth by your party leader
J that for the purpose of helping win
the war "the election of any democrat
is preferable to the election Of 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
pprtant than every -other thing?
Governor Harding has stood with
his party and the American people
for the whole war program, for every
thing that will help win, for nothing
that would hinder, for the use OF ev-
lery resource OF men, money and ma
terials, without regard to politics or
favor to classes or sections. You OPP
pose what he has done and is doing
Be specific and say why.
Chas. w. Rawson,
Chairman Republican State Central
Committee.
Election November 9Th.
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