Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-02
AN OPEN LETTER To-
Chairman Republican State Central Committee

initiate every member Of the council by treat
ing their action with silent contempt ana
WHY did not Harding have the courage TO
stand by the council of defense or to sustain
Mr.. Pierce?
Where did the governor find any law,
authority or precedent to bar the use
of the la(page of our allies in this state
or the language of neutral countries? what
other governor, or what other president even'
ever undertook such thing in the entire his
torv of the nation? Is it loyal LEADER
SHIP" to set neighbor against neighbor;
friend against friend; race against race =
right in the middle of the war, when all must
pull together? You insult Mr.. Porter when
you ask "Have you done or said anything
that has offended single pro-German ag1-
tator?" You insult him because you know
that Mr.. Porter has done more to stamp out
sedition and pro- ermanism in Iowa and IN
the United States than any other man living
When he sent Wallace t o t he penltentlary
for twenty years, Blodgett to the penlten-
tiary for twenty years, dozens of others for
shorter terms, and one hundred l. w. WIS
for period in the aggregate OF several nun
dred years-pro- Germans took to the woods
when Porter came their way, and when Por-
ter is governor, pro- Germans will stay IN
the woods, and men who are not pro-German
will be protected against insult and injury.
You ask whether Mr.. Porter joins Gin
branding as traitor every Iowa soldier boy
who dares to vote for republican candidate
for congress or for Governor Harding" You
know that this is not Mr. Porter's attitude
because Mr.. Porter, as well as myself, joined
in giving Senator Kenyon, republican, an
Endorsement by the democrats OF Iowa in
convention assembled. You also know that
in most of the congressional districts in this
state, republicans will be elected, BUT BY
THE WAY, RAWSON, in view of the loud
proclamations of loyalty by the governor and
by yourself, answer me this, AND HAVE
HARDING ANSWER
Are you and Harding jointly or separately
spending money and expanding effort to
elect Hull to congress in the Second district;
Haugen in the Fourth district, and Ramseyer
in the Sixth district, three candidates who
have been branded by the Security league as
disloyal? Taft and Roosevelt and Senator
Young and other prominent republicans, join
in this report as to their disloyalty.
WILL HARDING COME OUT AND SAY
IN THE PATRIOTIC SPIRIT SHOWN BY THE
DORsED KENYON THAT THESE MEN SHOULD
BE DEFEATED BECAUSE THEY MISREPRE-
SCENTED THE PEOPLE OF THEIR DISTRICTS
AND OF THE STATE OF IOWA?
Hull not only voted against every impor-
tant measure but MADE SPEECH AGAINST
THAT WAR in which he said: But the test Of
loyalty is not the answer to the bugle CALL" DOES
HARDING STAND FOR THIS AND FOR THE
MAN WHO UTTERED THEM?
HAUGEN MADE A SPEECH AGAINST
THE WAR, and the day before the registration of
the boys in 1917 10000 copies Of his anti
and tWilson speech were sent into the fourth
congressional district AND FEW DAYS AFTER
FENsE., OF WHICH THE GOVERNOR IS A MEM
Der, CONDEMNED HAUGEN'S DISLOYALTY.
DOES HARDING NOW STAND BY THAT RESo
LUTON OR IS HE TRYING TO HELP THE
PRESIDENT BY SENDING HAUGEN BACK TO
WAsHINGTON?"
Ramseyers record is as bad as the others
and the loyal people in the sixth district
ing in their might to throw him out Of congress.
IS HARDING WITH RAMsEYER OR AGAINST
HIM?
SINCE YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY
HARDING is ACCUSED OF NOT RISING TO
LOYAL LEADERSHIP IN IOWA." am trying to
the question. Words do not prove loyalty;
acts and conducts the test and if Harding wants
to help Wilson why don't he help Wilson to clean
out the men in congress who have been represent
ing the kaiser instead OF the American people? IF
Governor
the nation above all else." HAVE HIM ISSUE A
PROCLAMATION Che is great proclamations)
ASKING THE LOYAL PEOPLE OF THOSE DIS
TRICrs TO DEFEAT THESE UNWORTHY
SERVANTS.
You say Mr.. Harding stands "for nothing
that would hinder" in helping to win the
Hull hindered; Haugen hindered; Rarpseyer hin
dered. WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SAY ABOUT
IT?
Don't come back with that POLITICAL
PETTIFOGGING by asking about dsloyal
democrats There that dsloya
and President Wilson has done his best to drive
them out Of public life WHAT WANT IS A
FRANK STATEMENT WHETHER HARDING BE-
LIEvES THAT HULL. HAUGEN AND RAMSEYER
SHOULD BE REELECTED II he believes in
them he ought to say not because they re-
publcans Of course, but because they right.
DARE GOVERNOR HARDING TO PUT HIS
NAME BELOW A STATEMENT THAT HE BE-
LIEvEs THOSE MEN WE'RE RIGHT And, MR..
RAWsON, just one more question-how much
money has Governor Harding spent for special
agents during his term Of ONCE? And how many
pro-Germans have they arrested and convicted?
have been told only one-Is THIS TRUE! And
does Harding believe that the entire state should
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