Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-03
POLITICAL DISCUSSION THRU
OUT STATE IGNORES PARTY
OF WILSON As FACTOR.
HOOVER AND MILITARY
MEN NOT WANTED
Many Candidates Find Favor Among
Men Who Exprsss Themselves
lowden Most Favorsd-"Not Me-"
SAY Merchants When Profitser'ns
10 Mentioned.


Eldora, Feb. s.-Net In many yeare
have men begun to lineup seriously
for or against presidential candidates
so early as in the campaign just now
beginning. and II discussions of men
and issues increase and grow warm
er with the progress Of the contest
Il will be a "hot" one indeed before II
is finished next fall. There is Sin
gular unanimity, too. In the lineup IN
different communities In this part Of
the state.
One popularity is the fact thar
nine -tenths of the discussion Is con-
fined to the fortunes Of members OF
the republican party. Only IN oc
casional instances are democratic Is
sues or prospective standard bearers
discussed, the great majority OF CEN
trail Iowans evidently being OF the
opinion that the next president VIII
be a republican. Practically every
man who was In army service In the
late war expresses himself emphat.
cally as opposed to the nomination OF
military man. General Wood might
be all right. Pershing wouldn't SUI!
him at all; any way. he doesn't want
anyNmilitaristic candidate nominated
Johnson, Borah, Lodge and others OF
similar political convictions come 1T
for FREQUENT criticism and Hoover IL
the especial target for the shafts Of
the man who never did and never
will knowingly vote into any oftic'
man who possesses any EnslsE
sympathies whatever. Governor
Iowden alone appears to have M
critics a partial reason being. o,
course, that "he used to live owe
near New Providence and Is just
common, every day sort of man yet
in spite Of his wealth and family re-
lationship."
One outspoken man did declar'
that. with conditions changing 80
rapidly, it is too early to discuss can
didates yet, that the man In favoi
today may be in the penitentiary Do
fore election day, and that noood!
should speculate on the events Of Sly
months hence.
An address delivered the night be-
fore by an out of-town man was be
ing commented on by a group tina
had attended the meeting. The talk
evidently had touched on curren
economic subjects. profiteering. etc
One of the men mentioned the sugar
problem and everybody agreed tina
somebody was taking advantage o:
the situation that enabled him t.
reap an exorbitant profit. Then he
mentioned shoes, and followed unani-
nous concurrence. Finally he named
cotton goods, and an exclama-
ton of mo. that's different" cam'
from dry goods merchant. who ex
planned that he recently visited I
cotton growing section Of this coun-
try, that the cotton grower Is shirk-
ing on production because he car
| make a living with which he Is salts
| fed with the present rate Of output
He insisted there is nothing to the
cotton goods question except suffi.
| cient production. Earlier In the da.
| the shoe dealer had given the rea
sons for increased prices and hat
said he was ready to sell out to any
| body who believed the shoe dealer II
getting rich. Doubtless the sugar
| dealer. retailer. wholesaler or manu-
facturer could explain that it is tn
I other fellow and not ne who is prac
ticing unfair business tactics. Thi
same shoe dealer declared there is nc
| reality to the idea of people paying
high prices preferably to lower ones
the truth being that anything excep,
the highest priced Is Of so inferio
grade that the old adage about thu
best being the cheapest still hold
good. He had had all the experience
he cared for selling lower priced
shoes to customers. telling them at the
time that the goods were backed by
| 10 guarantee. and then having these
same buyers appear in few days
It his store with a request that the
lealer make good on pair Of worth
'ess shoes, leaving his store for
"ver' because he couldn't do 1t.
An incident of travel on the NJ. &
st. l.. railroad that occurred last
Saturday deserves mention. 1t is a,