National Democrat (Newspaper) - August 15, 1912, Des Moines, Iowa B 13th PEOPLE'S PAPER Liberal and Fearless True to Democracy IOWA'S CAPITAL PRIDE Dutiful to Friends Always s si ve THE DEMOCRAT PAPER STATE CAPITAL DES MOINES IOWA THURSDAY AUGUST 15 1912 NEW SERIES VOL Ill NO 40 REPLY TO DALTON'S SPASM A few days ago the good people of the peaceful little village of Manson were thrown into paroxysms of great distress over the sudden illness of tle Johnny Dalton of that place It seems that after reading a number of stalwart democratic sheets con- some virile editorials on the conduct of certain democrats of his acquaintance he tailed fits and threw was several only pulled through by the heroic utilization of a double strength Budweiser smelling bottle What the tion will be on his system when he reads the papers of this week's issue and finds his own name in print is a matter of the gravest concern to his fellow townsmen Little Johnny has not been in the best of health since the Cedar Rapids where he was pried loose from his sinecure on the state central committee and gently dropped into the river of forgetfulness that leads to political oblivion But in the cess he contracted a bad case of dis- tamper with marked symptoms of the rabies which is evidenced by his re- cent tendency to snap and snarl at his friends as well as his enemies Now the great question is why were the people of his district so cruel to so valuable and apparently so pensable a public servant Common report has it that it was discovered that politically speaking Little Johnny was not the real thing but was found to be a politician of the peanut variety counterfeit spurious fictitious The good democrats of the Tenth district had long been weary of paying assessments to cover Johnny's jolly expeditions over the state and our only marvel is that they did not pull off the mule stunt earlier that was staged and few warts on the tail of the Iowa mule of democracy We have known that they were there for some time and considered them rather as fungus growth than as malignant but with the of their evil we advocate heroic ures Don't cut off the tail unless it is absolutely necessary to get rid of the parasites but get rid of them even if this luckless member must be And with the elimination of the disturbing self-seeking element we the democracy of this great state will proceed triumphantly and on the high road to cess freed from the influences that have wrought such havoc and de- struction in the ranks of our Great Hog State district caucus at Cedar Rapids Johnny was kicked clear over the ropes and finding his sugar tit gone he has been squalling a dismal dirge ever since Johnny wants to know about one Wm A Button of Des Moines Said Hutton has just as long just as honorable just as consistent a record as a democrat as said Johnny more so since stuck by the old party and put his own good hard cash into educational propositions for the diffusion of democratic principles when Johnny was one of a very select few who sat on the lid of the cratic pork barrel Who greased our Why Hutton of course your skids Don't about it isn't Champion Duroc-Jersey State The farmers of seven million head Iowa own of hogs have more hogs than are to be found in any other state of the union more than in any other two states of the union and the Iowa hog has long been famous for his capacity to make money for the farmers This is one reason why the swine exhibit at the Iowa State Fair has come to be regarded as the standard for all the world No other exhibit of swine is in the same class at all with that of Iowa There are more breeders and more buyers who attend this swine exhibition than attend any other fair or show The Iowa farmer who Is at all in- in swine cannot afford to miss a careful study of the exhibit at Des Moines August to you reaped a rich Suppose have vention at Cedar was elected delegate to Burlington was honored by his county and precinct and did walk with Messrs Riegelman and Hoffman up to the Montrose Hotel where we understand Johnny had been doing the honors waiting on Judge Wade's table and keeping Nick Reed's shoes in a presentable tion Where was Hutton during the years of Little incumbency in the office of secretary of the state central He was fighting a good fight for democracy and ing it single handed too He to the cause of democracy time labor and the fruits of his presses and he did it in a spirit of patriotism without hope of material reward or favor while you Master Johnny had a lead pipe cinch on the state committee printing from which benefice involving fancy prices and no competition harvest indeed heard the story of the young man on his way to the and the skunk Well he got too close to the skunk and at his girl's home one after an- other he accused the different bers of the girl's family of smelling like a pole cat Now Johnny like the young man you have the goods right on you and politically there is an stench hooked up with you that offends the finer sensibilities of the discriminating and eminently re- We pride ourselves on be- ing numbered among this latter class To continue Johnny said well in his article on the Zeal of New Converts that a man's standing in his home community is what counts ton's place in his home community causes said gentleman nor his friends no uneasiness nor do we think that a clean of health from Little Johnny would improve matters any were there really need for such a The National Democrat has ed no one in general nor yet Little Johnny in particular We did print some known truths but telling the truth about a man certainly does not constitute an assault upon him Show us where we have ever maligned one true democratic patriot and we will issue National Democrat draped in mourning with a three-inch black border and a life-sized portrait of Little Johnny in the middle Johnny was greatly peeved when he wrote his papier-mache broadside of slush and gush That is the tion why there is no much balderdash in it and so little reason and good sense Logically he transgressed every precept argued in circles made his deductions from false premises or no premises at all fell headlong into all the fallacies known to science and then just like the good verbal robat that he is he swings high into the realm of spotless morality and patriotism and sheds crocodile tears over the unsavory bunch that trying to sneak back into the cratic party after loyally supporting ON HIS Josephus cratic National Committee Wants Voters to Make an Investigation FAVORS THE BALLOT Petition Is Condemned WILL WIN LEGION OF FRIENDS ove They Popularity of Iowa people continue to place the races in the forefront of the fair at- tractions More than 275 horses were named in the stake races for the Iowa State Fair The premiums in the speed ment have been increased to 250.00 and the speed program is such as will bring to the Iowa State Fair the very fastest horses in the country Additional seating capacity has been arranged for this year for those who attend the races in anticipation of increasing crowds at the State Fair The Monoplane Visitors to the Iowa State have the pleasure this year of seeing for the first time in this part of the country a monoplane which is the highest type of flying machine developed in Europe The contract calls for two flights daily of the two each for the Curtis and Wright biplanes This will be the flying machine exhibition ever given in the state National Draft Horse Futurities the school teacher prohibitionist as Johnny vociferously and poetically styled the of the United States just a few weeks ago No Johnny your bluff won't work this time There is only one man you out of the Iowa yourself The unsavory bunch of county will he on the political rialto driving their precarious political purifying cesses of tan National Democrat stands for democratic harmony and it is for the sake of democratic harmony that we publish the above There are some The fact that the contest for the National Draft Horse Breeders has been located definitely in Iowa at the Iowa State Fair next three years is a high ment to the state of Iowa as a horse breeders state The fact be that Iowa has made wonderful gains in recent years in breeding the finest of horses and each year the big horse the Fair has been gaining in interest There no finer sight anywhere in the world in the stock judging pavilion at the Iowa State Fair when the ribbons are being placed on the finest horses that the world can produce the for is which is in addition offered as in the horse Is Not to Play a Part in Democratic Campaign Declares Publicity Chairman WOODROW WILSON Scholar and Statesman Democratic Candidate for President WILLIAM J speech of acceptance is admirable It is its treatment of the issues of the campaign I am sure the address will impress the country favorably JOHN W KERN SENATOR Governor Wilson's speech of acceptance is a masterpiece setting forth with great ness his conception of the work to be accomplished by the Democratic party under his leadership It is in complete harmony with the progressive sentiment of the country but also appeals strongly to every legitimate business interest GOV WILLIAM H MANN OF I think it was an admirable speech It was wise tive comprehensive prophetic not only of Democratic success but of Democratic supremacy for years to come O GOV FREDERICK W O TED OF It is a splendid presentation O of the issues for the American 5 people It rings true In every Q sentence and in every word It Q represents the spirit of the Democracy of today It is the address of a statesman GOV EUGENE FOSS It was an admirable tation of the real issues upon which the campaign will be f 1 I think that it is bound to strengthen Governor Wilson among the thinking ple of the country GOV GEO W DONAGHEY It was a great speech It will ring through the country It is just what he should have said The people have never more confident of success since the nomination of Grover Cleveland JUDGE MARTIN J For the first time the state was admitted to the will this give its electoral vote to the cratic nominee for president speech of acceptance good luck as well as merit It comes just in time to contrast sharply with the interminable Bedlamite rant of Th Dentatus Africanus i Ferox And if without con- tempt of campus it may be said i though written by -a college president very recently retired it is in the English language i not anaemic and seldom with suspicion of priggishness or though it an a certain academic distinction of its own What will please everybody who has a living to make is Governor Wilson's equable and moderate tone Governor Wilson is for repair not for NEW YORK It is applicable The nant thought the very soul of his discourse is the common interest of people their partnership in our activities and our prosperity The idea comes from Ills mind not as a sublimated theory but as a practical immediate remedy NEW YORK Governor Wilson's speech of acceptance is the ablest est sanest statement of high public purpose country has known in a generation without in- without abuse without partisan bitterness without denunciation without egotism without demagogy he has en straight to the heart of the supreme issue of American in- be- tween government and lege JOHN LAMB safe and sane Governor Wilson be- in the efficacy of the pel rat ier than the big stick His dissection of trust and iff evils is unique end ing His suggestions of reform in methods of government and reduction of tariff schedules meet with approval of legitimate business and the boring masses as THOMAS MOTT OSBORNE AUBURN N Y r Wilson's speech fits the occasion and the but not wild sane strong and unmistakably cratic It makes an Inspiring opening of campaign cating nobly the spirit in the leaders of our party riot brie of mere partisan but of honesty arid ward all CHAMP CLARK SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF Considered from a literary standpoint Governor Wilson's speech or acceptance will take rank In the political out- put of the year It will make pleasant reading and will pro ve a fetching campaign document issues of the day ly clearly and teous will opposition him It hran pronouncement New York Aug iels chairman of the publicity com- of the Democratic national committee said Eight ago during the campaign of 1904 I came to New York and being a member of the Democratic national committee I dropped in at the headquarters of the committee I found the literary reau of the committee very actively engaged in perusing the volumes of Theodore Roosevelt When I saw on every desk The Winning of the THe Life of Thomas H ton and a half dozen others of the works of the then Republican nominee for president I wondered whether or not I had gotten into the right place I was immediately set aright ever when I was informed that the literary young men were engaged in culling from those books some of the many denunciations and bitter and attacks made by Theodore Roosevelt upon public men and ures and his aspersions upon great representative bodies of our people such as workingmen and farmers I found them preparing to send forth broadcast all over the land such excerpts from the writings of dore Roosevelt Cowboys are much better fellows and pleasanter companions than small farmers or agricultural laborers nor are the mechanics workmen a great city to be mentioned in the same breath Bryan and his adherents have appealed to basest set in the land They workingmen who object to government in are not in Declare Unscrupulous Politicians Re- sort To Coercive Measures Again Workingmen With Mulct Petition of Consent Des men generally throughout the state are pleased by the action of the recent convention of the Iowa State tion of Labor in its endorsing tha Shankland At the state meeting in Muscatine the following resolutions were ed: We the undersigned delegates to the twentieth convention of tha Iowa State Federation of Labor peal to this convention to endorse and the so-called Shankland bilB which was before the last legislature substituting the American lot for the petition system of consent which has often been used as a cive measure against the workingman by unscrupulous politicians and tan destroying thq independent action in matters of lic nature guaranteed to every zen as an inalienable right by the United States Morrison W X Ribble D C Meredith J L Lewis H H Bye G M Lucas G H Brooks Arthur Sipes M Rathberger Chas Beck Joseph Horner Simon Miller Ed Schrempf J H T P gins Frank Watson and C E Stewart That many working men have beeri boycotted and threatened by the petition is not doubted In fact system is more harmful to employes than employers of men WILL MAKE TALKS FOR LOCAL OPTION OF NEW YORK Governor Wilson's of acceptance is marked broad vision and clear thought expressed in language every American can understand As a business man and er I am especially pleased with his positive and statesmanlike position on the paramount sue of tariff reform and his de- mand for an immediate ward revision In sincerity precise statement and grasp of great ples and their application of the fundamental needs of the country the speech is to the core It contains no appeal to passion and ex- cites no Governor Wilson has presented to his party and to the nation clear conception of the truth that the real struggle in the pending campaign is between the con- powers of privilege and the aspiration of the ican people to realize in their government and their ic industrial and social tions the full of the principles of freedom justice and progress upon which the republic was founded To all the issues and every national need Governor Wilson applies the Rule right and common advantage The reforms id- are far reaching but they are sound and practical The speech will awaken and stir the national conscience and lead to a tri- umph that will restore to the people the control of their arid inaugurate a new and happier epoch in the land and development of the republic O HOKE SENATOR -am nor Wilson's speech of ance It Is statement of the present purpose Democracy and points the way for justice to all through real progress by law under the Con- With his election sured it should give confidence to bonest business and n courage to those who need a square deal JOHN OR OF Governor Wilson's Is characteristic of the soul bare to the people and asks them to join with him irrespective of party In righting present wrongs without undue clamor or injury to legitimate Inter- ests He lays emphasis on constructive thinking and I be- lieve this epitomizes one of the nation's greatest needs at the present time wUl be Wilson overwhelmingly In November sound civic morality They quoted from what said about the Quakers that those who would not fight were traitors to their country They said that when farmers and workmen and the Quakers came to know what Theodore Roosevelt had written about them they would rise up with and indignation and bury Theodore Roosevelt beneath an avalanche of votes They said that Roosevelt would not answer that ex- of his views and of course he never did I agreed with them that It was the proper thing to do to ald these utterances through the try As to whether or not that sort of campaigning had any effect the re- sult of the campaign eight years ago speaks for itself The Republican party is attempting to do today sort of thing that the Democrats tried in 1908 The Democrats Mr Ro- denberg They were eight years ahead of him in this sort of thing It didn't work with us then and it will not work with them now Stands on Record The attempt to attack Gov Wilson because of certain statements which he made in- writing history and in commenting upon events of history as they appeared to him as historian will fail signally As one great metro- newspaper pointed out Mr Rod en berg and his simply Blowing against the wind Governor Wilson is running for president on his record as a public and with that record the public is fairly well conversant and it will continue to learn more as the campaign gresses He is running for president on his record as governor of New Jersey what he said and did in that capacity rather he wrote as a ian chronicling events and ing upon them as they appeared to an impartial observer whose duty it Is to write of as they are rather than as they should or as he have them Our Republican brethren are en- titled to all the thunder they can make out of Governor Wilson's ings I hope they will read them carefully and thoroughly They will be able to gain a great deal of ble information and the context Is read along with the excerpts which have been taken from his works for of placing him in a false light I have no fear as to the results All that Is needed is a thorough un- Ingersoll sought to disprove Bible truths and to assail Holy Writ by the same methods which the Republicans are assail Wilson Six Weeks Campaign Is To Be Con- ducted in Indiana By Well Known Temperance Orator six temperance arranged to make in the of local option law begun next Sunday at Muncie where a mass meeting will be held the auspices of the temperance ple Mr Woolley -is a former candidate for president on the ticket He recently I have given most of my life for the prohibition party but we have been able to get the hard-headed iness men into our party The famous temperance orator is of the belief that men cannot be made virtuous by legislation and he cates home rule in the matter of handling the liquor traffic He be- the people of every locality capable of deciding at the polls whether or not they desire the lated traffic or local prohibition KANSAS EXECUTIVE REGISTERS COMPLAINT Secretary of State Sessions Says It la Not His Fault That ists Can't Be On the Ballot Topeka of State Charles H Sessions is angered be- cause he has received numerous ters lately to the effect that he is prohibitionists off the official ballot The has issued merous interviews showing that the prohibitionists in this prohibition state cannot be on the ticket because the party failed to cast one per cent'- of the total vote two years ago The campaign in Kansas is to be of un- usual interest this year because one of the candidates for governor has come out on a local option platform CAPITAL CITY HAS TROUBLES OF ITS OWN Police and County Officials Find That Disorderly Camps Exist Just Outside the City Limits SENATOR GORE OF OKLA The closing sentence of his speech will become hymn of Democracy in the ing I thank God and take courage It la at once a paean of and a o V vO Des Moines people of this city and county ware shocked when it was an automobile accident on a road that beer camps have been existing just outside the city limits police were powerless to stop the evil the camps were outside their jurisdiction and the county officials are making a thorough investigation to determine thei owner of the places il- legal sale of liquors has been going The feeling against illegal liquor resorts is strong here The city prided itself on regulation and re- of the business and even the most liberal people assert that liquor should not be sold under consideration except in a legal ner The liquor dealers are with the county officials in their to clean up the that
