Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1910 — Peanut Polities Campaign is Started by the Democrat. [ARTICLE]

Peanut Polities Campaign is Started by the Democrat.

The general impression ip that the activity in behalf-of keeping Mr. Bader out of the penitentiary yas because certain orffes did not dare let him be sent there for fear other disclosures might result, rather than any particular feeling for the convicted man. It Is intimated that Prosecutor Long well was threatened flrith political defeat if he pushed the case against Bader. The motives of some people are always open to suspicion, and when they threaten the prosecutor and take such an unwonted interest in behalf of a grafter who is a democrat, unfortunately, it behooves the taxpayers to take notice.—Jasper County Democrat. , This is a strikingly natural method for the Democrat and its sponsor to inaugurate a campaign and the public would be disappointed if any method of sound reasoning were employed. Will the Democrat have the courage to name those “certain ones” who did not dare let Bader be sent so the penitentiary? It will not. Why?

Because there are no such persons and, the Democrat knows it and is simply laboring in an effort to deceive its readers by insinuating what it dare not utter. Does the Democrat think that Mr. Littlefield, chairman of the democratic county committee, and a man who Is in every respect above reproach, feared disclosures as his reason' for signing Bader’s petition? Does the editor of the Democrat think that N. S. Bates or James A. McFarland signed the petition for Bader’s parole to avoid disclosures, or simply because they were generous and prompted by motives higher than peanut politics? Does the Democrat think that the publishers of the Republican feared any exposures? If he has this idea, we shall be pleased to have him inform the public what these fears are leased upon. Does the Democrat believe that any man, republican or democrat, whose name appears on the petition for parole had any fear of disclosures if Bader went to the penitentiary, either on his own account or on account of any other person? The Democrat editor does not believe it, but its editor thinks Jje can make readers believe it does. But the Democrat should come out of the brush, set innuendo aside and name those persons whom he indicates have fears. Will the Democrat do this? We shall see. ,

The Democrat says “it is intimated that Prosecutor Longwell was threatened with political defeat if he pushed the case against Bader.” Will the Democrat tell who intimated it? We would not mind telling. It was the Democrat that made the intimation for peanut political purposes. No man in Newton or Jasper county stands higher today in the estimation of the public than does Fred Longwell, and no man in the republican. party in these two counties would think of suggesting his defeat. Mr. Longwell conducted his prosecution of Bauer ably and manfully and proved himself a good thinker, a student of law, an able attorney as an examiner of witnesses, a good reasoner and an able orator. Men who were glad to have Bader convicted for Mr. Longwell’s sake and who were satisfied that Bader had violated the law as charged regretted to see the punishment applied and we are told that Mr. Longwell himself was thus inclined. He carried on the prosecution as his sworn duty and never gave up until sentence had been passed, but through it all he felt the kindliest sympathy for the defendant. The suggestion of his defeat was never made except in the mipd of the Democrat editor and there is not a man in the Republican party who could beat him for renomination nor a man in the democratic party who could defeat his election, and an “intimation” to that effect would come only from a source from which peanut politics ensue. Will the Democrat editor name those people "whose motives are always open to suspicion” and tell who has threatened the prosecutor? Here again will that massive brain at promulgating innuendo andsuspicConcluded on Page Four.