<em>Muscatine Herold</em>: 1918 Sample Election Ballot
city elections in Muscatine; Peoples Democratic Ticket; Republican Citizens Ticket; Socialist Workers Ticket
Sample election ballot for the Muscatine city elections of March 4, 1918, published by the <em>Muscatine Herold</em>. By publishing the ballot with an affidavit in German from the City Recorder, the <em>Herold</em> allowed its readers to familiarize themselves in advance with candidates as well as with the English text that they would have to navigate at the ballot box. There was strong local support for the Socialist Party among workers in the city's pearl button industry and other factories.
Harry B. Caple (City Recorder)
Muscatine Herold
Henry Heinz
1 March 1918
State Historical Society of Iowa
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German; English
newspaper text
Muscatine Herold, microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
1918-03-01; Muscatine; Muscatine County
Pro-German Socialist
World War I; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Anti-Germanism; Pro-Germanism; Socialism
On a Pro-German on the board of supervisors, also apparently interested in socialism.
Charles T. Owens
N/A
State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa
12/31/1917
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N/A
Letter
English
TEXT
Box #14, Council of Defense, Governor's Office: Harding, Research Group #43, S61/07/05
1917-12-31; Hancock County; Garner, Iowa
Red Fears in the Schools
World War I; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Anti-Germanism; Marxism; Socialism; Atheism; Bolshevism
School superintendent "haunted" by meeting with a Marxist, who might even deny the existence of a divinity. Moreover, this was a teacher of history (!).
A. J. Rohrbaugh
N/A
State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa
11/14/1917
N/A
N/A
N/A
Letter
English
TEXT
Box #14, Council of Defense, Governor's Office: Harding, Research Group #43, S61/07/05
1917-11-14; Guthrie County; Redfield, Iowa
Rescind Babel, Ease Social Tensions
World War I; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Anti-Germanism; Bolshevism; Labor; Socialism; Unrest;
Berwald, enclosing letter to Wilson, notes the benefits of rescinding Babel, citing examples in England as well as the new unrest around social and labor issues.
John Berwald
N/A
State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa
11/25/1918
N/A
N/A
N/A
Letter
English
TEXT
Box #14, Council of Defense, Governor's Office: Harding, Research Group #43, S61/07/05
1918-11-25; Scott County; Davenport, Iowa; England; Washington D. C.
Response to Kimmel
World War I; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Anti-Germanism; Americanization; Socialism; Bolshevism
Harding notes currently no funds for "Americanization movements."
W. L. Harding
N/A
State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa
1/7/1920
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N/A
Letter
English
TEXT
Box #14, Council of Defense, Governor's Office: Harding, Research Group #43, S61/07/05
1920-01-07; Scott County; Davenport, Iowa;
Against Bolshevism
World War I; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Anti-Germanism; Americanization; Socialism; Bolshevism
Kimmel ntoes the need to "counteract the vicious influences of the Socialists, Bolshevists and other agitators who would tear down our present form of Government and present order of things."
Joseph S. Kimmel
N/A
State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa
1/2/1920
N/A
N/A
N/A
Letter
English
TEXT
Box #14, Council of Defense, Governor's Office: Harding, Research Group #43, S61/07/05
1920-01-02; Scott County; Davenport, Iowa; Kansas City, Missouri
Socialistic German Societies
World War I; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Anti-Germanism; Socialism; Amana Society; Violence;
Calling attention to the "socialistic, German society" of the Amana Society, which holds property and women in common, speaking German all the while. We should "dissolve their charter -- wipe them out."
C. C. Melchert
N/A
State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa
1/8/1919
N/A
N/A
N/A
Letter
English
TEXT
Box #14, Council of Defense, Governor's Office: Harding, Research Group #43, S61/07/05
1919-01-08; Davis County; Bloomfield, Iowa
Seditious Literature
World War I; Council of Defense; Disloyalty; Seditious Literature; Socialism; Finance
Lauer reports a rumor heard regarding seditious literature passed along train, which states that the war "is a financial one and that high finance is taking a prominent place in same."
J. Q. Lauer
N/A
State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa
3/6/1918
N/A
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N/A
Letter
English
TEXT
Box #14, Council of Defense, Governor's Office: Harding, Research Group #43, S61/07/05
1918-03-06; Waverly, Iowa; Bremer County; Grand Rapids, Michigan
Labor Unrest and Sedition
World War I; Disloyalty; Pro-Germanism; Council of Defense; Violence; Socialism; Labor
Concerning unpatriotic actions, and violence, by groups, namely "labor leaders" and those "stirring up dissension among the workers."
T. P. Menton
State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa
9/15/1917
Letter
English
Box #14, Council of Defense, Governor's Office: Harding, Research Group #43, S61/07/05
1917-09-15; Boone, Iowa; Boone County; Springfield, Illinois; Ohio
Perspective from Wisconsin
World War I; Babel Proclamation; Council of Defense; German Language; Anti-Germanism; Wisconsin; Methodism; Socialism; German Jews; Bennett Law; Education
Editorial from Wisconsim Methodists on language and schooling, thought to have some bearing on present language issue in Iowa.
Ernest W. Mager
N/A
State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa
6/20/1918
Frank W. Court
N/A
N/A
Letter
English
TEXT
Box #13, Council of Defense, Governor's Office: Harding, Research Group #43, S61/07/05
1918-06-20; 1918-06-12; Wisconsin; Waterloo, Iowa; Black Hawk County;