The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-12-19
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DEN1soN, IOWA, DECEMBER 1889.
Who Was Right?

Mr.. Payne of the Nevada Represen-
| tative is pursuing al editorial course
which we believe to be very detrimental
to the interests of the republican party
and of the people. We do not refer to
, the fact that he is supporting Mr.. Cum
Minis candidacy for the senatorship, in
fact the representatives tenacity to a
lost cause is striking example of fidel.
/! ity. We refer to the fact that the
Story county paper can see nothing but
dishonesty and turpitude ana corrup-
ton among the followers OF Senator
Gear. The Representative is too much
under the shadow of the Registers
wing, and the Register we'll, one
should say naught but good of the
dead.
We believe Mr.. Cummins' friends to
be able, honest and sincere, but we do
not believe they have cornered the
market on those commodities. If it
were notfor Mr.. Cummins' party record
we should think more seriously of his
candidacy.
4. We remember something of those
prohibition times and if we remember
rightly the Register and the Represen.
tative were two papers most strongly
in favor of it. We know that the Reg
lister tried to read out OF the party all
those who did not accept the theory of
statutory prohibition. We know this
because during those days Mr.. j. Fred
Meyers was among those republicans
who felt that the prohibitory law could
not be enforced and was therefore
wrong. AT that time Mr.. Meyers was
publishing the Zeitung as well as the
REVIEW. When the prohibitory law
was passed he had to face not only the
bitter personal attacks of such men as
the editors of the Register and the
Representative but the enmity of his
fellow Germans who felt that he should
have left his party
4 The same choice was presented to
= him as was presented to Mr.. Cummins.
Mr.. Meyers said that he had voted with
the grand old party from it's birth, that
he was republican Oh broader grounds
than glass of beer, that prohibition
Twas impracticable and that some day
the republican, party would find it out
and be ruled 10y wiser councils, but that
he could neither be kicked nor coaxed
out of the republican party. Mr..
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to him serious pecuniary loss, from
being a paying concern the Zeitung be-
came losing one and he was obliged
to dispose of it to someone who could
again build it up to the large patronage
it now enjoys.
What did Mr. Cummins do? He did
not have the incentive of personal
pecuniary loss, but the desire to attain
office made him leave his party. made
him an independent candidate against
a republican, made him for two success
sive years support and give counter
ance to that pious fraud, Horace Boies.
Either Mr.. Meyers WAS right and
Mr.. Cummins wrong or Mr.. CnmmiDs
was right and Mr.. Meyers wrong.
We may be forgiven perhaps if we
are partial to our father. We can I'M
derstand how those republicans who
followed Mr.. Cummins lead then, can
be for him now, but we fail to under
stand the course of reasoning by which
Mr.. Payne arrives at his conclusions
AS for MIR. Payne's figures we can
understand them when we remember
that but few years ago he had it all
figured out that he had j. A. T. Hull
beaten for the congressional nominal
ton. Nevertheless Mr.. Payne reminds
us constantly of Fields small boy who
was much given to 'seein' things at
night