Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-29
GONE OFF HALF COOKED.
[Iowa staats-Anzieger.l

The last number of the Marshalltown
Reflector contains violent attack upon
the editor of the Stats Anzieger and
simply because this paper stated as its
belief that Mr.. Cumn1ins will get thou
sands of democratic votes, owing 10 his
courageous position in opposing prohibit
ton and supporting that good old demo-
crat Horace Boies for governor of Iowa.
The salient portions of the Refector's
article are as follows:
Col. Eiboeck and a few other demo-
Gratis of the state seem to think that be-
cause Cummins bolted the republican
party on the liquor question, and voted
for Horace Boies, our candidate for gov
ernor and helped elect him, the party
owes him a debt of gratitude that it
should pay by voting for him for COVER
nor. This is mistaken idea in this that
they voted for one of their own kind, a
republican who had bolted his party be-
cause of its stand on the liquor question
and was only democrat on that one is
sue, and they want democrats to vote
for Cummins now because of that issue.
Mr.. Eiboeck is not leader that any
democrat can follow. He does not rep
resent democracy. He is democrat
only when his beer is at stake His
stomach is the creator of his politics.
He can vote for Mckinley, who sends
regrets and sympathy to the king of
England and emperor of Germany at the
death of their mothers, and forgot like
Mckinley to symathiZe with President
Kruger at the death of his wife.
Col. Eiboeck says vote for Cummins
because he helped up to get the mulct
law
The Staats-AnZeiger has never said in
its columns: Vote for Cummins be-
cause he helped us to get the mulct
law" We have not advised any demo-
crat. or republican. either, to vose for
Mr.. Cummins. The fact is the Reflector
man went off half-cocked. He didn't
know what he was writing about. He
was simply determined to go for
somebody and thought probably the
dutch editor, might be the victim of
his fool mouth, as we'll as any one else
who did not suck thru the same 16 to
fiat quill
What the staats-Anzeiger has said
and will say again about Mr.. Cummins
is that we regard him as one of the
purest men in public life, an honorable
conscientious and courageous man, who,
If elected, as he certainly will be, will
fill the Office with the same honor, dig
nifty and ability as when it was filled by
Stephen Hampstead, James w. Grimes
and Horace Boies. No one Knowing Mr.
Cummins can cay less of him, not even
John S. Murphy of the Dubuque Tele-
graph.
To the insulting illusions of the Re-
flector regarding the motive that
prompted the staats-Anzeiger editor to
deal simple justice to political oppon-
ent, as we regard Mr. Cummins, except
| ing in his hitherto liberal views on the
license question, we have only to say
| that we consider the source from which
| it comes-from one of those kind of pop
ulistic democrats who has about az
much love for democrat and particu-
larry for German democrat as an Eng
| lishman has for Boer. All he wants
is the dutch" votes ana cares no more
about a license law or regulating the Ii
quor traffic than a Chinaman cares for
the Christian Bible. Like all of his kind
he is willing to gulp his whisky behind
| a prescription counter, where no one can
see him. and despises the lighter bever-
| ages such as beer and wine.
| Just such democrats have almost
wrecked the democratic party. Like E.
b. Evans another of his kind, the Re-
| Hector man ought to leave his party.
H.