Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-20
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News Of Iowa From Hun.
dreds Of Different Towns
and Communities.
ANYTHING TO BEAT cUMMINs

A
are now trained on a. b. Cummns. Ac-
cumulating evidence as to his growth in
public favor brings out the worst prac-i
tees of desperate opposition. 1t was
pretty smooth sailing until the attempt
to humiiate him at home was frus-
trated. That elevated opposition bile.
Then Cummins swept Story and Boone.
That was adding insult to injury. But
when Woodbury. piled up thirty-six
votes for Cummins and instructed them
TO do it's will Mt Cedar Rapids opposi-
ton evaporation knew no bounds.
Cummins must be suppressed. The te-
merity of the people of Polk, Story,
Boone and Woodbury. must be fittingly
resented.
AS a man Mr.. Cummins is so clean
end capable as to make him practically
tsproof against attack. His political rec
ord is replete with character and help
ifulness. but fourteen years ago he did
permit himself to be elected to the leg
islature as an Independent candidate.
True he went into the republican legis-.
lslative caucus, aud was then and ever
after known as a republican, but as this
| is the only thing in his personal or pub.
| lie career at all subject to criticism the
lpeopie must be aroused TO realizing
sense of the enormity of the offense. 1t
| Is shown that the name OF A. Il. Cum
Minis appeared on a democratic ticket. A
member of the same legislature whose
lrepublicanism has never been called in
question says he cheerfully paid $3.50 in
that campaign to get his name on demo-
cratic tickets, and 1t was the only thing
that saved him from defeat The Aus
tralian ballot was not then in use and
| the split ticket was an important factor
in election results. The mere fact of a
republican being on democratic ticket
WAS no offense in those days.
Stalwarts who never miss n drink and
who never spoke kind word for the
| prohibition movement deem 1t necessa-
Ivy to the salvation of the state to prove
ITO the prohibitionists that Cummns is
( directely responsible for the defeat of
iltne constitutional amendment, the vio-
lations Of the Maine law and the trou-
/ bles of Carrie Nation. In the interest of
jsrure politics and for the calculation Of
moral principle Col. Ed Hunter, hardly
! Try from his fierce fray in behalf of Sid
] Testers anti-machine movement, once
4 more throws himself into the anything
to- beat-Cunmins game. He was for
Foster in Polk and for Perkins in the
| Eleventh, but he is for Conger in Dallas
and the c., B. & @. railway forever
while his rake-of lasts. Other indignant
patriots are after cummins' scalp. He
has offended the dictator of the 90 and
the WHARF! of the Northwestern and he
must be put down If every prohibition
voter in the state has to be brought in
line with their selfish purposes.
Meanwhile the republicans of the state
are thinking it over. You can fool some
/ OF them all the time, perhaps. but at the
present juncture of party affairs in Iowa
a wayfaring man need not be duped.
| Republicans of the great prohibition
lscounties of the Seventh district have
spoken. After residence of nearly
twenty five years in Des Moines this is
the expression of Polk county:
That the republicans of Polk county
endorse the candidacy of Hon. A. Il.
1 Cummins for governor. We believe his
long and efficient service for the party,
his exhaustive knowledge of public af-
fairs, his honesty and straightforward
ness on all public questions, his loyalty
to the interests of the people. his pure
life and his superb manhood, we'll quail
ify him for the chief executive of Iowa.
and we hereby instruct the delegates to
the state conventional to use all honorable
means to secure his nomination.
Cummns is good enough for the pro-
hibitionists of Story county:
Believing in the candidacy of the
Hon. A. b. Cummins for the governor
ship of the state of Iowa in the greatest
interests of the state, in the endorse
rent Q. the principles Of government
that have perpetuated the republican
rarty in power, and in his Individuality.
we recognize his rugged honesty. integ-
rity and independence of character
which have endeared him to his neigh
bors and to the people; we therefore in
s..ue. the delegates fram This count; to
the state convention to use all honorable
means to secure his nomination.
And this is how 1t looks to the repub-
leans of Boone county:
That the republicans Of Boone county
endorse the candidacy of a. b. Cummins
for governor of iowa We believe his
nomination to be demanded by the rank
and file of the republican party of Iowa.
His great ability. unsullied personal
character. loyalty to the interests of the
masses of the people and high sense of
viz NutleS poiislOi'itiso VI pttSoIS
in official station give him peculiar fit
ness for the executive office, and we
hereby instruct the delegates to the
state convention to do all that can be
honorably done to secure his nominal
ton
This is vindication full and complete.
These counties have elected 107 delegates
to the state convention. Their combined
republican majority last fall was l1.40O.
The stalwart republicans of Polk. Boone
and Story knew cummins in 1887: they
know him now. They give him the most
unqualified endorsement as man and
as candidate. They know what they
the doing.
Then there is Woodbury.. A most
determined anything-to-b beat Cummins
contest was made there backed by the
influence OF one of the great dailies OF
the state and its influential editor.
George d. Perkins. BY an overwhelm-
ing vote Cummins won out and this is
| the estimate of the republicans of Wood
bury county:
Recognizing the sterling integrity,
ability and unquestioned republicanism
of Hon. A. B. Cummns, candidate for
| the nomination of governor in the COM
ling republican state convention, the re-
rublicans of Woodbury. county In con-