Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-27
TIE GDNN|NS ISSUE
Other States Look Upon Him as
The Maker Of National
Issues
HENDERSON DOOMED cumM'Ns
Speakers Action Has Giver the Gov
ernor Undue Credit for the Iowa
Idea and Hi. Popularity Has Spread
Abroad - Bird.all His Personal
Friend.

vast number of letters awaiting him
and among them many that were high
ly commendatory of him in his position
|On the tariff question. He has received
letters from half a dozen states or
more and some from republicans of
high standing in the eastern states,
indorsing him and his position on the
tariff with reference to trust monopo-
lies. Some of his correspondents are
most fiattering and refer to him as a
maker of national issues. Gov. Cum-
for himself but modestly insists that
the position which has been taken by
the Iowa republicans, which is regarded
as an advance step in tariff reform,
is due to the united work of a great
many of the men of Iowa. BY reason
Of the sudden prominence which has
been given to the Iowa idea" Gov.
Cummins is in receipt of a larger num-
ber of Invitations to speak than ever
came to any governor. of the state. He
will not be able to accept any con-
siderable number of these invitations
He expects to be on the stump from
this time on, or from the second week
Of October, and continue during the
entire campaign. The changed situa-
tion in the Third congressional district
by reason of the substitution of Judge
Birdsall, warm personal friend of the
governor for Speaker Henderson as the
candidate Of the republicans, and the
Endorsement by the district convention
OF the Iowa platform, has caused the
governor to slightly alter his campaign
plans. He will make his first formal
speech Of the campaign before the
Marquette club in Chicago on the night
OF October 8. The Chicago people have
been very desirous that the governor
ls,3,,la attend their meeting and talk
ron Tic sul5iect II tue tal;I sna lorc,s
olies and discuss the Iowa platform and
he has consented to do so. He will
deliver carefully prepared speech on
that occasion and may be depended on
to say something worth hearing. He
will then come Immediately to Iowa,
opening probably at Dubuque, the home
|of Speaker Henderson, and will remata
at least 10 days in Iowa, speaking
|tee directs. He will uphold the idea
OF the Iowa platform and see that the
new light" shines In every corner of
Iowa before he proceeds to carry 1t
elsewhere. He will then go into Indi-
ana, Ohio and Illinois and probably
into North Dakota, returning to give q
few days more to Iowa at the close of
the campaign. The governor is an able
speaker and he will be at his best In
the discussion Of the tariff and monop-
|oly question and the relation between
trusts and the tariff schedules. He may
make speeches in ST. Paul and Duluth
before going east but the dates arc
not fixed.
The statement has been frequently
made that the state board of control
has given awards of business to firms
and individuals outside of Iowa at the
expense Of Iowa bidders. The board
claims to have tried at all times to
merely award contracts where they are
cheapest all other things being con-
sidered. At the last letting Of con-
tracts for the supplies at the state
institutions the following Iowa firms
received business, and the list is given
as Indicating how generally the mat
ter is distributed over the state:
American Vinegar and Pickle Works,
Davenport.
National Biscuit Company. Daven-
port.
Continental Biscuit Company, Des
Moines.
warield-Pratt- Howell Company, Des
AIoines
John Brandorff Company. Dubuque.
Des Moines, Iron Company.
Chas. Noebel & Sons, Davenport.
Des Moines Drug Company.
A. Treadway 6 Sons Hardware Com
pany, Dubuque.
Empkie- -Shugart Company. Council
Bluffs.
Churchill Drug Company, Burling-
Thomas A. Mansfield & Co., Des
Moines.
Blackhawk Coffee and Spice Com
pany, Waterloo.
A. Y. Mcdonald & Morrison Com
pany, Dubuque.
Davenport Steam Heating Company.
Brinsmaid & Co., Des Moines.
Heinrich Crockery Company, Daven-
port.
John Reider & Co.. Des Moines.
Harter- Loew Company, Des Moines.
Dubuque Rubber and Betting Com
pany.
Globe Machinery and Supply Com
pany, Des Moines.
H. II. Vogt Company, Davenport.
c. c. Williams, Fort Madison.
Shuster Bros, Cherokee.
NJ. j. Olsen, Des Moines
Midland Elevator Company, Des
Noines.
Fenner Fish Company, Clinton.
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, Des
Moines.
Burlington Canning Company.
Mennig Il Slater, Des Moines
Baker-Trisler Company, Des Moines.
Besides these there were the cons
tracts for butter, all to Iowa creameries
near to the institutions or to Iowa deal
ers. The contracts cover a great vari-