Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-08
WAS COUSINS misunderstood?

/ The magnificent orato.ical effort o.
CONGRESSMAN Robert G. Cousins at the
close OF the state convection continues
to be the topic ofAmost general com.
1ceedings. Young Nat Hubbard, one oil
/ the delegates from Linn county, was sc
! pleased with its intent and purpose that
he submitted TO an interview in the
Register and Leader, in which he said:
"The speech of Mr.. Cousins was one
lcf the finest efforts / ever heard. Ii
| was an artistic job of skinning. When
Cousins starts out to do an artistic
piece OF work he usually is able to ac-
iccmplish what he sets out to do" This
! Is. expert testimony and should not be
! questioned. In fact Hubbard has sized
up the speech in exactly the way II
was taken by practically every one who
heard it. What Cousins said, and the
T.-R. gives the speech in full In an
other column, was aptly described IN
the IRIS Des Moines correspondence
ias being merely a beautiful eulogy OF
the Dingley bill" Excepting possibly
one or two insinuating sentences no re-
publican can take exceptions to it save
10 criticise the congressman for his
emission to endorse the state platform
OF his party. which Deliver had just
declared broad enough for all and
which Allison had just described as
being his kind of platform, mot be-
cause it is there. wholly, but because ii
is right"
The manner of the delivery the sar.
icasm of the tone, the look of his face
and "drawl of his words" as Mr.. Per-
kins says in his paper, ''belied his
speech" and hence instead of being re-
ceived as Il tribute to the accomplish
ments of republicanism, as the speech
reads. the Cousins effort was the talk
OF the Hobbies that evening as being an
artistic job of SHINING" So general
was the discussion of it that LATE
Young has been prompted to complain
that the speech should have provoked
which complaint, in turn. has brought
forth reply from Mr.. Perkins, who
listened to the speech intently and has
written the best description Of it that
has yet appeared in print as follows:
THE Des Moines Capital protests
against what it calls attacks upon
Cousins 1t claims not TO understand
why his convention speech should have
called forth such a flood of unfavora-
BILE comment. The Capital. necessarily,
is speaking Of what it heard in Des
Moines following the adjournment of
the republican state convention. 1t re-
fers to other speakers, and says none
of these gentlemen have been Nlified
on the street corners There is no mis-
take that Mr.. Cousins as the great
orator he is, made Il brilliant and
beautiful speech but the Capital says
It was a speech announcing his adher-
ence to and belief in the protective tar
iff which has now been in operation
six years-cri,icising nobody The
convention did not catch exactly that
idea. 1t appeared to the convention
that Mr.. Cousins was there to skin
somebody. His words We're strung to-
gether as glistening beads, but there
were edges to them that cut ragged
burrows. Mr.. Cousins had come pre-
pared He was loaded. He had left
IL Cedar Rapids advance copy of his
speech. He knew VIVA. he was going
to say. and he was determined to say
Ii without reference to what the con-