Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-25
WILL LAF[ APOLOGIZE!
Another Fake Interview by
Same Artist Who Won
Fame With conger
NEWS BUREAU BUSY
NEWS BUREAU BUSY
Every Chicago Paper and All Plate
Houses Are Supplied by the News
Bureau Established by the Motor
ious Ed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
the Leading Game.
Special to Times Republican,

Special to Times publican
Des Moines. Jan. 26.-Members %
the general assembly are already arriv
ing in numbers 10 be ready for the
opening of the legislature tomorrow.
Among the early arrivals. fresh from
their constituents, there is much talk
about the political situation in the
state. and especially is this true be-
cause of the recent visit of the gov
ernor 10 Washington and the news
published regarding the conferences of
inauguration week in Des Moines. The
iat ter caused no general comment In
DIES Moines Inauguration week be-
ca ause the facts We're not generally
known among tine legislators and prac-
tIcaliy none of the essehtia. facts got
to them thru the Des Molnes newspa-
pers during Inauguration week. Iu-
evitably the politicians connect tho
Journey of the Governor Gummins 10
Washington with the events Of the
Proceeding week, tho this is without
warrant. for the trip o the governor
WAS entirely without political purpose.
and there is much inquiry as to what
Il an. thing was said or done in Wash
inptun. The governor has rot made
any statement as 10 the matter. so he
says, other than the highly siSniiicanf
one that there has never been. ana is
not now. so far as am aware. the
slightest difference of opinion betwesn
the president and myself respecting the
tariff or reciprocity. am no such sup
posed differences were ever mentioned
In any conversation have ever had
with him. This Is merely restate-
ment of what the governor has said
many times and has been 4 matter Of
common !ariowledgs al along. bnt II
t,sp sool.. sl.Sr.t. aace feo,n .hs,;is y
its statement and the reason for Its
being made again. Senator'S who
called on the governor Saturday and
talked freely with him in regard TO
POLITICAL matters state that rhe gov
ernor is immensely pleased with his
visit to Washington and is we'll salts
tied with what ne learned OF the atti-
tude OF President Roosevelt toward
Iowa republicans.
From a personal letter from Wash
ington newspaper nrau IT Is learned
that while Governor Cummins Was in
Washington he was surrounded by the
correspondents and reporters who
begged for interviews or statements,
hut that ne was dlscreetly silent on
matters that might be taken as indi-
eating fractional feeling. He gave out
hut one interview while Ut the national
capital. This was in line with what
he has said since coming home and
before he left Much shat went into
dispatches with Washington date lines
was without any authority or founda-
ton. For !ns,a nee, there appeared In
a Des Moinee newspaper under date O!
Jan. 90. purporting to be Washing
ton Telegram m, a sta 'emept which started
out as follows:
governor A. B. Cummins. who is In
the city on visit, called upon the
president today and 1t Is stated that he
assured the president that while his
tariff views might not be In accord
with his. he would not oppose him for
the presidency, and that he believed
Iowa would be for him during the ma
tional convention"
This was followed by more of the
same stun purpor:ing TO come from
Washington and to reflect what hap
,ened or was said there.
No such dispatch or telegram ever
came from Washington to any Des
Mo!nes newspa pers.
The dispatch was written. Rewritten
and its meaning totally changed ana
distorted in Des Molnes.
The forgery was by the same per
son who was responsible for the per-
rptrat,en OF the somewhat celebrated
forged "Conger Interview" under San
Francisco date line ,wo years and
half ago. For the Conger fake dis
patch an abject apology was forced:
vet 1t was no more a fiagrant violation
of the rules OF decent politics than this
attempt, by q fake telegram, to utterly
m!srepresant the relations of the gov
e,rnor OF the state to the president OF
the United States.
The incident might not be worthy of
mention but for the fact that II Illus
trates fairly we'll the methods deliber-
ately employed by the we'll organized
news bureau which has been doing
business in Des Moines the past few
wears. which has been frequently ex-
posed in these columns, which has for
its chief purpose the filing of the
Chicago and eastern papers, and many
of the state daily papers. with misin-
formation we'll calculated to foment
aiscord and to render it impossible for
political leaders who would be glad
TO bury their, differences to get togetii-
er on any common platform. These
people have control of every line of
news that goes to every Chicago news
paper, the last paper to be free from
their domination having succumbed a
shor, time ago They supply all of the
letters for the "plate houses and for
the ready print" sheets for the week
ly papers. The news bureau WAS es-
pecially active last summer and fail
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