Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-05
,okr NOT LIKED At CEDAR RAPIDS.

r. might be expected that the Hardin
county Joke would not set we'll on the
stomach OF certain editors at Seuai
Ran,ds hence it is not surprising TO
find the Republican of that city Try
ing to get away from the JOKE py
claiming that F"Cummins has turned.
..rhe Hardin county plank didn't men
zion the fostering of trusts, explains
the Republican. 1T didn't mention
practical free trade with Canada. NO,
II didn't. and that is why 1t was SO
funnv Altho written by Cummins as
his ideal kind of platform, II dian
mention any of these things. But why
didn't 1t? Simply because Cuinmins
has never at any time mentioned them.
The Cedar Rapids newspaper and LATE
Young have persistently said that he
did. but the rest of us knew that lacy
were lying about Cummins
Mr.. Cummins once found himself
candidate for governor on a republcah
platform written by George Roberts
after a consultation with President NC
Kinley, which platform said something
ahaut tariffs that shall not afford shell
ter to monopoly. This was an A !
doctrine and defended valiantly by the
Republican and LATE thru one entire
campaign. When orders We're received
To begin pounding Cummins the gov
ernor was promptly read out of the
Marty for endorsing the shelter plank
and 1t awaited him nothing to explain
that he made vast distinction be-
tween trusts in general and those
tr,,sts ar individuals VINO contriyed to
obtain a monopoly of any needed prod
uct.
Then Cummins ran again for gov
ernor on the republican ticket and he
thought that, SO long as the national
republican platforms Of 1886 and 1900
had both proclaimed the virtues Of
reciprocity. he ought to endorse the
policy. So he said in his campaign
speech that Canada was a great coun-
try. growing faster than any other
country, greatly in need of our manu-
featured products and so close by that
we ought to sell her almost everything
she needed. He then ventured his
opinion that reciprocal treaty could
be made with Canada. This was Q,
KID by the Republican and LATE as A
1 republicanism during the cam
paign and Cummins rolled UP the
greatest majority ever polled in an of
year by republican candidate In
Iowa. But when Cummins said the
sarne thing about Canadian reciprocity
Ia his inaugural it happened that
Blythe had a fight to make on him, sc
we heard this well-known newspape,
chorus crying about free trade with
Canada Cummins explained that u
we couldn't get treaty with Canada
8 advantageous to our own people none
will be made but it has never done
cummins any good to explain.
No. the Hardin county plank written
by Cun,mins didn't say anything abou,
fostering trusts or Canadian free trade
and that is what makes 1t so funny
Neither did the state republican plat
form of 1903 say a word about these
things. The newspapers that Mr.
Blythe has induced to fight Cumnains
are the only ones that ever said such
awful things. Cummins wrote the
state plank of 1908. but it mentioned
only tariffs equally opposed to foreign
control and domestic monopoly" and
only reciprocity that gives and takes,
that is. trade for mutual advantage
Nowhere and at no time outside OF g
Blythe newspaper can Cummins be
found saying the things complained OF
and that is the funny part Of the Hard
in county joke. The Republican may
make noise about the governors
conversion" but the rest of us are en-
joying our laugh at the Hardin county
joke just the same.
BACK FIRING.