Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-04
CAUGHT FAkIhG AGAIN.

CAUGHT TAXING AGAIN.
Another exposure has been made in
Des Moines which leaves the Daily Cap
ital standing naked before the world
discredited, repudiated and convicted of
deliberate Justification of an inter-
view as 1lumiliating as was the mo-
torious Conger interview. Pursuing its
petty persecution of Governor Cum
minis the Capital few days ago pub
lished a fake interview with Hon. M. l..
Temple of Osceola, in which Temple
was made to say that Governor Guild,
republican candidate of Massachusetts,
had told him that Governor Cum1nins'
reciprocity speeches were being quoted
by the democrats in the Massachu-
sets campaign to enIbarrass the re-
publicans there. The interview was
then telegra pied to a Boston paper
where Governor Guild saw it. He then
wired prompt denial to the COVER
nors office at Des Moines. The Cap
ital, thereupon, with a brazenness APP
parently bereft of all moral percep-
ton faxed a second interview with
Mr. Temple in which Temple was
quoted as saying that the Capital had
quoted him correctly and that Cover
nor Guild did say the things purported,
the photographed denial notwithstand-
ing. Then Governor Guild writes a
long letter Of denial confirming his
telegram in positive terms This
aroused Governor Cumnlins' friends
and they demanded that Temple ex-
plain, and Temple does explain by say
ing to the Register and Leader.
you are authorized to say for me
that the alleged interview published in
the Capital, in which 1 am quoted as
reporting private conversation with
Governor Guild, was wholly unauthor-
lied; that it contains statements not
made by me; that l refused to be in
terviewed on my visit with Governor
Guild, and that I have been greatly
annoyed by the unpleasant notoriety /
have had in consequence.
Il have never quoted Governor Guild
to any such effect to anybody. and
have refused to be interviewed at all as
to any of my experiences while in the
east.
81 am Inundated to think that amy
one should believe that would take
advantage of friendly visit with SO
genial and gentlemanly a man as Gov
ernor Guild.
Again you may say for me that the
pretended interview was not author
lied; that / have refused to he inter-
viewed; that many statements have
been put in my mouth that l have not
made even in conversation with my
friends. and that 1 have not quoted
Governor Guild to anybody as author
ity for the statement rnat Governor
Cumnlins' speeches We're an aid to the
democrats in the Massachusetts cam
paign."
1t would seem that it makes very
little difference in the Capital office
whether Late Young is doing the edit
ing or whether he is hob nobbing in
the Orient, the fake interview is ready
for use as a club at all times. There
has always been a suspicion that the
himself, wrote the fake
Conger interview but the Temple in
tsryiew was done with as little con-
science. 1t is incoanprehensible that
man ambitious enough to think himself
up to staresman's stature
and Editing what should be one of the
great newspapers of Iowa should be
guilty of taking interviews with prom-
inent men as evidence upon which to
prove spiteful charges against the men
he does not like. II a lawyer should
his evidence and get
caught at it the court would call 1t
of perjury and disbar
him, yet an editor dares to fake his
interviews and trust to a bargain day
price to circulate his paper.