Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-01

| thors of the miserable makeshift
| known as the Bland Allison act, TIE
act that Grover Cleveland forced cor
| gress to repeal early in 1893. Cummii $
had only a slight run of the disease,
and convaesced rapidly, so that in
1896 he was all right.
Cummins and Boies.
In 1889. when Boies was first elected,
cumnins was Il member of the lower
house. William Larrabee has written
a letter in this campaign testifying to
Cummins' great service in enacting
railroad reform legislation during that
session. He was nominated by repub-
iicans, because Des MoineS republicans
felt that Berryhill and Oldheld could
not be elected on the prohibition issue.
Cummins accepted as a republican. His
name went on u regular republican
ticket headed by William Larrabee and
John A. +. Hull CT have copy of the
whole ticket in my possession). When
elected he participated in the republi-
can caucus in the legislature and was
never known or spoken of as a demo-
crat
The editors of the Herald We're read
ers of the Des Moines Register at that
time, and they then read that Cummins
WAS nominated by republicans and
elected as republican and cam
paigned as a republican. Why do they
now call him a democrat?
The Herald's contempt for the re-
publieans who opposed Berryhil is de-
signed to arouse prejudice and is false
in most Of its insnuations.
The fact is Berryhill is Very ric1
snob and has been so considered by
the people of Des Moines for years
Cummins Always Republican,.
Governor Cummins made no political
speeches in 1901 He did make one
address in which politics were only
incidentally discussed 1t was the ad
dress of a scholar on the duties of L
citizen rather than Il political address.
The speech was reported for the Reg
lister and for the Capital and in neither
of these newspapers can be found any
such language as the Herald puts in
his mouth. The charge that Cummns
stood with the democrats when Boies
was elected is untrue and / think the
Herald men knew it was untrue when
they made 1t. In less than four
months after this speech was made
from which the false extract has been
used by the Herald, A. 3. Cummins
acted as chairman of the republican
state convention, selected by Ret
clarkson and John II. Gear. That
he stood with the democrats when
3oies was elected" must have been
discovered since that convention. This
was in March '92. In that year he was
a delegate to the national convention !
at Minneapolis. In 1898 he made
speeches all ovef the state for Frank |
Jackson, who defeated Governor Boies.
Remember it was in this same year
that Cummins wanted to coin both gold |
and silver at an intrinsic ratio. In
"a Macedonian cry went up from
the Second district. They must have
cummins, SO Cummins cancelled all |
his engagements and went down to
Clinton where George Curtis was try
Hayes. Hayes was defeated. In 1896,
We find Cummins pleading for gold at
St Louis Almost alone among the
Iowa delegates, he stood for gold. He
lad seen his error and he saw but one
curse to pursue In that year he be-
anne the Iowa member of the national
committee ana served tfll l5VU. IN
901 he was elected governor of Iowa
~ the largest republican vote ever
hen recorded Now if Cummins has
yer been a democrat when was it"
What day or what night or part o.
What Sunday was he democrat? Il
s up to the men who have
made this charge to furnish some
,ther evidence than the un-
supported word of an editor without
political standing at home They can
10 longer use garbled extracts or
'orged reports. They have been found
,ut and if honest men can feel any,
hing but contempt for the Strange
men, who resort to such methods they
must be morally obtuse. Having been
'un to cover the strange men" of the
Herald may now lbe depended upon to