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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-30
Outside Point Of View.
IHarper's weekly.1

The boom was promising at Its IN
ception. The Cummins faction was dis
posed to accept Perkins as a compro-
mise candidate and some of it's prorni-
nent organs said so editorially. But a
clash soon occurred. 1t was due in a
great measure to an attempt by FER
kins to carry water on both shoulders.
His attitude on the tariff and reciproc-
ity had pleased the radicals. He now
sought to make himself more satisfac-
tory to the conservatives, and especial
ly the railroad interests, by series Oh
editorials thought to be inimical to the
plans of President Roosevelt for rail-
way rate legislation. This aroused the
Cummins faction. But Perkins did not
stop there In his desire further to
conciliate the conservatives, he opposed
the measures for direct nominations at
the primaries and against free trans
portation This made him impossible,
so far as the Cummins faction was
concerned They began to suspect
treachery, and feared that they were to
be led into the camp of the enemy and
surrendered by Perkins. The stand
patters now lined up behind him. 1t
was this state of affairs that led to the
demand for Cummins candidate for
governor, and finally the cry went up
that Cummins himself should be the
standard bearer in the fight against
Perkins for the principles he was adj
vocating. This he yielded to in state
ment outlining what he thought should
be the lines of battle this year in Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-30
MINOR OFFICES IMPORTANT.

News from Des Moines indicates that
in the absence of any hope of defeating
Cummins in Polk county, tremendous
efforts are being made by the railroad
managers to carry the county primar-
les, Tuesday, for the railroad candi-
dates for lieutenant governor, secretary
of state and railroad commissioners.
1t is reported in the Register and Lead
er that the efforts of the old machine
are being put forth for such candi-
dates as Col. Raymond. Julian Rich
ards, Dave Palmer
This fact suggests an important point
In this campaign to be considered by
all republicans, and that is the neces-
sity Of nominating men for the minor
offices who will stand for the rights of
the public Independent of any oblga-
ton to railway politicians the same
as Cummins does. Col Raymond was
brought out by the old machine pri-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-30
WATCH THE WEATHER vANE.

The result of county primaries this
week has been more decisive and more
prophetic than that Of any week yet
passed in this campaign. A hard fight
was made in Ed. Chassell's county.
which is in Perkins congressional dis
trict, and Cummins carried it four to
one. Likewise the Cummins men tri-
umphed in Clay and Calhoun, but
these counties had all been in the
Cummins column in previous cam
paigns. 1t was in Butler and Delaware
counties that TIE real temper of the
people was tested.
Here the political machinery was in
the hands of the old Blythe machine.
Both counties had always been con-
trolled by them The local newspa-
pers, owned and edited mostly by time
servers, were rabid in their opposition
to CumnEns, yet the farmers left their
seeding and turned out to the primaries
in such force that the result was COM
plete annln1b0tlOn Tor the local posses
and veritable landslide for Cummins
in each county.
The lesson is strong one. 1t is
not difficult to see why Blythe kept a
railroad lobby stationed at Des Moines
all winter to prevent a statewide pri-
mary law being enacted. If ever the
nominating power in this state is
turned over to the whole people there
is disaster in store for many we'll
organized combination. 1t is not diff
cult to see from the results in erstwhile
standpat Butler and Delaware counties
why the people have not sufficient in
formation from which to choose candi-
dates intelligently." Turned loose at a
primary they will do the very thing
which many wise leaders do not want
done in any event. There are other
counties to follow Butler and Delaware.
Watch the weather vane.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-30

1T was explained, would take UP
practically the whole product of
American mines, and would virtually
amount to free coinage of American
silver. The Journal approved that
law, as did the whole west, in the
hope that it would boost the price of
silver and prove long step toward
permanent bimetallism The bill
passed. 1t did not do the work ex-
pected of it.
By 1893 the country was pretty
sick of the experiment of boosting
the price of silver by government
purchase. The panic that came with
the new democratic administration
was on, and President Cleveland was
begging, as a measure of relief, for
the repeal of the purchase clause of
| the Sherman act. In that emergency
the republicans went to the relief
of the administration and helped
| it to get rid of the burden of silver
purchases. 1t didn't cure the COM
nercial depression, but it helped to
allay the fear that the United States
WAS drifting toward a silver basis.
1t was at this stage of the game
that Albert B. Cummins came to
the front with his famous free silver
declaration. The effort to do some
thing for American silver having failed
he pronounced in favor of the free
coinage of silver, not only of Ameri-
absolutely sure it will not and cam
not be coined to excess" Not only
that, but Mr.. Cunlmins prescribed as
the proper ratio of coinage the i'm
trinsic value of both metals, based
on the cost of productions" In other
words, Mr.. Cummins climbed on the
silver wagon after many others
had dropped off, and at a time when
the meeting of his demand would
have wrought incalculable injury to
our national credit, then at very
low ebb, thru causes other than the
silver legislation preceding the panic
MIR. Bryan picked up free silver again
in 1896 and gave the country great
scare with it. Then the proposal was
the same that Mr.. Cummins had adj
vanced three years before. namely, free
coinage for the silver of all the world,
with the exception that an arbitrary
ratio of 16 to was demanded. Some
republicans, with the record of the
party's friendship for silver fresh in
recollection, were inclined to go astray,
but the wisdom of the party as
whole was equal to the occasion, and
it came out for the gold standard, with
a qualifying clause in favor OF unfeas-
ible international bimetallism. When
the bandwagon got under way Mr..
Cummins was found occupying seat
in it, in spite of his fiat footed declara-
ton for free coinage only three years
before.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-30
FREIGHT CARS IN THE STREETS.

| The Railroad Gazette publishes ar
| interview with the president of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
road, in which that official talks OIL
having asked for chance to try ar
! experiment which would facilitate the
electric service between that city anC
neighboring towns. Mr.. Mellen wants
to be able to switch cars from the COM
pany's right of way to the tracks of a
local street railway. Such a practice
would bring the rural customer al
most to the very doors Of the principal
shops and other business houses with
out change. The grooved rail now
in service in Hartford Mr.. Mellen
pointed out, is not adapted to the heavy
wheel fanges of the rolling stock he
intends to use. Hence he begs for the
privilege of substituting for it the 7
rail- The change would be made in
only a few streets, and assurances are
given that if it did not prove satisfac-
tory after a fair trial he would restore
the old tracks.
The request thus made by this east
ern railroad official presents SUCCESS
ton of great interest to the people of
almost every city. Not only are inter-
.urbans growing in number thruout the
country, but steam roads everywhere
are negotiating for electrical and gas
oline m otor equipment for their branch
lines and suburban service. If the ex-
pertinent proposed by President Mellen
proves successful, the day will soon be
inaugurated when every merchant will
have cars brought to his very door and
when the people coming in over the
rails of steam roads on suburban cars
may alight in front Of the department
stores without change.
Right here in Marshalltown the sam e
experiment might be tried with sue
cess. The artificial ice plant buggy
factory and wholesale grocery are all
in sore need of trackage facilities, yet
all are located on the street car line.
One block below them is the bridge
building works, where a switch from
the railroad has been procured at great
expense to the factory owners, and it
is desired that this switch be extended
up thru the heart of the city to these
other three plants. If the street car
company would provide a special mo-
tor and connecting switch at the rail-
road yards, it could switch cars from
all steam roads right into the very
buildings of each industry thus in need
of traclkage at this time. Like condi-
lions exist in almost every other city.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-30
lows Newspapers
HERE is THE RECORD.
Hampton Chronicle.]


While some people are bowling about
five years in office for Cummins 1T
might be we'll to look over the record
of Perkins in regard to holding office
Here it is: Uncle George processes to
be Mortified because Governor Cum
minis is running for third term. But
Uncle George himself has an office
holding and office seeking record that
takes the entire bakery. He was state
senator four years, United States mar
shall four years, commissioner of immi-
grafton two years, member of congress
eight years. II has also been an un-
successful candidate for the following
offices: Representative, United States
senator, congressman and governor.
In, addition his brother, while in part
nership with him, held the office of
state printer six years, and the profits
were divided with Uncle George. Total
years in office, twenty-four years,
terms of other offices sought, twelve.
Thirty-six years-more than half of
his life-have been spent in either
holding cor seeking office, and still he
wants more.
[Sioux City Journal
The words, free coinage" appear
in the article several times. The nub
of the argument was that the west
must stand for free coinage as against
the Wall street demand for the de-
monetization of silver. Suggestion was
made that eff there is to be a compro-
mise in, this matter of coinage of silver
let it be a compromise between the
east and west, in which the interests
of both sections are fairly considered.
not an arbitrary arrangement dictated
by the east"
The practical silver question of
1890 was not the same question that
we had to deal with in 1896, nor in
1898, for that matter In 1890 the
republican party was trying to "do
something for silver" The national
platform of 1888 had declared that
the republican party is in favor OF
the use of both gold and silver as
money, and condemns the policy OF
| the democratic administration In It's
efforts to demonetize silver" Mr..
| Cleyeland's secretary of the treasury
had been using the option accorded
him in the purchase of silver, as II
was alleged, against that metal. Inc
LEGISLATION enacted in 1890 involved
lust such compromise as The
Journal suggested, increasing the
com pulsory purchase of silver for
coinage from 100000 to 4,9oo,ooo
ounces a month. The latter amount
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-30
flADE FROr1 NATIVE. ROOTS
SAFE AND RELIABLE.

That the roots of many native plants,
growing wild in our American forests,
possess remarkable properties for the cure
Of human maladieS Is we'll proven. Even
the untutored Indian had learned the
curative value of some OF these and
taught the early settlers their uses. The
Indian never liked work so he wanted his
squaw to get well as soon as possible that
she might do the work and let him hunt.
Therefore, he dug wpapooSe root y for her,
for that was their great remedy for fe-
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same root-called Blue Cohosh-in his
wFavorite Prescription" skillfully COM
bined with other agents that make it
more effective than any other medicine in
curing all the various weaknesses and
painful arrangements peculiar to women.
Many afflicted women have been saved
from the operating table and the sur
geon's knife by the timely use of Doctor
ness over the lower pelvic region, with
backache, spells of dizziness, faintness,
bearing down pains or distress should not
go unheeded. A course of eFavorite Pre-
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In all such cases. and generally effect a
permanent cure if persisted in for rea-
sonable length of time. The rFavorite
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woman's peculiar ailments, contain large
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For constipation, the true. scientific
cure is DR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
Mild, harmless, yet snre.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-30

turned the tide, and the marvellous
growth of such cities as Berlin, Chem
nitz and Nuremberg has been the re-
suit. The German empire has under
stood not only how to stem the tide of
a great migration, even to such a
country as the United States, but how
to render it possible for her people to
better their condition and found new
homes within the limits of the mother
country, where the population Is al
ready overcrowded and still increasing
at the rate of about 100000 a year.
Standpat newspapers persist in the
declaration that "Herriott is not out of
it yet" but really, now, isn't he?"
The government of Venezuela is to
establish national bank and substi-
ture a paper currency for the gold
basis on which the country has been
operating. Among the missions with
which j. Torres Cardenas, secretary
general of Venezuela, and Manuel CT
rao, who arrived in New York from
Caracas on Monday, are charged IS the
negotiation for the national bank con-
templated by President Castro.
Chairman Fowler, of the house COM
mittee on banking and currency, has
reported on the bill favorahly acted on
by his committee providing Tor the de-
post of government money in national
banks without security, and on which
the banks are to pay per cent inter-
est. The report contends that the
present system of locking up govern
ment money in sub-treasurles is hurt-
full to commerce and losing plan to
the government from the point OF view
of economy. In twenty seven years, it
says, if the proposed plan had been in
operation the government would have
received from the banks $5O,000,000 in
interest and would not have lost dol
lar thru failures.
Why should the United States pro-
tect the lumber industry with tariff
on foreign lumber? Did anyone ever
hear of the business of cutting logs
from government land ever being a
losing venture because of foreign COM
petition? Would it not be better for
this country to let the Canadians cut
up their forests for US? u Canadian
lumber would be cheaper, why not pro-
tect the man who wants to build a
house or who has to pay rent to the
man who has built house?
Did you ever hear Of any one start
ing up a Irritation by coughing when
he passed pretty girl?'
II have, indeed. l met my wife at a
church fair, coughed gently, attracted
hesi attention, and afterward married
her.
quite romantic. What is the Sc
quel?"
4 have been coughing up ever since"
Chicago News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-30
Doctor Brigham Says
MANY PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE
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Vegetable COMPOUND

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If physicians dared to be frank apd
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-30
Topics Of the Times

| Standpat JOrnegan, running for the
Legislature in Blackhowk county, has
the painful feeling of seeing his home
town, Cedar Falls, go for Cummins.
| At the Milan exhibition the king of
| Italy will offer prizes amounting to
| $4,000 for automatic safety couplings
for railways, for the distribution of
| healthful and pure milk in centers OF
population, for the best type of popular
dwelling adapted to the climate of
northern Italy, for motor boats, and for
the best and most original exhibit of
machinery or manufacturing process.
| Stern Parent-From my observation
of him last night, I came to the con-
clusion that that young man of yours
Twas rather wild.
| Daughter-Of course. 1t was your
| constant observation that made him
wild He wanted you to go upstairs
and leave US alone.
| Immigration is now increasing our
population at the rate of two every
minute Can the real estate men sell
farms that fast?
The Baltimore Sun, worrying about
our foreign immigration, asks: rs it
practicable for the United States to
provide employment for immigration at
the rate of 100000 per year?" 1t
most certainly is, and for more, too, if
| they are all servant girls
Just now there is no demand for
| government control of railroad rates
| to San Francisco. The same spirit of
human interest and public spirit S65
days in the year would have prevented
the issue from ever appearing.
*x
1t is altogether probable that fire in
surance rates all over the country will
go higher as the result of the San
francisco disaster. Every business
man should look to his policies now,
however, and satisfy himself that none
of his companies have been weakened.
General Grosvenor spent two hours
in congress the other day arguing for
ship subsidy. He evidently has learned
nothing from the Jolt he got by the
people of his own county and district
in the recent convention which decided
to leave him at home hereafter.
Down in central Illinois active prep
arations are being made to plant the
largest corn crop in the history of that
part of the country. Far over the un-
dulating fields at night the blazing
rows of last years corn stalks can be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-30
-ep1hrra1 5llars,a1ltnnn au,uv April 30 1906

marily to be useful in naming a dele
cation from his own county which
would vote against Cummins, but the
county central committee of Franklin
county blocked that game by submit
ting the candidates. Of Cummins and
Perkins to a primary vote. 1t is still
desired, however, to land Raymond in
the lieutenant governors chair, in the
hopes that he would remember his
| friends and name senate committees
favorable to the faction which made
him, in other words, favorable to the
railroad lobby, which constitutes the
bone and sinew of that faction. If this
scheme succeeds, the legislature will be
aided materially in multiplying Cum
Mrs.
Again, in the case of Julian Rich
ards, politicians who know him believe
that he is unfit to hold any high public
office, yet he is presented by the rail-
road faction for secretary of state.
Should he be nominated. not only is it
petuate the odor of Dobson and Merri-
am, but as member of the executive
council he would do what he could to
obstruct the kind of work which has
been done by such high minded, clean
men as Secretary Martin, Treasurer
Gilbertson, Auditor Carroll and Cover
nor Cummins. There are many very
able and aside from the machine ten
denotes of their faction, worthy men
among the standpatters in Iowa, but
Julian Richards is not one of them. He
is opposing very clean and able man
from Scott county, who, thru a long
career as state senator, has shown the
railroad lobby that he looks upon
public office as public trust.
The same could be said of Dave Pal
mer. Attic railroad commissioner paid
bigI salary and expense accounts
which are simply enormous by the
state of Iowa, he devotes the major
portion of his time to doing political
work for Blythe, and carries at all
times pockets full of mileage and
passes which he doles out to state
house deputies congressman and 9TH
ers wherever friends for the Blythe or
ganization can be made. This man and
another from a Blythe county who has
always been obedient to discipline, are
put forward for the Iowa railroad COM
mission.
Not only is ain effort being made to
direct nominations for the offices which
control the appointment of senate
committees, executive council and rail-
way commission, but efforts are being
made to manipulate legislative noni-
nations in the various counties to the
end that even should Cummins be
governor again, the next legislature
would refuse to enact any of his re-
forms. For this reason it is important
that republicans everywhere look to
their legislative nominees and minor
state officers. The personality of
Cummins should be swept aside and
the candidate at the head of the ticket
be considered merely as the leader of a
great movement for control of their
government by the people. On this
basis every candidate could justly be
with the question Are you
a Cummins man? That is, do you
stand for the same principles for which
we know Cummins stands?"