Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-10-12
On The Firing Line.
By Alex Miller.

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Democrats Who Vote for CummIns.
We hope the Democrats who vote
ler Cummins will do SO advisedly. |
The day Is past when you can tell men
how to vote, and the Democratic party |
never presumed to herd their voters
like dumb driven cattle. They have
always believed in individual liberty.
but when it comes to voting for a
man like A. b. Cummins, the voters
have right to know what sort Of
man he 70. Is he man entitled to
any consideration from tho Democratic
party? Is he entitled to any respect
Erom a Democrat. let alone his vote?
Think about it, and to assist you in
making up your mind we quote q few
sentences from speech that Cum
MINIS made in 1899:
II believe from my whole heart that
mon who hold the doctrine expressed
in the Chicago platform OF 1896, and
In the Democratic platform adopted at
Des Moines this year, are unfit to oc-
oupy any Office or vote upon any law
which can influence the destiny Of the
United States"
Read over that insult and digest 1t.
and then If you want to vote for Cum
minis, that is where you belong. You
belong in the Cummins party because
Nobody else holds the view that Cum
minis is the whole works. His idea Is,
khoro 4. t,,t ONO Crd opd sN,,rpoi 10
his prophet. His belief is like that of
the Mohammedan. Allah is Allah and
Cummins is his prophet. The stand
pat Republicans do not believe It and
neither do the Democrats who have
stopped to consider. Many might vote
for him unthoughtedly,. but it is worth
while to stop and think when man
makes foolish assertions Of that kind.
Lots Of individual liberty about that
Not At to vote for measures and not
At TO hold once. Alack and alas! What
would become Of this country II Cum.
MINIS should happen to die? Is there
then no good can como out OF NREar
| eth unless 1t has the hall mark OF
| A. b. Cummins? What sort of meat
doth this man Caesar feed upon that
be towers 20 far above all OF his fel
lows, OF words to that effect.
| Who under the shining Gun is this
man Cummins that he sets himself VI
to say who may hold Office and who
make laws7 Is It not amazing that We
have q man Of such vast wisdom
growing up among US that he is t.
~ the pace?
poss the sun rise in the vicinity O
Albert ,. Cumn!ns, perpetual candi
date 1or governor7 goss 1t rise ant
isk end revolve about this magnifcen,
personAlitya ls be the Joshua who
would command tbs sun 70 stand still
n Gilgalf IL no the man vAo says
~Coms and 70 come. 70 and ~ 90"
Not vt.
X II an insult b 10000 loyal Dem
osrats, geed md true. who voted fo4
Bryan ii 1895, aad who expect to de
II again in 1905. u occasion effers
VIII they stultify themselves and Will
they swallow this insult from cheay
i man like Cummiusf mot at to vote o
hold omes," What Iowa Democrat care'
whether he hal4s once or not? Il
Is~a psmoorass wsfs seeking ONCE
they would long ago have tqapS4 sn m9t
sther party. but over 4 quarter Of
millioa Of them are Democrats be
cause thsy believe In It, and Albert p
pymmins cannot lure them out o.
% party, nor can any other man
Mr. pan any nm with fair promises
~ with low Go1aa insults. He Il moi
i IL ssxs Of Russia. thank W LerS
aaA bsuedrats AZ not have to % gov
ssas4 ~ AaytAies ~ leys, He may
rule the RepusiasAl panty. bnt m lg r.;
10 eas party stA whsts q man can bss
free. There II no censorship on tbs
votes Of the Dsmoeeats aud they PFC
pess 70 vote whore they please and
where their principles are. Neither
ounmins, nor powers, nor prncipali
ties, nor things that are or things tc
ooms can change them. They will mol
be cajolsd or driven or bought. They
may not be At to vote or to hold ONCE
but by virtue Of the manhood Of the
voters Of the state Of Iowa, they will
make the test this fall as 70 voting
and aftsr Jan. they also expect to
stick their leEs Hnder The mahogany
ef the governors maasion in Des
keinss and Claude Porter ts ths nan