The Oskaloosa herald., 1906-07-05
CAUSE OF IOWA FIGHT
Hon. G. D Perkins Points Out Un-
derlying Reasons.

In an interview with stan CORES
pondent Of the Chicago Record Herald
Hon. G. d. Perkins Of Sioux City said
This split in Iowa is unfortunate
Ii is all the more unfortunate becaus,
it has no right to be. There is NJ
issue at stake. AS you have seen,
was brought into the field not of m!
own volition. After / had been talk
ed of for months and had been sup
ported by some of Governor Cummins
most active workers was looked OF
throughout the state as an actual can
didate.
"At the formal solicitation of a
large delegation Of my friends made
formal announcement of my candidacy
and month later Governor Cummins
moved into the field, l could hardly
withdraw simply because of the fact
that he had become a candidate-it
would not have been fair to my
friends. If the governor and the pro.
gressives' had conferred with me in
time a compromise might have been
effected that would have obviated this
factional disruption.
Il was an active candidate when
suddenly the Cummfns supporters be-
gan to drop off one by one. They
were partly responsible for my an
nouncement that / would seek the
nomination, but they left one by one,
and in month the governor himself
was out fighting for third term and
basing his fight on q fictitious issue.
''He has argued corporation domi-
nation up state and down, and it is
only fitting that / should like to enter
protest against the innuendoes that
am. in plain words, tool of the
railroads The charge that / am sub
servient to railroad influence comes
with bad grace from one who secured
his nomination in 1901 through split
between the railroads and whose re-
nomination two years later was the
consummation of harmony program
between the state executive and the
element that today is the target for
his yituperation.
my opponent has stated from the
public platform time and time again.
that his sole objection to me is the.
company / keep The governor call
ed of those of his friends who were
with me at first and were substan-
tiaI part of the support that led 20 my
and, having removed them,
he now raises the objection that he
doesn't like the company there is left
for me to keep.
Recalls cummins' Praise.
And still-well, l nave filed away
letters from Governor Cummins TO
me two and three years ago in which
he gives me the most fulsome praise.
/ am not connected with the railroads
in any capacity, never have and never
expect to be. My business as a news
paper editor keeps me too busy, and
| am not lawyer, so it would be i'm
possible for ME to dabble in a rail-
road attorneyship.
"Mr. Blythe is interesting himself
in the fight. 1t is natural he should.
He has been doing that for twenty
years. Politics is his passion; he is
a born organizer. 1t would be the
same no matter what his occupation.
1--WE no doubt that the railroads
would just as soon see Governor Cum
Minis out of office. I've no doubt that
Marvin Hughitt and other high rail-
road officials would personally be
pleased with the defeat of Mr.. Cum
Minis. They look on him as an agita-
tor and disturber. But they 90 not
seem to be exerting themselves in.
this campaign. TaRe this list OF rail-
road towns-localities where there are
shops and division headquarters-
and we find that Cummins carried ev-
cry one. 1t shows either that the rail-
roads are inactive in the struggle or
else that they are impotent to control
the votes of their employees.
Thinks Issue Trumped Up.
mo, that issue is a trumped up one
to fit the exigencies of the occasion.
1--WE should have no such split in
Iowa. The party ought to retain har-
mony, for this discord simply gives
the democrats an opportunity to come
and seize the bone over which we are
It would not surprise me
to find two or three democratic con-
eressmen elected from Iowa, instead
Of the solid republican delegation that
has been supporting President Roose-
Welt all the way through.
'Tt will be a misfortune, for. the
next national contest will be closer
than the last, and the democrats are
going to give US hard race. Itwould
have been a calamity If we had had a
congress during the pres
emit session. What would have be-
come of the magnificent series Of en-
that has gone through? A.
VI. E."