Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-06
OUT OF MEMS OWN MOUTHS.


In his address to Iowa republicans
George ID. Perkins as temporary chair
man of the republican state conveNtiUl
of 1903 said:
We are here today, my friends, tc
honor Albert b. Cummins. We are here
to indorse his administration and t.
give him entrance upon another term
1t is to the credit of the administra-
tion that is and is to be that our state
is free of unsavory state questions. II
must be they are not here, or the faith
full searchers of the other side would
have found them.
And only three months ago, in let
ter accepting suggestion of his candi-
dacy for governor, this same MI. Per-
kins wrote:
1t is a matter Of congratulation,
without party division, that we have
~ absorbing issue arising out of our
hate affairs. The state has been uni
formly well governed.
When did Perkins join 1.-The faith
full searchers of the other side" in
trying to discover "unsavory state
questions and why did he make COM
mon cause with these muck-rakers
Was he honest when he told the truth
about state affairs three months ago
and three years ago?
It was only last summer that Sena-
tor Jonathan P. Dolliver, speaking to
an association of Iowa editors. at its
annual meeting said:
The people turnout the state recog-
nize that Governor Cummins has given
to us an administration of our state
affairs so clean. so able, so high mind
ed, as to entitle him to rank among
the great and honored chief ma gts-
trates who stand approved in our his
tory as good and faithful servants Of
the commonwealth.
Mr.. Dolliver was right when he di-
rectly and unequivocally gave the lie
direct to all that the Blythe-P srkins
Ed Hunter combination is saying in
derogation of the present state admin
istraticn. Was Dolliver right then or
is Perkins right now? Was Perkins
honest when he approved and lauded
the Cummins administration and its
governor or is he dishonest now when,
as the candidate of the interests he
condemned then, he decries and vilifies
the administration and the man to
whom he pledged the loyalty and
sealed the approval Of the republican
party Of Iowa? In which case would
Mr.. Perkins be more likely to tell the
truth?
crat" in the eyes of Dollivert a year
ago? He ranked among "the great and
honored chief magistrates who stand
approved in our history as good and
faithful servants Of the common
wealth. Whose word are we to ac-
cept? What is the evidence of the
record? Was Dolliver honest then?
Whose word ranks highest, whose evil
dence is most conclusive, Delivers or
Blythe's?
That the people turnout the state
have agreed with Dolliver is part of
the election records. Compare repubi-
can pluralities of recent years. In 1893
Jackson, republican, had plurality of
32,161; in 1895 brakes plurality was
1926; Shaws plurality in 1897 was
but 29,8S5 and in 1899, 56,117. The
answer of the people of the state con-
firms Deliver Cummins' 1901 plurali-
ty was the greatest an Iowa governor
was ever given, S3,154 and in 1908, an
off year, his plurality was 79,045, more
than 40 per cent larger than the plu:-
atty received by Shaw at the heigh:
of his popularity.
Here is Delivers evidence that Cum
minis ranks with the cleanest, the
ablest, the most high minded chief
magistrates of the age; here is Per-
kins convicted of political perjury;
here is the voice of the people as ex-
pressed in the ballot box. What must
an honest jury say?