Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-25
HUMOROUS PHASE
D The CAMPAIGN
Falsehoods and Deception of
Perkins Crowd Have a
Funny Side
TRAVELLING MEN MAKE A HIT
Improvised Song "When Will LATE
Young Tell the Truth" With Refrain
"Never in the Wide Wide World"
Causes Much Delisht-,some of the
Absurdities of the standpat Claims.
by Ora Williams
Special to Tlmes-Republican.

Speclal TO T1meS-Rcpublican.
Des Moines. May 25.-The campaign
has its humorous features as usual
and he is indeed devoid of the sense of
humor If he fails to see these The
fact of the reliance of the Perkins
campaign on campaign of falsehood
deception and downright dishonesty is
now SO generally recognized, especial
~ by persons who travel out into the
smaller towns of the state, that 1T is
men. The other night there was a
banquet of travelling men in Des
iMoines, several hundred being present.
An improMsed quartet sang a song
with the drawing refrain Never in
the wide, wide world" They ran thru
a good many lines, Of more or less local
application, as for instance when
will the library be conpleted?" fol-
lowed by the refrain and when will
the river front be improved?" followed
the same way Then there were gem
eral hits in the song, and finally, to
cap the climax the quartet gave this,
when will Late Young tell the truth p
and when the refrain came in, Never
in the wide, wide world the house
went Wild with delight and enthusi-
/ aSn
But 1t was not a personal dig at
| Late Young SO much as it was an eX-
preston of feeling among the travelling
men as to the whole character of the
political campaign being conducted in
behalf of Perkins under the leadership,
so far as the literary work is concern
ed of his great friend and admirer,
Late Young.
Hunter Chief Engineer.
But while the campaign follows the
lines of attack as laid down by Young,
the campaign is now virtually In the
hands of E. H. Hunter and Carroll
Wright, and their associates here. 1t
was Hunter who engineered the deal
for buying outright the twenty eight
votes of Dubuque county, if that can
be done at his price, and he did it af-
ter visit to Washington, where he
consulted with those who have been
fighting the railroad rate movement
1t was Young who has said of Hunt
err that when the latter crosses the
river Styx the sharpest devil Of the lot
will have to look out or Ed. will get
him into a closed carriage and beguile
him. That's why the present alliance
has been formed in behalf of Perkins.
But while reliance is placed on the
corrupting power of those who are
adopts in making midnight deals, the
literary feature of the campaign pre-
sents ever varying features In some
n
lily on the "wastefulness and extrava-
gance" theory of republication in
Iowa. In others they are following
jointly by Jerry Sullivan and Cyrenus
Cole three years ago and claiming that
the railroads have been greatly fav-
ored in the matter Of assessments
Then there are places where they are
making use of the Perkins argument
to the effect that Perkins is the origi-
nal rate regulation man of Iowa, and
Cummins is in fact opposed to the
presidents program. Elsewhere there
is use Of the LATE Young speciality of
claiming that Governor Cummins is
responsible for the appropriations
made by the legislature. and conse-
quently is responsible for all state
taxes Then in some counties they fall |
back on the threadbare argument that |
Cummins is a free trader because Of
the Iowa platform he wrote few
years ago and his support of the |
Blaine policy Of protection and recipro-
city. But this takes only where ignor-
ance prevails. Then they finally turn
back and shout "Cunmins is a demo-
crat," and in some places, where preju-
dices are deep and men do no thinking
for themselves, this is doing good to
the Perkins movement.
Hotchkiss Defends cummins.
But some of the ardent standpatters
revolt at the methods being used to
boost Perkins into an office. Here is
ex-senator Hotchkiss, Of Dallas county,
a standpatter Of most pronounced type,
who has just come out in his paper, the
Abel News, saying he takes no stock In
the argument that Cummins is respon-
sible for the increased taxes and APP
Mr.. Hotchkiss was a
member Of the house and the senate,
and knows that this claim of the Per-
kins people is as false and foolish as all
their other claims. He has refused to
open his columns to publication of the
falsehoods which the railroad
politicians are having inserted in all
that are sufficiently venal
to go into the game that way. Mr.
Hotchkiss also declares that it is not
true that Governor Cummins is respon-
sible alone for the enormous increase
n railroad assessments but that this
credit must be divided between the
of the executive council This
s just what Governor Cummins has
,ontended at all times. The attack
On him is am attack on all republican
state officials and upon general republic
ian administration of state affairs.
Tried to Buy Chase.
One of the amusing things in the
western part of the state is the cry
made against the progressives that they
are being helped by a democratic pa
per, edited by Charles F. Chase, and
hey intimate that Chase is against the
Blythe outfit for mercenary reasons.
But Chase comes bac. at them with an
animation that on the contrary the
Blythe people tried to buy his influence,
md he keeps asking them if they want
he proof They will not ask to have
he proof adduced-
A sample of what is being done in
he Perkins interest in Story county is
hat relating to an alleged comparison