Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-26
BIG CANARD EXPOSED
Effort Of Democrats to Malign
Governor Cummins in Old
Soldiers Eyes
Capt. John Hayes, of Red Oak, Former
President of State Fair, Gives His
tory Based on Records-cummins
Speaks at cranton-AdditionaI Iowa
Conventions.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 26.--One of the
most remarkable blunders of the anti
republican campaign in Iowa relates to
the effort to secure the votes of the
veterans of the civil war for the demo-
cratic ticket on the theory that Gov
ernor Cummins and the republicans
have been Hostile to the old soldiers.
One of the stories put in circulation in
this regard is that Governor Cummins.
in his presentation of the views of the
Iowa soldiers regarding the Shiloh in
scriptions, failed to satisfy the soldiers,
and that he got pay for what he did
and then aba ndoned the fight at the
critical time
Nothing could be further from the
truth, but it is serving its purpose
among the old soldiers. Captain John
Hayes, of Red Oak, at one time pres
ident of the Iowa state fair, and long
known to the Iowa soldiers, in a recent
letter. exposed this story completely.
He is secretary of the Shiloh monu-
ment commission. He stated that at
Pittsburg Landing, May 81, 1904, the
following resolution was unanimously
adopted and spread upon the records:
Whereas, The Honorable Albert B.
Cummins, governor of Iowa, has so
earnestly and ably presented the cause
of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Iowa
to-, H. H.
versy with reference to the inscrip-
! tons of said regiments before the ma
| tional commission of the Shiloh Mill
| tary park, upon the rehearing granted
| by the secretary, of war at the request
of Governor Cummins; therefore, be
| 1T
Resolved, That we extend our sim
| cere thanks for the interest he has TAX
en- in this matter, both from the stand
point of his having made it a labor of
love toward us as Iowa soldiers, and in
his capacity as chief executive of the
state of Iowa. In further proof of our
appreciation of his services in this be-
half, both to US and to the people
of our great commonwealth, in keeping
the facts of history connected with the
services of Iowa soldiers correct anG
in accordance with the facts discov-
cred by his painstaking investigation,
we have hereunto affixed our names.
Done at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn,
this 21st day of May, 1904.
M. b. BELL, Vice Chairman.
JOHN HAYES, Secretary.
DANIEL MATSON.
~. w. CARSON.
&c. w. CROSLEY.
"G. l., GODFREY
&c. o. MoRGRIDGE.
"a. j. MILLER"
The record further says: "Thereupon
Governor Cummins was invited to APP
pear before the commission and the
|iresoluton was presented to him. He
thanked the commission for their ex-
pressions of regard and said as a result
of the hearing he hoped for favorable
decision. If, however, it should be ao,-
verse to US he would, as governor of
Iowa, uphold our cause and carry it
forward until the last sun of his adj
ADMINISTRATION should have set The
depth of feeling with which he spoke
touched the sensibilities of those pres
ent. and when he concluded the mern-
bers of the commission, individually,
expressed to him their gratitude"
At a meeting of the Iowa commits
sion held at Des Moines, Aug. Z, 1905,
the secretary made an extended re-
port of events which had transpired
relating to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Inscriptions since the meeting of May
20, 1904 In this report, which was
ordered spread upon the records, the
secretary reviewed the various steps
taken by the governor up to the time
| he asked the cooperation of the con-
| gressional delegation, and said:
Among those who joined in the de-
! Tense of our records and histories. the
governor of Iowa, Albert B. Cummins.
stands pre- eminent To him was given
| the official authority, the disposition
| to do and the ability to act. He es-
poused our cause in gloomy days,
shared our repeated defeats, never fall
tered in his determination that justice
should be done. and in the end enjoys
with us the satisfaction of seeing the
| histories Of our Fifteenth and Sixteenth
regiments sustained by the highest
authority"
| Captain Hayes further says: The
1 foregoing represents the action taken
| by the Iowa commission, first In ask
| ing Governor Cummins' assistance
and afterwards in showing our appre-
citation Of his work. Any charge that
the governor took a cent of money
from the members of the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth regiments is wholly untrue
Any intimation that at any time dur
| ing the controversy he acted Other
than as a wise and patriotic executive
should do, is basely false"