Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-05
A Strange Alliance.

A Strange Alliance.
The CO. operation of the Cummins
and Hull forces, in Polk county, is one
of the strongest mesalliances known
to the politics of the state for 9 gen.
Grafton. Two years ago, when Judge
Prouty opposed Capt. Hull for con-
gress in the seventh district, Cover.
nor Cummins caused tremendous
Juror by appearing at the closing rally
of the Prouty forces and giving it the
sanction of his presence. Dire threats
were made against the governor by
the Hull-Blythe partisans. They In
sisted it admitted of butone construc-
tion-t that the governor desired to see
Prouty nominated and Hull beaten.
f. NJ. Hubbell, the Des Moines multi
millionaire, j. w. Blythe, the general
attorney for the Burlington and Jas.
Davis, of the Northwestern, material
ly aided and abeted by sundry fat.fried
contributions from the protected in
dustries OF the benetic emit east, spent
their m oney and poured out their elo-
quence for the election of Capt. Hull.
The Hull dragons, supported by the
powerful influence of the local public
service corporations, threw them
selves into the city campaign and
routed Il the Cummins faad Prouty
forces that Hull should have the
maChinerYFof the city government to
help him capture the Polk County
delegationato the congressional con.
vention. To mention Governor Gum.
minis at q Hull gathering produced az
effect similar to waving an ensanguin.
ed nethex garment in the face of an
enraged bovine OF the masculine
gender. The governor was suspected
of having fell designs upon the Hui
congressional toga. To circumvent
the efforts of the Cummins partisans
the friends OF Capt. Hull blazoned
from the door Of their campaign head
quarters that the captain would secure
another million dollars for postoffict
building, WOO from the war depart
ment an additional regiment of cavalr.
for the post, railroad through con
gress an appropriation for the straight
ening of the Des Moines River at Del
Moines to prevent overflows in the
future, and perhaps, get for each and
every man who should support him,
forty acres and a mule.
Yet, these warning political ele'
ments, SO bitter and hostile, two and
one year ago, met and fused into q
common political mass, this spring.
The combination was so utterly at
varience on fundamental issues that
the veteran politicians of Des Moines,
accustomed to the vagaries of politics,
refused to give credence to reports
that the governor and Congressman
Hull had gotten into the same politi.
cal bed. But IT was even SO. Here
was q mixing Of oil and water, q
chemical combination which science
has declared Impractical. Hull
standing for high taaiff, with no sym
pathy for railroad rattle rate legisla
tion, though he had voted for thu
Hepburn bill, sfriend and beneficiary
OF ]. w. Blythe and opposed to the en-
actment Of primary laws, Is alice
with Governor Cummins, supposed tt
be hostile to all that Hull typifies Ii
politics. Yet they were in the same
little bed. 1t is the queerest polttica
mismating ever exposed to the start
tied gaze Of capital city politicians
and these are accustomed to ''seeine
things" Hull, the ''standpatter, ,
the tariff high priest, the friend of J.
w. Blythe and silent on rate 1egisla
tion; and Cummins the "tariff rip
per-" the nemesis of Blythe. the
champion of rate legislation. the man
who bearded Elkins in bis den, the
friend of the primary law, the de.
nouncer of the free pass, snoring
peacefully in the same little cot.
What does it pretend? Simply that
Hull, In consideration of lending a
laborfng oar to the governor in the
race for Allisons seat is not to be
disturbed in the seventh district. Az
was said by gamester who detected
fifth ace IN the pack, tThis thing
may be all all right, but it looks
crooked" Itsavors OF a corrupt com
binstion which reflects discredit alike
upon the governor and Capt. Hull
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