Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-25

| organs and the democratic Co1nnllttes
to 1iscredit the republican state adj
ministration were all wrong. Governor
| said: "Fhe statement so often made
that the executive council increased
| the assessments on farm lands IL per
cent and the railway property per
cent is false ana when made with
knowledge is malicious
| AS a matter of fact. and this was
| at that time, the executive council had
in the two years increased railway as
sessments more than had been done In
| fifteen years before Cummins went on
| the council. AS a matter of fact, ALSO
| the actual increase wnen the corpora
| ton politicians were talking of per
cent raise was over 90 per cent.
SO much use was being made by the
democratic committee of the Cedar
Rapids Republicans doctored figuring
that the republican state committee
got together to consider what should
be done The fact that the democrats
were able to back their assertions by
was a strong card. They printed
thousands of circulars and scattered
them broadcast over the state to the
dscredit of the state administration.
The republican state committee held
long session over the matter and sent
out word that the malicious false
hoods concerning Governor Cummins
and Iowa officials must be eliminated
from so-called or pretended republican
newspapers, no matter what might be
the attitude of the vengeful corpora
tions.
Then Chairman Spence had his liter
AIRY bureau send out letter to repub-
lican newspapers of the state, stating
the facts and showing up the falsity
of the figures Jerry Sullivan had been
using on the authority of the railroad
organs, and he introduced his letter
with the following:
AN attempt Is being made by the
democratic press and democratic ora
tors OF the state to befuddle the peo-
pie at large regarding the action OF
tn executive council in making assess
ments For instance, 1t is charged
that the council greatly increased the
assessed value of real estate without
making corresponding increase In
the assessments of the railroads. This
Is absolutely false. The assessed val
uation OF the roads was increased over
So 100000 by the council this year, be-
ing the largest increase ever made in
one year in the history of the state.
Many are apt to lose sight of the fact
that railroads are assessed every year
while lands are assessed only every
two years The increase in the railroad
assessments this year is 20 per cent, as
compared with the assessment two
years ago The increase in assessment
of farm lands this year is only 17.2
per cent as compared with two years
ago"
Here was rebuke to the scandal
mongers direct from the republican
state committee, organized as every
one knows on basis of perpetual hos
tility to the governor and begrudgingly
granting to the governor his due. But
the attack on the state administration
from so-called republican sources was
so malicious and deliberate that the
committee could not stand for it.
Republican newspapers not wholly
under corporation domination refused
to sanction the attack being made on
an Iowa republican administration.
They recognized factionalism and COR
poration soreness as the force back of
the attack. For instance, the Dubuque
Times, not friendly to Governor Cum
Minis, but DESTROYS that republican
policies be not discredited wholly, had |
this to say:
Certain newspapers representing
fractional opposition to the council were
bound from the start to find fault with
whatever the council might do. Last |
year they complained of the higher
railroad assessments because farm
property had been advanced cores
but, as shown by the fig
ures of actual sales submitted by the
railway attorneys, had been listed far
below it's actual value This year they
that farm valuations have
Is per cent and that no cor
increases in other valua-
tons have been made. They We're
bound to find fault. If not upon one
ground, then upon another. At present
they are posing as the friends of the
farmers and trying to convince them
that they have a grievance against the
executive council"
The Times-Republican did what it
could at the time to censure so-called
newspapers for misrepre-
senting the. governor at time when
all republicans were sworn to stand to-
gether and the case made against Mr..
Blythe's Cedar Rapids Republican and
Hawkeye was unaswerable
If we remember correctly the Sioux
City Journal joined with the T.-R. in
scolding these journals for telling the
lies with which the democrats were at
lacking us but this year the season of
short memories has again rolled around
and the exigencies of the campaign
demand that even the Sioux City Jour-
nal revive and repeat the SANDER