Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-16

! He is opposed to the activity of cor
| pora tons in politics and believes that
railway attorneys have no right to die
tate nominations In other words he
| believes that the common people
should select their officers and make
| the laws, and Senator Maytag stands
| on the same platform.
Cummins did not stand with the
democrats when Boies was elected. DO
net understand me to say that any man
who supported Horace Boies has any
thing to apologize for, no purer man
than Governor Boies ever filled a gov
ernors' chair. I simply say this is a
wicked lie, made out of whole cloth
for purpose Governor Cumnins
says he never voted a democratic tick
ct in his life. He knows. and the mal
who says he did don't know. Now,
which are you going to believe? Gov
ernor Cunmins is not only a temper
ance man but he is a teetotaler. He
was conscientiously opposed to the
prohibition amendment to the consti-
tuition. the same as Robert NJ. Haines
of Grinnell. Perhaps he went further
and opposed statewide prohibition |
do not know as to this. The
republicans of Polk county nominated
Cu,nmins for the legislature in 1887. /
think it was, and his name will be
found on the republican ticket. headed
by VIM Larrabee. Now, when men say
he was elected on a democratic ticket
as a democrat. are they lying or not"
If they are lying and they are, then
how can you trust their other state
ments.
If this "old republican wheel horse"
and think you will find him in a dark
closet in the office of the Grnnell Her
aid had said nothing else, his last
charge that Cummins came out OPEN
~ for free silver when Bryan was A
candidate" is enough to prove his char
acter or his total lack of it.
Cummins was a member of the Iowa
delegation to ST Louis in 1896. There
he saw that 1t was no time for shut
fling. He joined with Mark Hanna in
demanding the word gold in the plat
form. The other Iowa delegates, ex-
cept Col. French of Davenport. oppos-
ed it. Henderson said, II can not face
my people If the word gold goes in"
Hepburn said, Il can not be re-elect-
ed on gold platform" Lacey opposed
minis stood out for a gold" platform
Mark Hanna won. Whatever may be
said of Mark Hanna, and a
be truthfully said, it can
the money question. At the request
of Mark Hanna, and because of the
ability shown by Cummins in defend
ing the gold standard, Cummins was
selected by the Iowa delegation as
Iowa's member OF the national COM
mittee. The committee that had charge
of that memorable campaign against
Bryan and free silver. Cummins
served four years and was then dis
placed by a nobody, a man by the
name Of Hart from Council Bluffs.
This was done to punish Cummins for
having the impudence to ask the leg
islature to support him for senator
against Blythe's father-in-law. John
H. Gear, and 1T was charged among
politicians at the time to reward Hart
for running a lot of ringers" into Coun
ell Bluffs from Omaha to vote for
Blythe's man instead of the man who
had promised to support Cummins. You
can show this letter if you want to. !
Every word in it is true. Every state-
ment is matter of history. If now
you can excuse the young men who |
own the Grinnell Herald for their con-
duct, YOU are more charitable than / |
am. Among all of Cummins enemies |
he has had no more unfair opponent |
than the Grinnell Herald Pretending |
always to he fair and to be friendly to
Cummins. they have never llesitated to
stick stiletto into him when his back |
was turned.
The fact that "Old Wheel Horse"
has not been able to meet Sen.
Blanks" argument has not yet pro-
duced any harmful effects. as the re-
publican majority in Iowa has been
growing since the Cummins