Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-05-02

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SOME IOWA IDEAS.
Opinions Of Iowa Editors Concerning A. B.
Cummins' Seven Year Candidacy
for Govefner Of lows.
The Eldora Herald says that the
only ring in Iowa today is the Cum
minis ring.
"Dowie is not the only fake re-
former that the public is getting on
to- says the Des Moines Capital.
"The governor is valiant corpora
ti0n crippler-in his speeches before
the institutes, observes the Waterloo
Reporter.
The Atlantic Telegraph says that if
the governor were to die the Cummins
faction would not last to exceed twen-
ty-four hours.
"The duty that lies nearest Iowa
republicans, says the Keokuk Gate
City, ''is to see that the next Iowa
republican. state convention is repub-
lican.
Iowa has not been accustomed to sac-
cept dictation from any one man, but
ii Governor Cummins wins his oght
this state will be under One-man rule.
Which is safer-One man or the people?
|-Clarinda Journal.
The Clarinda Herald thinks it is a
remarkable circumstance that q repub-
lican governor should be so immensely
popular with the democrats all over
the country as Govern,r Cummins
is.
The Estherville Enterprise says that
SO far as it knows the democratic
paper at Estherville is the only news
paper in Emmett county supporting the
governor in his fOurth-term aspira-
tions.
Inasmuch as it was railroad infiu-
ence that gave us Cummins, we hope
the governor will succeed in eliminat-
ing the railroads from Iowa politics.
When they can't do any better than
that they might as well quit. Sioux
City Journal.
In the accounts Of the recent farm
ers" meeting held at Nevada, at
which Governor Cummins spoke for
an hour and q half, the phrase 8 the
meeting had no political sigh ificance"
occurs pretty frequently. Why this
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CITY Journal.
The Waterloo Reporter contends that
it is q mistake to classify CumJuins
and, Roosevelt as the same sort Of re.
publicans. In reality" it asserts,
"they differ as much as Cleveland and
Bryan or Hearst do in the domain of
democracy. Cpmmins is the Hearst of
the republican party when it comes to
incendiarism, as much a. Cleveland is
the Roosevelt of the democratic party
in stability and conservatism. How
such widely divergent views can be
harnessed together and driven in
dOcility is not quite understandable. :"
II is mighty strange that Governor
Cummins has waited five years to tell
I0wans of his party abuses. While at
its head II there was anything rotten
in Denmark he should have corrected
it or got out. It is little unhealthy
to cry fraud against his own admins
tratiOn. Three years ago he had seen
nothing and smelled nothing, but
praised Iowa and her prosperity when
he found that praise would keep him
in the band wagon and when he
schemed to remain in the present year
1t was q milk and honey proposition
with the people till he had cinched
another twelve-month job. No more
against an Iowa governor than that Of
AAeVOGy IL tAA0 OuuuluS u0o1 Wlt1l
the republican party till he could in
oculate the people with the poison Of
his free trade principles. But the
poison is getting it's antidote pretty
Fast. Abba Union.
The denomination Of Albert b.
Cummins for governor. and the nom-
nation Of Cummins men for state
senators and representatives, would
endanger the continuation of Hon.
Jonathan p. Dolliver as q United States
senator. Who is worth the most to
Iowa? Governor Cummins or senator
Dolliver? Mr.. Dolliver is sincerely q
Roosevelt, national kind Of repub-
lican from principle, while Governor
Cumnins has done more to disrupt the
republican party than any other man