Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-06
SEE WHAT A BAD REpureTIon DOES!


The Record Herald has made the
amende honorable to Governor Cum
Minis and stated the source of the fake
dispatch as the New York Herald. In
a letter from Managing Editor Nc
Auliffe to Governor Cummins he says:
Mr.. Moves Nhe owner) directs me to
acknowledge receipt of your favor of
the LIST inst, and thank you for calling
his attention to the outrage to which
you have been subjected and to say to
you in explanation and reply that COR
rection will be made conspicuously in
his columns tomorrow morning; that
the offending dispatch came from the
New York Herald in regular course.
The Record Herald's New York cor
respondent is in the Herald office and
has access to all the Herald's proofs.
The Herald is recognized as a reliable
and responsible journal and never
heretofore in our experience has there
been cause for challenging the accur-
acy of it's news reports.
Mr.. Noyes desires me to add that he
greatly regrets the unpleasant Incl
dent and that he hopes the correction
and explanation which he publishes
tomorrow will prove wholly satisfact-
DRY to you.
A dispatch from the Record Herali
received by the governor previous to
the receipt of the above letter is said
to disclose the facts that the dispatch
was not sent to the Record Herald
from Des Mones, that it was not sent
by Leon Brown, who is the regular cor
respondent for the Record Herald in
Des Moines, and that it was secured
by the Record Herald from a New
York newspaper whose regular Des
Moines correspondent always has been
in the office of LATE Younng's news
paper. The Record-Herald's eXplana-
ton is sufficiently satisfactory so far
as the Record Herald is concerned AL
together it has been plainly shown that
the alleged news story was a plain,
falsehood, and it's publ
cation is not likely to do the governor
any serious harm. Nevertheless it's
author should be traced out and ex-
posed to public scorn. We have had
too much of the fake dispatch in Iowa.
The Boone News opens up in the
Sherlock Holmes business with this
advice:
Governor Cummins should look to
the Des Moines newspaper which is
trying to do him harm for
an explanation of the fake dispatch.
To the newspaper which cares no more
for the truth than a pickpocket. Which
has been guilty of fake kilograms be-
fore. Which is filthy pool of political
Misrepresentation. Which is even
now sneering at his efforts to track
the lying correspondent to his secret
hiding place. Who else would have the
motive, who else would have the UNI
limited gall to send out such ''whiz-
zer?'
See what a bad reputation does
The Capital force signed permission
,or examination of all stuff" sent out
oy its members on active news, service.
To be sure, Lafe's name was not in
he list, but it is incredible that Mr.. !
Young sent such a dispatch Not
the strength of circum-
'tantial evidence we should be ex-
remedy cautious in accusations.
But see what a bad reputation does
rhe Boone News recalling forged and
aked interviews of previous days, and
It no loss to find motive for an at
empt to pound Cummins into the
round jumps to not unnatural con-
fusion. However, in this case, let us
lot jump to conclusions, but approach
hem on the evidence. No dog should
re hanged on bad name only
But see what bad reputation does,