Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-17
CUMMlNS in FLOYD.
Continued from Page rhree.)

So long as stone and mortar shall en-
dure, these inspired words of the
sainted martyr of the rebellion will
shine down upon the colors of those old
flags, as they rear themselves into the
beautiful inches that have been pre-
pared for them, about the rotunda of
that building. And as saw those old
men. holding to their hearts their old
battle flags, it seemed to me that the
birth of freedom which they had won
by their valor and their virtue and
their righteousness must come in the
days of peace as we'll as in the days OF
war.
Sometimes 1 have thought that it
was little more difficult to be pa
triotic in the days of peace than in
the days of war 1t is little harder to
do ones full duty to his country IN
the quiet of the fireside than it was
under the impulse of the fife and the
drum and in the presence of mem
acing army, and / began to ponder
upon these things"
cummns Hoarse.
Governor Cummins is suffering from
the effects of sitting in damp clothing
after he had made his opening in the
debate at Spirit Lake. 1t would not
have been courteous to his opponent
if he had left the stage and made the
change of apparel that is his invaria-
BILE custom on other occasions, and so
he risked the Tightening up of his vo-
cal cords, and his present hoarseness
was the result. 1t developed Sunday
and was more pronounced this morn
ing. Exchanging greetings with hun
dreds of admirers en- route from En-
metsburg did not tend to mend matters
so far as his throat was concerned, but
rest during the day at the home of
Mr.. c. A. Morrill, put him in condi-
ton to deliver the great address OF
last night.
PaIo Alto County.
At the hotel in Emmetsburg, where
the governor spent Sunday night and
where he was during Sunday evening,
hundreds Of citizens called to express
their appreciation of the fight he is
making for the principle Of applying
and craftsmanship. Nearly a hundred
of the men of that city met him at
the station, when he arrived from
Spirit Lake Sunday evening. The
Cummins men of Emmetsburg expect
to carry Palo Alto county, if the vote
in the primaries is by ballot and If no.
tice of caucuses is given. A caucus
called for one of the wards has no
place or hour announced for it, but the
governors supporters, who in that
county. as all over northern Iowa, in
clude the farmers, working men and
business men, are on the alert and are
going to demand the square deal. 1t
was such a demand for a square deal
that caused the balloting for delegates
at Baskerville in Emmett county to be
by ballot instead of division OF the
house. and resulted in the selection
of 116 Cummins delegates out of
total Of 1928 in the county convention.
Emmet County.
1t is interesting to note that the
Rock Island car of instruction pulled
out of Estherville the night after the
caucuses were held in Emmett county,
the reason given being that the work
of those in charge of the car was over
at that point. 1t is only fair to say
at this point that there was no talk of
politics in this car at any time. This
is on authority of one of the two men
doing the instructing. He is a Cedar
Rapids man, formerly an alderman
there and stands high in the commun-
ity in which he lives. He declared the
rumor to the effect that instructions to
vote for Perkins were given in the car
was baseIess, and that all the Per-
kins talk he made was outside of the
car. He asserted that his argument to
the railway men was that the Rock
Island road had stood by him for "a
wears and that he intended to stand by
the railroad in it's effort to elect Per-
kins and defeat Cummins. He assert
ed in the office of the Orleans hotel
that he put the proposition up to the
men on bread and butter basis, not
in, but off, the car, mind you.
The governor left last night after
the meeting for Des Moines, where he
arrived this morning to take a two
days rest before leaving for Lee coun-
ty on his invasion of the reserva ton.
He is to be at Keokuk and Fort Madi-
son the last two days Of the week,