The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-10-11
On The Firing Line.
By Alex Miller.

Democrats Who Vote for Cumn'lns.
We hope the Democrats who vote
for Cummins will do so advisedly.
The day is past when you can tell men
how to vote, and the Democratic party
never presumed to herd their voters
like dumb driven cattle. They have
always believed in individual liberty.
but when it comes to voting for a
man like A. B. Cummins, the voters
have right to know what sort OF
man he is. Is he man entitled to
any consideration from the Democratic
party? Is he entitled to any respect
from a Democrat. let alone his vote?
Think about it, and to assist you in
making up your mind we quote few
sentences from a speech that Cum
minis made in 1899:
II believe from my whole heart that
men who hold the doctrine expressed
in the Chicago platform of 1896, and
in the Democratic platform adopted at
Des Moines this year, are unfit to &C.
cupy any Office or vote upon any law
which can influence the destiny of the
United States"
Read over that insult and digest it.
and then If you want to vote for Cum
Minis, that is where you belong You
belong in the Cummins party because
nobody else holds the view that Cum
Minis is the whole works. His idea is,
there is but one God and Cummins is
Npln -, toe &c tho hot >p
the Mohammedan. Allah is Allah and
Cummins is his prophet The stand
pat Republicans do not believe it and
neither do the Democrats who have
stopped to consider. Many might vote
for him unthoughtedly, but it is worth
makes foolish assertions of that kind.
Lots of individual liberty about that.
Not fit to vote for measures and not
fit to hold Office. Alack and alas! What
would become Of this country if Cum
Minis should happen to die? Is there
then no good can come out of Nazar-
| eth unless it has the hall mark of
| A. B. Cummins? What sort of meat
doth this man Caesar feed upon that
he towers so far above all Of his fell
lows, or words to that effect.
Who under the shining sun is this
man Cummins that he sets himself up
to say who may hold office and who
make laws? Is it not amazing that we
| have man of such vast wisdom
growing up among us that he is tc
set the pace?
Does the sun rise in the vicinity Of
Albert B. Cummins, perpetual candi
date for governor? Does 1T rise ant
set and revolve about this magnificent
personality? Is he the Joshua who
would command the sun to stand still
in Gilgal? Is he the man who says
Come and We come, go and ye go?"
Not yet.
1t is an insult to 100000 loyal Dem
ocrats, good and true, VINO voted TO
Bryan in 1895, and who expect to d.
it again in 1908, if occasion offers
Will they stultify themselves and will
they swallow this insult from cheal
man like Cummins? Not fit to vote O
hold Office" What Iowa Democrat care
Iowa Democrats we're seeking Office
they would long ago have joined SOM
other party, but over a quarter of
million of them are Democrats be
cause they believe in it, and Albert B
Cummins cannot lure them out o
; the party, nor can any other man
Nor can any man with fair promise
or with low down insults. He is no
the car of Russia, thank the LORD
and Democrats do not have to be gov
erned by anything he says. He ma
, rule the Republican party, but Their
is one party still where man can b
free There is no censorship on tn
votes of the Democrats and they Pre-
pose to vote where they please an
where their principles are. Neithe
Cummins, nor powers, nor principal
ties, nor things that are or things t
come can change them They will no
be cajoled or driven or bought. The
may not be fit to vote or to hold office
but by virtue of the manhood of tn
voters of the state of Iowa, they wi
make the test this fall as to votin
: and after Jan. they also expect t
stick their legs under the mahogan
of the governors mansion in De
Moines and Claude Porter is the mai