Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-24

personal friends of political supporters
to swerve him from the path of public
duty? Have not corporations, and
combinations and the cohorts of stand
patism assaulted his record almost
| daily since he came into public life?
! And what has been the result?
| An executive may do more than
| faithfully discharge the routine of
official duty. Why is Theodore Roose-
welt so popular? Other presidents have
wrought as well officially Others were
as free from personal faint. why IS
he more popular and helpful than
they? Because of his unfailing interest
in moral movements. Because he gives
evidence of unfailing sympathy for the
interests of all the people. Because
he is more than a faultless executive
machine, important as this is in pop
ular government.
What Iowa leader of the past ten
years has been more aggressive IN
resisting corporation encroachment
upon popular rights. What Iowa lead
err in this period has SO strenuously in
sisted upon putting the corporations
out of politics? Who appeared at
Washington before the Interstate
commerce committee of the senate as
a witness for the people, successfully
resisting five hours; badgerins on the
part of hostile chairman and arttul
railway attorneys? What Iowa COVER
nor first took up the fight for primary
elections, and who could have more
Loyalty or efficiently supported this
most important issue. Who appeared
three times before the departments ut
Washington to plead successfully for
Justice to Iowa soldiers in the matter
of battlefield monument inscription?
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ELMER TAYLOR HEARD IT.
[Traer Star-Clipper.]
We heard the debate by Cummins
and Perkins in Spirit Lake, Saturday.
1t was a notable event. Never in Iowa's
history had two opposing candidates
for governor met in joint discussion
before Dickinson county is all atlame
with political fire. Here in Tama we
get no idea of the excitement in north
west Iowa over the governorship, and
Dickinson has been the main battle
ground. 1t was therefore expected that
this debate would draw a crowd. The
day was cold and rainy and the roads
almost impossible, yet a vast throng
assembled. We stood in line forty
minutes to make sure of a seat in the
opera house The big building was
packed and many could not gain en-
trance.
The debate was attended with great
enthusiasm from start to finish. 1t
consumed three hours, but fully half
an hour was used in applause so deaf
ening that the speakers could do Moth
ing but wait Cummins opened and
closed. He is much the better speaker
and it is clearly evident the majority OF
the audience were with him, but Per-
kins was not by any means overshad-
owed. He is bright, chuck full of
facts and figures and master of sar-
casm. He amused the audience much
more than Cummins. but while neither
speaker got much the better of the
other Cummins' argument was gener-
ally conceded by fair-minded hearers
to have been the strongest. Perkins
lodged much of it. He failed to con-
vince the people that he is not the can
didate of the corporations. He ins-
pressed his hearers as a man of ability
and honesty, but not in sympathy with
some of the great reform movements
that Cummins is fighting for and the
people demand The sensation of the
day was the reading of the Larrabee
letter, published in all the dailies this
week, endorsing Cummins and con-
graduating him upon his good fight
AS we have said before, Perkins will
lose his own district and Cummins will /
sweep the state. We would not be |
if the nomination should be !
generally conceded to Cummins weeks |
before the convention.