Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-16
PERKINS Lame REPLY
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For popular government.
For the primary principle.
For the ant-pass legislation
For the cheap long haul.
"For economy in administration.
For lower levies under the higher
assessments.
For equitable taxation.
For simple honesty.
For square deal.
For harmony.
"For the republican party
Does the governor object to that
! PLATFORM
This inquiry brought forth laughter
and cheers.
! The governor all this time was taxi
| ing notes.
| MIR. Perkins then spoke with some
sarcasm upon the governors solemn
and reluctant duty" to become a candi-
date for third term
Il deny the emergency" declared
Mr.. Perkins emphatically. and again
| the audience showed its pleasure.
Mr. Perkins expressed the opinion
that If he continued as governor the
"emergency" would be just as great
two years hence. He said he was will
ing to trust the people. He believed
| them qualified for self government and
mot dependent on one man.
Exhibits a Sample Lie.
/ MIR. Perkins offered as a sample of
| the lies that had been circulated re-
garding him a story that he was not a
member of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, and with dramatic force held
| high the roster of General Hancock
t,I TO, thA I,Yt,, hi n
| of Perkins"
But cary any word of mine reach
out and catch up with such misrepre-
sentatiou? Not at ALL" he said.
| Here Mr.. Perkins inquired how long
he had talked. and when Mr.. Regard
replied: Forty -iive minutes" he
said Il wish had the whole three
hours"
MIR. Perkins said: Il appear under a
4 disadvantage. | have no speech COM
mitted to memory. l have no eloquent
passages that are In type In the offices
of favored newspapers. l have no Of
! flee back of me. My capital is my own,
be it little or much. sought In all my
relations with politics to be honest, fair
and consistent. II j. w. Blythe has
suggested my candidacy, do not know
it, but ] have other friends who urged
me to become a candidate, and il the
| men who bear those names are not
honorable men, then we are all dis
honorable"
He asked IL he was to be criticised
and "spongedf off the board because
some of the governors personal enc
mics had chosen to support him.
mr. Perkins then tool. ~, tho Malls
berry merger bill and claimed Cum
Minis was insinuating he (Perkins))
would have signed the bill had he been
governor, saying Cummins had no war
rant for his assumption.
The speaker then again attacked
Cummins' republicanism, saying he
was elected to the legislature by DEM
ocrats at the time he claims to have
done so much for the people.
| Mr.. Perkins reviewed the Boies
campaign and declared that whether
or not Mr.. Cummins had voted for
Boies Mr.. Cummins' influence at the
time certainly was on the side of
Mr.. Boies.
Mr.. Perkins then took up the
! governors record on railroad legisla-
ton. He declared that the bill
which the governor had just boasted
he had introduced in 1888 was pat
termed after the Georgia railroad
law, and that the Georgia law was
declared unconstitutional He thought
the governor should have known
about it.
He referred to the picture of thir-
teen members of the legislature Of
1888 which so long hung in the
railroad offices as friends of the rail-
roads. And the handsome face Of
the governor appears among them.
cat that time there was a bill for
2-cent fare said Mr.. Perkins,
land the governor voted NO on it.
There was a bill to make the rail-
road commissioner elective and the
governor voted No on that"
Famous "Fake" Dispatch.
Briefly, he referred to the famous
| socalled fake telegram in which
Governor Cummins was quoted as hay
| ing made sensational attack on
Roosevelt's rate program and as hav-
| ing called Delivers bill a rank subter-
fuge. Mr.. Perkins spoke of some
evidence that the governor intended
to say some things he did not say at
the fruit producers banquet to which
! the fake telegram had reference. He
said the matter in the telegram har-
| moniZed with the testimony of the
governor before the interstate COM
MERGE committee.
Mr.. Perkins closed with an elo-
quent reply to the governors objec-
ton to his company"
Cunmins' Rebuttal.
| When Mr. Perkins had closed, Mr..
Cummins arose to make reply. He was
greeted by perfect pandemonium.
81 am here to emphasize the presi-
dents admonition to rebuke the man
with the muck rake" he said.
who is using the muck rake here
Not a day he has not villified me and
slandered me. In repeated statements
he SAYS he is willing to trust the
people, and because 1 was, I favored a
primary law He was not willing to
trust the people, and he and his friends
defeated the universal demand of the
people of Iowa for such law. He says
he wants public officials returned to
the people at short intervals, and that
he opposes third terms. Yet he was
elected to congress four times and
would not refuse fifth term. l do
not oppose that, you understand, nor
his holding office as long as he holds
the confidence of the people.
"Mr. Perkins says that five years