Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-22
Perkins and Herriott Meetings
ali Interesting Phase Of the
Campaign in Ninth
JOINT DEBATES SUGGESTED
Some Questions Which the Two candi-
dates Could Discuss Without Going
Back on Their Records-Accord on
Tariff Principles Not So Apparent as
Their Desire to Beat cummins.
TBy Ora williams.l

IBy Ora Williams.l
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. May 22.-The latest and
most interesting phase of the campaign
is the double-hsader being tried in
Pottawattamie county. where rival
candidates for governor, both claiming
to represent the same thing politically,
appear on one platform to discuss pub
lie questions. The news from the Her
riott -Perkins joint meeting at Walnut is
rneager. 1t did not attract the attention
Of the Cummins Perkins joint meeting
at Spirit Lake. The latter was adver-
tised as THE great debate and after 1t
was over was referred to by the blythe
papers as 'the great mistake" 1t was
not productive of the results wanted.
SO a different tack Is to be taken and
Perkins is speaking in joint debate
With one who claims to agree with him,
especially in the one main considera-
ton OF fighting Cummins The Sioux
City journal advertised it as the two
men speaking mot in joint debate, but
III SIllIe dCGotd Will OiS dilSlHSi.
The journal also stated the accord"
to be that both men are interested in
keeping the thirty-five delegates from
Pottawattamie county away from Gov
ernor Cummins.'
The other day. at Atlantic, Mr.. Her
riott denied that he was to speak with
Perkins, and said there was some mis-
take about it. He intimated that the
meeting had been arranged for him
alone, and that the running in of Per-
kins was without his knowledge.
II has been suggested that series of
Joint debates between the two would be
quite entertaining. Hesriott claims to
be safe and sound on the tariff, and
he would doubtless denounce In un-
measured terms those who have dared
to intimate that tariffs may 'be too high.
Right there he would join issue with
Perkins, who has declared in a notable
public address that tit is even more
likely that some OF our tariffs are too
high and such tariffs should be re-
duced' and further that under pro-
lection labor is mot only to be pro-
tected in what it has to sell, but is also
to be protected in what it has to buy"
NII. SoulO CdoilS Vi h1Ao
sguirm by attacking such heresy as
this and pointing out that it means
nothing else than free trade.
Then Mr.. Perkins would come back
with a denunciation of those who make
An issue Of railroad domination. He
would deny that railroads have any
thing to do with fixing UP the politics
of the state. Right there he would he
able to quote "Uncle John" on how
railroad assessments have been made,
or were made, when Shaw and Dobson
both staunch supporters Of Perkins
were doing business. Herriott declared
that assessments were "a travesty on
law and justice" and of two of, the
then state officials he spoke of their
shameless subserviency to the inter-
ests of certain powerful corporation"
Then, again, Mr.. Perkins might find
material for much sarcasm, in which
he is an adept in refuting this dec
laration of Mr.. Herriott:
$50 valuable are the services Of
ing to represent and protect railroads
in their assessments that the cam
paign expenses of candidates are
sometimes supplied tHefl.
Mr. Perkins might not go very deep
into the question because it would call
attention to the fact that the railroads
are putting up for his campaign at this
time. But the issue would be interest
ing.
In his rejoinder Mr.. Herriott might
do some quoting himself, and reading
from the columns of the Sioux City
Journal, he might ask Mr.. Perkins
what he meant when he wrote this:
"In the present shape of things the
west must stand for free coinage or a
free fight with the east"
1t might be embarrassing to explain
that this didn't mean the kind of free
coinage which Bryan was talking about
at that time, but there would have to
be some evidence adduced to make it
clear.
Turning back to the ever useful tar
iff issue again Mr.. Herriott might take
the reciprocity tack and ask Perkins
what he meant when he said that sin
cannot safely ignore the natural law
of competition" 1t might be embar-
ra ssing for Mr.. Perkins to try to prove
that this reference to the natural law
of competition did not mean that we
should have no competition with Can
ada under reciprocity.
But finally the two men who agree
on the one chief matter of keeping
Cummins from being the choice of
Iowa republicans might get around to
mutually in the matter of denuncia-
tion Of the governor in the interest of
the republican party. They might
join in saying that Cummins ought to
be destroyed if the republican party is
to survive This would be very nice
provided some unregenerate in the rear
seats did not rise up with copy OF
the Sioux City Journal in his hands
and read what Perkins said of this very
scheme of following the governor with
vituperation and artful falsehood to the
ersd of poisoning the public mind