Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-14
Mr.. PERKINS HEARS "a MAN"

When Mr. Perkins, of the Sioux Cit.
Journal, takes his walks abroad hi
hears conversation and remarks thai
pain him. He complains, editorially
that on the open streets of Sioux City
ga man" was "heard to say" Il am d
democrat Governor Cummins may
call himself a republican, but he is a
good enough democrat to suit me.
know a democrat when q hear one
Panied beyond measure and alarmed
for the future Of the party when "a
man" may shamelessly use in public,
the language quoted above, Mr.. Per-
kins hurried to the sanctuary of his
sanctum to tell a, waiting world thai
Cummins is democrat.
Mr.. Perkins agrees with "a man.
If Cummins wins Mr.. Perkins feels
that it will be democratic victory.
He charges that when he has gone in
to territory not considered Cummins
territory he has selected fighting
ground where there is a large demo-
cratic vote, and he has talked in way
to appeal to it. The governor has
made an extensive campaign in Lee
county, for instance. His supporters
are loud in their claims that he will
carry the county. If he should there is
not the slightest doubt that it will be
by democratic votes"
The Journal urges that "the situation
to-, CHI al
action by republicans who have the
welfare of their party at heart. Iowa
cannot afford to permit a democratic
victory this year. The republican
party of the nation at large cannot af-
/ ford to have Iowa go democratic. Pres
ident Roosevelt will need republican
support in congress if he is to continue
the aggressive campaign in which he
has already scored such notable prog
ress." BY direct Inference the only
way to keep Iowa republican and sup
port Roosevelt's campaign for rate reg
ulation is to make George D. Perkins
governor and throw the political desti-
MES of the republican party of Iowa
into the lap of Joseph Blythe, chief
counsel for the Burlington railroad, and
A. F. Call, Of the Jim Hill interests,
who, it is to be presumed, would fight
to fare-you-we for increased pow
ers for the interstate commerce COM
mission. Mr. Blythe, it is not forgot
ten. voted the state of Iowa at the last
republican national convention. How
did he vote it? He delivered it bound
hand and foot to the railroad inter-
ests.
Mr.. Perkins, candidate from that
portion of Iowa where men are born
republican and where democrats grow
In patches like quack grass, has been
utterly denied, discredfted and repudi-
ated by his own and its sister district,
perhaps the two safest republican dis
tricts in the state 1t is not at all un-
likely that under primary vote he
might have been defeated in his own
county. Mr.. Cunlmins is the candidate
particularly of northern Iowa, the
strongest republican community in the
United States. 1t was these strongest
republican districts that forced Cum
Minis into the race this year. When
Mr.. Perkins was out on the street lis
tening to "a man" say "Cunmins is
democrat" county after county in the
very core of republication was saying
"Cummins is the apostle of the highest
republicanism,' and instructing their
delegations TO use every honorable
means to again make him the candi-
date of the republican party. Mr..
Perkins should come away from the
river front and the squeakings of hy-
pothetiea. man" and cock his ear east