Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-04-18
THE DELIVERY OF wINNESHIEy.

udyS ldst week, anu ltIU Oh SATURDAY
perfectly satisfied that Winneshiek
county would be delivered, body and
soul, to the governor IN his aspira-
tions for seven years as the great and
only saving sovereign Of Iowa.
The good people must forget that
for thirty years Gov Cummins has
used every power at his command to
serve the railroads, jumping from the
republican to the democratic party
and back again as occasion demanded (;
using railroad passes and railroad sup
port more lavishly than most amy
other man i'll the state to accomplish
his purposes receiving high salaries
almost continuously from the railroads,
voting and lobbying and conniving
with the railroad influences OF the
state and nation against the people
time and time again and now, when
he sees the tide turning against these
influences, against corporation con-
troll, etc., he loudly and vehemently
casts aside those who have made him
what he is, for the railroads nominal
ed him five years ago and with loud ac-
claim and great ado cries, "down with
the railroads have cast them aside,
1 no longer ride on their filthy passes.
Now / charge my travelling expenses to
the voters of the state. He prances up
and down the state at state expense,
leaving an important legislature in
session without executive advice at
hand, telling the people how they have
been wronged 10, these many years,
what an awful state Iowa is. how it
is rapidly going to the dogs, and he.
Albert B. Cummins, governor of Iowa,
is the only man who can save us from
the awful degradation into which We
are sinking. It's play to the gal
leries, and for the moment it seems to
be winning applause. By repudiating
the farmers of Iowa in clamOring for
free trade and reciprocity with Cana
da in one month, giving testimony
before the Interstate commerce COM
mittee in another that the farmers of
Iowa are getting freight rates on but
ter and eggs that are too low, rates That
they are not entitled co serving notice
ON Senator Dolliver that his seat in
the senate is in danger, and then,
when talking to the Senator's neigh
bors in his home town lauding him to
the skies and promising him support !;
branding Geo. d. Perkins, man
against when tire breath of scandal
has never come, as under the railroad
and corporation influence, when for
thirty years, while Cummins has been
doing the bidding of the railroads and
corporations to the utmost extent of
his power, Perkins has been allied
with LarTabee and others in wagilR
the greatest campaign against the rail-
roads ever known in Iowa. and whose
record is clean, wholesome and honor
able tc the highest possible extent,
who is known everywhere as a man Of
his convictions, honest. upright, the
friend of the people, and the enemy
Of the corporation That seeks to Tske
advantage of the people.
If there rs one iota of u reason why
Gov Cummins should be governor of
Iowa seven years, a term longer than
any OF his distinguished predecessors
have had, and this under plea as false
as can be, we cannot see IT. and be
lieving as we do, we would maintain
this position were we the only person
in Winneshiek county who thougln so.
But there are others. AS time goes on,
as people are studying these questions,
learning the real animus of the sTgua-
tion-that Gov Cummins' sole object
in making this campaign is to keep
together ais organization, the greatest
political machiRe Iowa has ever
known, SO that when the time cnnes
he may succeed Senator Dolliver in the
United States senate when they hook
back over the record of the FIVE wears
with which Mr. Cummins has t~en
honored as governor, and note that he
has not done or tried to do any of
these things he talks about; that id
Iowa is so dreadfully bad what has he
been doing during FIVE years as governor
that he has just discovered it that his
administration is devoid of unusual
accomplishment for the public good ;
they then ask what valid reason is
there that he should be governor of
Iowa seven years.
There are many others as capable,
and much more SO, to serve the state
honorably and uprightly, as they have
lived all their lives. Men who do not
have to change color, to east aside
former alliances, but keep right on in
the even tenor of their way as they
have been doing for years-the very
thing Albert b. Cummins claims that
he wants to do. Bosh
The Burlington Hawkeye says that
in the Cummins policy there is no
thought Of the welfare of the party :