Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-05
Democratic Campaign Text
Book Devoted Solely to Sour
rilous Calumny
INCONSISTENCY is CHARGED
Pamphlet Of Forty eight Pages EN-.
ployed to Rail the Republican Nomi-
nee for Governor-Tariff Questions
Discussed by Parallel system-other
Candidates Come In For Share.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

| Special to Times Republican.
| Des Moines, Oct. 5.-The campaign
text book of the democratic state CEN
| trail committee was issued today. 1t is
a forty eight page pamphlet and the
| outside of the cover bears this legend:
Leaves from recent history of AL
bert, the Pretender, being concise ac-
count of the political meanderings of
Governor Albert B. Cummins, OF Iowa.
between the sun-nt heights of immedi-
ate tariff revision and the dismal
swamps of tariff robbery; together
| with frequent side trips to Corpora
tionville and Castle Extravaganza,
giving rise to the pertinent inquiry.
Where is he at?"
The booklet treats Of the tariff tax
alton, railroad assessments, the long
and short haul bill, and chapters de-
voted to an effort to prove extrava-
gance on the part of the governor and
that he opposed antitrust legislation.
Governor Cummins is referred to in
the pamphlet turnout as THE Only
One" and Boss
The governor is charged with sacri-
ficing principle for the nomination In
the last state convention by not OPP
posing plank which did not demand
immediate general revision of the tar
if. Sentences are quoted from his
speeches to support the charge of in
c;c 4 hot, IL hot H.,
believed what he said. he could not
1906 plank.
Parallel System Used.
The parallel column is invoked to
contrast the tariff plank Of 1906 and
the utterances of the governor in the
October, 1905, speech in I)es Moines;
the tariff plank Of 1904, and the gov
ernor's speech made before it was re-
ported with the resolution which the
governor tried to get into the national
platform; and the speeches of Con-
gresham Hepburn and the governor at
the 1904 convention. The democrats
exploit this, as 1t has been exploited
heretofore, in the effort to to show that
the governor is insincere The book
says:
such, in brief, is the governors re-
cent record of inconsistency on the
tariff question.
After he has safely passed the or
deal of a campaign and Is securely
landed in office, he does not hesitate
to expose the wickedness of the high
tariffs. which rob the people annually
of five times as much as the amount
of graft of all insurance companies,
for all time, and vet. even at the
height of his righteous Indignation he
puts upon the utterances the brand of
insincerity by demanding tariff re-
vision by republicans only, well know
ing that the trust barons who DOM
mate that party will never consent to
tariff revision until they are forced to
it by the destructive wrath of an out
ragged and oppressed people
"But when he is seeking office, how
different the situation.
"Cringing before his masters he ac-
cepts their dictation, casts aside his
assumed independence and in abjec.
tones promises to be coed for the sake
of the loaves and fishes while the priI-
ciples he has upheld when claiming to
be fighting the battle of the common
people are dumped upoa the shelf to
await more convenient season"
Preeonvention Campaign Argument.
The preconvention campaign argu-
ment that the governor Is responsible.
for the appropriations made by the
legislature Is exploited at great length
with page after page Of figures. He
also is charged with the increase in
farm land assessments made by local
assessors and boards Of supervisors,
amounting to $1.1S cent an acre in 1905
over that in 1898.
1t is not specifically denied that Cow
ernor Cummins and the executive coua-
ell have increased the railroad assess
ment in five years 1925 per cent, but
pages of figures are introduced in the
effort to show that there has been no
material increase in assessments since
1872.
Railway Support Charged.
It is charged that the railroads are
supporting Cummins; that Millionaire
Hubbell is Governor Cummins' angel"
and 1t Is charged that w. L. Eaton
candidate for railroad commissioner:
n. w. Byers, candidate for attorney
general. and w. c.. Haywood, candi-
date for secretary of state, also are
railroad men. The same old list of To-
cal attorneys for railroads is given to
show that the railroad corporations ire
supporting the governor.
The long and short haul bills of the
preconventon campaign are reproduce
ed. including the long ago exploded
declaration that the governor wrote the
bill which he vetoed.
The extravaganza chapter saddles
the governor with personal RESPONSE
bjlity for rebuilding the state institu
tions, erecting soldiers monuments and
all the business of thu, state board of
control and other departments Of the