The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-09-13
THE REVIEW is REPUBLICAN.

The Review can conscientiously
urge all republicans and all voters to
to vote for A. B. Cummins this fall.
The Review does not believe that Mr..
Cummins is the ''only man" 1t
could have supported Mr.. Perkins
heartily had he been the nominee.
But the Review knows that Mr..
Cummins has made an excellent Gov
ernor. Knows that there has been no
scandal during his term of service;
Knows that he has been honorable
and trustworthy IN all his dealings
with the state.
The Review knows much of good
concerning the Cummins admins
tration. The Review is republican.
1t knows no reason why Governor
Cummins should not be reelected.
1t knows that his liberal views along
many lines are relished by the voters
of this county regardless of politics.
The Review knows that there has
been too much of corporate influence
in the affairs of both parties. 1t
further knows that the election of
Governor Cummins will serve to les
sen this influence, while the election
of Porter will serve to strengthen it.
The editor we'll remembers a con-
versation with a prominent railroad
attorney in days when Crawford county
was in the depths of democratic con-
troll. The gentlemen asked concern
ing one after the ether of the prom
inent democrats Of the county. "How-
is so and 500 "How is such and
such getting along" Knowing him
to pose as republican we asked how
he came to be acquainted with all the
democratic leaders in Crawford and
not to know any of the republicans.
In burst of frankness he said ''Why
Crawford is democratic, we work
with the democrats in that county
my politics, you know, are C. X. aud
Y. G."
There has been too much of this
sort of thing. 1t has been rampant
in DO tn parties. There is room along
these lines for all the La Folletts
and Folks and Cummins the country
affords. At present democracy in
Iowa is under the control of the cor
porations. We do not mean that the
rank and file OF the party are. That
has never been the case in any party
But the leaders are. j. B. Romans an
anti-corporation man was thrown out
of the state committee to make room
for conservative (corporation) demo-
crat. Affairs have become SO bad
that C. A. Walsh the democratic
National committeeman could stomach
it no longer and has resigned and his
place will be taken probably by
Marsh conservative Corporation
democrat. While joining the. hue
and cry for Bryan the leaders of
democracy-the men in the saddle
are quietly plotting for his downfall.
Mr.. Porter. the democratic nominee
for Governor, has had no word of pro-
test for this capture of the machinery
of his party by corporation democrats.
In fact he has been part and parcel of
it. He does not mention Bryan, who
it must be confessed stands for the
best there is in democracy, but he
has connived at Bryan's betrayal in
the house of his friends.
The election of A. B. Cummins
will be victory for protection as
against free trade. 1t will be a
victory for the people as against the
corporation. 1t will be a victory
for Theodore Roosevelt and William
Jennings Bryan. Is this queer
juxtaposition? A victory for Roose-
Welt and for Bryan? Yes, because
both have arrayed against them the
hatred and the venom of every Bel
mont, every Rockefeller every j. j..
Hill in America. Their friends
may be separated, but their deadliest
enemies they hold in common. Iowa
democracy this year, in the hope of
a mess of pottage, has sold out to the
corporations. The very make up of their
central committee which controls the
party machinery is proof enough of
this. Assurances have been given the
corporations that they need have no
fear if Porter is elected and it is
hoped that by outward clamor for
Bryan the people may be fooled into
placing his worst enemies in power.
Two birds are to be killed with one
stone, Cummins and his anti corpor-
alton reforms are to be killed off on