Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-07
IOWA OPINIONS AND NaTts.

| Let all candidates for state an(
| legislative positions be measured b,
their fidelity to the interests of tn,
people. and by their advocacy of Don.
ular rights" proposes the Mason Cit,
Times-IHerald. This is a time whe,
the people must brush aside the trick.
sters and the pleaders for harmony
and take advanced ground in suppor1
of aggressive leaders of unimpeachable
Integrity who are fearless in the adj
vocacy of a repubicanism which
means progress and advancement. Cor
should receive it's death blow this
year-and it Will"
Tho Importance of learning in
childhood the wholesome lessons
taught in standard fables is well H.
lustrated by Editor Perkins appar-
ent ignorance of what rappened 10
old dog Tray" remarks the Water
loo Courier"
The Boone News thinks MIR. Perkins
should get some other issue besides
sympathy for personal abuse. The
governor has him distanced on this
issue, as fag as the difference between
the dignified treatment of the Perkins
candidacy by the progressive press
and the rabid abuse of the governor
by the standpat press"
The Brooklyn Chronicle concludes
The supposed shrewdness of the man
Elkins is evidently myth His letter to
Governor Cunmins was bunder of
the sort which a clear headed man
had no right to make. The senatorial
rich mans club will probably learn
something of public opinion before
snow flies next winter"
IF money. mileage and lying crcu-
lars can influence d majority of the
republican voters of the Eleventh dis
trict, George d. Perkins will carry it,
observes the Odebolt Chronicle "Nev-
er before has there been such a Law
ish disbursement of funds in the in
terest of a candidate"
The Spencer Reporter says: Every
conceivable scheme will be Matched by
Mr.. Call. attorney for the Great Nor
thern railroad and campaign manager
for Perkins. to get the republicans OF
Clay county to be neutral for govern
or. All they expect here is to get del
egation to the state convention that
will be uninstructed. They know the
county is for Cummins, but if they can
line up the postmasters and friends
they will undoubtedly try and carry
o, t their scheme. However. so far.
only one postmaster has attempted to
do anything-the postmaster at Roy
al. and if the republicans of the county
stand square toed an instructed dele
CATION will be given Governor Cum
Minis Republicans of Northwest Iowa
look with suspicion on Mr.. Perkins
and his alliance with Blythe and the
fact that A. F. Call. the Great North
ern Railroad attorney. is his campaign
manager, and that jim Hill controls
the Great Northern and the Burling-
ton roads, and Mr.. Blythe is the Bur-
lington roads s25,000-a-year attorney,
makes it doubly suspicious"
"Whenever you observe that news
paper is trying to get close to the peo-
pie" points. out the Des Moines News
"you are observing a newspaper that
1t worth your confidence. One way
of getting close to the people is to print
a few truths about subjects of which
the people have long been in ignorr
ance."
Noting that an evangelist has struck
Boone and says he will not leave until
he converts 1000 people, the Clinton
Herald suggests "1Ie might as We'll
arrange for lot in the local ceme-
terry
'.In every possible way" declares
the Glidden Graphic, "Cummins has
sought to protect the interests of the
people against these thrusts His veto
of the Rock Island merger bill indl-
Gated plainly where he stood. Compell-
ing the banks of Des Moines to pay
interest on state funds showed plainly
that he was looking after the inter
ests of the people" Why should be be
defeated 2" asks the Graphic. What
will his defeat mean to the people?
What will it mean to the trusts that
he has offended? Who are his chief
opponents? Why should Senator Elk
ms of West Virginia jump into the
fight against him?'