The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-12-26
CUMMINS BROKE
FAITH TO FRIEND
w. n. ToRRERT OF DUBUQUE
DENouNcEs GOVERNOR.
GIVES STATEMENT TO PRESS
He Declares Famous Letter Of Execu
tive Was Given As Pledge Not
To Oppose Allison At
Coming Election.


Dubuque, Ia, Dec. 2S.-Characteriz-
ing Governor Cummins' denial that he
ever promised w. H. Torbert or any
other living man that he would not be
a candidate against Senator Allison,
as a falsehood in spirit and in fact,
and branding the governor as a po-
litical Judas Iscariot, Mr.. Torbert has
just given out the first authorized in
terview that has appeared since the
now famous letter from Cummins to
him was first presented to the public.
1T must De borne in mind" says
Mr.. Torbert, that this was in answer
to a situation and upon it depended
the support of Allison representatives
in Dubuque county and the Third dis
trict, and yet the governor in one OF
his denials says that he made an ex-
act statement in an exact way, which
did not affirm whether he would be a
candidate against Senator Allison or
not
Let us seel Governor Cummins in
his letter to me said he was not
candidate for Senator Allison's place.
place when? There was no vacancy
OF Allison's seat then.
HE could not be candidate then
as there was no vacancy and none
could occur until the senator's present
term expired, and when he said he was
not a candidate for Senator Allisons
Mace the only intelligent and definite
answer and the only one that would
satisfy Dubuque Allison republicans
and Allison republicans in the Third
district and state would be that he
would not be a candidate for Allison's
Mace ON its vacancy March /, 1913.
"There has been nothing read into
the letter by me or any Allison repub-
lican that it did not distinctly, definite
" and necessarily imply. And he
knew it when he wrote the letter.
..By virtue Of that letter and of sim
liar declarations to Allison's friends,
and in his speeches throughout the
state. he gained a great and material
advantage in their support so that 1t
hanpened he secured half of the votes
Of dubuque county (fourteen), so that
he carried, l think, every other coun-
ty in the district but one.
Letter Secured Votes.
..sprelv his letter and his DECLARE
lions secured for him many votes and
which he knew he needed, that other
wise he would not have had.
aAgain he says: That while l have
often spoken kindly of Senator ALI
SON TO Mr.. Torbert, | undoubtedly told
Torbert as told scores OF other
friends, / did not expect to oppose Al
Iison.'
ennis suggests to me the incident OF
n man who returned home unseasona'
hiv late one evening. The following
morning his wife asked an explana
tim He made it. Then his wife said:
NV dear husband, this is very thin.
He replied: My dear wife, l kno"
how exceedingly thin it is, but 1t Is
the thickest I've got.
..But Governor Cummins says:
assert with the utmost direction and
emphasis, ! never promised Torber'
or ANYBODY else that ! would not be
come a candidate against Allison Al
though the written record is the oth
err way.
therefore Governor Cummins at
iempts to make OF his loyal and al
dent supporter and devoted friend ToI
bert an Ananias, and then he ou'
classes. me. He will not deny nor an
other thoughtful man will deny he be
trayed me, his devoted friend. An
that is what Judas Iscariot did 10 nj
friend"