Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-30

made it possible for, Cummins to be
nominated for governor. Dolliver read
the letter, very adroitly passing hur-
riedly over the part of it which shows
plainly to any fair-minded reader that
Cummins was insisting that it was Just
as unfair to charge him with being a
candidate for the senate then, more
| than two years before there would DE
any vacancy, as it was to ask him TO
deny being a candidate for the pres
! idency OF for seat in the cabinet as
attorney general. He insisted that he
| was a candidate for governor and
| nothing else. He did say Il am not a
candidate for Allison's place" which
Dolliver distorts into a pledge that he
never intended to be.
If the attorney for the defendant
could have been heard it would have
developed that the letter was never
used during that campaign or even
heard of publicly; that Allison's county
was carried for Cummins by kretsch-
mer, a Cummins man, and candidate
for nomination for state treasurer;
contract with Kretschmer to give him
a federal job worth $4,000 per year or
better in consideration for throwing
the delegation to Perkins; that he did
name a solid Perkins delegation and
gave as his reason that he did it sin
the interest Of Allison" on the theory
that the candidacy Of Cummins for
governor spelled danger to Allison two
years in the future. 1t would thus
have been established that IL the let
ter had been known then, as alleged,
it had been read as refusal to make
the promise which they would now read
out of it.
Oldtime Leadership.
This Torbert letter is the mainstay
Of the Dolliver argument Under his
adroit ridicule it serves to make Cum
Minis out dishonest and Dolliver made
the most Of his opportunity. He ap-
pealed for the oldtime leadership I'M
der which one county's delegation
could make promises in the process of
trading for jobs that would be re-
spected and carried out by other dele
cations from that county eight years
afterward. The old machine method
of parcelling the patronage under di-
rections from ]. w. Blythe or Judge
Hubbard looked good to him. 1t Fe-
called what some men know Of Dolli-
ver's own appointment to the senate
by Governor Shaw. Shaw gave
Messrs Blythe and Hubbard the veto
power over two Of three names which
he submitted to them. Blythe then
preferred Dolliver, but Judge Hubbard
opposed him and it took Blythe the
better part Of two days town the old
judges consent. Shaw afterward stated
in a speech at Indianola that he would
have appointed Blythe, imself, had
Blythe so wished it, so it Is presumed
that Blythe's own name was one of
the three submitted. The editor Of the
T.-R. has heard Senator Dolliver pay
his respects to Mr.. Shaw for this ad-
mission.
Defaming Allison.
He then took up some Of the cam
paign literature for the purpose Aof
ridicule He charged that Cummins
was lying when he insisted that he had
not personally uttered word of dis
paragement to Senator Allison. He
read several extracts from the govern
or's public addresses all Of which were
highly complimentary to Allison, but
he condemned his campaign commit
tee for circulating campaign songs
which tend to ridicule the aged sena-
tor. He read from one Of the CIV
ernor's addresses delivered in the c4fn-
paign for a general election in which
the governor was pleading for har-
mony within the party, for a forgetting
Of the words progressive" and
"standpatter." From this he accused
the governor Of hypocrisy" and FAX
erism" because his campaign commit
tee had addressed some Of it's printed
matter to the Progressive Republi
cans" of Iowa. OF course Mr.. Dolliver
did not admit it, but any man analyz-
ing his argument could see that Gov
ernor Cummins deplores factionalism
in the party as much as anyone. He
pleads for harmony, but when the
federal machine and the railroads are
after him in his struggles for nomina-
ton his campaign managers are COM
PEELED to address the faction which Is
supporting him.
Introduces False Evidence.
Then Mr.. Dolliver did thing for
which he ought to have been ashamed
1t was basely dishonest and should
have been an insult to the high moral
sense Of the Methodist preacher APP
plauding him. He condemned the
Cummins campaign committee for cir
culating an alleged forged portrait of
Senator Allison to show the venerable
statesman emaciated with age. SIN
proving his point he held aloft sheet
of paper containing two portraits Dol
liver was careful not to say so, but
every person in the audience was made
to believe that that particular sheet
was the base and ghoulish forgery
which he condemned. In fact and
here was the trick the paper he
held up had been printed by the Alli-
son committee and Dolliver knew it.
1t contained two portraits, one which
was copyrighted and claimed to be
correct and for comparison one which
was alleged to be the forgery, but the
Cummins committee has denied all
knowledge Of the portrait complained
of and has insisted that If anybody
has libelled the old senator his own
friends have done it. There isano eyi-
dence to prove the guilt Of the Cum
minis men. It was the Allison commit
tees unsupported charge which Dolli-
yer held aloft as the visible evidence
Of undignified campaigning and he did
it to trick and deceive his audience.