Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-25
Challenged to Name One In
stance Where He Announced
Governors Promise
sTANDPATs RUNNING IN CIRCLE
Making Much Noise in Effort to Make
Voters Believe Something Awful Has
Happened = Invitation Of Governor
to Addres. Convention Gall to Enc
mics.
oecial to Tlmes-R Republican.

Special to Times Republican. s
Des Moines, May 25.-"Congress
Birdsall should name one insta1 a
which he addressed the voters = he
Third district, or anywhere else in the
state of Iowa, where he told them that
he had promise from Governor Cum
minis that he would not be a candidate
for the United States senate and where
he urged them on that account to vote
for Cummins for the republican NOM
inee for governor, and not for Porter,
the democratic nominee" said prom
!; inent republican of this city today
Il read Congressman BirdsalIs re-
cent interview with considerable in
terest.. The fact is the standpatters
have been running around in circle
executing frequent Indian yells in the
hope of making out to the voters Of
the state that something awful has
happened or is about to happen on this
Torbett letter business, and are try
ing to make out that Governor Cum
minis gave Allison . perpetual mort
gage on the Office Of United States
senator, which Allison is about to
foreclose.
I'm the first place they dug up the
Torbett letter, which evidently Torbett
had forgotten himself, and right there
! is where they began to go around in
circle They claim that Torbett
used the letter in Dubuque county to
allay the fears of the Allison people
two years ago, when Cummins was
running for governor, and yet the AL
!lison newspapers of that day were
hammerfng Torbett as Cummins
man. and there is not a line in any Of
their papers to indicate that they
were in possession of pledge and ev-
erything to indicate that there was
nothing that they considered a pledge
at that time.
"Now Birdsall comes in and claims
that he came to Des Moines on August
1S and secured the promise of Cum
minis that he would not be a candidate
against Allison, and that he carried
that message" to his people in the
Third congressional district and urged
them Republican voters, remember) to
vote for Cummins, the republican
nominee, and not to vote for Porter,
the democratic nominee.
Now, l say, let Birdsall produce q
manuscript of any one of his speeches
in the Third district, or elsewhere, OF
a newspaper account of any speech, or
few reputable witnesses that he
Carried that message" to the Third
district. 1t is up to him to make good.
He should stop running around In
circle emitting Indian yells, and show
the people when and where he told
the republican voters of the Third dis
trict that Cummins would not be cam
didate for the United States senate
two years later against Allison, and
that for that reason it would be safe
for them (the republican voters) to
elect Cummins (the republican nomt-
nee) to the office Of governor, instead
of ending his political days for all
time by the election of Claude Porter
| (the democratic nominee) Unless he
can s how that he did carry that mes
sage to the Third district, or else
where and unless he can show that
he did actually urge republican voters
to vote for the republican nominee in
stead of the democratic nominee for
governor, there great many repub-
licans who are not going to believe
that he had any such message.
During the time Torbett says he was
circulating among the voters showing
them a letter from Cummins, and on
which it is claimed he carried Du-
buuue county for Cumn1ins, there was
being enacted by the standpatters a
little politics by which it is charged
that Allison promised the Dubuque
postofYice to Kretschmer, and thus got
the county for Perkins and the news
papers Of that day acted as tho there
was no promise. There is not an act
that would indicate that they consid-
cred they had promise, but not two
wears later they claim to have had a
promise. They are moving in a cir
Gle.
"Now comes Birdsall with the same
circuitous transportation in his pock-
ct. He had a pledge from Cummlns,
and vet at the time the pledge was
given there is not a solitary thing in
his conduct to indicate that he was in
possession of pledge. Two years
later. however, he bobs up with a
pledge
congressman Birdsall cannot show
single instance in the campaign of
two years ago, in any of his speeches,
in which he told the voters he had a
pledge from Cummins. and on that
ground urged them to vote for Cum
Minis. If there was such an instance,
let him show it"
That Governor Cummins is to deliver
the address of welcome to the dele
gates to the national republican con-
yention on behalf of the western states.
is gall and bitterness to the standpat-
ters of Iowa The governor was in
vited by the Marquette club OF Chi
cago, the most prominent republican
club Of the west to be one OF the three
speakers on June 13 In Chicago when