Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-04
Result of Primary Contest on
Senatorship Proves an Old,
Old Saying
OLD FIGHT WILL CONTINUE
Progressive Element Will Rally Again
If Leader Comes Forth - 1t May Be
cummins, II May Be Another -
Workers Propos. to Continue the
Fight.
pecial to Times-Republican.

Des Moines June 4.-Regardless of
the defeat of Governor Cummins
at the primary polls Of Tuesday the
vote is evidence unmistakable of the
potency Of fabrication and misrepre-
sentation in politics. People sometimes
say, probably because they wish to
have it so, that lie stuck to. Is as
good as the truth. The campaign that
closed with the primary election on
Tuesday is a positive proof of that
assertion and reluctantly it must be
admitted.
Never was there campaign in Iowa
in which there were as many pure
fabrications stated with the unblush-
ing positiveness of truth as in the
campaign just ended. Fabrications on
the most insidious and misleading kind
have been Matched every day by an
element IF the newspaper fraternity
in Iowa, coaxed on and persuaded by
the corporations
The results of the primary election
of Tuesday mean that the people OF
Iowa must fight. Otherwise they
extend with open arms an invitation
for the return of the old corporation
days OF disreputable caucuses and
purchased conventions Of influence by
means Of the railroad pass and of
journeys to Burlington by candidates
to get the O. X. of ]. w. Blythe, gen
eral counsel Of the Burlington rail-
road. With the return of those days
the campaigns will be to determine
lington shall control the executive
council of Iowa that fixes the railroad
assessments.
There are many lessons in the re-
suits Of the primary election OF Tues
day for the people of Iowa. One OF
these Is that the people must realize
now that if Cummins defeat should re-.
tire him to private life, as the corpora
lions and the corrupt influences in pol
itics have Dragged that he would be,
1t will be many q day before another
leader rises up to fight as he
has fought. If the people stand by
their servants they may look with con-
fidence to see their servants fight their
battles with no other reward than
small salaries and approval. But un-
polls and do better than they did on
June 2, 1908. they can expect to look
forward with little hope for any re-
form in the do-nothing policy of cong
ress and can expect in the future as
in the past to see the rate law
amended and needed bills passed only
after long years of costly agitation
and the exertion of the utmost pres
sure on their members of congress.
The time has come in the political
affairs of Iowa for the people to learn
to discern the truth and the time has
arrived to call spade spade. A
certain element of the standpat press
led by the Des Moines Daily Capital,
the Cedar Rapids Republican, the
Creston Gazette, the Burlington Hawk
eye, and the Iowa City Republican,
have become addicted to using as their
stock campaign argument the word
liar" and they are the first to deal
out to their readers the insidious po-
litical fabrications for the corporations.
They are the loudest in calling Cum
minis, who has never voted anything
but the republican ticket, a democrat,
and then altho majority of the re-
publicans of the state nominate him
for a political office, vote the demo-
cratic ticket themselves. 1t Is they
who have been most persistent in cry
ing out about democrats voting for
Cummins at the primaries and then
sent out circulars to every democratic
voter asking him to vote for Allison.
Never have the people of any state
had better champion than Governor
Cummins nor one who with greater
unselfshness has devoted himself to
the cause of the people when not day
has passed but he could have had five
times the salary he receives from the
state by devoting his attention and
time to private affairs
The people of Iowa have been too
prone to look lightly upon the political
discussions of Iowa as being as bad
on one side as on the other. Rather
than exert themselves to ascertain the
truth of the claims in the political con-
tests that have been waged the voter
has considered 1t much easier to as
cribe evil motives to all sides and let
it go at that, and the people will have
only themselves to blame if this atti-
tude results in placing their affairs in
the hands of poor managers.
But the fight for clean politics in
Iowa will not end with the campaign
Of this year, and there is not a progress
sive leader in the state but proposes to
continue the fight.