Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-03
CUAh|NS 70 DOLL|V[R
Governor in Closing Speech
Makes Reply to Senator's
Campaign Abuse
MAKES DIGNlFlED REJoINDER
MAKES DIeNlF'ED REJolNDER
Refers at Length to the Torbert Letter
and Shows There Was No Pledge
Contained to Not Be Candidate
Against Allison = Produces Evidence
That Allison Said He Wouldn't Run.

| Special to Times Republican,.
TT. Dodge, June 2.-Governor Cum
Minis made reply to Senator Delivers
abuse in two speeches last evening
which would have furnished notable
material in the campaign had they
come earlier in the contest.
He said: AS rise to speak for the
last time upon the issues of &. "
paign now in its closing ho;l !
conscious of strong template
ply in terms to the extraordinary IL
rade which the junior senator from
Iowa poured out against me from this
platform a few days ago. l shall not,
however, yield to it. have passed
thru the campaign up to this moment
without resorting to vocabulary of Wit
operation, and intend to end it with
out leaving word behind me that, in
calmer moments, I would regret. Our
junior senator is evidently beside him.
self with rage, and my observation Is
that when a man becomes angry upon
the platform he Injuries no one but
himself If / am fakir, numbug, pre-
tender and hypocrite, It has taken Mr..
Dolliver long time to discover it. and
it may be that the passion into which
he has worked himself has clouded his
Judgment and that in the days of cool
contemplation which will follow the
fight in which we have been engaged
he may find time to apologize, not to
me, but to the progressive republicans
of the state for some of his utterances.
1t may be plain to him then that the
mask which he so dramatically de-
clares that he has torn away is not
from my face or from the face of those
who are following my fortunes, but
from another face upon which the peo-
pie of Iowa are now looking, not only
with establishment, but with indigna-
son.
The Torbert Letter.
There are few things which Sena-
Tor Deliver has brought forward about
@iiich desire to say a word
firsts-In his opening speech at
cornell Bluffs he declared that I had
written letter in which l had pledged
myself that / would not be a candi-
date against Senator Allison, and that
!. was written under circumstances
chat made it impossible for me to re-
all the promise. I challenged him to
produce such letter. knowing that
there was no such letter in existence.
After some delay, and being in sore
-
ne published a letter which Ishad
written to William H Torbert in April,
1906. This letter does not contain the
yestige or. shadow of a promise or
pledge that Iswould not become a can
didate against Senator Allison. On the
contrary, it, states explicitly that
it would be as inappropriate for me to
make such pledge as it would be to
bind myself not to become a candidate
for any other office to which might
aspire. 1t states that in April. 1906, 1
was not candidate for Senator ALI
sons position. The statement was alb
true. Malice alone could put
upon the letter the Interpretation for
which Senator Dolliver contends. No
honest. fair-minded man could or
would construe it as a pledge, and no
one ever did so construe 1t until the |
exigencies Of this campaign made it
necessary for my adversaries to appeal
to preiudices ALREADY infamed by a
political contest running over six
years. Senator Dolliver knows better
than any other person ON earth that l
never gave a pledge. or promise, di- /
rectly or indirectly, to Senator Allison
or any of his friends, that would not
become candidate against him. and I !
leave him to wrestle with his own
as best he can.
Second-During the course of his
speaking tour, Senator Dolliver has
many times said that at some time 1
had given him message to carry to
Senator Allison to the effect that I
would not be candidate against him.
One would think from the general ten
or Of his speeches that. ! had been
close political associate of both the
senators. There Is not an intelligent
man in Iowa but who knows that they
have been against me in every cam
paign I have ever made. I have held
personal relations with both
Allison and Deliver, but never any po- I
litical relations whatsoever. The exact |
truth is contained in letter which I
wrote to Senator Dolliver in Septem-
Der, 1907, the answer to which he has
read. but has as carefully
abstained from making public the let
ter itself The very moment that l first .
heard that Senator Dolliver was saying
that I had promised not to be a can
didate. ] wrote him as follows:
Allison Said He Wouldn't Run.
- pt mber II, 19O7.-My Dear SEN
alor: Someone told me the other day
.l1at YOU had said that I could not be
z candidate against Senator Allison
beca9tse I had promised not to be.
While 7 know that you would not con-
sciously misrs present me. I think we
crcllt to have full and fair under
standing, as between ourselves, upon !
this matter.
Two or three years ago, in con-
ye;satioa with you upon the subject.