Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-30

| was broad minded, had no resent
ment against a Cummins man, as
shown by his own case. and that he
was greatly interested in the young
men.
This sounded good to me and
went straight to tho office of this
great. unselfish patriot who labors
twelve months in tho year for the
welfare OF his country upon large
salary paid by a big corporation. The
greeting l received was the most dig
nitied and the most winsome. Mr.
Blythe certainly has personality
we'll adapted to the task assigned
him. He is powerful man in the
back office. He assured me that he
had long known of me and much de-
sired to consult with me upon polit-
ical matters.
In Biythe's Back Office.
II never felt so important in my life.
He told me he engaged in politics
rather as q great intellectual pursuit
than for any other reason. but he was
| now getting old and must soon step
| aside and leave the reins in younger
hands. He said the great secret of po-
| iitical success is in organization and
he wanted to see the young men TAX
| ing a greater interest and playing a
greater part. Upon his desk he had a
large number Of nicely arranged doc
| uments. mostly letters from distin-
guished men. AS his enthusiasm for
| organization increased he frequently
appealed to these documents and he
soon made 1t apparent that this or
ganization' was the proud structure of
his own genius.
His skill and cleverness at describ-
ing his organization surpasses all the
resources of my imagination and he
proved all he claimed from the ever
ready documents. He proved that he
had dictated the nomination and cleo
ton of members ,of the Iowa legisla-
ture and thereby controlled that body
and elected United States senators
He proved beyond any possible con-
tradiction that he named most of the
Iowa congressman, even the members
from Gummins' own district. He
proved that governors, several of
them, had been made at his command.
He proved by evidence strong enough
to convince the most skeptical that the
federal patronage of this state. from
postoff lces, up to the top, was submit
ted for his decision.
Dictated to Allison.
when his evidence was all In he
mad proved beyond controversy that
there was nothing to be had in Iowa
politics except thru his organization
and by his grace. He proved all of
this over the signature of William B.
Allison, not by one letter, but by many
of them know the proof Is genuine
because Blythe himself showed me
these Allison letters. With one of these
letters Allison had enclosed a note from
President Roosevelt, written upon the
back of menu card. ] therefore know
that Allison took private communi-
cation from the president and turned
it over to this corporation boss to be
used in Juggling the young men of this
state into an organization for the de-
feat of every Roosevelt policy. Here
1 want to stop and ask Torbert If his
letter estops me or any other man
from voting for Cummins for senator?
Also Letters From DoIlver.
"Mr. Blythe did not rest his case
solely upon Allison's letters; he also
had letters from our other beloved
senator and letters from congress-
men galore. With all Of this pow
erful organization against him,
Blythe assured me that Cummins
could not long survive; that he
would serve a second term as gov
ernor and then disappear He also
said that Allison would remain in
the senate as long as he lived and
if Cummins should run against him
it would be his last fight. Here we
find the source and the inspiration
of the Allison candidacy. Cummins
survived better than Blythe fore
casted. The last fight is on but not
the easy victory and complete tri-
umph as Mr.. Blythe saw it. No, the
tables are turned and Mr.. Blythe
must now fight for his own political
life in his own city, and you know
when the votes are counted on the
I'd Of June Cummins will have ma
jority in the city of Burlington"
Treachery at Dubuque.
"My first answer to this claim is
that neither Cummins nor any Cum
minis man in Iowa can feel any very
deep sense of obligation to the pow
ers that be- in Dubuque after the his
tory made in 1906 1t was only a
few days after this letter was writ
ten that Cummins carried Dubuque
county, not half, but all. Torbert
says he carried it because of this let
ter. One Kretchmer was given au-
thority to select his delegation, and
a few days later there followed
treachery as black as ever occurred
in the history of politics and Cum
Minis no longer had Dubuque county,
Kretchmer had the promise of a fed
eral office and Perkins had the dele
cation.
u would like to ask Mr.. Torbert
who was handing out the federal Of
fees in Dubuque in those days? Did
Allison have any influence in that de-
partment? Half of the men on that
delegation repudiated this scan
dalous deal and the rest of the state
gave them due credit, but Cummins
was entitled to all, and would have
gone down in defeat had he needed
this whole delegation. Mr.. Torbert
says his letter is a contract for Du-
buque county. If so, it should have
been kept on the other part. He does
not come into court with clean hands.
The party he represents has violated
the contract in the most scandalous
and treacherous way and yet he in
sists upon the other party performing
it in both letter and spirit and he
and tho cOrnora tion praSS Of the