Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-02
Allison Campaign Mismanaged
From Beginning Until Elec-
ton Day
PROVIDENCE ON RIGHT SIDE
Series Of Circumstances Aid Their
cause-President Shows Up AlIison's
Observation-Disclosures Entrance Into
Campaign Believed to Have Injured
Allison's Chances.
snec,,, to y,;mes-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 2.-Providence mas
been on the side Of the progresslVes
during the campaign that closes with
today's primary election. 1t has been
campaign of exploded fake charges
on the part of the standpatters. First
there was the claim that Cummlns
wrote to Taft which latter turned out
that it was nothing but a memoran-
dun that Ora Williams had given q
personal friend. In this memorandum
J,afe Young and some other standpat-
tiers were shown up and the standpat-
tiers published it all, which gave it good
circulation.
Then came in more or less OF
steady stream many other fake charges
by the standpatters. First there was
the Torbert letter and along with 1t
Birdsalrs ..me too claim of promise
which everyone now recognizes as one
of the "fakes" of the campaign. Then
there was the charge that Warden
Jones of the Fort Madison penitentiary.
was discharged because he was an Al
lison man when it was shown that ne
was in fact a Cunmins man ana was
not discharged for politics at all. ~
will be remembered that the stand-
patters claimed that Cummins had
turned down Funk and sought to make
political capital of 1t and win Funk
over to their side, which was silly and
useless.
sssAKother Lie Mailed.
sThenial6ng came the claim that the
lbrewess ,Jl1ad given $4,000 or $4,000
or $4,000 or some amount to Cum
Minis campaign two years ago. Dave
Brant claimed he could produce the
cheeks add his blum was promptly
called and he couldn't find the checks.
Then there came the claim that Cum
Minis was not the attorney who won
the barb wire fight, that the Travelling
Mems Association had been broken up
by politics and the Cummins men
fired, and that Prouty was the head OF
lumber trust, all of them exploded
In turn and were proven to be fakes
pure and simple.
one of the best things the stand
patters did to elect Cunlmins Was 10
claim that the democrats were pre-
pairing to vote for Cumlnins and then
proceed to make bids for the demo-
cratic vote for Allison, as was done by
Deliver in writing to the democratic
editor of the Post in Fort Dodge ana
by tile Allison people in sending out
literature to democratic voters.
One of the most providential things
that happened during the campaign
was the claim of the standpatters that
Cum Minis MAD bankrupted the state
treasury. when every day for month
trying u claim the
funds in the state. treasury continued
to grow larger and larger till they
passed the million dollar mark.
/ President Shows Allison's Inactivity.
AT another stage Of the campaign
the hand of providence was clearly
discernible. Just at the time when
the standpatters in a studied attempt
tried to prove that Allison was the
big man of the United States senate,
the man of the most influence and
on whom the president leaned for aid,
and the man who really was the lead
er Of the senate, the president began
to send message after message to the
congress- scoring the members OF
congress for not passing the impor-
tant reform measures that he wished.
This little providential stroke was all
most cruel to the Allison candidacy
His campaign had been nicely planned
at Dubuque. At a certain stage OF
the campaign a certain number or
weeks before the primary the state
was to be flooded with stories of AL
lison's influence for the president In
congress. But they had failed to con-
suit Roosevelt and the strenuous
president spoiled 1t all by jumping
on congress with both feet in the
hope of getting 1t to pass some much
needed bills.
Still, another blunder Of the Allison
campaign was in not hiring Julian
Richards early in the campaign to
work for Allison. Soured at the treat
ment, Richards began telling some un-
pleasant truths about the campaign In
his correspondence. Then they took
him in and Richards made the blunder
of sending an offer Of Allison plate
service to a lot of Cuunmins news
papers.
Then the Allison Polk County club
was organized with Wilbur j. Garrison
as secretary, Garrison being the man
who conducted the railroad bureau in
Des Moines, buying space in the coun-
try newspapers against the passage
of the rate bill in congress
Delivers Bad Break.
Probably the most providential
thing of the campaign was the en-
trance of Senator Dolliver as the chief
speaker for Allison After promising
Cummins that he would support him
this campaign and after telling the
people about Fort Dodge that he pro-
posed to support Cummins, Dolliver
was in a poor position to Stump the
state for Allison, but he did not seem
to realize it. Not only this but he
estranged many of the standpatters
from Allison iby being the first speak
er during the campaign to begin
throwing mud and descending to the
level of the low politician by calling
his opponent names. This for United
States senator was not very dignified
to say the least and the people of
the state fully realized the situation.
When Dolliver charged that Cum
minis was bogus reformer and en-
..xt o.. %I,1 $at; ~