Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-28
D0LllyER IN a RAGE.

II any evidence were needed to con-
ivince us that Senator Dolliver believes
Cummins Is going to carry the pri-
maries the tone of bitter invective used
| in his speech at Cedar Rapids is suf-
ficient. Thru all this campaign Cum
minis, himself, has not said sone harsh
| WORD against either Allison or Dolliver.
Judge Prouty and Ex-Governor LARA
bee have ridiculed Dolliver but their
remarks have been within the bounds
of gentlemanly debate. Now Dolliver
4 returns to Iowa stung with the distress
of his situation, conscious of a losing
fight and exasperated beyond restraint
in speech.
For instance, D. C. Chase, a prom
inent lawyer of Webster City, has been
making fair and gentlenlanly speeches
for Cunmins. OF him the United States;
senator from Iowa says: Il do not ex-
pect my argument to be understood by
a d;sgruntled politician like Chase OF
Webster City. -. His father was a
good man, kindly man, and the only
mistake he ever made was when he
begot a son who turned out to be an
Ishmailite and an ordinary shyster In
the profession of the law"
This was the Introduction. The Ce-
dar Rapids Republican called it a hot
speech and it was-so was the speak
er. He admitted that Allison had
| grown gray and somewhat feeble in
the service of his state" but censured
Cummins for opposing his re-nomina-
ton, saying the brutal attacks upon
Senator Allison are merely the naked
fakerism Of the kind of political Lead
lership which we have been enjoying in
Iowa for the past few years"
| Cummins spoke in Cedar Rapids the
evening before, saying that he had not
uttered one harsh or desparaging word
against Senator Allison in this cam
paign. He spoke calmly and kindly,
arguing as to what he had done as
governor to justify an appeal to the
public. Dolliver replied by picking up
campaign inuendo, calling Allison a
pussy foot and snarled back at Cum
Minis, who, probably, had no more to do
with it than had Dolliyer himself, using
the epithets miserable hypocrate" and
'.rotten" saying: and yet the miserable
hypocrite who is responsible for this
has the effrontery to stand upon this
platform and tell you that not word
of disparagement of Senator Allison
has passed his lips. : want to say
that the man who authorized this to
be sent out among the people of Iowa
is rotten"
Then, as to who beat him to the is
sue Of rate regulation Dolliver got so
sore that he became disgusting. He
pictured Governors Van SAINT and
Cummins as two frayed fakirs journey
ing to Washington in 'long tailed coats
and plug hats" to "stiffen the back
bone of Theodore Roosevelt" Having
painted the picture with as much in
dignity as possible he said: what fine
siGeshow managers that pair would
make"
AS to Governor Cummins' visit be-
fore the senate committee on interstate
commerce, Of which Dolliver was a
member but at a time when Dolliver
was writing to the Des Moines Com
mercial club that nothing was really
needed in the way OF rate regulation;
the visit which caused Steve Elkins to
60 off half cooked with a letter attack
ing Cummins, Dollivef said: "Then the
governor went away and the more he
realized that he had made a consum-
mate ass of himself the madden he be-
came. I submit to you that vaude-
vile performer like that ought to as
pire to a place in some side show
rather than to a seat in the senate of
the United States"
There was probably never a more
undignified, more bitter, or inexcus-
able TRADE delivered by man holding
public officer. Dolliver realizes that
the battle is lost and he talks like a
man who feels himself going down with
the ship He knows he Is on board