Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-30

lation before Cummins was. He ad.
mitted that Ex-Governor Larrabee
was the pioneer rate regulator II
Iowa and proceeded to ridicule this
venerable ex-governor because Mr.
Larrabee is telling the people of lows
that Governor Cummins was courage
ously making sentiment for rate regu-
lation when Senator Dolliver was hid
ing in the woods. This led him up te
the visit of Governors Cummins, Var
Zant and La Toilette to President
Roosevelt regarding rate regulation. Al
Cedar Rapids Mr.. Dolliver had pic
tured Governors Van Zant and Cum
Minis most ludicrously as two side
show fakirs" dressed in long tailed
coats and silk hats" dancing to
trumpets" but in Marshalltown he
cut that out and merely stated that
when they got there they found Roose-
welt had written his rate regulation
message three weeks before. He ac-
cused Cumnins of claiming the credit
for suggesting the reform to the pres
ident and said that the president was
so mad about it that Cummins had
never been privately invited to the
White House since. The editor of the
T.-R. can name the day when the gov
ernor was invited to the White House
for almost whole days interview only
few months ago when the president
wished te advise with the governor as
to how TO head off the third term
movement then gaining Roadway in
the public press.
There is no evidence except Dolli-
ver's say-so that Roosevelt did not APP
preciate the suggestion from three no
table western governors. One thing is
certain, they called on him before he
made rate regulation an issue.
The EIkins Committee Hearing.
From this Doliver turned to the
testimony of Cummins before the Elk
ms committee on rate regulation. He
held in his hand the report of those
hearings but instead of reading from
list pages he gave an entirely false and
misleading account of the governors
testimony. In this he was dishonest
and false to the faith of his preacher
friend for he was a member of that
committee and he knew better. The
editor of the T.-R. has read every
word of the Cummins testimony and
heterogeneous. MIR. Merritt Greene, of
this city, was visitor in the commits
tee room the day Cunmins testified.
He saw the railway attorney sit at the
chairman's elbow and suggest the
questions and any man reading the
record can see that they tried all day
long to trip Cummins on a cross-ex-
animation. He was too shrewd for
them and when he entered the next
campaign In Iowa Steve Elkins, rail-
road senator and chairman of that
committee. was so mad at Cummins
for putting up the case he had that
he published an open letter abusing
him. The reading of that record will
show any man that Dolliver sympa-
thized with Cummins and put in re-
peated questions to help Cummins
parry the thrusts of the attorneys do
ing the cross examining. Because
Cummins did the usual courteous
thing for lawyers before any tribunal
of thanking the committee for it's kind
ness in hearing him Dolliver ridiculed
the governor as a hypocrite and a
sham He censured him for not ask
ing the committee to squeeze the wa
long since passed into the hands of in
nocant purchasers but he failed to
mention that Cummins has secured a
law in Iowa which makes watered
stock Impossible in any corporation
that can be organized in this state.
Let Him Die in Harness.
At 1906 p. m. Senator Dolliver ar
rived at his eulogy of Allison. He
showed that the old man had served
his state for fifty years. He admitted
that Allison was aged, feeble and sick.
To prove Allison's greatness as a
statesman he recounted that Allison
had been offered positions in the cab
inets of Garfield, Harrison and Nc
Kinley, but had refused them. He then
explained why Tama Jim feels under
obligations to vote for Allison by say
ing that Allison had suggested Mr..
Wilson for secretary of agriculture
Then he got down to a most pathetic
appeal for reverence for Allison's age
asking in a trembling voice that the
old man might be permitted to die in
the harness. To illustrate he told the
story of his fathers old blind horse
which, after 25 years of service, re-
fused to be turned out In the pasture
and in order to crafty his whim to
be hitched up every morning as he was
when the senior Dolliver was living
the senator said he was paying man
IS per month to put the harness on
the old horse and take it off again.
The substance of his appeal to senti-
ment which was eloquent, pathetic
and touching was that Allison should
be permitted to die in the senate re-
CARELESS of the demand Of the people
Of Iowa that they be represented there
by man with the willingness and
ability to do things. The record of
great public achievement of Governor
Cummins in Iowa was waved aside
with the remark that Dolliver had
heard that it was creditable but that
he did not know anything about 1t.
Not a word about the primary law,
two-cent fare, anti-pass law or laws
regulating corporations. He was there
to skin the republican who had made
Iowa's governor national figure and
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