Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-28
Junior Senator Has Remarkable
Record For the Number of
Recent Flops
SPEAKS FOR ALLISON TONIGHT
DolIiver Not Long Ago Assured Cum
minis He Would Support Him in 1908
Once Lined UP With Prosressives
in Congress - Has Changed Align
ment Several Times.
to Times Republican.

| Special to imes-Republican.
Des Moines, April Ex-senator jon
athan p. Doliver will tonight make
the first of a series of speeches ir
Iowa in the interests of Allison's cam
didacy for the United States senate
devoting the entire week to 1t. His
speech tonight will be in the Audi
torium of this city which is the largest
assembly hall in the city.
Altho Senator Dolliver without solici-
tation on the part of any one said not
many months ago that he would sup
United States senate and would work
with the progressives the fact that
for Senator Allison is not any partic-
ular surprise to anyone.
AS long ago as 1903 Senator Dolliver
appeared in Ottumwa and made an
address In the political campaign OF
that year in which he praised Governor
Cuminins and his administration and
told his audience that Iowa has greater
things in store for Governor Cummins
and predicted then that Cummins
would be elected senator in 1908. Since
that time Dolliver has Topped between
the progressives and the standpatters
so many times that no one is able to
keep track of them. The count has
been lost and probably no effort will
be made to catch it up again.
In 1904 when Dolliver was put on
the delegation to the national conyen-
delegates at-large were divided be-
tween the standpatters and progress
sives, Dolliver and Cummins were
classed together as the progressives
and Allison and Blythe as the stand
patters At that time it will be re-
membered that Blythe knowing that
even by conceding two of the posi-
tionS as delegates-at-la to the pro-
gressives, the standpatters would still
control the delegation insisted that
two progressives be put on the dele
cation and named Dolliver and Cum
ton met in Chicago it was Dolliver
that made the motion that Blythe be
the Iowa member of the resolutions
committee.
When the campaign of 1906 opened.
knowing that the next legislature
would elect Delivers successor and
remembering the nice things that Dol
liver had said about Governor Cum
Minis in opening his campaign, made it
clear that he was not trying and would
not try to get Delivers seat. He en-
dorsed Dolliver for reelection.
And Dolliver?
FIopped Again.
Dolliver answered by writing a let
ter to George D. Perkins, the stand
pat-corporation-B Blythe candidate for
governor, pledging him his support for
governor, in opposition to Cummins.
Later, when the people had spoken and
the county conventions had shown
the handwriting on the wall Dolliver
stepped in and assisted in preventing
the standpatters from stealing the
nomination away from Cummins.
1t is remembered too that in con-
gress Dolliver has led the progress
sives at times to think that he was
with them for needed legislation. 1t
is remembered-and if it is not re-
membered the Congressional Record
will show-that Dolliver made what
was termed a brilliant speech in con-
gress in which he upheld the Kasson
treaties and told the older heads of
the senate that the treaties must come
some time if not then, and told them
too that as member of the ways and
means committee he knew that the
Dingley schedules were put 20 per cent
higher than need be purely for trading
purposes in reciprocity treaties. Dolh-
Yer too was one Of seven republican
senators to vote in favor of affirming
the Kasson treaties and Senator Alli
son was not among the seven. 1t was
after this record that Dolliver in the
national convention in 1904 made the
motion that Blythe, a. standpatter op-
posed to any change in the tariff,
should be the Iowa member on the
resolutions committee to draft the tar
iff plank.
swore Allegiance to cumnins.
Following the last campaign on the
night after election in November Dol
liver sat with company of republic
cans in the rooms of the republican
state central committee in the Obser-
vatory building across from the Saw
cry He there entertained the crowd
= @1,r,
campaign and finally summing the
whole thing up, declared that hence
forth he proposed to work with the
progressives. and reaching over to the
telephone on the desk of Chairman
Frank P. Woods, took down the tele-
phone and calling up Governor Cum
minis. told him the same thing and said
in substance to the governor: II want
to assure you that from this on ] am
with you and want to say to you that