Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-21
STATE CONVENTION SENTIMENT
Governor Calls Attention to Fact That
Not 8 Per Cent Of Vote Was Repre-
sented-charses of Extravaganza
Riddled-Freisht Rates and the Tar
iff Question.
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| o'clock for the speech OF Governor
Cummins. Brooklyn, Montezuma and
other surrounding towns had promt-
nent representatives in the audience
and upon the stage. In the absence of
President Main, of Iowa College, who
had been previously selected as chair
man Of the meeting, Hon. c. w. Car
ter was made the presiding officer.
While waiting for the College Glee
/ Club, Mr.. Carter introduced Hon.
James A. Smith, of Usage. who made
brief preliminary remarks. After a
medley song from the glee club, and
Garst was introduced and made for
chile speech upon the issues under
consideration in Iowa at the present
time. He took issue with Mr.. Smith,
who had expressed himself as glad
that there was the prefix progressive"
to the republican party, by saying that
| the word republican needed no prefix,
that it was all embracing in itself He
! spoke at some length on the question
/ Of appropriations and expenditures of
/ the state. After another song by the
glee club Governor CumminS was in
i troduced.
| The governor was pleased to say
/ that Grinnell, whatever her political
/ sentiments might be, had certainly a
progressive glee club He then made
the statement that as governor of the
/ state of Iowa he came here with an
equal interest in all its citizens, wheth-
er republican or democrat progress
| sive" or "standpatter." In the course
of his speech, which occupied about an
hour and half, he eulogized LARA
bee, La Toilette and Roosevelt, and
spoke in high praise of the men VINO
had stood for the best interests OF the
people in recent state legislation.
| Speaking Of the new primary law, and
| the advantage given by it to the people
at large, he stated that the recent state
| convention at Des Moines did not rep
resent 8 per cent of the voters of the
respective precincts. Regarding the
result of the primary vote on the sec
! ond of the coming June, he said, If
! in the coming primary my dist1n-
| guished adversary receive one vote
more than I, he shall receive my most
hearty support by word and action"
Governor Cummins looked thin and
worn in body by his continuous and
strenuous exertions and the worry over
/ the illness of his grandchild but his
speech had all it's old time vigor and
enthusiasm was not lacking in his au-
dience. There was a considerable pro-
portion of women in the audience and
many young men and boys large
enough to vote in few years.
| Governor Cummins said in part:
| As to Extravagance.
'It is / know suggested, because
read 1t in a newspaper that the admin
| istration of which 1 have been part
| has been extravagant, laWlessly ex-
travagant, foolishly reckless, and that
| the treasury is now bankrupt. With re-
| gard to the last statement l simply
| say it is not true. When 1 left home
as remember it, there was as a whole
| in the treasury not far from 100000.
| 1T is less than the balance in the
| treasury when 1 became governor =
that much is entirely true. But that
the state of Iowa has any difficulty
mands made upon her, comes from
an uniformed or malicious man,
/ one or the other. (Applause.) The
! amount in the treasury at any given
time depends first upon the appro-
priations that are made by the gen.
eral assembly, for not one penny is
! or can be paid out by any public Of
flcer that has not been appropriated
by the legislature of the state. And
it depends second upon the amount
that is contributed to the treasury
in the form of taxation. If the leg
! islature makes appropriations larger
than the amount it requires, the ex-
ecutive council to raise By taxation,
then your treasury will, as q mathe
matcal proposition, be empty. If,
on the contrary, it makes appropria-
tons less than the amount it re-
quires to be raised, your treasury
will be full. The man, however, who
desires to be fair and who wants to
be honest with his fellow men, will
not look at the condition of the
treasury but will examine the appro
priations that have been made, in or
der to determine whether the state
is extravagant or whether it is econ
omical. The appropriations of the
state Of Iowa are made by a general
assembly composed now l believe Of
one hundred and fifty-eight men, for
merly one hundred and fifty men. AS
I recall it there has not been a con-
siderable appropriation made, not
only during my administration, but
for years, that has not been made
with substantial unanimity by the
votes of all the members, whether
they We're republicans or democrats
whether they We're progressives or
standpatters. There is no such feel
ing enters the legislature of our
state. They discharge their duties
without regard to their political as
sociations or factional alignments.
II do not want to shield myself be-
hind the legislature, altho have
no more to do than you have with
the amount of appropriation, save
that l might veto an appropriation
bill But I do not want 10 shrink
behind the action Of the legislature
either. for ! tell you that with one
or two trifling exceptions, there has
not been an appropriation made by
the general assembly since became
governor that did not meet my I'M
lContinusd on Fourth PaGel