Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-30
SANE Old Fight
AGAINST :CUNN|NS
Opposition to Governor for Sen
ator Following Tactics OF
Previous Campaigns
CUNTS EFFORT AMUSING
CUNTS EFFORT AMUsI
Attempt to Mislead the Farmers of
Grundy County Too Transparent -
Women suffrasists Delighted With
Evidence of Progress Made in Iowa
State Capital News.
specla. 10 Times Republican

Specia. 70 Times Republican
Des Moines. Oct. 30.--That the
committee engineering the fight on
Governor Cummins is resorting to ev-
cry subterfuge. disreputable or other
wise. to encompass the defeat of the
governor. is now certain. The presid-
ing genius Of the committee is Julian
Richards. whose services in the last
campaign were worth s1,100 to the
democratic committee, and he is being
ably assisted by Charley Johnston.
whose frantic appeals to voters to vote
the democratic ticket are we'll remem-
bered. They have enlisted all the
old agencies and are making use Of
all the discarded methods
1t has come to light that circulation
of the yellow slips" in which the old
Richards Johnston attacks on Cum
Minis are revived. is still going on. A
republican at Perry notified the COM
mittee that the Lacey workers are
using these slips and demands that
they be called off. Neither Richards
nor Johnston has denied responsibility
for these slips.
Today it came to light that section
hands along the Burlington railroad
have been engaged the past week in
handing out literature attacking Cum
Minis and boosting Lacey. They claim
the literature came from superior Of
ficers.
The fact that employees Of the Mil
waukee have received instructions how
to vote on the senatorship, and that
the Richards literature has gone to
them with railroad mall" leads to the
belief that this Will be done generally
with the railroad employees of the
state.
Newspaper support is being openly
purchased in behalf Of Lacey here and
fancy prices rule.
Information has come to headquar-
ters indicating that the anti Cummins
people will make desperate effort
to confuse or intimidate very many
lated that the primary polls would not
be open until p. M. thus preventing
many farmers from voting. They have
told that one could not vote the pri-
mary ballot without a certificate from
the county clerk. They have called
upon their workers to organize chal-
longing brigades and to embarrass all
voters by campaign Of challenging at
the polls the purpose being to intimi-
date many voters and keep them from
exercising their right.
An Illustration of the methods Of the
antis was given in Des Moines yester-
day when a committee tried to induce
Des Moines business men to put up
Lacey pictures by telling the merchants
that there was an agreement under
which the Cummins people were to see
to it that wherever a Cummins pic
ture was placed there should be one of
Lacey The fraud was so transparent
that few bit at 1t.
The most amusing thing in connec-
ton with the whole campaign was the
transparent fraud attempted on the
farmers by A. U. Quint one of the
aides of the Richards j Johnstcn commit
tee. Quint sent printed letters to
ldIIlclS III uil0y Sodilly VI SlLlS IiSiA
to come out and hear Lacey, and
coupling up the interests of Lacey will,
those of Congressman Good i'll such a
way as to lead the reader to suppose
that they represent much the same
thing The letters were an appeal to
farmers on behalf of Lacey. It pur-
ported to be from the office of new
farm paper. The letter had printed on
it, as if it was letter head, the
words american Farm Magazine;
Chicago and Des Moines." Inquiry
failed to locate any such farm paper.
Quint finally said in answer to inter-
rogatories that he hasn't started 1t yet
but will do so some day. Some of the
Cumrlins boys are having fun with
him by wanting to subscribe and 9TH
ers ask for space to advertise sales Of
fancy stock It is supposed the letter
heads of the mythical American
Farm Magazine" are being used in
rural districts largely.
With reference to the distribution of
campaign literature as part of the
official business of a corporation Judge
Prouty states that there is no doubt
whatever that it is a clear violation OF
the Iowa law. The time is so short.
however, that prosecution cannot very
well be undertaken. 1t is probable that
evidence will be secured and after the
election the matter will be laid before
grand jury in proper, form for action.
There is evidence also that money
is being used to hire workers at the
polls for Lacey. a colored man of Des
Moines yesterday reported that he had
been offered pay if he would spend a
few days working among the colored
miners near Des AIoines against Cum
MINIS. He declined the job.
For a time there was great fear
among the Des Moines friends of
Governor Culnmlns that the vote in
Des Moines would be cut short by the
reliance upon voting machines. 1t was
seen that at some Of the precincts it
would be a physical impossibility Or