Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-27
syERs RECALLS SIGNIFICANT FACT.

i Attorney General Byers has called
attention to a most convincing fact In
! reply to the charge that Cummins
/ promised not to defeat Allison for the
senate. Senator Dolliver and Congress
man Birdsali are each making cam
paign of bitter, jiInsXective against Cum
Minis, based entirely upon the charge
1 that he did make this promise inlthe
campaign for governor in 1905.
Webb Byers says:
If the governor intended in writing
i to Torbert or in anything he said to
Mr.. Birdsall, to assure Senator Alli-
sons friends that he did not intend to
be candidate against the senator in
order to secure their votes for himself
| for governor he would have in addi-
| ton to writing to Mr.. Torbert and
making the promise to Birdsall, have
SO stated in soneI of his speeches, be
cause that would have been the most
effeetive way to secure the votes. He
not only did not say anything of the
kind, but all of the leading papers that
are now supporting Allison were in
sisting all thru the campaign that the
governor was a candidate against Sen
, ator Allison, and some Of them We're
calling upon him to say that he would
not be a candidate against Allison"
Nothing could be more apparent. If
the, promise was given as a vote get
ter, as these men say, it was, it would
have been worked for all 1t was worth
for there is no denying the fact that
votes. were very much in demand in
that campaign.
However, the Kretschmer incident
must be recalled to understand the all
legged consideration for the Torbert let
ter Kretsehmer had been and was
a Cumrnins man. He was candidate
for the nomination for state treasurer.
AS such he and his friends carried the
Dubuque county convention and he
was given the privilege of naming the
Dubuque county delegation, with the
full understanding that it would be a
Cummips delegation. He delayed and
finally named an anti-Cumrnins dele
cation and the "sell-out" proved the
sensation of the campaign. He gave
as his excuse that it was done Gin the
interests of allison" and as Attorney
General Byers says, every newspaper
that now claims a pledge in the Tor
bert letter then insisted that Cummins
was probable candidate against ALI
son, hence the county went back on
him. The fact that the scandal got
so strong that after Blackhawk was
carried by Cummins and control of
the state convention thus obtained,
Allison decidedsto divide the delegation,
does not alter the view then taken by
the entire anti-'Cummins press. All
these newspapers pounded away at
Cummins with the charge that Cum
minis was aspiring to unseat Allison.
How can they now say that Cummins
bought his success by making it APP
pear that he would not oppose Allison?
to know that Kretscllmer is now suf-
fering remorse. He is not for Allison
now. His friends in Dubuque have
seen the written evidence of his deal
with the notorious Ed Hunter. They
report that Kretschmer was promised
by Hunter a federal job at a salary of
$4,000 per year or better, and that in
the agreement it was promised in writ
ing that J. w. Blythe, Senator Allison.
Secretary Shaw and Congressman
Lacey would assist in bringing about
the appointment. Gossip reports that
only a $4,000 job was offered and that
kretschrner is sore. He is not for Al
lison now, but he claimed that he threw