The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-10-29

to cause any further factlonal strife.
This forbids Hepburn from attacking
Cummins openly, but it does not pre-
vent him from apparently taking
fling at Senator Jameson and hitting
Governor Cummins on the head. Did
l hear someone say "foxy?"
The night before the joint Republic
an caucus, held during the extra ses
sion of the legislature this summer
one of Foxy's Eighth district ap-
pointees, man who is always ready
to do the bidding, telephoned to Des
Moines these words, Tell the boys
from the Eighth not to enter that eau
Gus if they want to be returned this
fall" Governor Cummins had ma
jority of the votes in the legislature
and the standpat members bolted in
order to defeat him. Eleven out of
fourteen members from this, Hep
burns district, bolted the caucus. 1t
was in Hepburn's power to elect Cum
Minis to the United States senate.
Again let us repeat that Hepburn
meant what he said in 1906.
Senator Jameson is accused by this
newly created, made to order, stand
pat organ of saying, in 1906, when
Claude r. Porter was running for gov
ernor, that he did not believe Govern
or Cummins to be sincere. Well, we
don't know anything about it; but it
may be that he did. We do know that
many of us at that time thought he
was not sincere, and we know a great
many progressives who at that time
thought the same thing. In that year
Cummins failed to carry Lucas coun-
ty. This year he carried it by over
$50 thanks to the governors stand
for reform legislation, thanks to his
ability to carry out that legislation by
and with the help of some Democrats
thanks to the efforts of the one time
Charlton Herald. Quite a power that
paper was. 1t would hardly do to
have too many of it's kind in the
Eighth district, would it, Uncle Peter?
Nor would it do to allow one of them
to live too long, either.
We don't blame our Uncle" for
thinking that Senator Jameson is
political CRATER and hypocrite." Our
Uncle" thinks those things of the
governor, too, and the senator fought
and voted for all the reform measures
the governor proposed and some that
| he did not. Our Uncle" doesn't be-
lieve in those things; why should he
| believe in the men back of them?
1t is very possible that Senator JAM
ieson, before he knew Governor Cum
Minis, did think that he was not sim
cere. But when two men get together
and find that they have common
enemy to fight, then they go out and
fight him, and then, when the battle
has been waged for two years, they
look around and find that each stayed
by the other to victorious end, is it
now possible that one of them may
change his opinion in regard to the
other? Does it prove one of them to
| be political CRATER and hypocrite"
if he happens to form little friendly
feeling toward his companion in arms;
or does this same friendly feeling
show generosity, which?
If the newly born Herald wishes its
readers to know what Senator jamie
son really stands for, we would sug-
gest that it publish his record for the
past two years. Let the voters de-
eide what he is by the deeds he has
performed. While in the legislature
Senator Jameson supported and
fought for: The two-cent fare law,
the anti-pass law, the law putting a
stop to stock watering corporations.
the employers liability law, the in
creased power of railroad commits.
sioners, a law prohibiting combina.
lions among grain elevator men to Ak
the price of grain-these are only a
few. His vote will be found register I'd
on the right side every time. He was
the author of the joint freight law,
which put stop to the railroad MAX
ing a separate charge for each line
the shipment went over, with some
transfer charges added on. His votes
on the 230 acts passed during the last
session of the legislature shows him
to have been on the side of the people
every time.
No, no; Mr.. Foxy Fox, with the bull
dog tenacity, if you must hang on to
i Cummins come out in the open and
throw your stones. It might be that
you could 'njure him if you would do
this; but the shallow duplicity of your
present method is so apparent that it
will not injure Cummins, nor will it
fool the progressives into thinking
any more of the Foxy Col. Peter than
they do now.
PuzzIe.-Who paid for the Herald.
C.nor;.. os Dali.