Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-17
STATEMENT ISSUED CONCERNING
FElNBERe CASE is ONLY
- EVASIVE.
sEINBERe's ATTORNEY
ONE OF CARROLL'S MANAGERS
No Evidence on File With Parole
Board to Substantate Governors
Explanation-Sen Berry HuI's
Speech to Plank in Wing Party
Platform.
Special to rimes-Republican.

Special TO Times Republican
Des Moines, May 17.--Governor Car
roll, after delay of one week, has
taken notice of the Feinberg case
which is being made use of by his
managers for political purposes. The
governor gave out a typewriter state
ment in which he asserts, in brief, that
he had asked the parole board to in
vestigate some time ago. and that
anyway two of the members of the
board were appointed by Governor
Cummins.
This evasive response admits first
that Governor Carroll himself per-
sonally has handled the case. But it
was never assumed that no invesuga-
ton was being made. The accusation
was and is, and this is not now denied,
that Governor Carroll has chosen as one
of his managers, the attorney for Fem
berg, that Attorney Cohen has in some
way caused the matter to be held up
since Jan. IL last, and that Manager
Cohen is engaged in soliciting votes
among the friends of feinberg, ana
that these friends say that they under
stand that if they vote for Carroll ana
Hull they will thereby increase the
chances of a pardon or parole for their
friend
As matter Of fact it may we'll be
doubted whether, even on yesterday,
there was one particle of evidence on
file in the office of the parole board
to corroborate the assertion of the
governor that the matter was placed
in the hands of the said parole board
"a long time ago Not the slightest
evidence could be secured either in the
governors office or that of the parole
board on this subject tho diligent in
curry was made In neither ONCE
could information be had as to the
date when the papers were transmitted
to the parole board. No information
was to be had as to what it was that
the board was asked TO investigate,
other than an oral statement that the
board was asked t oinvestigate the
next time it went TO the peniteniary
and it was admitted this was informal
in character.
The fact is that even as late as yes
terday the parole board was not placed
in full charge of the F'einberg case
and not a single move has as yet been
made looking 10 an investigation.
L
s Jan. II. the procedendo went TO the
clerk of the courts and the mittimus
was issued directing the sheriff to pro-
coed forthwith 70 commit the prisoner
to the state penitentiary. Attorney
Cohen, who has defended Mr.. Feinberg
is a Jealous and resourceful attorney
and is doing everything that he can
to prevent commitment of his client
He believes him 10 be innocent and
that the courts committed a great error
in this case. Mr.. FeInberg himself IS
very popular man and has warm
friends who believe he ought not 70 be
punished.
Governor Carroll selected as one Of
his managers this same Attorney Co
hen three months after the courts had
finally disposed Of the Feinberg case
1t has never been asserted that Cow
ernor Carroll knew anything about the
political phases of the case, but ne ga
know that Manager Cohen, Ill charge
of his campaign, and Attorney Conen
in charge of the Feinberg case, are one
and the same person.
Ex-senator william H Berry mem
Der Of the parole board and perhaps the
closest political and personal friend of
ed the meeting in Indianola addressed
by Congressman j a. T Hull and was
not fully convinced that it is the duty
of Iowa to be neutral in matters o.
great concern which are now disturb
ing the nation He stated that the
speech OF Captain Hull sounded 10 him
very much like plank in the last ma
tional platform that the old wing party
ever adopted. He produced the plank
as follows:
"Resolved, that the wings of the
United States. now here assembled,
hereby declare their reverence for the
constitution Of the United States, their
unalterable attachment to the national
union, and fixed determination to do
all in their power TO preserve them Tor
themselves and their posterity They
have no new principles to announce,
no new platform to establish, but are
content to broadly rest where their ia
theirs rested, upon the constitution OF
the United States, wishing no safer
guide, no higher law
Senator Berry after quoting this,
said:
This is the first resolution in the
whig national platform of 1856. The
party died Of dry rot before another
national campaign. and no wonder. The
{. mission of the progressive or so-called
insurgent element of the republican
party is to save the republican party
from this sort of dry rot. 1t would
seem to me that the man low filling
the place of representative from The
Seventh congressional district, if his
speech is correctly understood by me,
belongs to the year 1856 and not to the
progressive days Of 1910; for if correct
ly reported the sum and substance of
his speech is in the last four or five
iiiIle. of the resolution &c the Tri;iS party
which I have just quoted"
1t is announced by Governor Carroll
thru his literary bureau that he will
Ave on the stump fer him not only
he OF the leading supporters of Can
bn and AIdrich but republicans who
upport Cummins and Dolliver. tTt is
Expected" the letter states, that big
meetings will be held in all parts of the
tate and that Governor Carroll and a
humber OF his friends regulars as well
y insurgents alike, will speak in his
shall" It is is also threatened that
~ .difchellville affair." will be given
ktsntion by the governor