Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-31
! ATTEMPT TO REsMIRcA SENATOR
cossON MADE IN CLOSING
DAYS OF CAMPAIGN.
sALoohIsTs' AGREED LATEST
TO De PUT IN CIRCULATION
cessor Voted Fer Confirmation Of Both
Conner and Janss as Members Of
Board Of control-cossen Good
Lawyer a. His Record Will Show
Senator cummins Goes to Indiana.
Special to Times-Republican

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Oct. 31.-The persistence
with which those vxha stirred up the
scandals return to the attack to make
political capital is Illustrated in the
closing days of the campaign. The lat
est is an effort to besmirch Senator
George Cosson by the most barefaced
Justification Of his record in the sem
ate. Senator Cossons enemies have
procured to be published and widely
circulated screed against him written
by repr esentative of the saloon in
terests, in which, among a mass of
other falsehood and innuendo it is
brazenly stated that Senator Cosson
voted against the confirmation Of either
ex-Congre sSman Conner or ex-Repre
sentative Jones for N ember OF the
board of control. The purpose OF this
Is to prejudice against Cosson a great
many of the friends of both Conner
and Jones. for all Of them who are
believers in law enforcement and re-
spect for good government are sup
porting Cosson.
But the fact is. and If the writer
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this to be so. that Senator Cosson voted
for the confirmation first of Congress-
man Conner for member of the board
and the next day voted for the con-
firmaton of Representative Jones. He
did sign the petition asking for the
retention of John Cownie on the board.
as did thirty-two other of the sem
ators. because he did not believe in in
jecring politics into the institution
management. But he also believed
that il was the right of the governor
to make an appointment and that the
senate was hardly justified in refusing
TO confirm.
The fact is that on that mem orable
occasion, as has been published several
times before. and was well understood
at the time. neither partisan nor fac
tional lines were followed but that
among the votes for confirming both
Conner and Jones there were progress
sives. stan dpatters and dem ocrats. The
fight was no, in any sense a factional
lineup.
Perhaps there was not in the senate
a more independent voter than was
Senator Cosson His name came al
most first in the roll call and he never
lodged single vote. His answers to
the roll call always came out clear and
prompt and with little regard for what
light follow.
The attack of the saloon interests on
Cosson also proceeds upon the theory
that Senator Cosson is not good law
yer. The record happens 70 be other
wise. In fact he has handled a great
many very important ca ses, has gone
up against the best lawyers of the state
and has always comported himself we'll
Among those who know Cosson is
credited with being admirably equipped
by legal training. by breadth OF pur-
Of attorney general.
1t appears certain. also. that the or
ganization which is making war on
Cosson. and is able to secure the wild
est possible circulation of the most in
excusable ISLANDERS concerning him, is
equally anxious to effect the defeat of
sion The fight against these two men
seems to have been coupled up.
The Des Moines people are planning
to sound the depths of the physical en-
durance of Col. Theodore Roosevelt
when ne comes here. He is to offic;-
ate at a football game. dine with the
boosters. speak 10 the teachers ana &C.
liver political address. all in one
evening The latter arrangement has
not vet been fully completed, but Col.
onel Roos evelt has agreed to do II and
the details will be worked out in a few
days A big political meeting will b:
arranged to be addressed by the lead.
ers of the republican party in Iowa
and at the close, the ex-president VII