Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-18
NEWSPAPER ATTACK ON PRIVATE
AFFAIRS OF REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATES.
oUMMiNs, CLARKE AND GREEN
SUBJECTS OF PREvARicATIoN
Business and Financial Records Stand
Comparison With Those Of Savage
and Others Of the "Antis"-Savaae
Mixed Up in Meredith. Holden lrri.
CATION Land Scheme.
special to rimes-Republican.


Des Moines. May 1S-The most Wig
,rous opponent Of Senator Cummins,
Governor Clarke and Congressman
Green in the state is Charley Chase
Atlantic News Telegraph, but it is
equally opposed to Congressman Con-
molly. Its support OF Savage. Lee and
surgent' organ or the state in
the present campaign. AS spokes-
men for them it challenges a compar-
ison Of their personal qualifications and
their wealth as evidence OF fitness for
office holding. and incidentally forces
a defense Of some OF the attacked ones.
The challenge by which 1t hopes to de-
velop discussion of the private affairs
Of all tho candidates has this para
graph:
1T is an open secret that Senator
Cummins owes more money than he
can ever hope to pay and that not even
the interest on 1t is paid. 1t is like
wise an open secret that Connolly is
broke and can not earn operating eX
penses. Over against both these men
is Ed Meredith the most conspicuous
among the successful business men Of
the state, a man who owes no man
anything"
AS IL inviting discussion of assassin
alton and libel as a political weapon
the paper says also:
ED Meredith is too good a man to
be stilettoed in the dark by lot of
professional assassins.'
Reference to Cumrirs False.
OF course the reference to Senator
Cummins is wholly false and known
to be so by Its author. Every one who
knows anything at all about it knows
there is not and never was a word OF
truth in it. 1t Is Tevamping just one
OF hundred old favorite falsehoods
about the senator long ago put into
the discard by their originators.
The reference to Connolly is on
par wit that Of Cummins. Mr.. Con-
nelly is business man with a big and
prosperous business and the assertion
concerning that business comes little
snort Of being libelous.
Savaae's Unenviabie Record.
But this newspaper edited by a for
ner democratic postmaster doesn't say
anything about the wonderful business
aDlillS OIL VIC ScAlo VI Ae@A 49,
lives just over in the next county. Why
not give the inside history OF his finan-
ciaI transactions? 1t recalled. of course,
that he inherited a fortune and the
controlling interest in two banks.
With such a start a really capable
man ought to have had a career worth
featuring. Nobody seems to hive found
/, worth while to tell about the marvel
GUS financIering Of Savage. If there is
IN he comparisons made why not be-
gin with the story of Savage,s reia-
lions with numerous friends?
Also. since the disposition at Allan
tic is to dip into personalities, why not
tell the whole story Of the Idaho land
deals and speculations Of the Mere
d,th- Holden syndicate? 1t IS being
WHISPERED about that If all the claims
made in Idaho were really paid there
wouldn't be much left for plate matter.
IF Meredith has such very great busl-
ness capacity, let some of the many
Iowa farmers who invested in Idaho IT.
rigation land give testimony thereto.
Clarke and lee.
Thus far the men with stllettoes
have not invited com parison between
Clarke and Lee. Presumably they are
both lust average IoWans. Clarke owns
a good Iowa farm to which he gives
personal attention. but he is not rlch.
He never was banker nor did he ever