Show GETS B BACK ACK AT SHAW Iowa Governor I Enlists for far the Com Coin Comi i oit War Wart S t BY WHAT 1 HE SAID r RAKES THE SECRETARY FORE FOREA A DAFT n rEs S MOIE Aug 8 A AB Ahi hi B Cumins Cummins today indicted a B scathIng replY to the attack made up bImby by Secretary ot of the Treasur I Shu Shuw who criticised him for misQuoting misquotIng ing te the secretary in his speech before the the chicago convention Governor Cummins shows that he sid said the tha quotations was from an editorial In Inthe inthe the De Des Moines Diy Daily Capital whose edior editor attended the banquet ot of Des DesMoInes MoInes bankers whore Mr Shaw made tUe address and who Is a warm sun SUD port ot of the secretary The letter eter Q Quotes the Secretary LI I have ave t the he honor to a acknowledge your leter of the n Which yu al ng a statement that I re recently centy made In an addre address delivered be before fore the National reciprocity conference at Chicago The statement ts s as ol 01 lows The se secretary of th the treasury In a speech recently delivered In Des Moines ls Is a as saIng saying that the explanation tion of the refusal of the he senate to consider the French treaty is that it gives everything to Franc France and noth nothing ing to the United States I must io o him thE th justice to believe th that t he never red read the treaty for otherwise he ha has a grave offense against the proprieties of debate Made the Statement The quotation Is accurate I made the statement You say respecting I it itI I that I did not say i it or ot anything that could be so interpreted but butI 1 ws not so sure about the report The Tho occasion was a as Informal luncheon and the speech was Impromptu though not You You further fu ther sy say KnowIng therefore that you would not vIolate the proprieties of debat debate b by quoting me without authority as having made a specific statement I write to I Iou you ou to Inquire where yoU saw the re report report port ot of mv n speech as given in your Chicago address address I have not seen I it arid and aridI andI I wish to corret correct the record as soon as possible Glad of the Opportunity S I am sincerely gratified to know that you deny having made the statement for I It was Impossible for tor me to recon cie die I it wih with the truth and I lain am not les less to be given iven the opportunity to advise e you of my authority for Im fluting Un the sentiment to you You may ma mabe maybe be against the Fech French treaty ann an I Imn Ima mn ma be for tor It but you can no no more more af afford afford ford to mIslead the Its provIsions than I 1 can afford to the he t statements you 0 ate make to the inaction of the son sen senate You are 7 t that both of Us hove have had haa too l long an ng experience in the trial of caes cases to fo be beleve believe leve lieve that any substantial victory can be Won either through any falsehood or passive suppression of the truth I therefore promptly give you yot my auth authority orI for stating you were reported as assaying I sayIng in your speech at De Des Moines loines the senate to the French treaty because i it gave France everything ing and the United State States noth nothing Gives His Authority In the Des Moines Capital of Satur Saturday da day May 27 7 the he da day after your our speech you ou wi will find a long editorial entitled Secretary r Shaw I It deals wholly wih with your speech of the da day be before before fore I quote that part of I It upon which I relied in my address at Chicago In his own orIginal way he home certain facts that wi will He exposed the proposed French trey in al all Its deformities demon demonstrating that we were offering Frace France Francea 8 a tremendous bargain and getting practically nothing In return 11 If this be not a sufficient basis for forthe forthe the statement that I made in Chicago I hae yet et to lern learn the meaning of the commonest words of my mother ton tongue e Lafayette Young the editor of the Des DesMoines Moines apitaI was present at the luncheon and heard beard yOur ur speech He HeIs Heis Is your our political friend and ally He Heis HeIs is In sympathy with yoUr views He HeIs Heis Is himself a speaker of wonderful pow power power er and knows what mean menn He wrItes constantly concerning the tariff ad and reciprocity ald could not have been bean mistaken with respect to the trend and conclusion of your argument Some Sarcasm When he wrote in his and striking way that you ru exposed the pro proposed posed French treaty In ai all is its ite that we were of offering ferin fering France a tremendous bargain bagain and getting nothing in return i it was not possible for me to doubt that you sac what he imputed to you I Ikno Ikno kno that he could east mis tood me but i Itis is incredible that he misunderstand you your ex example I wi will hand handa a copy of my reply to the newspapers at the time the letter With high reg I am r Your Yours very ery truly ALBERT B CUMMINS |