The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-10-15
FARMER WHITING
Sounds the Keynote III the Cam
paign in Cre>so.
He Opens the Record IT III Honest
Career to Public Inspection.


Career Public Inspection.
He does not approvr &c hasanet-
and s.edge hammers for executive
use in driving union soldiers from
Office.
Senator Chas. T. Whiting Dem
ocratic and National candidate fl
governor appeared before q cTs@a7
audience last Friiay afternoon. Tn
time OF day for the meeting MS mol
the best it could have been, III ihe
farmers are too busy now for after
noon meetings. However tho a.
tendance was fair and the address
was timely and excellent
He opened his address by saying
that he was on terms of personal
friendship with the opposing candid
ates for governor and lieutenant
governor and that no word should
fall from his lips that would tend t.
lessen that friendship. Eut their
public acts and records belong To
the public and Of these as they en-
ter into the campaign he should
speak.
He said this contest will be made
on Iowa soil, on Iowa issues. in the
living present and not in the dead
past. For the first time in thirty
years has the great agricultural aud
laboring class been fully recognized
by either party.
This he said should be fully APP
preciated inasmuch as it came un-
soughtand cheerfuly from profess
sions and business alike as from our
own ranks.
Why, he said should not the men
who have made this state il garden
which has been gridironed with rail
roads. take share in its manage-
ment, and have friend 1T count
The issues are marked and we'll ae.
fined. So are the records Of each
party.
In speaking Of the republican
platform Mr.. Whiting said there wa>
not any thing demanded In it. thai
Mr.. Larrabee ana the party had no
voted against, repeatedly. Tha'
everything demanded in the plat.
form the party could have sivel
the people any time during the past
twenty years by voting for il in til.
Legislature.
He said that the democratic part,
in the Louisiana purchase had ac,
quired all the vast territory wes. q
the Mississippi except Texas al
| California. This was what that par.
lty had done to provide land and
homes for the people and that on,
Il
Of this vast domain the republican,
party had given direct to corpora
tions more than six times the amount
Of land embraced in Iowa That
prior to the ascendency Of the rep
ublican party to power Ia the govern
ment, lands donated for public in
prOvements had been given III trust
to the state FIR such designated
objects. That the republican party
on the contrary had given the land>
of the people lavishly and directly
to railroads and syndicates 81 spec
ulators and cattle kings.
A mastery exposition Of Mr. Lar
rabee's record as shown by Ills votes
in the senate was given showing
that he had voted in the senate
against every measure advocated or
promised in the republican, platform.
His record on senate files 10. Il ;aa
CUS WHICH NSle OliiS w fi'N'It ltsii-
roads from discriminating agaihs,
places or persons. and to prevent
them from charging more for Il short
than for long haul shows that he
voted every time against the people
and for the corporations.
He also gave his vote on Senate
file 1G5 which was bill Introduced
by senator Sweeney 70 compel cor
porations doing business in iowa TO
incorporate under our state laws and
sue and be sued in the State
conrts the same as ci,iz
ems. Senator Larrabee voted against
the bill and led in its defeat aud vel
such a law is among the giltscrin-
promises OF the republican platform.
The republican party promis. il
its platform the Cassatt bill for the
protection Of miners yet when the
bill was before the legislature il had
almost the united opposition Of the
republican party led by Senator
Larrabee.
These are the only points in the
excellent address OF Mr.. Whiting
that our space permits US to present
this week other points made will b.
hereafter pr. scented to our readers.