Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-14
DOL. KEATLEY'S RECORD.
A Corporation Candidate.
lD,s Moines News, independent

bluffs. 1t was matter of regret that SO
able, brilliant and popular a man was SO
intimately allied to the monopolistic party
! in the House and in the lobby.
Col. Keatley is now the democratic can
didate for congress in the Ninth district +;
and as might have been anticipated, his
record is already giving him great deal
OF trouble. Only three days a canc idatc,
he fills two-column interview in the
Council Bluffs Globe with attempted -ex
plantations of his efforts last winter in
behalf ofthe railway and corporation lobby.
| This indicates that now that he is candi-
date FOR high Office he feels his weakness
and desires 10 set himself right before the
people. But fifty columns OF explanations
cannot unmake the record Of last winter; ;
| and that record plainly proves that Col.
| keatley is not fit to represent great agri-
cultural State in congress. II the anti
monopl;sts of the district are wise, they
will throw their votes in such way as to
leave him at home. Iowa has had in the
past too few men who have really repre-
scented Its great interests 1t oughtto have
a solid anti-monopoly delegation in con-
gress.
Col. Kcatley's record, as it will be found
in the House Journal, can only be thor
oughly understood when taken in conneC-
| ton with the inside history of the legisla
ton attempted bv the monopolists Of
| the Twenty Grst general assembly. That
history reveals him as always voting for
the amendments, postponements, recon-.
mitments and other parliamentary maneu.
vers devised by the corporation lobbics to
defeat good Ia SIS. A man who will vote
a, the lobbyists desire on such motions is
| CT ,ho
will vote against the bills when they come
up. What they want is to delay the bills
and produce disagreement between house
and senate SO as to smother and indirectly
kill them,
In this direction they always had in Col.
KeatIey a valuable assistant. He showed
! only too plainly that his sympathies were
not with the people.
| The greatest effort made by Col Kcatlcy
during the winter was his elaborate speech
against the Sweeney bill. 1t was the most
ambitious effort made by any member
during the session, and Col. Kcatley was
understood TO have spent two weeks in its
preparation. The railway lobby put him
! forward as its mouthpiece in the house as
Senator Knight, attorney OF the Illinois
Central, was put forward in the Senate
and while Col. keatley was turning his
oratorlcal batteries against this Just measure
or the purpose OF requiring foreign cor
porations to submit their causes to the
state courts, the attorney OF the Milwaukee
road was seated beside him, giving him
suggestions and pointers. Col. keatey's
speech was on an amendment offered BY
himself in the following language:
Provided, That nothing in this act
shall effect railway and telegraph compa
MES engaged in inter state commerce and
5 In carrying the mails of the United States
Fortunately, the vote which immediately
| followed this speech resulted in an over
wHelInIng majority against his amend
mcnt 4H1 in favor OF the bill
Col. KeatIey holds forth the idea in hi
: Glotc interview that he was 4 pretty GOO
t anti.monopolst. The record shows tina
he is very torgetful. On page 2i0 of tn
house journal he Is recorded as votin!
{ against allowing the anti. pass bill to retail
its place on the calendar. This delaye
= this righteous measure and defeated i
l. On pages 3O5. 500 and 307, he is shown t
. be a leader OF those who opposed the re
y duCton Of the legal rate Of interest iror
It ~ to $ per cent. lie spoke bitterly againS
!, the bill and voted 10 rccommit and thu
delay il voted to strike out the enactin
l. clause; and voted finally against the bll
,e When the railway commissioner bill cam
up as a special order, he voted again.
Schee's motion 10 take it up instead OF Ii
measure pushed by the railway lobby. II
,. voted with many other corporation me
10 tor the bill on its final passage, the lobb
5 intending to defeat it in the senate. o
&c page j58, he is recorded as voting again
w Tinn's resolution TO give precedence
IS anti-moNOpoly measures. He voted alway
- for increased appropriations. His recor
" on pages G3G and 81 is a vote again
Is p!acin. the long and short haul bill, II
c. auti-pc0l ill, the fence bill and the ant
D. pass bill at TIE head OF the calendar. An
If while he thus opposed bill requiring raj
ways to fence their lines and thus psote
&c the lUrmers' STOCK, he voted. a. recorde
le page G54 for the iniquitous bill giving Il
te railways The right OF condemning the farm
N crs' fields for snow fence So he not on
+. opposed anti.monopoly bulls but fovorc
~ odious corporation measures.
= If the people Of the Ninth district dcs
4. man with such a record for represent
E. tive, they are peculiar people. II they {
,f not approve such Il record, they shou
vote for that one of the two other cand
= dates whose anti-monopoly record is be: