Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-01
RUTCaISON ON PROHIBITION.
Iowa's Republican Candidate For
Governor Defines His Position.
HE WOULD DANISH THE SALOON
His Views on the Question Of Rail-
road Legislation and Control
Billings Gets Life
Sentence.
Republican Rally at viIlisca.

DIES MONIES Ia, Sept. 3d. Special Tele-
gram TO THE BEE. Senator. Joseph q.
Hutchison, republican candidate for gov
ernor made his first regular speech of the
campaign at Vllisca today. 1t was very
long document requiring at least two hours
for delivery. The elemosynary Institutions
of tho state are reviewed at length, showing
that nearly $40, 900, 900 have been spent upon
them in addition to the war and defense fund
and the regular expenses to carry on the ma
chinery OF state government, all of which
has been done upon a state levy AZ no time
greater than 21s mills, and the state is now
entirely out of debt. The history of prohibi-
tion is reviewed, and upon the question of
future action, Mr.. Hutchinson says:
"And now we are confronted again IN
Iowa by the same old bourbon principles OF
the democratic party On platform whose
cry is for license in every township In the
state. Think of it, citizens OF
Iowa. Yonder, few days ago, In
the now prosperous municipality of Sioux
City. where the saloons at one time battled
against the laws of our state and against
virtue, manhood aud decency, until IL per-
petrated the most villianous outrage that
was ever calculated TO call forth the wrath of
the moral people there, when the brave soul
of Rev. George Haddock went out TO the God
who gave 1t under the command of the
saloon assassin, the democratic larty, never
favor of this cursed barnacle, which modern
civilization, as constituted in Iowa, is deter
mined to destroy. Why, itseems to me, that
this act would rise up before the people OF
Iowa with such an overwhelming influence
that they would at once exclalm: we, the
people of Iowa, who stamped the saloon
curse, the enemy of civilization, the ccrrup-
tion of our politics. the foe of mankind say
to the party that convened In that city where
George Haddock was murdered by a saloon
keeper that we will so thoroughly demon
strate to you that you will never
forget it, that the murder OF George Had.
dock is sacred TO us; that we look upon his
blood as the seal which pledged us to the
everlasting destruction and condemnation of
the saloon in Iowa.
On the question of railway control the gist
of the senator's remarks are contained IN the
following paragraph, which comes after an
exhaustive review of the situation:
upon these grounds it became necessary
in Iowa, for the sake of our local-traffc and
the internal welfare of our state, to provide
good, vital and effective law such as we
provided IN the twenty second general as
sembly, and which | believe is proving a
great benefit to the people of Iowa, ana
which i believe is necessary to put in a use
ful, working condition our state railway COM
mission, and which also was necessary as a
proper supplement to the interstate COM
merce law. It's feature in some respects ]
know are claimed by railway Off
cials to be too unyielding aud too
arbitrary but L think it may
safely be said that it contains no principle
not heretofore embodied in previous legisa-
tiOn or that cannot be fonnd in the laws of
surrounding states. | think, TOO. that some
of those laws will prove the fact that ours is
less severe than theirs, This is especially
true of the laws of Illinois, of many, or some
| of the eastern states, and of the English
railway and navigation act, which is to Eng-
| land what our inters state commerce law is to
| us. And even the Interstate commerce law
| is quite as rigid in many of its requirements.
| This statement, / believe, railway officials
| will admit when they once realize that the
| people of Iowa have every desire to legis-
| late IN spirit of Justice In this railway
| age, to which / have referred before, the
| people have found it necessary that these
| laws should have been enacted that they have
| come TO stay, that they will stay, and that
| we believe falr-mnded railway managers
| who are willing to credit the intelli ent pub
| lie for honesty and fair dealing recognize it. u
The speech closed with illusions at length
| to the tariff, pension and other national
| questions