The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-10-10
Hutchinson's Record.

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In q catechetical editorial article
The Des Moines Leader makes it quite
plain that during his career as state
Mr.. Hutchinson, the republi-
can guberenatorial candidate, has
voted for everything the
railroads wanted, and as invariably
everything they didn't want.
The Leader says:
The Register insists Hutchison's
record IL all right; but that
don't settle 1t, by any means. The
Leader will ask Mr.. Hutchison q few
plain questions. which he will readily
see are relevant and Of interest to the
people. So Joseph, stand up and
answer:
I. In all your years Of service In
the legislature. did you ever intro
duce bill relative to railways save
one, which was bill to take q piece
OF land from the state and give it to q
railroad.
2. Did you not vote against a bill
to compel railroads to cut Canada
thistles on their right Of way, and il
SO, why,
3. Did you not vote against q bill
to require railroad companies to fence
their tracks?
4. Did you not vote against . bill
to prevent determinations by rail.
road companies, known as the senate
file 81!
5. Did you not oppose and vote
against the bill to make the commits.
sioners elective in 1886, and did you
not In 1883 throw every obstacle in
the way Of bringing to . vote the
same propositioni
8. Did you not vote to kill the two
cent fare bills
7. And when you and the other
railroad senator's, after throwing ev.
cry obstruction in the way your in.
genuity could devise, finally all voted
for the elective commission bill and
house file No. 878; did you not agree
to do 1t merely because you feared q
more stringent law would be propos-
cd and adopted IL you carried your
opposition any farther!
Now, Joseph, after you have an
ewered all these questions. explaining
why you opposed and voted against
these various measures, you may sit
down and rest and mop the sweat on
your troubled brow. These meas
ures were all proposed by the friends
Of the people to require railroads to
do something they did not want to
do. and you stood by the railroads
and always against the people. Dur
ing all this time you were 10 yocifer-
ously voting No, there were times
when your friends, the railroads,
wanted some favors; those were the
times when the severity Of your stern
and battle-scarred countenance re-
laxed and with smiles wreathing your
face you graciously voted
Yes" So, Joseph, stand up again,
and explain to the people Of Iowa
the reason OF your votes.
/. When a bill was passed grant.
ng to railroad companies the right
% condemn and take by force land
adjacent to their right OF way for
or channeling purposes, In
stead Of buying such lands from the
owners, did you not vote yea, and il
10, why!
2. In 1882. when the railroads pro.
posed q bill known as senate file 30,
10 diminish their liability and to pun
sh for interference with their proper
y, did you not vote yea, and il so,
Why!
8. When the railroads wanted q
dill to permit them to collect subsidies
II towns for depots and other build
ngs, as in house file AS. Did you
lot vote yea?
4. When railroads introduced a
bill, rs in senate file l5l, giving them
.he right to condemn additional
racts of land, were you not one of
seventeen who voted yea.
5. When the railroads asked for
,ill allowing them to condemn land
m which to erect snow fences, did
'ou not vote yea!
9. And, finally, to sum up, is it not
rue that there was the moet' perfect
and consistency In all your
otes on railroad questions for ten
ears! Did you not always. without
ne single exception, vote against |
ny bill which appeared to restrict
Z control railroads, and always,
'ithout q single exception, vote for
ny bill which gave the roads an adj
itional slice III the earths And now
efore you answer this question the
eader tells you that you need not
aim Won voted for the elective cCA.