Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-08-09
Does He Prevaricate?


the remarkable conversion of the
Times from an advocate of the cause
of the people to that of the corpora
tions to visit and picnic of Sunday
of Captain Adams with w. G. Brown,
general manager of the @. B. s. Q. Ry.
To this the Times replies as follows
with a lot of sympathetic slush about
misrepresentation of Mr.. Brown when
visiting his old home, and renewing
the acquaintances of his youth, of
which Capt. Adams was not.
The Times of August 4th says:
"Capt. Adams did not "Spends a
either of his recent visits to this coun-
ty, have not spent ten minutes with
him this year and only met him once,
when he and his party drove up in
. front of our.home, after they had spent
the day at Vernon, where Mr.. Brown
had been taking Kodac views of his
boyhood's home, and gave us a hearty
greeting"
Now in reply to this bold denial it
Is only necessary to copy an article of
such an occurren ce which the reader
will find in the Cresco Times of July
9th, on the local page in which Capt.
Adams paints the events of the day
in the following gorgeous colors:
AT HIS OLD HOME.
General manager of the q. b. & @.
Ry. Mr.. w. @. Brown, with his family
A. F. Galloway and family, Mrs, O..
@. Hewett, Clara Lacy and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Marsh drove from
Lime Springs last Sunday morning
to enjoy the day at Vernon Springs.
the boyhood home of manager Brown.
The busy man who car
ries in his alert mind the responsible
tiles of one of the greatest and best
corporations that exists in America,
sat on the grass and ate dinner in the
grove near the spot where he had
partaken of an Indians hospitality
in wigwam when boy.
In the pauses of banter and laughter
and reminiscent narrative, the WRITER
fancied that apensive mood possessed
the man who had rela xed and slid off
his manifold cares for the day amid
associations of the old home place,
and its varied memories; for though
fate has been kinder to him than to
many other men, yet there are unseen
struggles, unwritten passages, untold
difficulties in the lives of all that a
trifie will sometimes bring back vivid
| ly after many years, and the asssoci-
ations of childhood always cluster a
host of sad as well as happy memories.
MIR. Brown is railroad man, and
like Jay Gould who testified before a
senate committee "that in demo
cratic district he was a democrat, in
republican district he was repub-
lican, in doubtful district he was
doubtful, but always for Erie,' and SO
with Mr.. Brown, he is always for the
G. B. & @. and the other railroad cor
porations which have common in
terest with that corporation in con-
trolling congress. Two years ago Mr..
Brown in his special car visited this
county and district in the interest OF
Blythe, and the statement that he
and Captain Adams had the Sunday
picnic described in the Times of the
9th of July and said nothing about
the next representative in congress-
from this district, we accept as being
as truthful as his denial of Sunday
out with Brown. which fir ON his owr
files we have proven to be untrue. Il
is undoubtedly prevarication. He
heard voice but not from the source
that came the voice that caused the
conversion of Saul of Tarsus. The
whisper that converted the Times
came from the throat of the @. B.
I O., through the mouth of its genia
and polished manager, w. g. Brown