Omaha daily bee., 1899-01-07
IOXyA Press Comment.

Davenport Democrat: If Iowa doesn't
head the list of states that have built new
roads in the year 1899 with the greatest
mileage Of them all it will be because the
length of her new lines built on paper have
not been reckoned in
Davenport Democrat: There are still a
few democrats in this state who insist that
no man is democrat who is not true to
free and unlimited coinage at 18 to l. be-
cause that was the utterance Of the Chicago
platform II this be true there has been
an awful scattering of the remaining demo-
cratic vote since the election.
Keokuk Gate City: Chairman Townsend
of the democratic state committee is credited
with the remark that they might as we'll
undertake to carry Greenland as to carry
Iowa for free silver coinage at Is to l. The
inference Is that he meant that in either
case his party would encounter a severe
''frest." The past experiences Of Iowa de-
mocracy fully warrant such conclusion.
Iowa Is decidedly chilly toward the free
silver cause. and 1t is becoming more frigid
every year.
Atlantic Telegraph Report says that ].
a. Lyons. late candidate for congress in this
district. has slid clear over into the demo-
cratic camp and so announces. After his ex-
perience last fall he probably concluded the
republican party had got so far away from
him that he had no hope of ever overtaking
1t and that it didn't pay to be pop, SO he
would take another hitch and land where
all boilers do sooner or later clear over
into the other camp. II they do not give
him an Office of some kind soon he will have
to organize a new party OF his own for
running purposes.
Dubuque Times; The gold democratic press
OF Iowa has declined to grasp the olive
branch extended by the Des Molnes confer
ence The silver men who composed that
gathering are informed by such papers as
the Davenport Democrat and the Sioux City
Tribune that "bimetallsm" is hardly less
inpa "a han IN 4
men who have managed the party In Iowa
since 1896 wish to be forgiven they must
openly confess their error and incapacity and
accept as revelation the doctrine that there
can be only one standard and that standard
gold. Repentance complete and sincere
must precede forgiveness.
Sioux City Tribune: The Iowa State Board
OF Control has made wonderful record dur
ing the six months in which it has had
charge Of the state institutions. Not only
| has large sum Of money been saved TO
the state. but there is no complaint from the
institutions and they are in better shape
than they ever have been. Ex-Governor
Larrabee. Judge Kinne and John Cownie,
! who compose the board have fully sustained
| the belief OF the people who know them that
they would administer the Board Of Control
law honestly. economically and for the best
interests Of the state 1t was all new work
| for them, there were no precedentS and GUS
| toms to follow. but many Of them to over
proves that no better appointments to these
| positions could possibly have been made
| Cedar Rapids Republican: 1t pays to keep
| good men in office. The case OF Senator
Allison is in point. When his present term
! is up he will have been in the United States
! senate for thirty years. five full terms. Be
| fore being elected to the senate he had
| served three terms in the lower house Of
! congress and had made his way to the front
! in that BODY. Allison and Blaine and Gar
! field all entered the house at the same time.
/ in 1862. Blaine and Garfield are dead, both
martyrs to the presidential office, and Sena-
tor Allison himself has been conspicuous as
a presidential quantity He has had many
places rendered him, at least three seats
in the cabinets OF presidents. but the Iowa
man has steadily preferred the senate. and
in that respect he has been wiser for both
himself and his state. Influence in congress
depends largely upon position on the i'm
portant committees. The real work Of legis-
lation is done in the committee rooms.
And position on the committees depends on
! le0gth of service. There is an established
rotation on the committees. A new man
cannot jump over the heads of veterans.