The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-01-13
A DEMOCRATIC MARTYR.

democrats of Iowa have sprung
A. Van Wagenen OF Sioux City
leir candidate for Governor, and
,rnment ownership of railroads as
dominant issue for the next cam
u. Personally we are interested
be Judge. We have always ad-
d his good judgment in marrying
the same family that we aid. If
re not brother-in-)aws, we would
to know what we are, and this be-
the case we feel that we have a
1T to object, for family reasons.to
uncalled for sacrifice of an honor
J. upr .ght. hard-woraing man, on
altar of democratic Illusions. The
ge may be willing victim. He
rs to lack that superlative wisdom
N olitics that he exhibited in affairs
of the heart. Not very many years
ago the Judge was one of the leading
lawyers of the 1lth District, Governor
Boies had his eye on him and he was
appointed district judge. Giving up
q practice that paid much better, he
served on the bench with great credit.
The republican majority in the big
18th was too much for him to contend
with successfully for any length OF
time, although he was once elected to
the office. Closing his term, Judge
Van Wagenen settled in Sioux City
building up good practice and becom-
ing interested in an automatic tele-
phone switch board which he has
greatly perfected and from which great
thirgs may be expected. But soon the
political bee commenced buzzlng and
he became a candidate for Congress
against Geo r. Perkins. The Judge
thought he was going 10 lbe elected,
but all signs fail in the llth District
and Mr. Perkins received normal
majority. The Judge returned to the
work which had been neglected during
The camrhi ign, a sadder and we had
oped User man He was getting
when some arch fend
Sioux City The campaign
,astrous as the congressional
Again we hoped the Judge
d down to the accumulation
ucre, aud we had begun to
we might use the family re
and touch him for a loan,
confcunded gubernatorial
Us busted all our calculations.
re wants to run for Office ION
ticket why, in the name
vi, doesn't he move to a
ould have some show?
e allows the democrats
him as their victim
has been 8 consistent
II that he has been con
~ opposed to every act of
ublican party since he could
DER. He was an ardent silver
went the full length in sup
that doctrine, which at that
believed to be the only saliva
the common people from the
lei of the oppressor. Later he
the occupation of the Philip
the great menace to the life of
public and declared the over
OF imperialism to be the only
ion of the common people from
4. on heel of the oppressor. We have
d the Judge wax eloquent over the
wasags of the Filipino but we have
never been able to Stir him up much
over the wrongs of the colored citizens
of the United States. Which again
goes to prove that he is good demo-
GRAFT. We have no doubt but that he is
now perfectly honest in his belief that
government ownership of railroads is
the only salvation of the people from
the iron heel of the oppressor. We
would like to ask the Judge however,
in friendly and familiar way, if he
does not believe that as common
carriers of intelligence, as necessary
E
phone systems of the county should
not be included in the government
ownership scheme? Railroads, express
telephones and telegraphs are so in
timately associated that it seems a
shame to leave the three latter out of
the reckoning. The Judges new issue
is in advance of the times. When the
people are ready for socialism-and we
are among the number who attach no
honor to the name-governmento owner
ship of railroads will be part of the
scheme. At present thereis no reason
to make flesh of one class of invest
ments and fowl of another. When the
people and the lawmakers have ex-
hausted the limit of their power in try
ing to control injurious trusts, and comb