Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-08
HOT FIGHT
IN SECOND.
JUDGE WADE's REELECTION is
sTRENuousLY coMBATTED
BY REPUBLICANS.
DAWsoN's CHANCES GOOD
The Indications Are That Iowa VIII
Return Solid Republican Delegation
to Congress- This Year-Wade's
chanseabIe Speeches Damage Him.

Des Moines, Nov. Mot since
1890 has there been 20 bitter con-
gressional fight in Iowa as that of this
year in the second district, the only
one where there has been any serious
doubt as to the outcome. On the dem
ocratic side, personalities have been
indulged in to some extent, but the
republicans have refrained from that
sort of thing, devoting their attention
to the record made by Judge Wade in
congress and to replies to his speeches.
The indications are that he will be de-
feated by a large majority and that
Iowa will return solid republican del
egation to congress.
Wade's Trust Talk.
Judge Wade in his speeches had as
sailed the trusts with great vigor. He
attacked the beef trust and declared
that mis- brother, State Senator Wade,
had lost $1,000 in single summer on
cattle fed and marketed by him in
Iowa, loss attributable to the meat
trust. Judge Wade also attacked the
harvester trust, denouncing in scath-
ing terms the contract which that con-
cern has made with the implement
dealers of the country. Representative
IN. e. Kendall went into the second dis
trict to answer the meat trust argu-
ment, not defending the meat COM
bine, but showing that the loss suf-
fered by Judge Wade's brother was
due to the high price he paid for feed
ing stock in the first place, and to the
high price for corn paid to Iowa farm
ers for the feed for the cattle; and he
demonstrated that Eenator Wade
finally received more for his cattle
than the average price for the last
twenty years.
His implement Contract.
Former Congressman Lane took up
the harvester trust argument Of Judge
Wade and produced a contract with an
implement company at Iowa City, of
which Congressman Wade is a mem
Ier practically Identical with that of
the harvester company, Congressman
Lane did not defend the harvester
trust, but endeavored to show that
Judge Wade could not be sincere.
Wade's Changeable Speeches.
During the progress of the campaign
| Congressman Wade has been com
PEELED to shift his attitude on the tar
iff to suit local conditions. During the
last ten years the pearl button indus
try on the Mississippi river in the sec
ond district has grown to large pro
portions. Buttons are protected b.
the tariff. 1t was essential that the in
terests with the money invested ant
the labor employed In the button in
dustry be satisfied and the democrats
concluded to declare for tariff on pear
buttons, but nothing else. In this con
nection Judge Wade openly stated tha
never had he been free trader
1 Whereupon the republicans produce,
a fac smile of the bill he offered il
the last session of congress providin,
for absolute free trade between Can
ada and the United States.
Wade Against Great Odds.
The republicans have sent into tn
second district the best men it had :
Fairbanks, Cannon, Shaw, Wilson
Cummins, Allison, the two Dollivers
and scores of others, and in addition
Congressman Lane, who has manage
Dawson's campaign has made it per
sonal matter.
/ Judge Wade, on the other hand, ha
had the help of Bourke Cochran. only