Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-09

VIC Tic people tu6lE
health and from fraud, and gave to
the country an excellent pure food
bill.
CREDIT TO THE SENATE.
1t may not be unworthy of notice by
those who are inclined to denounce
the United States senate, which was
deemed by our fathers as one of the
most important branches of the gov
ernment they were founding, that it
was the senate of the United States
that put upon the rate bill the pro-
vision making express companies,
sleeping ear companies and pipe lines
subject to the control of the interstate
commerce commission, and it was the
senate of the United States that put
upon the bill the anti-pass provision.
The credit for these four provisions is
due to the senate and not to the house
because they were not in the bill as it
passed the house and would not have
been the law had the senate yielded to
the demand of those who insisted that
the house bill pass without amend
ment.
ALLISON, DOLLIVER, HEPBURN.
When / was chosen your represent
alive in congress Senator Dolliver
was just entering upon his new duty
in the so-called upper house of con-
gress. He has now served in that
body six years and when the rate bill
had been conducted in safety through
the house by Colonel Hepburn ofIowa
it fell to the lot of the junior senator
from Iowa to lead the battle for it's
passage through the senate Formonths
he was its steady constant advocate.
Association with that struggle and the
| final passage of the bill will carry
his name into the permanent history
OF his country IL nothing else does.
The weary months dragged on and
while there was not great difference
OF opinion as to the passage of the
| bill there were irreconcilable differ
| ences as to details.
Finally William B. Allison was
| called from his absorbing labors in
| charge of the appropriations of con-
gress of the United States, reconciled
| all difference and expedited the bill
| to its final passage. The manner in
| which he thus adjusted these differ
ences was but characteristic of the
| man. He was elected to congress in
| 1862 and has with the exception of two
years been in the house and senate
| during the entire period since. News
papers may talk about the power of
| Aldrich, but William B. Allison is
not only the most powerful man in the
senate, but in my judgment the most
potential man in American public
life.
All the power of a great president
and great administration could not
| pass the rate bill until the valuable
services of WilliamB. Allison were
enlisted in the struggle. The four
men in the United States most entitled
to credit for this measure are Theo-
dore Roosevelt, William B. Allison,
j. r. Dolliver, and William p. Hep
burn, three of the four from Iowa.
1t is a matter of deep concern to the
the people of this state that the senior
senator has recently been physically
afflicted, but it is my hope with re-
stored health and with renewed
strength he may long live to serve
his people with j. p. Dolliver in the
senate. Both of these men have been
my devoted friends since my entering
into public life.
| PLEADS FOR UNITY.
| 81 have sought reelection first,
because | hoped, in small way, if
returned to be able to serve the coun-
try and to serve you, and, second,
because | have always found my chief
| qualification in the fact that the nom
nations were made apparently with a
quite general consent of the republi-
cans of this district. So long as that
feeling exists it is my hope and my de-
sire to represent you in congress but
no longer.
The Republican party OF Iowa has
in the past few months had within it
a somewhat bitter contest which now
draws to a close. III we will all remem-
Der that before we are republicans we
are Americans, and before we are
Iowa republicans, we are members of
the great national republican party,
periodically struggling under the
leadership of President Roosevelt for
the welfare of all the people, and that
before we belong to any, element or
faction OF the party we are Iowa re-
lpublicans, trust and : believe that
! when the excitement OF this ,prelimin-
] airy struggle is over We will, all be