Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-06

have been written in Washington b!
a correspondent familiar with the sit
uation. l do not know whether it wa:
| written in Washington or New York
but l do know that it is lie, made
lutely false. / simply can not under
stand this. The Times is really {
great paper 1t is financed by Angus
Belmont and he is not stuck on gov.
eminent control Of corporations. Yol
can't find any such information in any
of the Washington papers of today
nor of yesterday. The New Yorl
Tribune and New York Sun of Saturday
both have Washington letters, but they
seemed to have no such channels OF
information as were open to the
Times correspondent.
This senator must have gone to him
direct from the president and disclos-
ed the conversation thing nc
friendly senator would dare to do. But
analyze this statement moment:
Only a few days ago the president
congratulated Hepburn openly on his
magnificent management in securing
a unanimous report from the COM
llllIlCS. Ills dSIlOCIdllC SuppOIL ulu
not worry Roosevelt bit. He knows
perfectly we'll that Dolliver has got to
rely OH democratic support to get his
bill out of the senate committee. He
knows that over a million democrats
voted for him in 1904, and that about
two million want to vote for him
again, and yet we hear of him shak-
ing his head and saying it will never,
never do, to have this bill pass the
senate by means of democratic votes.
The man who wrote that letter has
insulted the intelligence of the peo-
pie.
disrupt the party, the party ought to
letters have but one object. They are
intended to inflame democratic sena-
tors against the president, take from
him the very support he needs and
wants. 1t won't work. 1t may catch
.Tillman, but 1 think now can see old
Tom Patterson, Of Colorado, looking
out Of one eye at the press gallery.
Nonpartisan Fight.
The other night made the acquain-
SoAiSS VI oo4All Aoliol PC w 1llietllS, lllC
democratic leader. He is a little, thin,
Mississippian. He is not a great man,
think, but he is bright, quick, alert
man, man of mighty good sense, and
a patriotic American citizen, and be-
cause of this, he saw his duty. and he
did it. l was very glad to have the
opportunity to meet Mr.. Williams and
talk with him. l don't think there has
ever been congress in this country
with SO little partisan feeling 1t is a
foregone conclusion that the demo-
cratic members of the Elkins' COM
mittee in the senate will enable Dolli-
yer to report his bill or the Hepburn
bill to the senate, and it is also fore
gone conclusion that the bill will pass
the senate by democratic votes and
without the support of Aldrich, Ell
kins, Dryden, Foraker, ct al, like
them.
My own conclusion is that it will be
one of the greatest triumphs of the
people that has ever happened in the
history of this republic. What will be
the remedial effects, with the bill a
law, no one can say. 1t may be much
and it may be little, but the moral eff
feet will be tremendous, for it will
demonstrate the fact that the people
and not corporate power control con-
gress. Like the granger legislation
of Iowa, more than twenty years ago,
it will mark new epoch in law maxi
ing.
A Rate Needing Regulation.
The rate bill was discussed in a
rf,,l
ton OF Ohio He used to be an Iowa
call boy in the writer's day, and he is
really one of the great men of the
house, and probably it's strongest and
most convincing orator. Today an
other Ohio man made some telling
points by reading from a letter from
the president of Il great pottery plant
at East Liverpool, Ohio. 1t seems
that the Dingley tariff is very kind to
American pottery manufacturers The
Ohio gentleman is a protectionist and
he made this admission. The speaker
claimed that the railroads had virtu-
ally repealed the Dingley schedule on
pottery. What he meant was multi
he'd" not repealed" He went on to
show that any advantage given the
Dingley tariff was neutralized by
freight rates. He gave freight rates
on pottery from East Liverpool, Ohio,
to Chicago, st. Louis Cedar Rapids,
Des Moines, Fort Dodge, Lincoln,
points in Kansas, Nevada and Canada,
and he showed by the rate schedule
that the combined ocean and railroad
rate from Liverpool, England, to the
same points was considerably lower.
For example, the rate to certain
point in Kansas from Ohio was $1.11
and the rate from Liverpool, England
70 cents. This manufacturer COM
planned to his representative that such
a schedule gave the English manu-
facturer an unfair advantage. Don't
it?
Flags His Own Party.
The senate is a funny old body To
one not familiar with it's methods, it
seems strange. Set speeches are sell
dom delivered. and yet Senator Pat
terson took the floor yesterday and
fayed his democratic and re-
publican colleagues for their carping
criticism of the president and his poll
cies. This from democratic sena-
tor must mean the approach of POI
litical millennium. Tillman of South
Carolina didn't know what struck
him. Tom Patterson is a big, brainy,
brilliant lawyer from Colorado. He n
the man who was adjudged guilty of
contempt by the supreme court of
Colorado not long ago and heavily fin