Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-09
Hon. Henry Wallace Tells Some
Plain Truths About the Rail
roads In Politics
UNFAIR ADVANTAGE TAKEN
They Are Determined to Defeat Cum
minis, Who is the Only Governor
Iowa Has Recently Had Who Has
Dared to Oppose Their Unwarranted
Assumption of Power.
Special to Times Republican.

| Special to neutrality-suspicious.
| Des Moines. June 9.--Henry wal
lace, editor of Wallace Farmer, in .
| statement scoring the Des Moines Dali
ly Capital for grossly misrepresentins
his statements, declares that the rail
road corporations mainly are opposing
| the denomination of Governor Cum
Minis, that the issues We're never sc
| clearly drawn between the corpora
tons and the people, that the persist
ency OF the railroads in fighting Gov
ernor CunInins may force the farmers
of the state to take stand fer gov
eminent ownership, and that it would
be specially unfortunate If the farm
ers of Iowa should permit the defeat
of Governor Cum1nins.
The statement of Henry Wallace
appears today in the Daily News, and
was issued because of the misrepre-
sentation and misinterpretation placed
upon an article appearing in Wall
lace Farmer, Jan. IL, urging "A Time
to Go Slow and advising the farmer
to prepare for a change i'll the tariff
schedules. After asserting that the
misuse of the article lis fine illustra-
ton of the methods of INSCRIPTIONS
politicians" Mr.. Wallace says: "One
of the reasons given for going slow
was that a nation wide discussion of
the tariff was inevitable In the near flu
ture, that it could not possibly be
postponed more than two years to
come--a fact which is now admitted
even by such standpatters as Secre-
tary Shaw.
THE article had not the slightest
reference to Governor Cummint,, nor to
his candidacy for re- election, of which
we We're not then aware; nor was it in
the slightest discussion of the merits
of the tariff question. The use that
has been made of 1t is most gross
perversion of it's intent and meaning.
and evidently for the purpose of lead
ing the farmers of Iowa to believe that
am opposed to Governor Cummns'
denomination. The very reverse is
true. l most earnestly hope that he
will be renominated and reelected.
The very fact that the opposition to
Governor Cummins comes mainly from
two of the great railroad corporations
which have always been active in the
effort to control the politics of the state
should open the eyes OF every farmer
who has the welfare of the state or
nation at heart No nation under
heaven gives the artificial person
known as a corporation the right to
vote or take, any part whatever in the
affairs Of government. No state ever
permits this. Why then should cor
poration undertake to control the poll
tics of this state? Why should the Of
fcers of that corporation use the
away from the people the right to de-
eide who shall govern?
1T is a monstrous assumption of
power, which should not be permitted;
and the very fact that these two cor
porations are moving heaven and earth
to down Governor Cummins is suffi-
cient reason for every farmer to vote
for him.
81 am glad to say that with these
two exceptions the other railroads in
the state seem disposed to let the peo-
pie of Iowa govern themselves and de-
termine who shall be their candidate
for governor. These two corporations
should be taught that they must either
keep out Of politics or else the farmers
of Iowa will be compelled to take
stand for government ownership.
1T is natural that Governor Cum
Minis should have the opposition of
these railroad influences which aspire
to control Iowa politics. Few govern
ors have stood so firm for those re-
forms which the farmers Of the state
and of the west have been demanding
1t is seldom in a conflict for nomfna-
ton that the lines are so clearly drawn
between corporation Influences on the
one hand and the people-and especial
~ the agricultural interests-on the
other Champions Of the farmers in
terests are not so plentiful that we
,an spare any Of them. Without dis
Of the personal qualities
If the other candidates, it would seem
10 me especially unfortunate if the
farmers Of Iowa should permit Cover
nor Cummins to- be defeated for re-