Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-06
DoLLIveR AND cuMMINs.

DOllNER AND CUMMlNS.
AS Cummins had his Gilliland, so
Deliver had his Foraker. In the SEN
ate yesterday Senator Dolliver right
eously exasperated by the batting of
railroad senators, charged openly that
railroad presidents. This brought
Senator Foraker to his feet with fine
show of indignation demanding names
and specific instances. Dolliver de-
clined to supply these and Senator
Foraker, having made his bluff safely
under the courtesy that forbids one
senator to give another away, subsidized.
1t is irresistably remindful of the
governors charges of lobbyism and the
frothing indignation of Gililand. I'm
like Gilliland, Senator Foraker refrain
ed from resolutions that, like Gilli-
lands would put the standpat leaders
into frenzied activity to square
criticised for not naming the lobbyists
at Des Moinesi Will Senator Delivers
refusal to specify lose him the undivid-
ed heart of George d. Perkins?
Dolliver was telling the truth. No
doubt of 1t. So was Cummins. No
doubt of that either. Both men knew
whereof they spoke. Every senator
knew Deliver was right as every Iowa
legislator who, is permitted to know
anything knew the governor was right.
Who would the senators created and
owned by the corporations, consult if
not the managers of the corporations?
Why were they created? Without any
places and persons. Perhaps he might
not have been able to prove all his as
sertion conveyed. There is differ
ence between absolutely knowing
truth and establishing it against cum
ming and perjury. And this is as true
in Iowa as in the District of Column
bia.
Truth in politics and business lies at
the bottom of we'll. There are those
whose business it is to roll the water
and obscure the facts when publicity
peeks over the curb. Men tell the
truth in confidence and alone and lie
out of it in public. But 1t leaks out.
Few transactions are so secret but
some one knows and tells. Mems pr-
vate and business lives become open
secrets the sort that many know ana
few or none will swear to.
When Cunmins said the railroads
were using money in Des Moines, every
one believed it. 1t is hard to prove just
how and where one man paid the
price of another mans honor. 1t is
not hard to trace the "wad carrier to
the seller o., the seller to the "wad car
rier,. but it is extremely hard to see
thru two-inch door the price pass
from one hand to the other. Still that
such things have been done every COM
munity has reason to know and to re-
greet An agreement between a COVER
nor and two railroad attorneys where
by the privilege to peremptorily chal-
lenge Apprentices to the United States
snate was conferred, would be hard to
prove, but there are men who know
it has been done. 1t would be hard |
to prove what high official engineered
a deal hoping to stop the prosecution
of Tom Dennison in Iowa; it would |
prominent attorney but there are few |
men in Iowa who know.
Senator Dolliver is making the first |
great fight of his political life, for the
people Governor Cummins, since his |
advent as a leader of progressive sem
timent in Iowa, has carried on just
waging. He has had the corporations
against him as Dolliver has them OPP
posing hina. Cummins was arguing
rate regulation and stalking his politi-
cal life against corporation domination
when Dolliver was resting easy. Dol
liver has Just begun to fight and as his
passion rises, to the fray he fights like
Cummins.
1T is a pity that Senator Dolliver
finds it advisable, in his own mind, TO
oppose for governor the man who for
five years in his own state has led the
skirmishers and stood on the firing line
in the battle Dolliver is now waging
in the nation. These men should be
staunch allies Since Dolliver took up
the fight for rate regulation he has be-
come great man. He has won the
confidence of the virile west that loves
virile man and compelled the respect
of the interests that fear an honest (
fighter. He is standing at Washington
for the things Cummins stands for and |
has stood for in Iowa. In this he has
the vigorous and unqualified support of