Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-29
hrely to{the unseemly way in which
you sought to destroy the statement

you SouSpy TO destroy the statement
mat was offered in support of the reg
Hatlon A rarely challenge any mans
motive and until now have not chal-
enged yours, for in everything have
Ia1d have assumed that you faithful
" represented the views with which
Tou entered the senate. / am trying
10 convince the voters of Iowa that
men with environments such as yours
ought not to hold public Office, for the
obvious reason that corporations
mould not make the law, but should
be regulated by the law.
venture now upon the proof that
your letter to me is not in good faith
but is intended to aid the men who
Ire opposing me for denomination.
First, have been giving my views
of your conduct at the time | appear
30 before your committee ever since
! returned from Washington. 1t has
been a part of probably fifty speeches
that have made all over the state Of
Iowa, and yet it seems not to have
come to your notice or excited your
Interest until now
Second, your fidelity has been re-
peatedly questioned from places much
higher than occupy for months past,
and yet you have been dumb as an
oyster. I believe am right in saying
that the governor of your state is re-
publican, and it would be natural to
expect that IL he desired to commune
cate anything to the senate of which
you are member he would select you
rs the medium. 1t appears, however,
that about a month and half ago,
when your governor desired to protest
against tyrannus practices of rail
roads in West Virginia, he sent his
complaint to Senator Tillman, and his
statement is so interesting that
quote it.:
1T may be that the Pennsylvania
Railroad company does not legally
ownga controlling part of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad company, or
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
company, or the Norfolk and Western
Railway company, but have no doubt
that an Investigation will show that
the Pennsylvania Railway company
practically controls these three grea.t
trunk lines, which traverse West Vir-
ginia, and which are the only means
whereby the products of this state, in
Guiding coal, can be shipped either to
the lakes in the west or to other mar
kets in the east Hence, it is a fact
that West Va. g1nia today is in the
grasp of a railroad trust which prac-
t,cally. says which part of the state
shall -e developed and what shall not
be de- oped; how much coal shall be
slipped out of the state, to what points
or ports it shall be shipped, and when
1t shall be shipped OF course, it
makes it's own rates, and we are help
less. The Pennsylvania railroad is
largely interested in the production
and shipment of bituminous coal. 1t
naturally will look after its own inter-
ests and the interests of the people
along it's lines in Pennsylvania and
elsewhere first of all. and therefore
The interests of West Virginia are
BEbordinated to the interests of these
others; and our railroads, upon which
We are dependent, are controlled by an
allen corporation, practically in COM
petition with u.s.
"On the day following the publica-
ton Of this letter from the governor
Of West Virginia to Senator Tillman.
hume, who justly occupies a. most
honorable station in the newspaper
world at Washington, wrote concern
ing you as follows:
This feeling was shown by the ex-
Sttaordinary interest which was man
Tested In the senate today, when T IL
man read a letter from Governor DaW-
BON, of West Virginia, which was a re-
anarkable document because it was in
effect a reputation of Senator Elkins
and his notorious devotion to the in
terests Of the railroads. 1t is not
often that a governor publicly takes
Issue with a senator from his own
Sstate but this is exactly what the
chief executive Of West Virginia has
done, and his letter is more than likely
to be an impelling cause in the direc-
ton of an immediate and sweeping
investigation of the relations between
all eastern trunk line railroads.
"On Feb. 10, 1903, the Chicago Daily
the incident mentioned in the preced-
Ing extracts, the first paragraph of
which quote:
SIT is something novel for a repub-
ican governor to appeal to the national
senate through the medium of a DEM
ccratic senator for the people of his
state when both of his own senator's
ere republicans. Governor Dawson
addressed the senate through Sena-
! tor Tillman in regard to the railway
ard coal trust that have West Vir
ginia by the throat, because he knew
the relations of Messrs. Elkins ana
Scott to that trust would cause them,
IL he sent his letter to them, to feel
more like burning it than reading it
to their fellow solons.'
Point to impeachment.
There is an impeachment upon your
integrity of more gravity than you
can possibly find in my speeches, and
vet I have not heard Of any letter
written either to the governor of your
own state or to the editors and pub.
fishers of the Chicago Daily Tribune
calling them to account for their in
distment for your failure faithfully to
represent the interests of the people
Of your state.
Elm the March number of McClure's
Magazine there is an article by Ray
Stannard Baker, who, as I have been
told !, was present at many Of your
hearings, in which there is a much
more graphic description Of the way
in which your examinations were
managed than / could possibly COM
lose. He assigns ex-senator Faulk-
ner to his true place, and among other
things says:
The downright final truth is that
this senate committee is railroad