Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-06
SHAMEFUL ABUSE OF SENATOR
ALLISON

The October Cosmopolitan maya
zine. which is said now to be owned
by William Randolph Hearst. publish
ed an article written by David Graham
Phillips under the title of "The Trea-
son of the Senate" in which Senator
Allison, of Iowa, is held up to the exc
Grafton of the people of the United
States, as man who has accumulated
vast wealth, by being untrue to the In
terests of the people. 1t is indeed sur
prising that any publication would
permit such stuff to appear in its
columns. The author of this outra-
geous calumny states that Mr.. ALI
son is multi-millionaire and one of
the richest men in the state OF Iowa.
Everybody knows that this statement
is falsehood. and this being the pre-
mise upon which this muckraker
starts out to villify and misrepresent
1owa's senior senator, 1t is practically
unnecessary to give the article further
consideration. Referring to this arti-
Gle, Hon. John Mahin, now of Evans
ton. ILL.,, and for fifty years editor Of
| the Muscatine Journal, writes the
editor of the Courier as follows:
Evanston. ILL.,, Sept. 20, 1905.
A. w. Lee, Editor Ottumwa Courier.
Dear Sir: l have read the screed of
David Graham Phillips, (whoever he
may be-, in the October Cosmopoli-
tan magazine against Senator Allison
and agree with you that 1t is wholly
unjust1fable and that it will arouse
intense Indignation among those who
who know the senator. have known
him for forty years and have closely
observed his political career. l can
testify truthfully that Senator Allison
has kept himself clear of all gratis
and money making schemes that have
scandalized some other men in like
positions of political influence The
pretended citations in the Phillips ar.
ticle are plainly Misrepresentation
And when Phillips stys "Allison is now
credited with being the richest man in
4 Iowa." we all know that he illustrates
the saying Of Artemus Ward-"it is
better not to know so much than to
know so much that isn't So" In like
manner is his statement quoting the
u Cedar Rapids Gazette under the man.
agement of the late Fred Faulkes as a
"staunchly republican" paper. These
manifestly false statements demon
strate that the Phillips assault upon
Senator Allison is based upon tissue
of falsehoods. The attempt to dis
parage Senator Allison because he IA
vored land grants to open railway
communication with our. Pacific coast
shows the ignorance of this writer OF
what public sentiment demanded a
generation ago, when political parties
We'd with each other in acceding tc
these demands. The fact that this
writer sees no good in any of the
statesmen of the present day, suggests
the remark of Emerson that some PEG
pie "seem not to see that their opinion
of the world is also confession Of
character" They would under like
conditions do the mean things they
. accuse others Of doing. It was Wen
dell Philips (not David Graham Phil
, lips) who said "the world is divided
into two classes-those who do things
and those who stand by and grumble
because the things are not done il
some other way" And it was wei
said by Byron IA man must serve his
time at any trade save censure-crit
les all are ready made" In fact. it Is
, the easiest thing in the world for ;
fault finder to find fault But Senate,
Allison will be remembered and honor
ed when David Graham Phillips ha.
+ passed into merited oblivion.
John Mahin.