Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-20
Dolliver's Post-Convention Dec
laration Concerning Associ-
ate Brought to Light
MANY THINGS NEED EXPLAINING
Junior Senator to Be Confronted by
Several Unexplained Declarations
Whom He Returns to Iowa Cam
paisn-closs Relations Between
standpats and Democrats Revealed.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican,.
Des Moines, May 20-When Senator
Dolliver returns to Iowa next week to
close the campaign for Allison, he can
employ some of his time explaining
some things he said in the state COM
mittee headquarters the night after
the election in 1906, which have thus
far not been printed, but will be given
to the public right now in order that
Dolliver may have an opportunity to
deny them If he wishes to. Just be-
fore Delivers visit to the state house
last month to tell how 81 passed the
rate bill" he was accused of having
promised in the state committee head
quarters that from that time on he
was with the progressives and would
be with the governor, and how he took
down the telephone from Frank p.
Woods desk and called up Governor
Cummins and told the governor the
same thing over the telephone. Sena-
tor Dolliver never denied in any Of his
public addresses here on his last visit
but that he made those statements.
There were several people in the COM
mittee headquarters who heard him,
and are ready to make affidavit to that
effect.
When Senator Dolliver entered the
headquarters that night" said State
Pharmacy Commissioner Bert Keltz
today. 'he said. Boys, 1 want to con-
graduate you on the magnificent VIC
tory, and want to assure you that I
well understand that the rascals were
after me as well as after Governor
Cummins. and I want to assure you
that from this on am with you. Then
he asked where the governor was, and
reached over and took down the tele-
phone and telephoned the governor
practically the same thing. After that
he sat in the committee room for long
time and went all over the campaign
i'll this state.
He talked about the passage Of the
rate bill in congress and took all the
credit for it to himself. Among other
things, he told us that Allison and
Aldrich stood right together on that
rate bill and said that Aldrich was
white with rage because of the pass
age of the bill and because of Dolli-
ver's activity for it.
But the thing that impressed me
most was when he said that old I'm
Gle William was continually pulling at
my coat tails with great avidity to
hold me back, and l had continually
to keep putting props under the old
mans arms to hold him up on the rate
question: giving us clearly to under
stand that Allison was not with him in
reality, and that he had to support
Allison to keep him right on the props
osition.
Then he went all over the cam
paign in this state and told how in his
home county he found that the farm
ers were all wrong, and but for the
fact that he had gotten Tom Healy
and others into an automobile and
travelled over the entire county making
speeches, the republican candidate for
the legislature would have been de-
feated, and as it was he got thru by.
a small majority. He said that wher-
ever they could get an audience Of
five or six together, they talked to
them"
While Mr.. Keltz gave this interview
w. B. Hanes, vice president of the
American Life Insurance Company,
and others, of this city, stood by and
corroborated the statements Of Mr.
Keltz.
Politicians see now some reason for
Dolliver spending two hours as he did
in his speech in this city telling about
himself and what he had done In
Washington to pass the rate bill
while he gave but thirty minutes or
less to Allison and devoted that to
dealing in generalities. Possibly when
Senator Dolliver returns to the state
next week he will be more specific
and will tell why he so unqualifiedly
promised to support Cummins for the
senate in 1908 without any quallfica-
tjon as to Allison and why he should
have told less than two years ago that
Allison was weak on the railroad
rate question and now is supporting
him for a seventh term of forty-two
wears for the United States senate.
julius Cassius Burrows, OF Michigan,
will not come to Iowa to speak for
Senator Allison in the campaign now
being conducted. Burrows is the SEN
ior senator from Michigan and it has
been variously advertised in the
standpat newspapers of some days ago
that he or some other outside senator
would speak in Iowa for Allison. This
information was given out in Des
n1,ipt nf the Nilsson
headquarters Now the press dis
patches say that the selection of Bur
rows as temporary chairman of THE
republican national convention Is
displeasing to President Roosevelt ard
the standpatters who have been claim
ing that Roosevelt Is standpatter
along with them must either cut Bur
rows off from coming to Iowa or else
sacrifice the fiction that Roosevelt Is
with them as Q standpatter. They