Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-08-05
What Claim Has Carol Upon progrss.
sives' Support?
Dubuque Telegraph.


The republican candidate fol
governor of Iowa is B. F. Carroll, 6
standpatter. He was indorsed in the
primary over Warren Garst, candi.
date of the progressives. Back ol
Carroll were all the federal office.
holders, the railroads, the othe,
forces which for seven long years
have been striving to destroy the
influences OF Gov. Cummins, and
put Iowa out of step with its pro
gressive sister states. Carroll beat
Garst by virtue Of superior organi.
zation and more money.
Warren Garst is patriotic citi-
zen. Like ,ex-Governor Larrabee
Abe Funk, Senator Cheshire, Tom
Healy, Speaker Clark, and others
whose names stand out prominently
in Iowa statecraft, he Joined with
A. B. Cummins seven years ago in
N effort to destroy railroad control
of the republican party in Iowa, and
thereby railroad control of Iowa.
These men had to fight the Carols,
the Blythes, the Hunters, the
Youngs, the Hubbards, the Harts,
and more like them. They had to
tight one of the greatest railroad
political machines that ever held a
party enmeshed and a state in
bondage-had to fight the same
sort of foes that LaFollette Tough,
in Wisconsin.
It cost these men heavily in time
and energy and money to make the
fight, but it is true of crusaders that
their personal sacrifices must always
be heavy. They did not fight alone,
for there rallied behind them many
thousand republicans and some
thousands Of democrats. The vary
ing results of that fight are known
of all. An unheard of thing was
done when men took office without
the consent of the railroads. More
things unheard of were accomplish.
ed when a state railroad commission
that for 20 years had, at the behest
of Iowa railroads treated Iowa ship.
pers contemptuously; gave heed to
shippers grievances; when corn
growers and stock raisers' equitable
demands were granted in part; when
railroad and other property taxes
were more nearly equalized; when
the corrupting pass was abolished,
the corrupt party caucus made i'm
possible, and the fare for passenger
travel reduced. These were unheard
of reforms because they were right
eous reforms.
A corporate enemy never quits
fighting. 1t plays politics as a
science before, after and all the
time between elections. Its puppets
are constantly responding to the
pull on the strings. So the railroads
and tho federal pap suckers and the
advocates of special gratis kept ul
the war on Cummins and his follow.
ers. Unable to defeat him for the
party nomination for governor in
1906, they determined to beat him
at the polls by voting for his
democratic opponent. The Siou,
City Journal, Geo. ID. Perkins pap.
er. openly bolted him because Of
Perkins personal hatred for Cum.
Minis. Papers that did not openly
bolt-the Cedar Rapids Republican
the Burlington Hawkeye, the Der
Moines Capital, the Council Bluffs
Nonpariel, the Waterloo Reporter
the Dubuque Times-Journal, etc.,
became bushwhackers. Too coward,
ly to fight the progressives IN the
open, they damned Cummins will
faint praise. And although, as the
Cedar Rapids Republican and ths
Sioux City Journal subsequently,
averred, more than 10000 standpa
republicans had voted against Cum
Minis, he was elected, and the,
were the votes of progressive demo
Gratis that elected him.
The railroad political machine
the federal pap-suckers grown gra,
at the trough, and the special in
terest grafters never quit fighting
as has been said. They kept up th'
war on the progrvssives, and whel