Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-30
"Doctored" Picture, Which Sen
ator's Opponents Did Not Cir
cuIate, a Good Likeness
ONE FRIENDS USE 20 YEARS OLD
Ailison's Likeness Circulated on Cam
Paisn Literature Made From photo
graph Taken Twenty Years Aeo-At-
tempt to Make Campaign Material
Gives Scheme Away.
Special to Times-Republican

Des Moines, May 30.-While the
Cummins campaign managers havi
had nothing to Go with the circula-'
ton of pictures of Senator William
B. Allison as charged by the Allison
people, yet persons friendly to Gov
ernor Cummins candidacy have had
something to do with sending pictures
of the veteran senator over the state.
A group of Des Moines Cummins
agency bought up all the extra copies
of the Des Moines Tribune of few
nights ago containing two pictures Of
Senator Allison and these have been
sent out over the state to friends in
every county to be used for election
purposes. The Des Moines paper
sought to expose what it termed fake
picture of Senator Allison. 1t printed
two pictures of Senator Allison on
it's front page. 1t charged that one of
them was a genuine picture Of Sena-
tor Allison and charged that the other
was a picture made from the first and
was being circulated by the Cummins
people. 1t charged that the Cum
minis people had taken the genuine
picture of Allison and "doctored" it
to make the veteran senator who is
approaching so years of age look much
ali md hos r1 ho 1lHy
Is.
AS matter Of fact the two pictures
showed very plainly that one was not
pmade from the other for they showed
different poses with different positions
of the head, but looked very much as
tho they were both made by the same
photographer at the same sitting.
There is scarcely any difference in the
age appearance of either picture. But
what the ,Des Moines newspaper claims
is the genuine picture of Allison as he
appears today shows him to be so
much older and more haggard and
wasted than any of the pictures the
campaign managers have been circu-
lating that the whole thing is consid-
cred a joke on the Des Moines news
paper.
1t is now thought that the Allison
managers have made a very bad mis-
take in circulating during the cam
paign pictures of the veteran senator
taken many years ago. These pictures
are used on his campaign button and
on his literature and have been used
to bolster up the claim that tho 30
years old he is still in the vigorous
health of a man many years younger.
The publication in one of his own
newspapers of an authoritative pic
ture as he appears now is giving the
people reliable information on that
point.
Des Moines business men and some
other business men of Iowa outside Of
Des Moines are proposing to go down
to Washington and start a suit before
the interstate commerce commission
that will put a stop to the proposed
advance in railroad freight rates. They
are laying the foundation for one Of
the rudest awakenings yet. After they
are thoroughly awake they should read
the three days speech of Senator La
Toilette on the railroad rate bill that
passed congress two or three years
ago.
Recently when the proposition of the
railroads to raise rates everywhere be-
gan to be agitated Commissioner Glenn
ents of the interstate commerce COM
mission gave out an interview in which
he pointed out very plainly that the
interstate commerce commission had
no authority whatever to prevent an
increase in railroad rates The commits
sion was accused of consenting to the
proposed 10 per cent increase. Commits
sioner Clements pointed out that there
was not vestige of legal authority
for the commission to consent or dis
sent The commission simply has
nothing to do with it. He pointed out
that if there was a discrimination and
one community or one merchant was
enjoying a rate that was not allowed
to another community or another mer-
chant the commission could step in and
lower one of the rates or raise the
other and thus remove the discrimina-
ton but that it had no authority to
fix rates otherwise and that the rail-
roads could make them as high or as
low as they wished for all of the COM
mission.
Since then Commissioner Lane has
given out an interview in which he
SAYS the same thing.
When the rate bill was under dis
cussion Senator La Toilette of Wis
consin proposed an amendment that
would permit the commission to really
fifx rates, an amendment that would
empower the commission to decide on
the reasonabeness of a rate aside
from the question of discrimination
1t is to be noted in the Congressional
Record that Senator Dolliver of Iowa
voted against this amendment and
Senator Allison-didn't vote.
Furthermore Senator La Toilette
pointed out in his speech in congress
that the bill was weak for that rea-
son and that the railroad rate prob