Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-11
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Hubbard ~t the 18th District
Defines His Attitude in No
Uncertain Words
HE ALSO FAvoRs W.. H. TAFT
Asked to Define His Position by w. E.
Hamilton. Hubbard Removes All
Doubt as to Where He Stands-Pro-
eressives Win Big Victory in Tama
County.
Special to rim-s-Kepub.icar,.

Special to Timcs-Repub!tcarl.
Odebolt. Feb. 11.-All doubt as 10
the alignment of Congressman f.. III.
hubbard, of the Eleventh Iowa dis
declaration as to the men whom he
will support and the PRINCIPLES he will
advocate. Following the declaration of
two leading newspapers il Congress-
nan Corners district, anG the with
drawal from the congressional race of
Congressman Cousins AMI Birdsall,
the Hubbard letter is significant of the
trend of political sentiment in the state
and the growing strength Of Governor
Cummins in his candidac.; for the
United States senate.
w. z. Hamilton, editor Of the Ode
bolt Chronicle, recently wrote to
Congressman Hubbard asking him to
declare himself on the senatorial ques-
ton, and the letter and MI. Hubbard's
reply will be published in this weeks
issue of the Chronicle. The correspon-
dence follows:
HamiIton's Letter.
Odebolt, Iowa, Feb. 4, 1908. Hon. l..
II. Hubbard, Washington D. c.: Dear
Sir and Friend-l have no doubt that
you are earnestly in favor of the noml-
nation of Governor Cumnlins for SEN
ator at the primary in June, and that
the progressive republicans of the
Eleventh district can upon your
aid in their efforts to secure his sue
cess. Your attitude, however, has
been represented as either indifferent
or at heart in favor of Senate Alli-
sons reelection.
1t occurs to me mat 1t is not I'M
proper to request that you define your
position, so that the republicans of the
district and state may know your SEN
timent. l shall appreciate an early
reply and your permission to publish
the same. Your friend.
wv. E. HAM1LTON."
Hubbard's Reply.
Washington, d. c., e I, 1908.
Dear Mr.. Neutrality-suspicious. letter of
the 4th instant just received by me is
most grateful to me in is expressions
of friendship and confidence, and
gladly seize the opportunity to put my
position beyond doubt or question.
Were ! affected by nc other motive
than good faith and PERSONAL friend
-. 49, H.. 1, ,ac ~,
estly for a. B. Cummins for senator.
But, apart from any mere personal
consideration, l should regard his de-
feat at the approaching primaries as a
public misfortune.
Less thar ten years ago the politics
of our state were a bsolutely doml-
mated by railroad and corporation in
tluence. A man could scarcely run for
constable without consultation with
the powers at Cedar Rapids n Bur
lington. The corporation cohorts gath
cred at every meeting of the legislature
and practically controlled legislation.
Conventions voiced their will. Judges
were appointed or elected at their be-
hest. Sheriffs, boards of supervisors,
and every man of place and influence,
were the recipients of their bounty in
the shape of mileage books and passes.
Their influence, if not all powerful, was
so potent that it was always sought
and courted.
"The first man in the state of Iowa
to rebel against this power was A. B.
Cummins. He has fought the fight of
the people against these influences and
with their most bitter and increasing
enmity now for ten years n more.
He has at last been successful; so
much so that l think it nay be said
that no state in the union is more
free today in all branches Of its gov
eminent, legislative, judicial and
ecutive, from the control of corporate
and moneyed interests than the state
of Iowa. The leader and pioneer in
this whole movement for freedom,
upon whom the whole brunt of the
fight has fallen, whose defeat today
would be marked in Iowa and the
ciples for which he las stood and a
demonstration of the fatal power Of
corporate enmity, Is A. B. Cummins.
"In the nation at large we are en-
gagged in the same contest. upon broad
err n more important issues, TO pre-
vent the associated power of wealth
from becoming destructive to popular
rights. Our railroads have fallen I'M
der the control of a few strong hands;
our Industrial system is following fast
along the path Of concentrations; COM
petition in large business affairs has
almost ceased as a regulating force:
the nations prosperity is made to rest
upon a shuttle Of the cards in Wall
Street. President Roosevelt has inaug-
a policy Of control which shall
put the hand OF restraint upon these
great forces and bend them to the
peoples will and the peoples good.
The hour is one Of economic revolution,
requiring in leadership men of rad
ical earnestness and conviction; men
who dwell with the future, not with