Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-04
DO|L|YER Slips
IN RECENT SPEECH
Claims Regarding EARLY Activ-
ity in Freight Rate Prob
lem Denied
SENATOR SLOW TO GET IN FIGHT
Question Had Been Agitated Long Be-
fore Junior Senator Became Active
Participant-GiIbertson Emphatic
ally Denies Story That Brewers
Contributed to cummins Campaign.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

Special to IimeS-Republ1can
Des Moines, May 4.-Senator Dolli
yer put his foot into it when he said
in his Iowa speeches the past week
that there was no agitation of the
freight rate problem until 1904, and
anyone. The statement of Senator
Dolliver has received challenges from
scores OF sources, and it not only has
been discovered that the only year in
Iowa when there was nothing done by
the state convention was the year the
standpatters controlled in 1904.
More than this, Senator Dolliver
can be shown to have been opposed to
the proposition as late as the early
part of 1905. On Dec. 80, 1904, the Des
Moines commercial exchange wrote
letters to the members of congress
from Iowa asking them to take up the
problem and do what they could to get
some legislation giving the interstate
fix rates. To this letter the various
congressman and senators replied,
most of them answering briefly that
they would do what they could. Sen
ator Dolliver answered at greater
length in letter that brought down
the wrath OF the Commercial Ex-
change upon them. His letter was in
terpreted as meaning that he was not
in favor of giving the commission that
power and that the law as it stood was
sufficient He pointed out that the
determinations between localities
could be remedied by the commission
taking the matter to the nearest Unit
ed States court.
There is other evidence that Dol
liver was opposed to the law till late
date, and did not catch the voice of the
people till about the eleventh hour,
when he suddenly took the leadership
and got considerable credit for putting
the bill thru the senate. Now that
Senator Dolliver has called attention
to the matter a great many are able
to show that attention was being called
to the rate bill early and often. res
olution on the subject was introduced
by Senator Trewin in the senate, writ
ten by Ex-Governor Larrabee quite
early Every report of the interstate
commerce commission mentions it, the
house committee held hearings that
.lled 5OO-page book, and farm pa
pers and newspapers and commercial
bodies were active calling attention to
it.
Gi1hartSnn fn.
day denied that he had received from
! the brewers $4,000 or $50,0O0 or any
other amount for the Cummins cam
paign of two years ago. Governor
Cummins has denied that he received
it, and Garst has denied that he re-
ceived it. Senator Jameson, of Shen-
andoah, a democrat, said it was $780,
900. Dave Brant, of Iowa City, says
$4,000. Others say other amounts,
there being considerable conflict among
themselves.
But Dave Brant says he can pro-
duce the checks to prove it. Concern
ing this Mr. Gilbertson said today:
.'They have no checks, otherwise they
would have sprung them long ago.
The checks would settle the contro-
versy. Let them produce the checks.
OF course they won't do it. They will
continue to circulate the campaign lie,
however, in the hope of injuring Cum
minis. We are paying no attention to
their claim, simply because we know
it is a bluff on their part. The thing
for them to do is to produce their
checks and settle the matter.
II can say, too, that we would feel
more disposed to pay some attention
to the charge if it came from republic
ans. 1t comes from democrats. how
ever. Senator Jameson is democrat
and has always been. Dave Brant has
been a democrat since the last cam
paign, when he bolted the ticket and
voted for Porter and urged others to
do the same The campaign now on is
between the republicans to determine
who will be the party nominee. Why
nav any attention to the democrats
now? After the June primaries are
over with, and the republicans nave
determined who their candidates will
be. it will be time enough then to
look after the democrats
The state executive council will is
few DAYS relative to the notice of the
primary election which the primary
law requires the auditors of the coun-
ties to give to the people. 1t is under
stood that some of the auditors are
planning on having facsimile OF
each of the party ballots published as
a notice, just as the sample ballot foi
the general election is published prior
to the November date thereof The
executive council does not regard TINS
as necessary 1t will instruct the aud
itors that all that is necessary Is iof
them to have published the lists OF
candidates in the order that they VIII
appear on the official ballot at the
primary. ;.
If the former method is followed ii
will take four pages of newspaper
to print the facsimile OF the ballots