Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-18
j. L. Meals, of the Bryan Volun-
teers. Makes Statement After
Investigation
DEMOCRATS WON'T TAKE PART
Meals Says His Party Members Will
Refrain From Participating in Re-
publican Contests in Primary-iowa
to Take Part in Protest Against Rail
Rate Raise. i
Special to Times-Republican.


Des Moines, May 1s.-"Governor
Cummins will defeat Senator Allison
by at least $1,000 votes at the primar-
les on June g." said T. J. Meals, sec
retary of the Bryan volunteers move
ment in this state. Mr.. Meals has
spent the last two weeks in northern
Iowa. II have attended Cummins'
meetings and Allison meetings. con-
tinued Mr.. Meals, and / believe Cum
minis will win at the polls. l want to
say this, however, that the democrats
are not going to vote for Cummins or
Allison either one. They are not going
to participate in the republican pri-
maries.
II have held meetings all over nor
thern Iowa and whenever have point
ed out to the democrats that If they
vote for a republican on the republi-
can primary ticket that cuts them out
of voting for any democrat have sue
ceeded in stopping all intention of the
democrats mixing in the republicans
primaries. You see every democrat is
interested in having a large democratic
vote at the primary so as to show the
strength of the party even If there Is
but one candidate out for each office.
Suppose the republican strength of the
state is 100000 and the democratic 150.-
900. If the democrats voted at the re-
publican primary they would swell the
republican vote and make it look as
tho there were no democrats left in
the state and then at the election all
would be disheartened and the party
ticket would suffen.
'1f the primary law was such that
the democrats could vote for a repub-
lican candidate for United States sem
ator and then select from the rest of
the candidates on the democratic tick
ct they might in large numbers vote
for republican candidate for United
States senator.
II want to tell you that A. ]. An
ders of Oelwein is easily to be the
democratic nominee for congress in the
third district He will defeat Geiser,
the Charlie Miller candidate. three to
one. l held some meetings in that dis
trict last week and know what am
talking about"
Mr.. Meals left today for southern
Iowa where ne will hold democratic
meetings in the reservation and will
organize further Bryan Volunteer clubs.
The Des Moines Commercial club
has made arrangements to join in the
vck f13a vsoi G
the freight rates by ten per cent The
letter of Judge Cowan. attorney for the
Cattle Growers Association and other
inform alton as to the intention of the
railroads to raise their freight rates
has thoroughly aroused the business
men here for they fully realize that
when the rates have once been raised
that it will be very difficult to get
them reduced again. Furthermore 1t
has been estimated by experts that the
increase of ten per cent will mean an
increase of at least $1O0000,000 which
the west will have to pay to eastern
railroad corporations.
The claim of Senator LaFollette
made in his three days speech on the
rate question in the senate when the
rate bill was passed in 1905 that the
railroad question was not settled and
in fact only begun, has come home to
the people of Iowa partly because Of
the pretension of Senator Dolliver that
there was never any very great de-
mand for a change of the rate law and
partly to this action Of the railroads
in raising their rates.
In his address Senator LaFollette
told the senate that the bill they were
about to pass would never settle it. He
pointed out that the bill provided
power to the Interstate Commerce
Commission to make rates equitable as
between localities and persons but
gave the commission no authority
whatever to fix rates reasonable as
concerns the great body of the people.
the consumers, who in the end pay the
freight. But with Aldrich and other
New England senators leading and
Dolliver and other Iowa congressman
following meekly behind, the senate
could not be induced to give the ad-
ditional power to the commission. Now
the country is face to face with the
problem. The railroads can raise the
rates all over the country fixing them
at any inquire llley WISH anu eAAo SoAii
mission is powerless to make any re-
duction so long as the rates do not
discriminate between communities and
persons.
There has been considerable interest
here in an article appearing in the last
Saturday Evening Post on the Last
Stand of the Boss. 1t gives some his
tory on the rate legislation of congress
and makes the claim that Allison was
responsible for getting a broad court
review clause thru at the behest Of
Aldrich when the president wanted a
limited court review clause only.
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Special to Times Republican.
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