Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-10-08
Voted Against the Railroads.

Voted Against the Railroads.
L made the minority report and led
the hight against an appropriation of
millions of dollars in land and money
to be given to the two great railroad
companies entering the City of Wash
ington to aid them in building de-
pots and e~levating their tracks. And,
though defeated at first, it was due
to the fight | led that in the end we
reduced the appropriation a million
dollars and gave the present magni-
hcent Union Station to the City of
Washington. Had Mr.. Hadley made
such a fight in any representative
body he would now be posing as a
builder of the station and calling up
on the public to erect his monument
in the place it adorns.
81 made the minority report and
led the fight against the bill increas-
ing the capitalization of the WASH
ington Gas Light Company. Nine
million dollars, without any cores
ponding benefit to the people of that
city, and, notwithstanding it was a
Republican Congress and the measure
%supported by every Republican but
one upon the committee, it was de-
feated.
When | went upon the Committee
on Post Offices and Post Roads the
Government was appropriating about
$25o,ooo for rural free delivery. |
served six years on that committee,
a portion of the time a member Of
the subcommittee that framed the
greatest appropriation bill that comes
before Congress, and during my ser
vice the rural free delivery grew
from a handful of carriers to an army
and the appropriation for that service
from $2so,ooo to more than $2o,ooo,- |
900, l did my part i'll giving to the
farmers of Missouri and the United
States the benefit of a daily mail,
and every traveller over Missouri
roads may find a monument to that
work in the humble boxes before ev-
cry farmers house.
What Would He Have Done?
"Had Mr.. Hadley taken an equal
part in such a work he would today
be posing before the people of the
State as the father and founder of the
system. But when he challenges me
TO give reasons from my record why
i should be selected to this Office in
opposition to himself, | do not need
to answer him in my own words. |
do not need to follow him through
his flights of vain-glorious Boosting.
He and I were both in the service
of Jackson County from 1000 to 1902;
/ as a member of Congress, he as
Prosecuting Attorney of that county.
Nineteen hundred and two was not a
presidential year; there were no ma
tionai questions to take the minds OF
people away from local issues; there
was no enthusiasm for a presidential
he had then the opportunity of voting
for the man. Kansas City has given
majority to every Republican Pres
with III exception since the
Civil War. Two-thirds of the time
it elects a Republican to the Office of
Mr.. Hadley made the campaign
for the Republican ticket in 1902,
the campaign for the Democrat
lc ticket; he stood upon his record,
on mine, and the people whom we
both had served, the people of our s
home who knew us both, the people
who were better able than any other {
10 decide upon the value of our ser
vice, elected me by 6,235 majority and
defeated him by 3,647.
Mr.. Hadley says | was defeated
Tor Congress in 1904. He knows full '
we'll that in that campaign as chair t
man of the Democratic Congressional :
| spent but five days in |
NY district, giving my entire time to {
duties of my position at head '
in Washington and in New
York. He knows, too, that in a fit t
Of temporary insanity that year Mis- ,
went Republican and ten Mis- =
souri, Democrats were compelled to t
yield their seats in Congress to Re- '
'ublicans, largely because of the pop !
of Mr.. Roosevelt and the I'M q
of Mr.. Parker. But when
calls attention to the fact that in :
landslide | went down with better !
men | call his attention to the fact /
hat, notwithstanding | made no cam '
,aign, | ran 1000 votes ahead of the :
rational ticket in Jackson County and
ed most of the local ticket by a like
majority.
Sewer-Pipe and Trusts. |
Posing as a trust buster, Mr.. Had !
ey selects Walter S. Dickey of Kan /
las City as his campaign manager. No C
iewer pipe is sold in Mr.. Dickey's ?
erritory except such as comes from '
lis plants, and since by some device he c
yained control of all the factories in e
hat territory, and his competitors +
'erv generously decided not to inter-
ere with him. he has more than {
doubled the cost of every foot of pipe :
hat is laid in that portion of the '
States. A trust-busting cam {
,aign managed by Dickey and an !
campaign managed by
Stiefel presents the climax Of false
,retense in politics.
"Mr. Hadley left public office as a
'esult of the campaign of 1902, but
lie retired to the. more lucrative posi-
ion of attorney for the Metropolitan
Railroad Company and the NJ,
(. & T. road. l have no fault to find I
With him for such employment. 1t !
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