Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-10-20
A FINE ADDRESS
Hon. E. G. Dunn Pleases A Big Au-
dience Saturday Night.

Hon. E. G. Dunn Pleases A Big Au-
dience Saturday Night.
The democratic meeting held last
Saturday evening brought out an audi
ence that completely filled the court
house hall and nearly every chair was
occupied by voter, very few ladies'
being present and scarcely person
under voting age, and every one re-
manned to the end of the address.
The meeting was called to order by
Representative Kull who introduced
the democratic candidate for congress
from this district, M. E. Geiser of
New::Hampton, who spoke briefly on the
Importance of weighing carefully the
merits of the candidates and their poll
!, cies and then voting as ones best judg-
ment dictated and closed with the
statement that he trusted that his
election or defeat will be the result of
an honest expression of the convictions
| of the voters and if such were the case
in the latter event he would have no
regrets or complaint.
E. G. Dunn was next introduced and
made an eloquent and convincing adj
dress. Mr.. Dunn left the ranks of the
| farmers of the state to engage in the
promotion of a farmers cooperation
movement in the state with especial
reference to the elevator business. He
is also interested in the banking busi-
ness in Mason City, and these two
business interests added much weight
to certain parts of his address and have
'lgiven him considerable inside informa-
tion concerning the tariff and It's rela-
lions to the farmer, railroad rate regu-
lation and guaranty of bank deposits.
j His opening remarks were chiefly re-
garding the measures upon which near
lily every republican and every demo-
crat in Iowa are agreed-the election
of senators by direct vote of the peo-
ple, the physical valuation of railroads
as a basis for railway vote regulation,
publicity of compaign fund contribu-
tions BEFORE ELECTION, and a
revision of the tariff DOWNWARD.
He described the scene on the floor of
the senate of the United States when
he witnessed the vote on the questions
of electing senators by direct vote OF
the people and for the physical valu-
alton of railroads, and heard Aldrich
vote no" on both these measures and
followed by every republican senator
present except LaJ Toilette who
voted with the democrats. This state
ment of the speaker brought forth
hearty applause.
He characterized the railroad rate
| bill as not worth the paper upon which
it was written and said that Congress
man Haugen, who publicly calls atten-
ton to his vote in favor of this bill as
to his credit, should be ashamed of his
vote for bill which simply gives the
inter state commission authority to
make RECOMMENDATIONS, and
with no power to enforce them, and
the railroads may adopt or reject the
recommendation as they choose. Mr.
Dunn also stated that he was present
in Chicago when one of the officials Of
the G. ct. w. Ry., testified before the
interstate commerce commission that
his road was Incorporated on basis OF
$l4O, 900 per mile, and only short time
later, the president of the road testi-
fled that the road was worth only
$28, 600 per mile. Yet sthey were ask
ing and were granted the charging OF
rates which would enable them to
make profit on sum five times the
actual value of the road. What .
strong argument here exists for the
physical valuation of railroads, meas
ure defeated by republican congress,
and by the recent republican national
convention, but which is endorsed by
Mr.. Bryan and the democratic party.
Every man who pays freight, every
shipper of grain or stock (Which in
cludes the farmers directly or indi-
rectly) helps to pay dividends on lin
the care of the Ct. w. Ry.) SIP, 00o
valuation which does not and never did
exist. Figure the saving to yourself
under DEMOCRATIC rate regulation.
| Referring to publicity of campaign
contributions he stated that no man
lhaving case in court would permit his
opponent to present couple Of thou
sand dollars to the jury which was
hearing the case, and that it was fool
ish to expect that the party that was
the beneficiary of contributions from
/ trusts and predatory wealth would not
favor the donors. Continuing, he re-
ferred to Governor Hughes who ia
being paraded as the reform governor
of New York and a man of purity in
lpoitics. Mr.. Dunn charged, upon in.
formation direct from the parties ap-
Iproached, that Gov. Hughes sent his
emissary to Tammany to purchase its
|vote for him that the deal was
spurned, but that-the trick was turned
in Brooklyn and that Hughes, the in.
corruptible, is governor of New York
by these means.
Mr.. Dunn's remarks on the tariff
were necessarily brief, but touched
upon the tariff mainly as it affected
, the farmer. Steel rails made at Halle.
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