Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-14
DIXON ATTACKS COOK
MONTANA SENATOR DECLARES
EXPLORER is A COLOSSAL
FAklR,
SAYS COOK DID NOT ASCEND
MT. M'kiNLEY OR REACH POLE
Dixon Acted as Mediator at Meeting
at Which Cook and Barrill Were
Brought Face to Faee-peclares
Cook Needed the Money and Wanted
the Notoriety.
Especial .correspondence.l

Washington. Dec. 14.-Senator Jo-
seph Dixon, of Montana, is the arctic
expert of the upper chamber He
knows all about the Cook-Peary con-
troversy. understands the Mount Nc
kinley controversy, and declares his
unqualified conclusion that Cook is "a
monumental faker."
1t seems that when DR.. Cook went
out to Montana to meet Burrell and
Prince, his Mount Mckinley guides,
and face them and their charges in
their own home. Senator Dixon was re-
CURED to act as moderator at the town
meeting which sat on the matter at
Hamilton. That experience convinced
the senator that Cook was a fraud
He had told down east" said the
senator today. that he was going to
face and denounce the men who
charged him with not getting to the
mountains top. Well he appeared to
make his speech, and the house was
damned. What he really did was to
deliver his regular north pole lecture
and then TO devote about two dozen
words to reference to the contro-
versy about Mount Mckinley, and to
say that he regretted II, but that any
how Mount Mckinley wasn't the pole.
That didn't satisfy the audience,
and when the Doctor left the stage
they insisted that he face Burrell and
Prince, who were in the audience. I
was rather forced into the situation,
IN
back on the stage
No. don't want to get into any
unseemly controversy; it isn't neces-
sary, replied Cook.
But you've got to go on and meet
these men, or your whole case fails
insisted
Cook didn't want to do it; but fin
ally he was led out on the stage. The
crowd applauded his temperance.
Now l said. addressing the au-
dience, Is Fred Burrell here?
About six feet four inches of huge,
strapping lumberman whom had
never seen, unlim bered and rose In a
seat close to the platform.
Are you Burrell? asked.
am was the reply.
Is this the man who acted as yo,,r
guide on the Mount Mckinley trip?
asked, turning to Doctor Cook.
Yes, 1t = is he replied rather
weakly.
Burrell-' said. did you go to the
top of the mountain
No, we went about one-third of
the way up, and took some pictures,
he replied.
Then l turned to Prince, and went
thru the same catechism with him and
COOK. Prince told the same story. No
body who heard them, and saw the
weak and seemingly unwilling protest
which Doctor Cook made, had any
doubt about that part of the affair.
They never got to the top of the noun
tain a all, and those men declare that
nobody else ever did: they don't be-
ileve anybody ever will. Now, haven't
any doubt whatever about Cook. He
never scaled that mountain, and he
never went to the pole, and he will be
proved faker in both cases. He need
ed the money and he wanted the no.
toriety and he figured that he might
be able to get away with the fake:
that's all there is to it. Out in our
state he practically ran away from
his accusers; he would have run awav
from them entirely if he hadn't been
practically forced to face them for
few moments; and he lost his case
with everybody"
Edward A. Moseley, secretary of the
interstate commerce commission, is
the most devoted union labor man in
the public service. The charge is con-
stantly made by non-u union people that
Moseley will have none but union men
In the division of safety appliance in
spectors. of which he Is the head and
Moseley always admits the charge and
defends his position; and he always
carries his point, too.
Moseley is credited with having A
big share of influence in convincing the
railroad voters that Taft deserved their
support. The other day he went to the
White House to see the president, and
on leaving a friend asked after his
health.
Never better" replied Moseley.
you were mighty sick about two
years ago. observed the friend, "but
seem to be better than eyer now"
YES" replied the secretary, 81 am
a firm believer in the brotherhood of
man and in all good works, and no
malicious animal magnetism ever gets
action on me-"
"Um. yes" replied his friend, "but /
guess you're a still more devoted be-
lever in the Brotherhood of Locomo-
| tive Engineers"