Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-12-16
Senate Regulars Join the Cannon
Organization to Fight Insurgents

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 it, 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 Burrfll and
| Prince, who were in the audience. |
was rather forced into the situation,
and went to Cook, urging him to go
| back on the stage.
mo, | don't want to get into any
unseemly controversy; it isn't nee
| essary,' 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
finally he was led out on the stage,
The crowd applauded his reappear
ance.
| Now. said, addressing tho audi
ence, Is Fred Barrill here?'
about six feet four inches of .
huge, strapping lumberman whom
had never seen, numbered and rose
in a seat close to the platform.
".Are you Barrill?' l asked.
q am, was the reply.
Is this the man who acted as your
) guide on the Mount Mckinley trip J.
! asked, turning to Doctor Cook
Yes, it is, he replied rather
, weakly.
Barrill,' | said, did you go to the
top of the mountain?'
} "'No, we went about one-third oi
? the way up, and took some pictures,
he replied
Then turned to Prince, and went
t through the same catechism with him
!, and Cook. Prince told the same story.
, Nobody who heard them, and saw the
! work 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
a tain at all, and these men declare that
e nobody else ever did; they don't be-
e leve anybody ever will Now, l
o haven't any doubt whatever about
h Cook He never scaled that mountain,
and he never went to the pole, and he
: will be proved a faker in both cases.
y He needed the money and he wanted
h the notoriety, and he figured" that he
3 might be able to get away with the
e fake; that's all there is to it. Out in
a. our state he practically ran away from
u his accusers; he would have run away
from them entirely if he hadn't been
u practically forced to face them for q
n few moments; and he lost his case
le with everybody
L, Edward A. Mosely, secretary of the
he interstate commerce commission, il
te the most devoted union labor man il
III the public service. The charge i.
Id constantly made by non-union people
~ that Mosely will have none but unior
men in the division of safety applianc,
he inspectors, of which he is the head
as and Mosely always admits the charg'
or and defends his position; and he al
ways carries his point, too.
Mosely is credited with having /;
la big share of influence in convincin,
er the railroad voters that Taft deserve,
ne their support. The other day he wen
Dis to the White house to see the pres
I'd dent, and on leaving a friend askc,
on after his health
" Never better" replied Mosely
MT you were mighty sick about tw
nd years ago." observed the friend "bu
IS, seem to be better than ever now
in yes" replied the secretary, II al
re- firm believer in the brotherhood {
he man and in all good works, and n
.er malicious animal magnetism ever gel
,n- action on me-
a "Um' yes" replied his friend, "bt
I guess you're a still more devoted b,
he lever in the Brotherhood of Loc'
70 motive Engineers
no j. G. Welliyer.