Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-05-26
CARROLL IGNORES
lOWA'S Interests
GARsT COMMITTEE ANSWERS
THE GOVERNORS MA
NILLA SPEECH.
CARROLL FOR ALDRICH
His Silence on the National Issues AZ
fecting State of Iowa is so Con-
strued by the Committee.

1dISl -DolllNeI N<ulilllililS IloSISSSINC
republican committee, in an interview
has we'll analysed Governor Carrolrs
Manila speech
Chairman Fleming is of the opinion
that the governors logic is poor, and
his arguments We're weak because he
has q weak case and is on the wrong
side"
He takes especial exception to the
governors assertion that affairs In
Washington are none of his concern.
Chairman Fleming points out that tho
postal savings bill and the railroad bill
are measures which means dollars and
cents to the people of Iowa, measures
which if put through as the Aldrich
faction wish, will give the railroads
more power and serve to take more
money out of the pockets of the Iowa
people,
The governor is supposed to have the
interest of his people at heart, asserted
Chairman Fleming, and he says if Gov
ernor Carroll did have he would ex-
press himself on these big questions
surgent congressman who are laboring
valiantly to defeat certain vicious sec
tions of the measures.
Points to Senator's Fight.
Chairman Fleming takes up the fight
being made by the Iowa senators for
an amendment to the interstate COM
merce commission law, giving the SOM
mission power to compel railroads to
submit proposed increase in rates to it
before making them effective.
To illustrate the workings of this bill
as it now stands, he points out that
the railroads have already put in big
increase east of the Mississippi and
may soon put in a 90 per cent increase
west of the MissiSsippi
1t is to prevent just such increases
as these that Senators Cummins and
Dolliver desire the giving of added
power to the commission, and, Chair
man Fleming says it is to prevent any
such restriction in the making of rates
that the Aldrich- Cannon faction are
fighting the senator's proposition.
He shows by actual shipments that
under the proposed increases Iowa
shippers would pay $3.50 more on
shipment of 4 hundred hogs from Sioux
City to Chicago and eighty-nine cents
more an acre for shipping shelled corn
from Atlantic.
He goes into every claim made by
Governor Carroll in his speech, and
comments on them as follows:
Facts Against Carroll.
Governor Carroll's address at Ma
nilla is probably as good an argument
as any man could make with such a
weak case The reason that it does
not impress the public more favorably
is, because of the fact that Governor
Carroll is on the wrong side and the
facts are against him.
When Governor Carroll started his
campaign two years ago he made
speech at Cambridge, Iowa, which he
mover repeated. In that speech he at
tackled the work of the Executive
Council during the previous years
when he was member of that body
He predicted all kinds of disasters to
the financial interests Of the state gov
eminent and used the following Ian
guage: If all the appropriations auth
orized or expended during the present
biennial period there will remain more
than s550,Oo0 unprovided for. all of
which will have to be carried over until
the next biennial period" At the end of
the fiscal period to which he referred
there was in the general fund of the
state $S06,190.26. Therefore Mr. Car
rolls statement was wrong to the ex-
tent of over s1,sE0.ooo.oO. Some parts
of his Manila speech are not entitled
to any more credit or considera ton,
although the errors are not so great.
His Logic Cnnvicts Himself.
Governor CAROLS attempts to make
1t appear that his administration is
better than that of his predecessor be-
cause the income of the Pharmn cy
Commission has been greater during
the year just closed than it was dur
ing the preceding year If he will re-
fer to the condition OF the office of
state auditor and to the receipts in
the insurance department from insur-
| ance licenses and insurance taxes, he
| will find that during the year ending
January /, 1910, which is the first year
| of Auditor Bleakley's administration
| as state auditor, that the receipts were
S12,360.S6 greater than they were under
| the last year of Carrolrs administra-
| ton as state auditor.
| Mr.. Carroll tries to prove that there
| was crookedness in the pharmacy com
mission office because the receipts were
| about $4,000 greater last year than in
| the previous year. If tho increase of
| $4,000 in the receipts of the pharmacy
commission proves that the previous
| management of the pharmacy commits
| sion was guilty of crool1edness and
graft, then by the same line of argu-
| ment it would be fair to say that the
| Increased receipts Of the insurance de-
partment under Bleakly by over $12,-
| 900 proves that Carroll's management
| of the auditors Office during the last
| year of his administration was twice
| as bad as that of the pharmacy COM
mission during the previous year
| Growth of business Responsible.
| The fact of the matter is that any
| one familiar with the conditions knows
! that it is not a case of crookedness or
| graft in either department Tt is simply
| a matter Of natural legitimate increase
| of business in both departments, owing
| to the good times and growth of the
| business.
| This is a fair sample of the logic
I! which has been used by Governor Car
| roll in his Manila speech. 1t only
| needs to be analysed to show it's weak
| ness.
The governor speaks of his being en-
| titled to credit for the enactment OF
| the law establishing the State Board
| of Education to have charge of the
| State University, State Normal School
| and Agricultural College Anyone IA
| miliar with Iowa Legislation knows
| that this proposition was threshed OUT
| for two or three sessions of the leg
islature before Governor Carroll was
| inaugurated and that the members OF
| the last legislature We're so thoroughly
| committed to the proposition that II
| would have been impossible for him
to have defeated the bill il he had
| tried.
aCrroll Measures Fall.
He made special effort last winter on
| two measures that were his pets and he