Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-11
PROGRESSIVE DEFIANCE IS 1HuNDEReD

FnUCnES DEFiANCE ID thUNUEn6U
The journey of Iowa's two senators
5000 miles each form the storm center
of a fierce conflict at Washington to
Des Moines and a greeting extended
them by an unprecedented audience
exceeding 10000 people in the great
coliseum were fair barometers of the
density of political atmosphere at this
time. The cause of progressive repub-
licanism which is the cause Of insurg
ency in the nation received a tremend-
Gus boost at the rally in Des Moines
Wednesday evening There it was
made clear and proved up by Senator
Deliver that the fight of the regular
leadership of both parties at Wash
ington is the struggle Of corporate
wealth and special interests to retain
power in the hands of their personal
representatives and it was made clearer
still by Senator Cummins that not only
was the endorsement of Iowa for its
senators absolutely essential to sustain
the leaders Of insurgency at Washing
ton. but that this endorsement included
both control Of The state convention
and the nomination Of Warren Garst
for governor as well as progressive
candidates for congress.
Dolliver came with the papers and
official records 10 prove that tariff
schedules for fifty years past had been
written by the special interests affect
ed and he defined insurgency as a
protest TO this sort of thing. He ex-
posed the iniquities of tariff schedules
so written. proved that the regular
senator's were not only representing
trusts but actually appeared in the
boards Of directors.
He defed Attorney General Wicker
sham. who had spent all Of his profess
g:onal life in the service of corporate
wealth, 70 read him out of the republic
can party He had nothing but sym
pathy and pity for the hopeless en-
barrassment in which President Taft
has involved himself.
Senator Cummins was defiant. He
told how the railroad bill had come
to the railroad committee of which ne
was a member and Aldrich the chair
man and was presented az an admins
tration measure with the announce
ment by Mr.. AIdrich that no amend
ment of any kind would be permitted
to be heard in the committee Cum
Minis asserted that Of all the members
Of a large committee not single sem
ator excepting Aldrich, who had die
tated the bill, Senator Clapp an insur-
gent, and himself had even so mucu as
read the bill anr yet the majority of
the committee voted to report it out for
passage without permitting a single
amendment to be heard. Then he told
of the section which repealed the Sher-
man antitrust law and made it pos
sible for all the railroads in the coun-
try to get together in an agreement as
to rates which the people must pay,
without submitting their rates to any
public tribunal for approval Exposure
Of this section by Cummins in the
senate had put the Aldrich crowd to
rout and the people seemed to be thor
oughly informed as TO it
AS to the tariff there was the plainest
of defiance thrown at the administra-
ton in the following language:
Il, for one, do not, will not and dare
not attempt to make the people of the
United States believe a lie. We have
gotten too far in this country towards
better and higher things to warrant
any man to deceive, or attempt to de-
ceive, the American people with respect
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traordinary session Of congress.
1T was not a fair and honest ful+
fillment OF our pledge. and no man with
self respect will so avow before the
American people,
Senator Cummins' arraignment Of
the Aldrich leadership was a MASTER
piece of temperate. judicial but never