The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-07-07
SENATOR DOLLIVER TURNS ON
THE LIGHT.


from his place in the senate chamber
has just given us very complete pic
ture of the republican party. Mr.. Dol
liver is to be complimented upon his
;gameness equally as much as upon
the clarity of his vision, and it is a
matter of some delight to democrats
to know that here is one republican of
standing and position who can see. his
own party as others see it.
Senator Dolliver is no subordinate
of republican politics. For twelve
years he was associated with organic
alton in the house of representatives,
and for ten years he has represented
the great state of Iowa in the United
States senate. He is man of power
full physique, and so far in life has
been able to give a pretty good ac-
count of himself in all sorts of argu-
ments. His accomplishments of the
past are dimmed in the mighty task
he has cut out for the future. Senator
Dolliver proposes to clean out the
rottenness in the republican party; he
proposes to reform the political ma
chinery that gave the country its
present army of national statesmen
Aldrich, Cannon, Taft, Sherman,
Payne, Dalzell and their machine as
sociates. Our first thought and most
ferVent wish is that Iowa's big, brave
son might be successful in the effort.
He knows, from intimate association
and inside connection, how much
there is to do and what he will en-
counter. In a speech that echoed
through the republican cloak room at
Washington, this Iowa statesmen told
MS that for the coming congressional
election the republican party has:
"A campaign committee presided
over by multi-millionaire street car
magnate, with a treasury filled with
rotten money, pouring out its steady
stream of muddy literature to defame
us (the insurgents). refuse to leave
the party to accommodate such po-
1itical hocus pocus as that"
Holding position of great trust,
no one would expect Mr.. Dolliver to
leave the party responsible for the
condition he describes, but there is
no reason why the people should
linger near that cesspool. We shall
probably hear more about that treas
ury filled with rotten money when
the fall campaign opens, for the dirty
stream will then be used to defile the
democratic candidates for congress.
But to continue with Dolliver. Hav-
ing paid his respects to the congress
sional end of the republican party he
gave us a peep at the executive man
sion. There to, he must have found
rotten conditions, for he said:
Il share the universal disgust of
making great executive department
the headquarters of the awkward
squad of politics.
Dirty money and patronage are two
sof the things the Iowa man must
fight if he would put the republican
party in a position responsive to the
will of the people. And his determin-
:ation to make the fight is voiced in
the concluding sentences of his great
speech in the following words:
Il am through with permitting
few people to use all the power of
government for their own interests!
will fight that evil, but as republic
can. do not care what my political
fate may be. My quarrel is with the
modern method of money making. l
believe they will destroy our republic
can institutions
In the foregoing, is presented a
very good picture of the republican
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lips of an eminent republican, who
knows something about the subject
he is discussing. 1t is frank, clear and
refreshing. The country's quarrel,
like Mr.. Delivers, is with the mod
ern method of money making. But
the republican party and that method
are inseparable, and Senator Dolliver
can no more defeat it from within
the ranks of republication than he
could turn back the Niagara River
AIN those things, of which the Iowan
complains, are the fruits of a re-
publican administration of govern
ment; of the protective tariff and
special privilege policy of the party.
The hope of the party is in the
mocracy.-Nationa Monthly.