The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-07-20
An INFAMOUS LlE.

SIX MONTHS. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. O.lU
AN INFAMOUS LIE.
There is one SANDER which has been
going the rounds of the insurgent
press which ought to be refuted and
stigmatized as it deserves. 1t is the
statement that because southern Iowa
is stalwart republican some undue in.
auence has been used by the G. b. &:
@. railroad; that the republicans OF
southern Iowa are not men in their
own right, that they are not honest,
but that they are subservient tools OF
9 corrupt railroad system The in
dictlment is sweeping, embracing as
it does thousands Of republicans, farm
ers, laborers, merchants, as we'll as
those of the professional politician"
class. According to the insurgent
press the majority of the republicans
of southern Iowa are either ignorant
sboors led about by the nose by de-
signing politicians, or they are them
selves rogues who have sold their birth
right for mess Of pottage.
Why do not these critics look along
other railroad lines? Is it not a fact
that almost every county along the
line of the Illinois Central railroad is
insurgent? Out of twenty-five coun-
ties traversed by the Illinois Central,
nineteen went insurgent and six stall
lwart. The six stalwart counties we're
Dubuque. Woodbury., Monona, Craw-
ford. Harrison and Pottawattamie, all
of them counties having a NUMBER of
other railroads and in which the Illi-i
nois Central is hardly a dominant in
fuence. Now this is all Tommy-rot,
The Illinois Central had nothing more
to do with the nineteen counties going
insurgent than the Burlington" had
with majority of the southern coun-
ties going republican. Further, If any
thing more is needed to establish the
blind Stiffness of the attack upon the
republicans of southern Iowa, it is that
insurgency in strongest in the towns
OF that section, while it is among the
farmers that old-time republicanisln
has its strength. Page county is often
cited as an awful example Of railroad
influence, yet we know it to be fact
that in Page county, Clarinda and
Shenandoah are the hot-beds of in
;surgency while the country precincts
are almost solidly republican. The
lawyers, the real estate men, the ed
Sitors, If you please, generally live in
the cities. These are the men who
are generally supposed to be most
subject to the Wiles Of the corporation
villain; these are the men from whom
the ranks Of the so-called s'profes-
.sional politicians are recruited Ii they
are recruited at all. Yet the figures
will show that in southern Iowa 1t is
In the towns that insurgency has pros
pered, while the honest farmer has
stayed by the old-time party. How
does that tally with the theory Of
railroad control? If the insurgent
press is prepared to admit that the
Illinois Central is responsible for the
insurgency in northern Iowa, we will
admit that the Burlington system is
responsible for the republicanism Of
southern Iowa. Otherwise, we would
denounce it as q malicious, untruthful
and sland erous libel against thousands
IOf men who have made southern Iowa
one Of the garden spots Of the state
and the. center OF an upright, highly
educated, Christian citizenship which
cannot be excelled by any other sec
ton Of Iowa. It is not only allie, but 1t
is mean lie, lie that, for the sake
OF arOusing factional prejudice, would
Islander thousands of splendid citizens.
We mean this personally and spe-
.cifically for the Times Republican of
Marshalltown, its papoose, the Coun-
Gil Bluffs Nonpareil and any other pa
pers which circulated this infamous
libel.
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