Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-26
AGRIcUETURIsT SHOWS NEcEs-
sITY FOR NEW DEAL ON
RAIL COMMISSION
MUST REVOLUTioNIZE
PERSONNEL AND METHODS
Wallace Urges Farmer Republicans to
Support Thorne and Ottosen for
Board Members-Thorne Assured of
Nomination = Real Fight Between
ottosen and D. j. Palmer.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines May 26.-AIn the issue
of this week Wallace's Farmer, comes
OUT with the most aggressive state
ment yet made in regard to the neces-
sity for new deal in regard to rail-
roads in Iowa. The voters are urged
TO secure a new railroad commission
and to effect revolution in the per-
The voters are urged to support
Thorne and Ottosen for commissioners
as the only effective way of gaining
control. 1t is pointed out that there
ahe two places to fill and it will be
necessary to elect two who are in
harmony. Wallace's insists that in all
probability Clifford Thorne will be the
high man in the game and that the
real fight will be between Colonel
Palmer and the second man on the
progressive slate. Wallace's is conf
dent that the only man who stands
any show of beating Palmer is Chris
Ottosen. of Humboldt county.
The contest on railroad commission
tention as at first but the campaign is
being prosecuted with much vigor in
some parts of the state. There is no
question hut that Col. ID. J. Palmer is
making the most thorough canvass for
the place and that he will probably
reach IL much larger number of voters
than any other with appeals for sup
port. In his sixteen years on the board
h., 1,ns "a Il
they will all be reached
Mr.. Thorne has done some speak,
ing in the state and starting off with
shippers he will undoubtedly be NOM
mated 70 rthe place. Mr.. Ottosen has
also gone at the matter Systematically
and his vote will be enormous. Both
are progressives concerning whose-loy-
atty there has never been a question.
Both are we'll fitted for the position. The
Endorsement given them by Wallace
Farmer will mean 4, good many thous-
and votes for them and is more than
likely to land them in the places.
As TO What is being done by Fergus
son, Wilson. Sitz and others on the
ticket but little is known here. Wilson
is sure to receive q large vote from the
old soldiers because he is as we'll
known in G. a. r. circles as anyone in
the state. 1t is said that the commit
tees Interested in the general fight for
control of the state are taking no part
in the contest for railroad commits
sioners orxother officers.
" 80 a-#
Is the president of the United States
paying off the grudges of Secretary OF
War Taft and Secretary of War Root
because Senator CumminS. while gov
ernor forced the war department re-
luctantly and sullenly to yield to the
demand of Iowa soldiers for justice to
the fallen heroes of Shiloh?
Is the persistent and almost bitter
fight 50 long waged by the small coterie
Of war historians to falsify Iowa war
history to be followed by an equally
mean fight to falsify civil war history
insofar as it relates TO the correction of
the war records?
These are questions being asked by
prominent old soldiers of Iowa anent
the letter which the politicians induced
Taft to sign undertaking to tell how
it came about that the war department
was not permitted to place on the Shi-
loh monuments an erroneous statement
as to Iowa history.
There are two views-one that Gov
ernor Cummins was the man relied up
on by the Iowa Shiloh commission to
fight thru to finish their case against
the war historians at Washington: the
other that Walter l. Smith, assisted by
a few of his congressional associates
really did it all. Not until this cam
paign was under way did the Smith
theory ever come to the surface. The
record of the Iowa Shiloh commission
gives the true history of the matter
and the commission, including in its
personnel war veterans who had long
been political opponents of Cummins,
gave to him the major credit, which it
is now sought to deny him.
One of the members of the commits
sion points out the fact as slgnlhcant
that in order to accomplish this little
measure of justice to the memory or
Iowa soldiers, Governor Cummlns de-
voted four or five years. that he made
more complete preparation for the work
than he perhaps ever made for the
most intricate lawsuit. and that as a
matter of history he compelled re-
opening of the case two or three tunes
and forced President Roosevelt virtual
~ to overrule the secretary OF war
That there We're some sore spots left
in and around the war department Is
certain That they should some time
break out was regarded as propaDie'
But some of the, Iowa old soldiers. as
they think about the matter are be
coming just a trihe resentful that a
second attempt should be made 10 fals-
ify Iowa history and especially that it
\, u, ~
dicates that it may be little else than a
getting back" at Cummins for his part
in fighting the legal battle for the
Iowans.
Trophy Cup Field Contest.
Special to Times Republican.
Logan. May 2S.-A spirited contest