The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-23

Tribune, edited and published by John
C. Kelley, lifelong Democrat and
who served as revenue collector for
northern Iowa under appointment Of
the late President Grover Cleveland.
makes an elaborate attack upon the
political record OF Lafayette Young,
candidate for the United Statss sen
ate, and charges that he has opposed
every forward movement In the his
tory OF Iowa since he began to take
an active part in public AFFAIRS.
The Des Moines Register and
Leader, with the holy zeal OF the
modern uplift Crusader, gives the
Sioux City Tribune tissue of misrepre-
sentation conspicuous place upon
| its editorial page-in face OF the fact
that the editor of The Register and
Leader was an ardent defender OF
LATE Youngs political record In the
years when he was editor Of the Al
COMA Upper Des Moines.
For the benefit OF those who might
be misled by the Sioux City Tribune's
screed and in order that the memory
of The Register and Leader may be
given a bit Of timely refreshing we
shall ask the indulgence of readers of
the Des Moines Capital in order to
call attention to few facts from the
record.
BY no less a distinguished authority
than United States Senator Albert b.
Cummins. Lafayette Young has been
characterized as an original and stead
fast anti-monopolist Of this state. Sen
ator Cummins in s speech at the Audi
forum in this city four years ago.
/ said that Lafe Young had as much to
do in framing, shaping and passing
| the legislation to bring the railroads
under proper control as any man liv-
ing. The audience to whom Senator
Cummins made this remark numbered
at least three thousand people. Sena-
I tor Cummins certainly ought to be a
good witness so far as the Sioux
j City Tribune Is concerned.
/ LATE Young was = member OF the
state senate of the Fifteenth, Six
tenth. Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
| Twenty-first and Twenty-second gen
eral assemblies.
The present laws In control of rail
roads were passed by the Twenty.
second general assembly. Mr. Young
was chairman OF the committee on
railroads in the senate. The state
senate adopted the house bill in con
1 troll of railroads. The house bill was
framed by Captain Luke of Franklin
county. It was based on the lines Of
justice and stands as an honor to the
memory of Captain Luke Mr.. Youns
with others agreed upon Captain
Luke's bill and they put it through
the state senate The railroads 81
the time considered this unfriendI.
Legislation. In the course OF tim,
they came to feel that 1t was wis,
legislation for them as well as for tn
people. Every good law in control Q
railroads was enacted by the Twenty
second general assembly except tn
. 2-cent fare and the anti-pass.
Mr.. Young introduced two-cen
fare bill. but neither the house no
the senate committee pushed the
, cent fare bill because they conclude
that 1t was too early In the history Q
!, Sthe state for such a measure The
did not desire to do an injustice t
the railroads.
Mrs. Young's course as an ant
!. monopolist in the Twenty-second an
preceding general assemblies an
his course in standing by the prohib
tory law caused him to be defeate
! for the state senate at the time Of tn
first election OF Horace Boies to tn
, office of governor.
LATE Young was chairman OF tn
committee on mines and mining 1
the state senate and through his IL
fluence all the early legislation 70
, the protection of coal miners wa
adopted.
II Lafe Young was In the general al
sembly when the State University G
2 Iowa was made real university.
the addition Of the various depar
ments. Not being college man hin