Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-10-27
Issued on Friday of Each Week
An Outside Opinion Of Hausen.

Iowa, like any other state in the
union is interested in its influence at
Washington. A state is well repre-
sented when it sends body of men to
congress who cal be classed as repre-
sentative citizens. Not alone demo-
Gratis but republicans, as well, have
spoken in recent years regarding the
mediocre class of men sent to congress.
The greatest and richest agricultural
state in the union, the state of least IL
literacy, the state of progress, Iowa
should have men in congress that would
be properly representative of the state;
Iowa should have men in congress-
whose influence would be felt in the
nation. Yet, where is the Iowa con-
gresham who stands out above the
very ordinary men? 1t is not in the
senate that Iowa is poorly represented,
but in the house.
And the poorest representative Iowa
has in the house of representatives, the
poorest representative that Iowa has
ever had in the house has been there
for eighteen years-and is still offering
his services. Reference is made to the
Hon. Gilbert N. Haugen of the Fourth
District. If there is stick in con-
gress, it is Haugen. If there is a man
in congress, of lesser influence than
Haugen, his name has not come to the
surface. Haugen does not represent
the progress of Iowa; he does not rep
resent the intelligence of Iowa. He
has no qualification that entities him to
consideration as fit representative of
Iowa. He has been in congress for
eighteen years and leaders in congress
do not know he is there. If he ever
had an idea, it has not come to the sur
face perhaps because he could not ex-
press it. Ask voters of his district
what he has done as congressman and
they do not know. Ask them why he
is there and they do not know. Ask
democrats, ask republicans. and the
answer is the same. If democrats say
Haugen is misfit, republicans readily
agree, without argument. Haugen
suits the republicans of the district bet
ter when he keeps still-and this is the
only commendable thing about Haugen,
he has sense enough tokeep still. After
eighteen years in congress, Haugen has
no more influence than the man who
mops the floor.
Several times the republicans of the
district have expressed their desire at
the ballot box for change in unmis-
taxable fashion. Several times Hau.
gems majority has fallen off thou
sands of votes; once he won by but a
few hundred, showing that from 1000
to 5000 republicans were DESTROYS Of
having democrat represent the dis
trict in preference to him. 1t should
have been notice to Haugen that he
was not wanted in congress by the re-
publicans. Notice to give some COM
petent man a chance. But it had no ef-
feet upon him. He comes back every
two years asking for more. There are
many big men in the republican party
who would creditably represent the dis
trict and Iowa in congress, but Haugen
sticks. It would seem this year there
il good chance to get rid of him and
the republicans probably have in mind
to try once more. He does not intend
to give any other republican chance;
that is plain. The only way to get rid
of him 10 to defeat him ut the election.
This year the parties were never SC
near together in matters of general
policy and the democrats never put uE
better candidate than Carl Evans Of
West Union, . man Of superior qualifi
cation and unblemished character, whom
Any republican might vote for without
unrest to conscience. Waterloo Times
Tribune.
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