Waterloo Evening Courier (Newspaper) - February 26, 1912, Waterloo, Iowa LEADING ESTABLISHED 1858 WATERLOO IOWA MONDAY FEBRUARY 261912 PRICE THREE EL ROOSEVELT WILL UOT til FOR Railways Are In Distress From Mississippi River to Denver I DRIFTS TEN FEET DEEP IN IOWA street Car Systems Gener ally Out of Business Schools Dismissed Des Moines Feb service in Iowa is demoralized today as the result of the blizzards which swept over the state last night The snow 1 driven bya strong gale piled in huge I drifts blocking trains and badly crip j pling street car service and other traf Every Train Very Late The blizzard started in the southern apart of the state and worked its way northward Law temperatures are re ported in all sections The officials of J the local Rock Island railroad office I announced early today that all 1 to operate freight trains on the Iowa 1 division of the road had been aban and that every incoming train I was many hours behind schedule The I two fast passenger trains on the Rock I Island from Denver were blockaded at Council Shifts last night for several j hours Train No 7 westbound also I was held up at Council Bluffs the op fearing to attempt to run it through to Lincoln Worst Storm In Years Only a few street cars in Des Moines were operated during the night and early today all the snowplows were I constantly in use Several cars were stalled in drifts in the suburbs for hours The worst storm of years was the statement of railroad dispatchers when I asked at an early hour today how were running The Northwest ern the Milwaukee and the southern I lines of the Burlington were reported as being badly hampered by the storm City Schools Close Clinton la Feb city schools were closed today because teachers and pupils were unable to get to the schools Drifts of snow were ten and twelve feet high In places Tipton Snowbound Tipton la Feb is s now bound today No trains arrived here or left the city this morning because of the heavy drifts Drifts Ten Feet High la Feb today is suffering from the most disas trous blizzard experienced in many years A heavy fall of snow nied by a wind whirled the snow Into great drifts which in places attained a height of ten feet The street railway system is complete ly tied up and t Is not likely that any cars can be operated today Schools have been discontinued for the day it being impossible for the children to proceed along the streets Business has also been practically suspended No attempts will be made by rural mail carriers to drive their routes Car System Paralyzed Burlington la Feb ton was visited by the heaviest snow storm of the season last night It amounted practically to a blizzard drifting steadily all night and ing the street car system AH trains from the west and northwest were from six to eight hours late and the branch line trains leaving Burlington were equipped with doubleheaders this morning Fall of Two Feet Cedar Rapids la Feb and street car traffic is effectually blockaded as a result of the heaviest snowstorm of this winter The wind piled the snow in huge drifts Business was practically suspended mis fore noon It is estimated about two feet of snow fell Traffic Suspended Ottumwa la Feb car traffic and retail deliveries were sus pended in Ottumwa today as a result of the storm The snow is a foot and a half deep on the level and three to four feet deep in the drifts Train No 8 the Burlington eastbound mail ar rived seven hours late and was stalled for some time here Train No 3 the westbound passenger was only ten minutes late Into Ottum wa but was delayed oy drifts In the cuts west of here Traffic on the branch line roads is practically suspended Trains Cant Move a Wheel Davenport la Feb of all kinds in this section was at a stand still on account of the heavy storm last night and this morning Trains standing on the tracks at passenger stations were unable to move a wheel Only two street cars had moved from the residence to the business district at 8 oclock There were no cars be tween the cities Snow was banked five and six feet deep In places This Is primary election day in Dav to chose candidates for city of fices The city attorney was appealed to this morning in an effort to secure a postponement of the election but it was declared to be impossible under the law Trains From East Stalled Denver Colo Feb sched ules on all railway lines entering Den ver are demoralized today owing to the deep snow The main trouble lies east of here trains from the west being re ported from three to five hours late while trains due from the east are stalled Union Pacific train No 103 from Kansas City due at oclock this morning is stalled somewhere near the Kansas line Colorado and Southern train No 1 due at oclock yester day afternoon had not reached here this morning Rock Island trains No 5 and No 27 due here at oclock this morning were among ers belated Burlington train No 15 from Kansas ROOSEVELT SATS HE WILL ACCEPT NOMINATION New York Feb will accept the nomination for president if It Is tendered me and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has ex pressed its preference is Col Theo dore reply to the letter of seven republican governors asking him to stand for nomination The eagerly awaited reply was giv en out last night at Colonel Roose velts offices here during his absence on a trip to Boston It was edly brief but definite New York Feb 24 tlemen I deeply appreciate your letter and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me expressing is it does the carefully considered convictions of the men elected by popular vote to stand as the heads of government In their sev eral states I absolutely agree with you that this matter is not one to lie decided with any reference to the personal preferences or in of any man but purely from the standpoint of the inter Continued on page 3 CUMMINS OFFERS NEW TRUST Measure Presented by lowan Embodies Trust Platform of Iowa Candidate For President Would Limit Size of Corporations Not to Interfere With Economy But to Give Competition a Chance Washington Feb trust platform of Senator Cummins of Iowa candidate for the republican nomina tion for president Is embodied in a which Mr Cummins introduced to day designed to strengthen greatly the governments antitrust powers The measure would provide what it Is claimed would bo the first authority to limit the size of corporations and to guard against unfair or ruinous com petition through protected undersell ing It would put into being a trades commission into which tho present corporation bureau would merged nil its present powers Purpose of Limitation Tho purpose of limiting corpora tions it la set forth is not to prevent tho operation of business In a big way with economy of production but to limit them in tho very beginning In a way as to leave room at least lor others of substantially tho same Magnitude in which healthful compe tition may be law would apply only to corporations cap at or more and not Interstate commerce common carriers That the present antitrust law would not be changed impaired or weakened Is made clear by a declaration that whatever Is unlawful under that law shall continue unlawful and that the Intent of the law is to create and maintain competitive conditions in trade to accomplish which It shall be liberally construed Trade The trade commission would be composed of three members to servo nine years each at a year and empowered to employ iners and tho like The com mission would Inquire into the orga of all corporations and into tho conduct of the of all corporations or persons in In commerce nnd to before tho department of justice for llon any violation of cither r law of Uwi people as a whole I will accept the nomination for If It Is to me and I will adhere to this deri sion until convention IIM ex preference One of tike for which I have stood Mid for which t now for which I have al ways endeavored and always endeavor to reduce to Ac tion in the genuine rule of the people therefore I hope that M far M possible the peo ple may be given the chance through direct primaries to press their preference an to ahall be the nominee of the re publican presidential convention Very truly yours Addressed to Governors The letter is addressed to The Hon William E governor of West Virginia Charles ton W Va The Hon Chester H governor of the state of Nebraska Lincoln Neb The Hon Robert P Bass or of the state of New Hampshire Concord N H The Hon Joseph M Carey gov ernor of the state of Wyoming Chey enne Wyo The Hon Charlen gov ernor of the state of Michigan Lans ing Mich The Hon W R Stubba governor of the state of Kansas Topeka Kan The Hon Herbert 8 Hadley gov ernor of the of Missouri Jeffer son City Mo The above named governors assem bled at Chicago two weeks ago and drafted a letter to Colonel Roosevelt asserting there was a popular de mand for him to be president again and urging him to declare himself as to whether he would accept the re publican nomination if it came to him unsolicited and unsought For two weeks Colonel Roosevelt considered the letter Indicating plainly that he had no intention of making a hasty reply Offers if Truth of Statements Made by Little Men With Axes of Their Own to Grind Are Verified William Galloway offers in gold onehalf payable to the Presbyterian Hospital and onehalf pay able to the Franciscan Hospital if anybody can prove that the statement which was made in the Cedar Falls Record Saturday February 24 1912 is true wherein it says that the speaker of the evening showed con how Galloway was owned and controlled by the catalog houses mentioned This statement is absolutely untrue I believe it Is a deliberate malicious downright lie concocted for the purpose of deceiving the people It hae no foundation whatever and any man who will produce evidence that our concern is owned or controlled by any catalog house on the face of the earth is hereby asked to produce the evidence or proof and when same Is produced and presented to our attorneys J E Williams Edwards Longley and B F Swisher the money will be forthcoming for the purpose above mentioned payable In gold The big bon fire at Cedar Falls the other evening biggest joke of the season The other day one of Black Hawk Countys wealthiest most progressive and uptodate farmers residing near Cedar Falls called at the Agricultural Club to see me and was apparently all worked up over the discrimination against our company at the Cedar Falls Short Course I him to tell me what it was all about and he said Galloway the International Harvester Co are trying to run that Short Course and the entire town of Cedar Falls but half the farmers of the community would not attend for that very reason It amused me and we both laughed at the situation I forgot all about it until I read the Waterloo evening papers and glanced at the glaring head lines which said Big Catalog Fire at Cedar Falls I glanced tiie head lines hurriedly and then down the columns because at first glance I thought Cedar Falls had gone up In smoke but on closer investigation found the fire was incendiary and was apparently started by a local representative of a Trust not a Cedar Falls institution at all This amused me again I have been in Black Hawk County for more than ten seen some funny things in that time but this is certainly the hugest joke that I have ever heard about since 1 have lived In the County but when one of my employes who lives In Cedar Falls came into my office this morning and handed me a clipping from the Cedar Falls Record in which they made the statement that a man by the name of Mr Boreman showed conclusively how Galloway was owned and controlled by catalog houses it passed far be yond a joke because this statement was a malicious deliberate downright lie evidently concocted for the pur pose of deceit because no catalog house on earth has anything to say whatever about the great Galloway policy and business tactics They do not own or control us in any way manner shape or form and the man who made statement and the paper that made that statement are either willfully ignorant or are malicious liars in either case dangerous people to do business with In the Cedar Falls Record item they made mention of how large catalog houses controlled every mail or der house and how they forced them out of business This is tommyrot Its bunk How does it come that our concern started in Black Hawk County only a few years ago with nothing and today have assets that run up Into the millions and doing business that also runs up into the millions I will tell you how It happened It happened by first finding out the true trade conditions then starting In to manufacture and sell goods on right principles Any man in Iowa can do the same if he will get busy use printers ink and advertise judiciously even if he were located out at Wilson Junction The great trouble is that Galloway is tramping on the toes of the Trust which hae been having its own way and bleeding the people of this country for years and they cant stand the pressure They know we are getting the confidence and trade of thousands upon thousands of farmers by our square dealing and our high quality of goods and our low prices and their policy according to this a tide appearing the other night is to get our wishbone at any cost Now as a matter of fact two eye witnesses told me this morning the total number of catalogs burned could be put in two bushel baskets and that they saw themselves in the bunch of waste basket junk that went into the flames four or five Saturday Evening Posts They also said the catalogs that were burned were out of date 1910 and 1911 books and that there were some farmers there who said if there was any 1912 catalogs they wanted them but they found none Murphy also said in his speech immediately following the fire Why bless you the catalog house dont need your help in advertising their business They have got beyond the point where you can help advertise them They are the biggest and most persistent advertisers in the whole world and while you have been sit ting idly by they have spread their advertisements throughout the land in various insidious ways He also said These concerns have not gained much of a foothold in the city and it is encouraging to know that the danger has been realized early and that measures win be taken to avoid it Mr Murphy evidently believes in his own preaching for this event has given the catalog houses the big gest advertising they have had in the county for years and I will wager that in two months the city of Cedar Falls and Black Hawk County will have more mail order catalogs in it than It ever had before in all of its history Mark what I tell you the sensible business thinking people of Cedar Falls had nothing to do what ever with this boys bonfire because thats all it was Just kids play and it will go down into history as kids play because from reports that we have received from fanners with reference to the Short Course etc the local octopus is trying to run the town under the guise of the Commercial club The article went on and stated that a genuine spirit of patriotism civic loyalty and pride was awakened in the people of the city All this by the simple burning of two bushel of out of date catalogues and about five Saturday Evening Posts according to the statement made by eye witnesses The genuine spirit of patriotism is a Joke A man would be a bird of a patriot to tlo anything that would interfere with the personal liberty of his citizens Whats all this noise about anyhow Hasnt a man a right to send for a catalog in this free country look it over and buy what he wants Dont the very face of the tactics attempted the other day In Cedar Falls show that the dealers and asso are trying to organize so they can put out of business the safety valve that is a necessity in commer because thats exactly what the catalog house is It is one of the things that has to be It is here and always be here Its a good deal like David Harum said about the dog He said A dog had to have fleas to keep him from forgetting that he was a dog Its the same way with business They have to have the catalog house for a safety valve against high prices or prices would go up so high that the boiler would bust But the little mail orl fellow with his little 5 per cent of the total business done comes In as a necessity and open goes the safety alve The prices are checked up controlled and governed As far as petting business is concerned that is largely up to the merchant himself I started In business in a town of fifty inhabitants The man I worked for in that town dil a business for fifteen miles around Why Just because he told tho people about what he had and made special bargains You might as well try to stop the flow of Niagara Falls as to keep the people back when there is a bargain sale on What the local octopus and the representative of the Iowa Retail Dealers association want to do is to fix the prices so that they can have their own way They failed as was evidenced by the big crowd that didnt come out in Cedar Falls Every manufacturer merchant or jobber In the States has an show if he only has brains vim and energy enough to go after his share push and advertise If he cant do that he had better go out of business and join the popular movement of hack to the soil Maybe some of the progressive farmers of Black Hawk county will give him a job as hired hand ami later on after he has learned how to farm right because It Is the best business in the world he can own and run a farm nnd thon watch him send for a catalog Cedar Falls fair one believe me look out for the octopus and the other fellows who were behind the cur tain in this fire the other day WM GALLOWAY lLK IS Wash Feb double was revealed today when the bodies of Mrs W Brown aged 24 and John Wilson wore found on the country road near a inert beyond the city limits both having boon clubbed to The husband of the dead wom an Haid his wife and Wilson had gone to Tacoma for the evening and it is thought they wore attacked by robbers when they loft cnr on their return ANOTHER SENATORS SKAT KIBE Washington Feb Heed of Missouri today Introduced In the senate a resolution directing an Inves Into tho election of Senator Dupont of Delaware GIVE OPINIONS English Operators and Min ers Seek Basis of Peace ful Settlement Feb is considered as the most critical day in the nego between the British coal opera tors and the miners who under the auspices of the British government are endeavoring to find the baais for a peaceful settlement of the controversy which threatens to involve nearly a million men In the strike The association of mine owners in South Wales and the executive corn of the South Wales Miners federation are to hold separate meet ings at Cardiff As they represent the stubborn elements much depends on he decisions reached Their decision t is expected will exercise consider able influence on the national confer ence of miners tomorrow Government to Take Hand It is reported in radical circles here today that Premier Asquith has de ermined in the event of a national coal strike that the government will take over and work temporarily all the coal mines and thus prevent a panic In prices Gov Johnson Says Thou ands of New Admiral Will Now Join Banks DEMOCRATS BENEFIT SAYS MACK Colonel Visiting in Boston Drops Literature to Take Up Politi standard So cigar Try AO Courier Want Ad Galloway Co Sues Lars Bla dine Editor and Publish er of Cedar Falls Daily Record Action for libel in the sum of was filed today by the William Gallo way company of Waterloo against the Cedar Falls Record and Lars editor and publisher through the com attorneys Williams Clark Edwards Longley and B F Swisher The complaint alleges that in the is sue of the Record of Feb 24 there ap an article of several columns reporting and commenting on a meet ing held in Cedar Falls at which cata logues of certain catalogue houses were burned and speeches alleged to be 11 belous In character were made In the article a reference was made to the plaintiff company portions of speeches said to have been made were quoted and referred to and certain statements by the paper or editor al to be were made Among other things it is said there was in the article reporting the meet ing extracts from the speech made by one Boreman which said that he showed conclusively how the Galloway company is owned and controlled by the catalogue houses mentioned The petition alleges that the state ment Is false and derogatory was made wrongfully and maliciously and with the express intent and purpose of in juring the plaintiff company and Inter fering with and damaging the business of the William Galloway company and of deterring the public from dealing with and buying goods from the com pany MEET TO DISCUSS RATES ON Davenport la Feb and door manufacturers of upper Missis sippi cities will meet here this evening to discuss rates on sash and doors from the Pacific coast to eastern and on lumber from the coast to the Mississippi They claim that the rate on sash and from the Pacific to New York Is 75 cents and from the Mississippi valley is 90 cents The dealers will discuss whether or not can secure a better rate A TEST TAKEN IX WATERLOO For For For La 0 For For Debs 7 For Bryan 4 For Cummins 1 For Taft 1 The foregoing is the result of a poll on candidate for president taken in Mr depart ment of the Iowa Dairy Separ ator factory by E Dettmer Of the 110 men in the depart ment 102 voted ard Teddy received more than half of the or a third more than all the other candidates combined poll WM taken IX THE FIGHT THATS ALL Boston Feb fa the fight thats all said Theo dore Roosevelt today It WM the only comment oa his ment issued yesterday that would accept the presidential nomination If offered to him With Mr Roosevelt on record the work of get ting together a Roosevelt organ wag begun here today Telegrams from many parU of the country and visitors urged Mr Roosevelt to roll up ate sleeves and throw himself Into the fray but helet It be that for the present he Intends to do little preferring to await Indications of the effect of nta announcement Requests for speeches been received from several states but Mr Roosevelt said had not made up his mind what to do New York Feb Johnson of California says now that Col Roosevelt come out la Hit open for the presidential thousands of new admirers will jail Governor Johnson said The statement of Col Roosevelt wag all that we expected We he will make the strongest fight la history We In the west are confi dent of his nomination and after that the battle Is practically over Col letter to the gov stating briefly that he would accept the nomination for president 11 it were tendered to him created mo surprise here In political circles iA view of his laconic remark In Cleve land that my hat Is In the ring Good for Democrats Says Mack Republican County Chairman uel said Col an would not affect the in New York county New York county is and will be for Pres ident Taft said Mr National Democratic Chairman Norman E Mack said regarding the announcement that it was a fine thing for the democrats Amos Pinchot brother of Clifford Pinchot said Roosevelt would get most of the delegates from New York Drops Literature for Politics Boston Mass Feb Theo dore Roosevelt today dropped litera ture and turned to politics During the first part of his visit to Boston he confined himself to meet Ing friends visiting the scenes of hia younger days at Harvard and talking of his favorite authors He waa scheduled today for a number of po conferences La FoUette Added to List Lincoln Neb Feb La Follettes name was added to a list of candidates to be voted on at the Nebraska presidential primary bj a petition filed this morning by Sec of the La Folletti state league The petition contained the names of nearly 1000 voten widely scattered over the state No Answer at White House Washington Feb announcement of his willingness to accept the republican nomination fot president did not visibly affect at the White House today Presi dent Tart will have no direct answer to the announcement prior to his Ohio speech according to a state ment from official sources Them was no great increase in congressional callers today but Vice President Sherman and Senator Murray Grant of Massachusetts hurried to the pres office Neither would dis cuss his visit At Toledo on March 8 the presi dent is expected to make the speech in reply to the enunciated by Col Roosevelt at LIVES LOST IX PORTLAND Portland Ore Feb are dead and several others posed to have perished in a broke oat n early today Edward 50 dropped dead from an unidentified man fourth floor of dashed to death on men women fto
