The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-20
CATO SELLS 1T. :
J Says He Lined Up Iowa For 70
to at Kansas City.
Didn't Want to "Embarrass Bryan"
and so They Turned Down the
Germans for the Populists.
Speaker Henderson Gives True
Facts in Reference to the
Porto Rican Tariff Bill.
1t Furnishes Means to Run the Gov.
eminent ofthe Island Until they
Can Tax Themselves.
President Mckinley Accepts His Second
Nomination In Wise and Patri-
otto Words.

Dies MONIES, July 16, 19Oo.-1n theit
platform adopted at Kansas City, the
democrats attacked the republican ad.
mlnlstratlon on account of the tariff
law for Porto Rico passed by congress
at it's session recently closed.
About the time the democrats were
framing their platform, Speaker Hen
derson, who was nominated at Water
loo for the tenth consecutive term in
congress by reclamation, told the peo-
pie the truth in regard to Porto Rico
Hear what he said, and compare these
utterances with the attempt of the Kan
sas City platform to befog the people
on this subjsct.
What Speaker Henderson Said.
"The first impression among many
people in regard to the Porto Rican
bill was that we We're taxing that isl
and for our benefit. What are the
facts? The Porto Ricans have been
down-trodden by the tyranny of Spain;
they have been storm-swept all over
that little island; they have been fam
Inc swept, and had no government
of their own. They had to have
money to run a government. If
any party will try to take the money
OF the United States to run a govern
ment outside the United States, they
will find themselves showed under at
the first election. Porto Rico had moth
ing, and yet she had to have a govern
ment, and there had to be means pro-
vided to run this government. When
congress took the matter up, the
Porto Ricans were paying the Dingley
tariff duty on all imports, and the
money thus derived was going into the
treasury OF the United States We pro-
posed, instead of collecting the Ding
: ley tariff that we would collect fifteen
per cent of it, and give them back the
money; for instance, if the tariff on a
certain article was S1.00 under the
Dingley law, we would make it fifteen
cents, instead of dollar, and after
collecting that fifteen cents, we would
turn it over to Porto Rico to help run
her government. But the impression for
4 sometime was that we We're turning il
into the treasury ofthe United States.
That is not true. and my friends, we
adopted that tariff to give the island a
revenue, until we could give them a
government of their own, under which
they could collect money to run their
government. We did more than that,
we turned around and took that two
million dollars that had been paid by
the Porto Ricans under the Dingley
tariff law, and we gave it back into
their possession, not one dollar of it
stayed in the United States. All this
money went to help the Porto Ricans
run their own government. Then too,
the Porto Rican tariff bill is only for
temporary relief, until the Porto Rican
government is established so that they
can tax themselves and raise sufficient
revenue of their own, and then the
Porto Rican bill becomes of no force.
This is a plain statement of the posi-
ton taken by the republican party in
congress- and it should be complete
answer to all the claims of the demo
cratic party, that the republican party
has imposed a burden upon the Porto
Ricans which those people are not able
to bear.
Cato Sells Takes the Blame.
Since the democratic national plat.
form is re-embodiment of the Chi
cago platform, including the heaven
born ratio of i6 to L." there has been
J considerable inquiry among the Ger
man sound money democrats of Iowa
as to why it was that this state, in
which the democratic party has made
such desperate attempts to capture the
German vote, should be deliberately ar
rayed among the supporters of the 1f
to l theory. In this connection, there
is little story, which fairly illustrates
the policy of the democratic party II
shows that while apparently anxious tc
secure the German vote, they thought
more of the populistic and free silver
element, than they did of the sounc
money people who always stand fol
good government and correct financia
policy When the convention assem-
bled at Kansas City, the conservative
delegates from Iowa realized that the
people of Iowa were opposed to 16 tt
1, but there were several of the leaders
such men as Charley Walsh, of OF
tumwa, and J. S. Murphy of Dubuque
who could see no other political prin
ciple than free silver. They were no
strong enough, however, to control thu
Iowa delegation and so they set abou
to secure recruits. They finally cap
tured Cato Sells OF Vinton, who aspire
to be democratic leader and who wa
the real choice of the democratic con
vention one year ago for governor, il
place of Fred White. Now Cato wa
at one time a sound money democrat
He maze u ISllI III lllo CoHNCitiou c,
Marshalltown for sound money, an
subsequently carried his county agains
= free silver and went to the Dubuqu
convention in 1896 as a reputed be
lever in sound money. Later on tina
year. he went to the national CONVEX
ton at Chicago and when the "heave
born ratio" was born he suddenly ea
perienced change of heart and g.
in line among the sponsors for thu
idea When he joined hands wit
Murphy and Walsh at Kansas Cit
they proceeded to dictate the policy
the Iowa delegates, and thus Iowa wa
added to the list of states, which vote
for 16 to l and gave the deciding yot
which put free silver in the platform
This is no campaign charge, put
substantiated by the admissions OF M
Sells himself. A few days ago, b