Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-13
AN EASTERN VIEW OF IOWA.

Inc following excellent review of
Iowa standing and Iowa politics is from
the New York Tribune:
Iowa has long enjoyed an undisputed
place among the states most intluen-
| tial in moulding republican sentiment
and fashioning republican policy. The
Oldest and most conservative of the
northwestern group of commemorative,
ut has steadily upheld among its trans
Mississippi neighbors the traditions of
broad and verile republicanism. To
lowa's uncompromising stand against
the cheapened silver dollar republican
opinion In the west owed in no small
measure its capacity to weather the
! storm which burst in 1896 with the Sc
cession from the party of the so-called
silver element. Under far seeing and
courageous leadership the republicans
OF Iowa met Colonel Bryan's demagogic
clamor for deprecated silver cur
rency With an open demand for the
maintenance of an unshrinkable single
standard, and their aggressiveness was
rewarded by the sweeping party VIC
tory gained, not only within their own
borders but in other supposedly doubt
full or hostile northwestern states.
| This year few unsettled issues of
vital Importance remain to test the
temper and judgment of republican
platform makers. The resolutions
adopted by the Iowa convention on
Wednesday contain. therefore, no
pledges or declarations of strikingly
novel interest. Fortunately, the chief
end of a republican state platform in
1901 has been fulfilled when it has
cordially Endorsed the national politics
sustained so Overwhelmingly at the
polls a year ago and now made splend-
1 idly effective thru republican legisla-
tion and republican administration.
Like their brethren in Ohio and and in
Maryland, the republicans of Iowa are
in the main, content to rest their case,
so far as national interests are con-
cerned, on the exceptional record made
during the first four years of President
Mckinley's rule. On some minor ques-
tons of party policy the Iowa platform
has something to say, however of sub
| stantial significance. In meeting the
issue raised in the house of represent
atives last winter by the Olmstead and
i Crumpacker resolutions demanding
reduction of representation in congress
from states which have abridged the
right of suffrage, the Cedar Rapids
convention confined itself to this gen
eral deliverance: I'VE are earnestly
opposed to all legislation designed to
accomplish the Acknowledgement of
citizens on lines of race, color or sta
ton in life. and condemn the measures
adopted by the democratic party in
certain states to accomplish that end"
On the somewhat disputed question Of
| modifying general tariff rates by the
negotiation of special commercial
treaties the platform seems to be more
outspoken, for it not only favors reci-
| procity as "a natural complement to
protection" and urges the adoption of
a program of tariff concessions to fav-
ored foreign nations as necessary to
the realization of our highest COM
mercial possibilities, but also plainly
commends such notifications of the
protective system as may become de-
sirable" thru the progress of our in
dustries and their changing relation to
the commerce of the world
The nomination of A. B. Cummins,
of Des Moines, for governor marks
transference of power within the party
1 organization in Iowa from an older to
a newer set of state leaders. Mr.. Cum
minis has fought persistently for recog-
milton and control for ten years past,
but until now has never won success
against the old time chiefs of the orga-
nization. His final victory was ac-
complished, however, with every evil
dence of good temper and lar1nonized
interests, and he will have the enthusi-
astic support of all republicans in his
approaching canvass His talents and
courage make him an exceptionally
formidable candidate, and his election
is assuerd under political conditions
| which have converted Iowa into as sure
a republican state as either Vermont