Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-22
THE VERSATILE Mr.. YOUNG.

Satile fellow. that is, he can make hlnl-
self conspicuous on many sides of a
public question. Those of us who have
read the confessions of the editor have
learned to recognize this quality in Mr.,
Young but few of us ever came
that 1t could be developed TO so fine a
degree as has been exhibited in the re-
cent discussion between the Capital
and the T.-R. on the platform issue,
The Capital has waged determined Wal
upon the tariff and an~ti-monopoly
planks of the Cedar Rapids platform.
The T.-R, as a republican paper OF
thirty years standing, has assumed
the right to defend last years republi-
can platform. for which the editor has
wump.
But let us see. Is the T.-R. to blame
for believing the Cedar RAPIDS platform
to be good republican doctrine, in view
of the teachings of the Honorable Mr..
Young, whom we have long looked up
on as the dean of the faculty in the
school of republicanism he so highly
recommends? The Capital of recent
, date refers to our editorial of July 10 as
for having a platform this year that
can not be misinterpreted or miSunder-
stood,s yet on August s. 1901, W. days
after the convention at Cedar Rapids,
the Capital under editorial caption
The Platform said:
ut breathes forth the spirit of a hap
Ply optimism which is a republican
characteristic. = = Upon the subject of
the revision of the tariff it is declared
that the republicans of Iowa favor such
changes in the tariff from time to time
as becomes advisable thru the progress
of our industries n their changing
relations to the of the world.
y = 8 The platform is also conspicuous
for the silence with which it greets the
~officiousness of the meddlers who have
sought to have populistic n demo-
cratic doctrines Incorporated therein.
Taken as a whole. it is just such a plat
form as will enable the republican par
ty to enter upon the campaign unhan-
pered by ambiguous utterances. 1t is
one which the Intelligent voter Will
have no difficulty in seeking to under-
stand."-Capital. August S. 1901.
Now that is just the view we took of
1T. The "happy optimism of the Cedar
Rapids platform is what we liked about
it. "Unhampered by ambiguous utter
ances' was it's point of merit and we
waited until Mr.. Young had disagreed
with Governor Cumnlins' friends about
payment for campaign advertising
before we learned that the Cedar Rap
ids platform was ambiguous before
we discovered that democratic doc
trines had been incorporated. 1t is
strange how colors Tin some pol
iticians) or platforms will fade and
become ambiguous in less thai a years
time for on August u last we read in
the Capital under editorial caption
The Platform in Epitome,"
If the meaning of the platform is
still ambiguous he should take a few
months off from politics and devote
the same to a thorough study of the
English language.'-Capital, Aug. Fl,
1901.
I'VE should think so. Others
should quit politics altogether. Study
of the English language would certain
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ing.
In replying to our recent argument
of July 10 the Capital explains clearly
less than a year after the above was
written, that
The issue of this year will be be-
tween the republican and democratic
parties on the tariff question. The dem
ocrats have asserted that the tariff is
the parent of all trusts The republic
cans on the stump and in the press in
tend to deny the charge. Then why
should the republicans tacitly admit
the charge in the Iowa state platform
by admitting tina the tariff might be
the shelter of monopoly? This is the
gist of the whole matter. If we want to
concede the charge mad by the demo-
cratic party that the tariff is the cause
of the trust we ought to readopt the
Cedar Rapids platform of last year. If
we do not desire to concede the demo-
cratic charge we had better leave out a
few words of the Cedar Rapids plat
form. SIS The party will win this
year anyway, but will VIII much more
honestly and proudly if the platform is
made for republicans and not to catch
free-trade democrats" Capital, July
S, 1902.
Hence we should repudiate the re-
publican platform of last year which
has been declared by the Capital to be
party" as follows:
The committee on resolutions was
made up of representative men of the
party, headed by Hon. George b. Rob
erts, who was the author of the plat
form, The committees work was we'll
done and is the one particular thing
that suits the entire party. -Capital
Aug. g., 1901.
But the most interesting exhibition of
this EDITORS versatility is yet to appear.
After all that had been said in the Cap
ital of the happy optimism" of the Ce-
dar Rapids platform Governor Cummins
opened his campaign at Centerville by
placing himself squarely upon the re-
publican platform as follows:
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