Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-08-14
Rail at the Iowa
Platform.
Republican
THEY SAY IT MEANS NOTHING
How Washington Looks at the Effect
on Democrats of the Platform Adopt
ed by the Faithful in the Hawkeye
State.
Washington, D. c., Aug. IL.


The democrats think it is necessary
to start a sort of a reaction to over
come the results of the Iowa platform.
They are just beginning to discover
/, that it was very weak declaration"
The Des MoineS declaration they say
was mandy PANTY prattle and does
not mean anything" That it is only
words and that there is no intention
of anything being done about the. tar
if.
The trouble seems to be that the
democrats are too accustomed to their
own style of sweeping promises to do
anything and everything. This is not
the republican style. The Iowans
were convinced on the matter of tar
if revision and they so declared them
selves but it is true that a number of
the eastern republican and other re-
publican leaders were not in favor of
bringing the matter up at present. 1t
is because the democrats know of
these honest and unconcealed convic-
lions that they now are trying to raise
the cry Of wolf"
The immense difficulty that is en-
tailed in those two simple words of
nized. 1t means big job for some
body and very ticklish one also. The
republican leaders have naturally been
wishing to avoid the question as long
as possible, as would anyone else.
However, Iowa, where most things are
about 365 days ahead, had already got
ten her mind made up on the question
and has forced the issue. The way the
11o L. nc.
ceiyed the decisions and directions of
the Iowa convention shows that once
face to face with the proposition they
are ready to take hold of it, and yet
there is no doubt that despite the dem.
ocratic clamor, the tariff revision ques.
ton will be taken up very slowly and
and carefully simply because haste
and impetuosity would mean ruin.
Poor Cuba seems to have encounter
ed a peck of trouble right at the very
beginning. Her s35.000,000 loan propo
sition has stirred Washington officials
considerably and it is still probably
that the matter may be taken up and
forbidden by the United States. There
is strong rumor here that much Of
Cuba's trouble comes from the class
who desire annexation. 1t is said thai
both here and in Cuba that class o
people are quietly at work In Cub;
they are trying to force the countr.
into such things as the $35,000,000 LOAF
and when this has been accomplished
the confederates over here will raise
a big hue and cry. The serious fac
about the $35.O00000 loan of course is
hot hn i'm of ic
enough to pay the interest and the
running expenses. 1t is of course in
ferred that this action on the part o
Cuba is due to the failure on the par
of the United States congress to pass
the reciprocity bill For that reason
some of the officials here feel that an.
objection from the United States t
this plan of Cuba's to relieve her finan
cial condition would be rubbing it in
to say the least. And yet it seem
to be plainly violating the Plat
amendment Since this amendmen
does not state how any objection
should be made it is quite likely tina
this whole matter being one of financ
will be shoveled off onto the droa
shoulders of Secretary Shaw and h
will be asked to render decision Q
at least a suggestion.
On top Of everything else advice
from Cuba state that the Nanigos al
reorganizing. This organization ha
been connected with Cuba for owe
seventy years. 1t is the terror of chi
dren and the dread of adults and fl
cause too, for the history of it's crime
would fill many volumes. 1t was
band organized for crime bound t
gether by the strongest and most S
cret ties man could divise, and {
mysterious in its movements that
could not be guarded against nor co
victed for it's offenses. The membe
now in Cuba were not active duril
military occupation and the band W;
only heard historically. Weyler foul
1t very detrimental to his campais
in Cuba and deported about all Il
leaders he could capture. The exa
date Of the organization is not know
1t was known to the planters as ;
organization among their slaves abo