Evening star., 1902-07-30
IOWA UBLIC ANS
State Convention Opened at
Des Moines.
LEADERS ALL PRESENT
MOST INTEREST CENTERED IN
THE TARIFF PLANK.
That Adopted at Cedar Rapids Finally
Agreed Upon for This
Convention.
LEADERS ALL PRESENT

DES MONIES, Iowa, July 3o.-With the
platform expression regarding the tariff
policy settled, the republican state con-
Vention today had the simple task of Sc
lecting three candidates for three minor
offices-clerk of the supreme court, re-
porter of the supreme court and railroad
commissioner. The convention convened at
Il o'clock.
On the platform were Senators Allison
and Deliver Secretary OF Agriculture VIII
son and the full congressional delegation
with the exception of Captain J. w. Rum
pie, who is i'll in Chicago.
Representative Walter l. Smith of Potta-
watamie county was made temporary
chairman of the convention.
Walter I. Smiths Speech.
Walter l. Smith, temporary chairman.
said in part:
The republican party is welded to the
general principles of protective tariff, but
not to any specific schedule. The tariff
should be revised from time to time TO
meet changing conditions, and the reduc-
tion of rate, or placing an article on the
free list is no evidence. much less no con-
fession, that the original rate was wrong
when made. The republican party will
modify the tariff whenever new conditions
require such modification, @nd IL in any
SPECIFIC case a change in the tariff will tend
to relieve the people from the oppression
of trust without undue injury to Ameri-
can labor that change ought to be made.
Revisions of the tariff, tending as they do
to unsettle business, should Cniy be under
taken when the wrong to be corrected is
so serious that the imp contem-
plated viii compensate for whatever dis
turbance TO business will result from such
Tc.-ision.
We have seen the great. courageous and
honest man who now occupies the White
House attack the Northern Securities Com
pany and the beef trust. under the law as
it l., ard ii VIII require something more
than the baseless insinaati0as Of demo-
cratic Statesmen to convince the American
people that the night thus instituted is not
battle to death.
Purpose of the Republicans.
The republican party Will fearlessly use
every means in its power to reach this
great evil, and where notifications Of the
tariff would be useful to that end, without
serious injury to the laborers of this coun-
try, Will not hesitate TO resort thereto. 1t
may wou be understood, however, that
the republican party will neither consent
to abandon its cardinal doctrine of pro-
lection nor TO the oppression of the peo-
pie by the trusts Its cry j. not for COM
mercial freedom at the expense Of pros
perity, but commercial freedom and pros
perity.
As TO the Philippines, he said:
I'VE have, best We knew. discharged
the duties incumbent upon us and have left
to those who come after us the settlement
Of their own problems. II the people of
these islands ever become civilized and
capable of Independent self-government
and then desire it, l for one would be
in favor of giving it to them, but l am
convinced that when these people have
struggled up with our assistance until they
are fit for independence they viii be as
unwilling to surrender their relations TO
the United States Iowa would be L
know nothing to what the future has in
store, but l believe that cur flag has been
put up in the Philippines ana that ii VIII
stay putt that ii viii never come down as
long as this republic, one and in5ivi~ible,'
shall be reckOned among the nations of the
earth"
Tariff Trust Plank.
As the result of the congressional eau
cuses delivered this morning, the commit
tee on resolutions Will report for a reafIir-