Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-16
ARE THEY HONEST?

iowa, as SeCOQ0-GlaSS mail matter.
ARE THEY HONEST?
Those Of us, who fancied that tn
lays of factional strife in the republi
Fan party were ended with the crush
ing defeat administered a few railWa!
attorneys at the Cedar Rapids conven
ton. are fast being freed from our de-
lusions as the senatoriai ambitions o
ldr. ]. w. Blythe assume definite form
An eruption of smoldering fires O.
hatred was helched forth recently from
the columns of his devoted organ. the
Burlington Hawkeye, in the following:
THE democratic press of Iowa.
which has already selected Cover
nor Cummins as the republican
nominee for vice president in 1904.
has attempted to foster the COVER
nor's interests by disparaging Sec
rotary Shaw"
And the democratic papers
know better, but their purpose is in
disparaging Shaw to advance the
political fortunes of Cummins.
WHOM tnSy VIII SIuS
zeal and persistency, and to whom
the governor is under many ohlt-
cations, personal and POLITICAL
with Shaw under a political
cloud, they figure Governor Cum
Minis can be brought forward as
the exponent of Iowa republican,
ism, including the free trade tinge
OF his Minneapolis speech"
"And if Iowa is accorded the vice
presidential nomination it will go
to some one whose republicanism
and fealty to the party are unques-
toned
Passing over the wicked things that
the democratic press might do, for lit
tie else is to be expected from such a
source, you know. it would seem rather
Indecent for a republican newspaper
to attack its own party's illustrious
governor, with such contemplate slurs
as hts obligations to democrats, per-
sonal and political" or the free trade
tinge of his Minneapolis speech The
democratic press might attack Secre-
tary Shaw because it has no love for
him and he belongs to another political
party, but for republican paper to
employ the same dirty weapons, of
which it complains. against the COVER
nor of its own political party simply
because said governor is personally
hated by 6 politician who owns the ed
itorial policy of said newspaper, is per-
ffdy of far blacker degree. Shaw or
Cummins either might be considered
fair objects for unfair attack from the
upon them from the republican press is
crime akin to that in which one is
stabbed in the back by his own bro
Their.
As to the free trade tinge of his
Minneapolis speech the paper casting
such slur can not do SO with honesty.
Even such hearty llaters of Governor
.Cummins as Editors Brant and MUIR
ply have been indrstriously explaining
ever since they opened attack upon the
governors Minneapolis utterance.
~ uSSS iiiSil, Will tltS IldNhSyS, uCNS All
given full endorsement to the republic
can platform adopted at Cedar Rapids
which they and ali others knew, was
drafted by committee of anti-Cum-
minis men. Said platform, written by
Hon. George e. Roberts, and undoubt-
eddy inspired by President Mckinley,
read:
I'VE favor such changes in the
tariff from time to time as becomes
advisable thru the progress of our
industries and their changing rela-
tons to the commerce of the world.
I'VE assert the sovereignty of the
people over all corporations and
aggregations of capital and
favor any notifications of the tar
if schedules that may be required
to prevent their affording shelter
to monopoly"
Governor Cummins, speaking about
trusts at Minneapolis, attempted to re-
peat the declarations and principles of |
that platform in the following words:
Il believe, too, that some branch |
OF the government must be empow-
cred to remove the duties upon in-
ports upon those commodities re-
specting which competition no
longer exists in our own country.
have long been a most devoted
adherent to the principle of protec-
ton, and my zeal for it has in
creased rather than diminished
with the progress of time. l be
lfeve 1t has done more for the dig
nifty of the American laborer, pros
perity of the American producer
and the enrichment of the Ameri-
can consumer than any other poll
cy which has ever found express
sion in our laws; but nevertheless
believe that the consumer has a
better right to competition than
the producer has to protection.
Competition we will have. that of
our own country preferred, but
that Of the world If necessary"
Such was the free trade tinge" of
the governors speech. How any news
paper can honestly see treason to pro-
lection in so positive tribute to pro-
tective tariff as the above or how any
editor who endorses the republican
platform that asserts the sovereignty
Of the people over aggregations of capt.
tai" and "favors any modification of
the tariff necessary to prevent afford
Ing shelter to monopoly can consist