Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-03
BEET SUGAR MEN HAVE NERVE.
Want President to Not Discuss Cuban
Peciproc;+y -, He C,...Lee

Want President to Not Discuss Cuban
Reciprocity in His Speeches.
Chicago, July 3.-Wellman's Wash
ington special to the Record Herald:
There appears to be no limit in the
cheek of the beet sugar insurgents
within the republican party Their lat
est play is to demand that President
| Roosevelt shall not discuss the Cuban
| reciprocity question when he goes out
| to make speeches in his tours If the
country. They hint mysteriously that if
| The president disregards their wishes
they will defeat the proposed reciproc-
| ity treaty next winter.
| The attitude of these republicans is
that they are willing to help ratfy a
| treaty provided the president doe not
criticise them in his public addresses.
Most of them know they made a mis-
take in opposing reciprocity during the
session just closed. and they say they
are willing to "be good if the president
will refrain from rubbing it in on Them
before the country. On the other hand,
| if he goes out preaching reciprocity and
incidentally showing how they iritled
with national honor. they may get so
angry that they will not permit the
treaty to go thru next session.
There are no indications that Presi-
dent Roosevelt will comply with this
demand for silence. If he had u posi-
tive pledge that the treaty shall be rati-
fled next winter the ease would be diff
ferent. He has no assurance of that.
No one can tell what sort of opposition
may be encountered when the treaty is
submitted. The presidents friends say
the country is with him and that by
discussing this question before the peo-
Pile he will make it absolutely impossi-
BILE for the insurgents to stand out
against him next winter. There will be
much surprise if the president yields to
the threat of the insurgents and keeps
his lips closed on the Cuban question.
1t is said by senators that the action
of the Minnesota republican state con-
vention in indorsing the reciprocity
policy of Mckinley and Roosevelt was
encouraged by Senator knute Nelson.
This seems a little surprising in view of
the fact that Senator Nelson was one
of the eighteen beet sugar insurrectos
The explanation of this seeming anom-
ally is said to be found in the fact that
Senators Nelson and Clapp did not per-
sonally care much one way or the 10Th
er about defeating the concession to
Cuba. but thought it their duty to stand
by the representatives from Minnesota,
all of whom had joined the OXnard cru
SADIE
These and other indications of the
weakness of the little band of eighteen
make the administration senators think
they We're rather cowardly in giving up
the battle without a square fight on the
flor of the senate. Had they made this
they know now they would have won
it, and they would have made the fight
but for treachery in their ranks.
President Roosevelt told one of his
callers yesterday that he intended to
discuss Cuba at every opportunity dur
ing his tours of the country The
president said he was we'll satisfied
with the work of congress during the
session With the work of congress aaaa
session. nothing of Importance except
Cuba having failed.
And that Well get next winter!" de-
clared the president in his most en-
phatic manner.