The Minneapolis journal., 1902-10-01
SAYS YES
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Nominee in Henderson's District Is
in Full Accord With the
r Iowa Idea."
Question of Tariff Rates Practical
One to Be Determined by
Conditions.

Special to The Journal.
Clarion, Iowa, Oct. 1.-Judge B. P.
tBfrdsall, nominated by the republicans to
succeed General Henderson In congress,
mailed his formal letter of acceptance to-
day to Chairman Edward A.aDawson. He
says: d.
THE republican party Of Iowa is on
trial before the nation. sitting as an i'm
partial jury, and the battle is to be waged
chiefly in the third congressional district.
Republican success means assurance Of
the maintenance Of republican principles
and policies. Defeat means the reversal.
the institution Of the policies and the
political action promulgated by the demo-
cratic party in their last national conven-
tion at Kansas City, for, as declared Off
cially by the congressional democratic
committee, that Is the only democracy we
know anything about. and it will be the
only democracy until another national
convention shall be held. .~
1.-THE republican party is firmly COM
mitted to the principles Of protection to
American labor, and throughout it's his
tory has been it's friend and champion.
It has dignified labor because it recog
nized that within its warp and woof are
held the destinies Of mankind. The re-
publican party of Iowa does not purpose
to abate one jot or little of it's faith in
the essential principles or policies Of pro-
Of rates is a practical one to be deter
mined and governed by the conditions OF
time and production and that nothing
sacred attaches to mere table which
should be readjusted to meet the change
in conditions as they, arise in the indus
trial progress of the country.
THAT monopolies in the form of COM
binations Of capital to control production
and price exist in this country is an ad
mitted fact. They are born, not Of the
protective policy Of the republican party
but of the greed and selfshness Of men.
Trusts exist in countries where trade is
absolutely free as we'll as in this country
where the policy Of protection prevails, as
Witness, in Britain, where hundreds Of
combina tions with millions of capital are
in existence. But monopolies wherever
found are a common enemy of all. The
republican party Of Iowa believes in the
greatest good to the greatest number and
will not permit the policy Of protection to
become shield for the greed and avarice
Of man whether presented In the form Of
trusts, individual. joint stock or corpor-
ate existence, nor shelter beneath which
designing corporations shall be able to
Oppress the people Of this country, and
whenever such men or corporations have
gained such control Of the production of
and market for dutiable products, so that
the price of the same is regulated. by it
and not by home competition, Iowa re-
publtcans purpose to destroy such mon
opoly by applying the principles of reci-
procity and by so readjusting the tariff
as to force such combinations into COM
petition with the worlds markets. j
Whatever revision or readjustment may
be made by the republican party it will
be made upon the lines Of protection to
American labor. while the democratic
party both by it's state and national plat
form is committed to tariff for revenue
only. The two policies are as widely var
liant as the heavens and the earth
Honestly interpreted there is no
heresy in the Iowa idea,' but on the con
trary it is the assertion of conscious man
hood, OF the determination that the repub-
lican party shall be maintained and con-
tinued as it has been heretofore, the cham
pion OF all the people in every avenue OF
lie. With every line Of the platform OF
the republican party Of Iowa, in this re-
spect, as In all others, I am In full and
happy accord. a
Il accept the nomination you have ten
dered me with the firm confidence that the
republicans Of this district will maintain
these principles essential, not only, to our
preservation as party. but to that young
and energetic civilization of which we are
an integral part ssesf