Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-14

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was in prospect d lively time over res
outions, but is now appears that the
| platform expression of last year is to
be the basis of further committal as to
tariff and reciprocity without division.
Unless all signs fail (and this is not Il
dry season. there will be a great party
/ The Rockford Register thinks that
"Whatever the crops may be the prices
are likely to be all right for the grow
en-"
Now don't start grumbling about
the hot weather but go out and watch
the corn grow" suggests the Boone
Republican.
Traer Star-Clipper says: The miners,
who lose wages, and the public, who
| pay the advanced prices. are the only
ones who lose. The mine owners make
money by laying still until the con-
sumers are ready to pay whatever they
may ask
The Sac Sun declares that Nothing
| is more certain than the popularity of
the president among Iowa Republic
cans
The Odebolt Chronicle is firm in the
conviction that 1.-The republicans OF
Iowa should see that the Cedar Rapids
tariff plank is reaffirmed at the coming
state convention. 1t expresses the sem
timent of the party in this state, and no
qualifying clause which will weaken it
should be injected. They should see
that men in line with Iowa sentiment
are put on the committee on resolu-
tons: and should the committee fall
into the enemy's hands, the battle must
be fought and won on the floor Of the
convention
The Davenport Democrat notices that
THE soil and climate of Iowa never
gave any considerable encouragement
to the tenets of socialism, and none
whatever to those of anarchism. The
knockout that they both got at the
Turner's convention in this city was
what might have been expected"
The Paullina Times says there is poor
excuse for the farmer in O'Brien county
to move to town. The farmer" the
Times points out, now has his grocer
| les and drygoods delivered at his door;
visits with his neighbor over the
| phone; jerks the town butcher and
merchant up at leisure, calls the doctor
or cusses the editor-all over the
| phone; mails his letters at the front
gate; receives his check for the product
of his farm and takes his daily paper
from the mail box each day. The farm
is the place to live, and it as attract
ling many of the people of the cities"
DOES TARIFF SHELTER TRUSTS?
| LDes Moines Capitall
| The editor of the T.-R. loses his tenn
per, Notwithstanding the Capitals high
personal compliments to him, which
We're intended to keep his temper down
and confine him to the issue. His edi-
| toria is the best illustration of the ne
cessity for having u platform this year
| that can not be misinterpreted or mis-
unders TODD. A platform that allows the
| T.-R. to be what the editor says 1T is, is
lcertainly a mistaken platform. The is
sue of this year will be between the re-
publican and democratic parties on the
| tariff question. The democrats have
asserted that 1.-The tariff is the parent
| of all trusts" The republicans on the
stump and in the press intend to deny
the charge. Then Why should the re-
publicans tacitly admit the charge in
the Iowa state platform by admitting
that the tariff might be the shelter of
|monopoly?" This is the gist of the
| whole matter If we want to concede
the charge made by the democratic
party that 1.-THE tariff is the cause of the
trust" we ought to readopt the Cedar
Rapids platform of last year If we do
not desire to concede the democratic
| charge we had better leave out a few
words of the Cedar Rapids platform.
The republican party never Won
victory so grand as that of 1896, when
| the money question was defined and
made so plain that there was no chance
for a man to be a republican and a BIZ
metalist or double standard man. This
yeal. there is no chance for man to be
a free trade republican unless he
valves his principles. The party will
win this year anyway, but will win
much more honestly and proudly if the
platform is made for republicans and
not to catch free-trade democrats, a
number of whom have been voting the
republican ticket, because there Was
no place else for them to go"
We invite our readers to give n care
ful perusal of the Times-Republican
editorial and we shall have no doubt of
the republican verdict. The platform
last wear was made carelessly and was
goven little attention on account of the
great fight for the governorship. This
wear we have plenty of time and should
adopt a better platform.
The receipts at the Ottumwa post
office for the year ending June so.
1909 passed the $4,000 mark for the