Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-12
Claimed That Republican Party
Dare Not Elect High Tariff
Speaker
WEST WILL CONTROL SITUATION
Dalzell Is Close to Protected Interests
and His Selection Out of the Question
Cannon or Possibly Babcocle Will
Be the Favorite candidates-Little
field Has No Show.

Washington, Nov. 12.-No high tariff
speaker can be elected without handi-
Gaping the, republican party for the
presidential campaign.
This fact is now generally recog-
nized for it is plainly seen that the tar
iff, with the trusts, as concrete
statement of the case. will be the CHEF
democratic campaign issue in 1904. The
democrats claim that this is the way
the situation will develop, and the re-
publicans do not deny it. The first
skirmish will be seen in the election
of speaker of the fifty eighth con-
gress.
Mr.. Dalzell's election would be taken
to mean, and the democrats would
give it wide publicity and strong EN-
phasis. that the republicans were not
sincere when, in every close district
last month, they promised that the
republican party would bring revision
on at the earliest possible moment.
The majority of the republicans of
the ifty-eighth congress come from
New England, New York, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, New Jersey and California,
which embrace the whole of the anti
revision territory, will have ninety re-
publican votes in the fifty eighth con-
gress. The rest of the country, the
states of the north which lie between
the Allegheny and the Rocky noun
tains, including Oregon and Washing
ton, will have lis votes. or majority
OF twenty eight. These revisionists
will elect as speaker some man of their
own type, and it will not be Dalzell of
Pennsylvania, who is probably closer
to the protected interests of the eoun-
try than any other member of the lower
house That man Will probably be
Cannon of Illinois, altho Babcock Of
Wisconsin viii come in il he can find
that he has as many as six chances
out of ten of winning. Should E,abcock
be candidate, and divide the western
republican vote with Cannon, Dalzell
will not profit anyttin~ for in the event
of deadlock eithe. .3abcock would
go to Cannon, or Cannon to Babcock;
neither would go to Dalzell. Littlefield
of Maine, is also in the race, but he
stands on precisely the ground occu-
pied by Dalzell, and in a break he would
go to DalZell, or Dalzell to him. The
fight is very likely to lie between Dalzell
and Cannon, and the chances strongly
favor the latter for reasons stated
above. The revisionists will control
the fftyeighth congress, and would
be foolish to elect as speaker a man
unalterably opposed to their views.
That is the view OF the situation taken
by public men in this city.
The complete election returns en-
phasize the statement that was made
in these dispatches last week regard
ing the turning of the great west to
the republican column. In the 'off
year election in 1898, this great Sec
ton. comprising fifteen states, was
about evenly divided. Eight of the
states gave republican majorities and
seven democratic majorities This
year the democrats carried but one of
the fifteen.
Carrying eight of these states in 1898,
the republicans had a majority of "a
500 Carrying fourteen Of them this
year, that majority has increased to
2I3,600. In other words, the republican
majority in the 'off year" 1902 is nearly
double what it was in the 'off year
1898, with which comparison is made,
while the democratic majority has al
most sunk out of sight.
Four years ago the republican party
elected forty members of congress in
the western field, this year it elects
forty nine. The democrats four years
ago elected twelve members of con-
gress; this year the number falls to
nj N II, IA of M ra1
sentaticn of that section under the new
reapportionment.
1t is pointed out In the east that the
election result in the west demon
strates the impossibility of a political
union between the west and the south
In 1896, when a number of western
states voted for Bryan, it was fondly
hoped by democratic leaders that that
long desired union was about to be con-
summated; but since 1898 the west has
drifted away from the south and to-
day, is as solidly republican as the
south is solidly democratic.
Amid the scene of western democrat
ic desolation the figure of w. J. Bryan
stands forth like a specter. Vainiy he
tries to gather comfort from the result
and by adroit twisting of words to
demonstrate that his cause is not lost.
1t is a pitiable spectacle. The one thing
which the result in the west has en-
phasized more than anything else is the
fact that Mr. Bryan has been repudi-
ated in the house of his friends, and is
today without any following in the
west, as for several years he has been
without any in the east and south. His
name can no longer be used to conjure
with. AS a leader his day is past.
Democratic leaders are assuming that
he will cut no figure in the convention
and campaign of 1904, and are busily
engaged looking for some one around
whom to rally in an effort to win the
presidency. 1t is about time. Another
presidential campaign with Bryan in
the saddle running things, and there
would be no democratic party. The |
law of preservation demands his |
permanent retirement, and its opera
tions are certain, tho, as in the present |