The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-06
IOWA
NOHARMONYlNSIG
Plenty Of Good Fighting Between
the Factions in Iowa As
sured in 1904.
Control of Delegation to the Ma
tional Convention Will Be
the Great Issue.
Special to The Journal,

Special to The Journal.
Des Mo1nes, Iowa. July 6.-It has been
made even more clear since the conven-
ton than ever before that the two fac
tlons OF the republican party of Iowa,
known as the Cummins and anti Cum
MINIS, the anti-machine and the machine.
the liberal and conservative. cannot have
any such thing and genuine harmony and
that the strife that has been SO bitter in
recent years must go on. 1t Is doubtful
II any sores have been healed by the re-
cent convention; it is certain that many
old wounds have been made to smart
worse than ever
Both the Cummins followers and their
opponents are claiming a victory in the
recent convention. + But the leaders are
not devoting their chief attention to
claims. They are figuring on next year
ana 1artner In the future. The particular
subject that Is given careful thought is
the selection of delegates to the repub-
llcan national convention Of 1904. There
IS not the least doubt there will be des-
perate struggle for the control Of the del
egatlon. The men who are friendly to
the Iowa idea" will endeavor to see to
1t that delegation goes to the national
convention that is prepared to shape the
national platform, if possible, for tariff
revision. Governor Cummins will bend
all his energies in this, direction. What
the policy Of Lacey, Hull and Hepburn
and the stand-pat contingent will be is
obvious. They Will endeavor to, send a
stand pat delegation from Iowa, one that
Will exert every effort against having tar
iff revision ideas that mean anything in
jected into the national platform.
CummIns Men See Gains.
1t Is unlikely there will be much activ~
ity in the way Of organization before the
election. But after that Is over, both
sides will grow busy: It seems assured
that the sixth and the ninth districts will
be fighting ground, jst as in the recent
convention The Cummins men say they
will be enabled to control at least one OF
control Of the third district In the dis
ttrict caucuses the morning of the con.
vention, Senator Allison dictated who
should go on the resolutions committee
| from the third district. He chose Cap
tain j. F. Merry, an anti-Cummins man
but bound him to support the compromise
tariff and trust plank Next spring there
will be no contingency Of this kind t.
meet, the Cummins men say. They will
not be subject to Senator Allison's die
tation as to what men shall be selected
from the third district as delegates.
There has been talk that an attemp
would be made to prevent Cummins from
heading the delegation. It is said how
ever, that the plan will be not to take
!
probably be defeated, but to make up
delegation, with Cummins at the, head
which will be opposed to his tariff revi
sion program and favorable to standing
pat.
| Farm and Railroad. Assessments.
| Abstract of assessment from ninety-one
| of the ninety mine counties show the as
sessment of Iowa farm lands for 1903 /:
over $3.50, 900 900 higher than in 1902 Thu
average per county exceeds $4,000, 900 anc
the increase will be over s200,000,000 fol
| the state. - -.. ...s
There is great discrepancy In the valu
ations Of lands. In counties that adjoir
in some instances the assessed actua
value an acre in one is about twice wha
it is in another. The state board Of re
view, when it meets this month, Is ex
pected to correct these differences.
The increased farm land assessment
points to a heavy increase In the railroad
assessment. II will have to be- at lsas
$40, Oo0, 900 to keep pace with the aincreas.