Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-19
INTEREST Is GROWING
The Iowa Campaign Attracting
More Attention as Election
Day Draws Nearer
WEEK OF SPELL BINDING
Unusually Large Number of Speakers
Will Take Part in the Campaign
This Week :. Charles Emory Smith
commends tn. "lowa Idea" as Sound
Republican Doctrine.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
| Des Moines, Oct. 19.--This week is to
| be the big week with the spell binders
out in the state The democrats have
only few out. but they are being US
| ed hard. Jerry" Sullivan will speak
twice every day except one day. Those
lwho have listened to him say that
while he Is making an interesting and
| entertaining address the effect is not
such as to warrant the rosy view of
the situation entertained by some of
the democratic leaders OF the state. The
people CT Iowa listen patiently to those
who eNpound the doctrine of the DEM
ocrats and then quietly vote the re-
publican ticket. Governor Cummins
lShas been having good meetings. He
VIII remain at home this evening and
start into the northwest tomorrow.
Northwestern Iowa is where he is at
home among the boys and good meet
ings are anticipated, though the gov
ernor says that lie has no reason to
in any part of the state. OF course.
not all the meetings were rousing big
meetings, not all were with halls over
flowing, but in fact they have been eX-
cellent meetings considering the seac-
on and the condition of the campaign.
Some thirty or forty other speakers
will be made use of by the republi-
cans. Governor Van SAINT, M. D. o.
Connell. Victor loolliver, Secretary
Shaw, and the members of congress
will all be doing business this week.
a%s
Chairman Spence, of the republican
state committee has been very busy
with the campaign preliminaries and
nov has all the work we'll in hand. The
assignment of speakers has been al
most entirely in the hands of Mr..
Dawson and he states that he now feels
that he ..as the rnatter well out of
the way. Mr.. Spence has put out a
large number of the speeches of the
leading speakers fol publication in the
newspapers Of the state. and he has
on hand the pamphlets containing the
addresses of Senator Allison and
George d. Perkins for distribution. In
|
being reached thoroughly.
One of the most notable speeches of
past week was that of Charles Emory
Smith, of Philadelphia, former post
master general under President Nc
Kinley and President Roosevelt. who
gave the ciearest statement of the Is
sue between the parties on the tariff
question that has yet been delivered
He certainly did not present Pennsyl-
vanian idea in anta.sonism of the ia
nous Iowa idea. After showing that
the tariff is the real dividing line be-
tween parties, he said:
"On this question the issue is clearly
and sharply defined. The republicans
stand soiidly for the principle of pro-
lection for American manufacturers
and products thru the tariff duties lev
led on foreign imports of like articles.
The democratic party. not supported
by all democrats in it, stands just as
clearly and unmistakssbly in favor of
stripping the tariff of all protective
features, and of making tariff for rev
enus only In broad terms the issue is
directly between prote elton and free
trade. II.
I'VE have heard great deal OF the
Iowa idea You have had your own
questions about it. We, outside Of the
state. have had our discussions on the
subject The Iowa idea has never had
any terrors for me. AS Senator Allison
has clearly shown, there is nothing in
your platform of this year, or OF last
year, Which was not clearly embraced
within the republican national platform
of 1896. In that national convention
Senator Foraker, of Ohio, was chair
man of the committee on resolutions.
He has publicly stated the authorship
of all that part of the platform relat-
ing to protection and reciprocity, and
that statement justifies my alluslon.
In view of it, l venture to say that
Senator Allison is entirely right IN
stating that the Iowa platform ana the
national platform are practically lden-
teal.
"The declaration of both is simple,
direct and unmistakably. 1t Is to
the effect that the principle of protec-
tion is to be inviolably maintained, but
that there is nothing sacred in the
schedule of rates These should be
lust, fair and impartial, equally op-
poed to foreign control and domestic
to sectional discrimination
and individual favoritism and from
time to time may be changed to meet
the varying conditions incident TO the
progress of our industries and their
changing relations to our foreign ana
commerce. This Is clear ana
Republicans are agreed
in uphoding the Fundamental principe
OF protection. They equally recognize
that rates should be governed py CON
ditions of production, cost ana dlstn-
button. on the former point there IS
absolute unity On the latter there IS
room for legitimate difference of opin-
ION. That is a question of detail III
practical legislation to be determined
by careful consideration OF all the con-
ditlons involved
Tnis is as fine a statement of the
position between the parties and the
between the Iowa plat
forras of the past three years ana the
national nlatform as could have hean