Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-23

place as tfle representative VI tiie .'iA'ii
district. Chairman jackson Will be re-
elected without opposition and he VIII
be chairman again. Last year he made
a beginning in the work of organizing
the state and is now in readiness to
make the first real campaign of MS
party in many years.
The fight for supremacy on the reso-
lutions committee will be made in the
district caucuses. There is no doubt
as to what will be done in some of the
districts The Second and First dis
trcts are solidly against general re-
affirmation of the Kansas City platform
The Third. Fourth and Eleventh may be
expected to be the same. The Eighth
Tenth. Ninth and Sixth will be for
reaffirmation of the Kansas City plat
form, and thus injecting free silver into
the campaign as an issue. The Seventh
and Fifth are debatable grounds. There
will be contests in nearly every district
But no matter what the make-up of the
resolutions committee may be there will
be two reports brought before the con-
vention and there will have to be an
open contest for supremacy. Two
wears ago this was done and free silver
won: one year ago the debate was re-
sumed and anti-free silver carried the
day The most knowing ones are un-
able to make any confident predictions
this year, but all agree that on the sur
face the gold democrats have the ad-
vantage. and If free silver wins at all
this year it will be by scratch.
Among the early delegates arriving
1t is impossible to get clear express
sion on what the platform Will he IKE.
The whole interest is centered in the
question of reatfirming or not reafnrm-
ing The antis have an advantage IN
that they can show that in at least one
congressional district last year they
were able to elect their man to con-
gress while under free silver the state
had been made solidly republican. The
appeal of Judge Wade and his friends
for the convention to again leave the
coinage question alone will be one hard
to resist, And it is known that this
year among those who have been stead
lily supporting the Kansas City plat
form there are many who desire that
| it shall be left alone in the state plat
form: that while they claim the right
to individually favor free silver, they
say they do not believe it political
wisdom to keep up strife breeding
controversy to forestall what the state
convention might do. The radical free
silver view was stated by the Jasper
county democrats as follows:
I'VE believe the Kansas City platform
embodies the tenets of Jefferson and
Jackson and that it is the best ex-
preston of democratic faith since the
declaration of independence. We be-
lieve that it was right when 1t was
adopted that it is right now, and that
the great problem Of government will
have to be settled on the lines therein
laid down before they are settled
right
A contrary opinion, taking radical
view is that of the Poweshiek county
democrats who declared:
I'VE reaffirm the time -honored prin-
ciples of the democratic party as pro-
claimed and practiced by Jefferson.
jackson and Horace Boies. We favor
the coinage and use of such amounts
of silver as will circulate in the United
States at par with gold
The Union county democrats. where
the followers of Bryan had full swing
in the county convention. have offered
the following with relation to the coin
age question dS
"We have implicit confidence in the
high character and ability of demo-
cratic statesmen, and can trust them
to settle details of legislation concern
ing the financial and all other ques
tions and while we do not pledge the |
democracy of Union county to the
unqualified Endorsement of each and
every plank of the Kansas City plat
a o,,r ar |
herence to the general principles of |
democracy so ably expressed and give |
to them our earnest and hearty indorse-
ment."
Next to the coinage question the
convention will be most bothered with |
an expression on the tariff. Last year
Ex- Governor Boies wrote into the plat
form tariff plank or series OF planks
demanding IAN immediate reduction of
our tariff system to revenue basis,
commencing the Iowa republicans for
realizing that protective tariff may
be made so high as to become q shelter
10 monopoly" and trying to couple the
trusts and the tariff completely. The
Davis county democrats led off this year
by referring 10 Gov. Cummns as the
father of the Iowa idea" and after stat
ing what is alleged to be his position,
added:
I'VE challenge the republican party
to deny these declarations of the gov
ernor by repudiating their last state
platform or to affirm them by renom-
mating him for second term"
A somewhat clearer statement of
the same idea will be presented by the
delegates from Cass county who
adopted this:
We believe that the Dinglay tariff
schedules afford shelter to trusts and
syndicates of greed. and that these
schedules should be rewritten for the
protection of the people against their
plunderers-no next year. nor the year
after, but at the first session of con-
gress-and we call attention to the
preparations for the craven surrender
of the principle advocated by the eX-
ponents of the Iowa idea, and their
Willingness to postpone action lndefln-
itely at the behest of those Who will
profit by continuance of the policy
OF legalzed robbery
1t is expected that the tariff plank
will be introduced in some such way
as the above or expressing the same
thought and this in the hope that 1t
will embarass the republicans week
later in their making of platform.
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