The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-12
AT The MAST HEAD.
No Thought Of surrendering the
Iowa Idea as Sent Out
From Washington.
Secretary Shaw, q Chief Of Stand
patters, Charged With Mis-
representing Facts.

Des Moines. Iowa. May 12.-While Cow
ernor Cummins declines to discuss the
matter. owing to the embarrassment at
tending the publication Of inside facts rel
alive to his negotiations with Senator Al
lison and President Roosevelt. concerning
the tariff platform for the Iowa and ma
tional conventions. his most intimate
friends, who have discussed the subject
with him, are outspoken in their denun-
citation of Secretary Shaw. who, they
charge. was the author of another version
Of the negotiations sent out from Wash
| ington Sunday
| They charge him with not having the
courage to state openly that Cunmins
slid down the pole as the secretary
characteristically expresses it. The state
ment in the interview. however, that the
author of the version recently had a con-
ference with the president at Des Moines
| and that he is lone of the most distin-
gushed Iowans identified with the Roose-
welt administration fully establishes the
| identity of the man interviewed as Sec
rotary Shaw in the opinion of Cummins'
| friends
"ldea'' and Platform.
They point out that Shaw admits it
was agreed that the ST.. Louis platform
! shall be followed instead Of the one of
| 1900. This, too. is the version Of Allison.
| after his conference at Hot Springs, Va.
! This Is exa ctly what was given out in
| Iowa. except 1t was claimed here that this
was all that Cummins asked. while Shaw,
Hepburn. Hall and others felt the 1896
platf went too far and that the 1900
| convention was more nearly right. In
other words. Cunlmins men declare that
| the Iowa idea" and the st. Louis plat
| from have all along been substantially the
same.
In this connection it is interesting to
know that Secretary Shaw's visit to Iowa.
to accompany the presidential party thru
| the state. resulted in bitter disappoint-
ment to the secretarys admirers. He was
absolutely unnoticed and overshadowed by
| practically every other member Of the
party from the time he joined 1t until he
left. Most of the trip was thru that sec
ton of the state where Cummins ideas
were slowest to take root, but at every
stop Cummins appearance was the signal
for demonstration while Shaw was UNI
! noticed.
| Shaw -version of the impression gained
by him during this trip is expressed this
wise: "Cummins has slid down the pole. .
| BY that do you mean that the Iowa idea
will not be reaffirmed in the next plat
form adopted by an Iowa republican state
convention?" the official was asked. THAT
| is the understanding out in Iowa. Cum
Minis has consented not to press the idea
and the convention will adopt conserva-
tive platform"
Colored by Shaw.
Shaw has been a "stand patter" on the
| tariff question, declaring repeatedly that
it would be party and national financial
suicide to thinker with the tariff
| The 1900 platform suited him. Cum
minis has all along merely insisted that
the tariff schedules are not sacred and
that they must be modified for further
ance of reciprocity and that they must
| be revised from time to time to meet
changed conditions in our commercial
growth and activity This Is the Ian
guage of the st. Louis platform and Of the
| Iowa platform; substantially 1t Is the
| Iowa idea :" Viewed in this light, Cum
Minis friends insist that Shaw has but
confirmed their declaration that Allison
and Roosevelt had practically agreed to
lend their support to the Iowa idea"
Director Of the Mint Roberts in reality
wrote each. of the Iowa Platforms, the
it was along the line suggested by Cum
Minis. The Washington version betrays
it's inaccuracy by representing that Rob
erts and Allison have, forced Cummins te
come to their way Of thinking