Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-13
NOT SCARED
Great Deal of Needless specu-
lation About State Conven-
tion and Platform
NO MYSTERY IN DEs MONIES
Stories About What the Leaders Have
Decided to do Are Only Fiction
cummins Says the Convention Will
Dictate Its Own Platform and He
Seems Satisfied.
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Des Moines, May ia good deal
of needless speculation appears to have
been indulged in by some persons with
regard to what Gov. Cummins and Sen
ator Allison and others of the republi-
can party leaders are going to do with
reference to the political situation in
Iowa; but there has not been very
where the attitude Of the leaders is
pretty we'll known. Some time ago, in
fact about the time that Gov. Cum
Minis was called to Washington by
President Roosevelt for consultation on
Iowa politics, an effort was made to
have it appear that the president had
fcalled the governor to Washington for
the purpose of calling him down" in
regard to the tariff and that as result
back on his record. This was SO pre-
posterous that it did not seem neceS-
sary for any body to enter denial. Gov.
Cummins stated frankly on his return
from Washington that his interviews
with the resident We're very pleasing
to him. They could not have been so
if the president had disagreed radical
iy with the governor on party policies.
Then 1t was declared by some that the
president surely would say something
while in Iowa that would cause the
governor and the Iowa republicans who
voted for him to quickly change front
on the tariff. But the president did
nothing of the kind. In fact it was
noticeable that the president was ex-
tremely cordial to the governor, and
some persons thought he was almost
,discourteous to the one member of his
ca.binet who was with the party for a
short time on the Iowa trip. The fact
was then noted and published that the
president s.iid the governor he'd n con-
ference lasting several hours. and that
at least a part of the time Col. Hepburn
and Secretary Shaw, who We're on the
same car, We're not present. 1t was on
the same day that the president and the
governor were crossing Iowa that the
republican state committee met and
arranged for the state convention, fix
ing the date the governor had previous
ly suggested and otherwise doing all
that the governor could have wished.
Now there are two stories that are
being freely circulated-one that the
governor has backed water and given
up his position and that of the Iowa
republicans on the tariff, and the other
that there is an agreement that the
platform shall be written just as it was
last year and the year before in Iowa.
The statement has been made that an
agreement has been reached for Sen
ator Allison to write the platform
When Gov. Cummins was asked a few
days ago IL he had entered into an
agreement of this kind, he studied for
a few minutes and said:
1T would be highly improper for me
to attempt to say who should or should
not write the platform for the re-
publicans of Iowa. But at least 1 am
not ready to say that any man shall
write the platform different from the
principles of the republican party of
Iowa. The platform ought to represent
what the republicans of Iowa want it
to be and nothing else"
In the county convention which had
given him authority to select the del
egates to the state convention from
this county he had only short time
before declared that he intended to
work for the reiteration by the repub-
licans of Iowa this year of the senti-
ments of last year but would do all
in his power to have the principles
therein stated placed in the national
platform of next year. There has never
been any doubt as to where he stands.
He has not abated one whit of his
views in regard to the tariff
and reciprocity and other questions. An
effort has been made to have it appear
that the platform has already been
written entire for the republicans of
Iowa this year. Close friends of the
governor say that if this is true he
knows nothing about it, and they scout
the idea, but they know what the
platform will have to contain before
i: can be accepted in state conven-
ton. They say it will be in full accord
with the well known views of the
governor, which are also the views OF
the two senators as they have fire.
quently stated and of several of the
delegation and many
others influential in the party. What |
ever modification is made of the plat
form will be such as would naturally |
follow the development of a political
idea.