The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-09
NO TINKERING
WITH TARIFF
President Decides Tariff Changes
Would Not Be Consonant With
Party Expediency.
Washington Politicians Pick Either
Cummins or Beverage for
Second Place j..


From Tho Journal Bureau Room 45, Post Build
ing, Washington.
Washington, July 9.-"Would it be
wise to upset the policy of two successful
administrations at! on the eve OF presidential
That is the question the president is asking
those western republicans who, of late, have
been urging him to take stand in favor of
tariff revision during the coming session of
congress; Naturally, the question must be
answered, from the ground Of party expedi-
ency, in the negative. The president does
no SAY that the ne ba bY
say that the work should not be undertaken
now. In Solar as the Iowa, republicans, at
regarding the Iowa idea they were con
'trolled by what they knew were the presf-
dents opinions. A. -. ->.ss.
The president has reached this ground with
out discussing the merits of the Dingley law
1t is we'll known to those who are in his con-
fdence that he expects revision of the tariff
and his friends look for him to set the ball
in motion with message to congress in De-
cember, 1904. But there will be nothing
doing" before that time.
The facts set forth In this statement have
| been published good many times as rumors,
but they may now be accepted as represent
too good a politician to involve his party in
| tariff war just as presidential campaign
is beginning. ,..s.r Att>., 81
The history of the Mckinley bill and the
1892 election is still fresh in his mind.
| Don't Want Lee Statue.
It has been practically settled that the
Grand Army of the Republic, at it's annual
| encampment in San Francisco next month,
will ask congress, In the name OF the old
soldiers of the, civil war, to amend the
f the OF
airy hall at the capitol, by providing that no
statue shall ever be installed there Of man
who has borne arms against his country. The
| raGn1nti0n which
| will pass will be couched in temperate Ian
guage, but there will be no mistaking it's
purpose or the seriousness Of the old soldiers
| Virginia shall not have statue Of General
Robert E. Lee in statuary hall, and members
of congress who do not help them will be
| marked for slaughter. -.,......
Prominent members of the Grand Army in
| this city say that resolutions against the
| Lee statue have been passed by practically
every post and commandery of the Loyal
| Legion in the country and that these reso-
| lutions have been sent to the delegates to the
annual encampment in every state. The de-
mand upon the encampment for action rep
resenting the old soldier body as whole will
be so strong that it cannot be resisted
e has no ys IS makng pans
that direction. 1t is believed that she will
continue them to f1nality, now that the
question Of her right to honor Lee in this h
congress-. The federal law regulating this
matter is very general in terms, and each
|
choose for this honor. So far as the law is
concerned, for instance. there is nothing tc
prevent statue OF Jefferson Davis from be-
ing placed in the capitol.
He Has No Candidate.
) All efforts to entangle the president in the
, meshes of the .vice-presidential controversy
have failed, and will fail. He is taking nc
;. personal interest in the selection of run.
. ming mate, and Is satisfied that the nationa
convention will make wise selection. He
| ho1 nf of ar wi
come from some state west of the Alleghaniei
but does not care from what state. Effort
+ have been made to get him to commit him
J self regarding the proposed candidacy Of sew
i eral western men, but he has carefully re
Trained from expressing an opinion, and will
not admit even to his closest friends. tina
, he. cares what the convention may do He Il
aware that there is a strong sentiment In tn
republican party favorable to the nomination
opinion that Beverdge's place is in the sen
ate, but should he be nominated the presiden
: knows that he would add strength to tn
: ticket and make brilliant speaking cam
= paign. He is not throwing his influence o.
either side Of the Beveridge proposition:
Governor Cummins of Iowa, next to Beve
I ridge, Is at present being most talked about
. He, too, would make brilliant speakin
! campaign and the president would not objec
. to having him on the ticket. But he does no
!. propose to say that he wants Cummins
d This idea of having man for second plac
: who make telling public. speech J
$ taking strong hold Of party leaders TIL
president will be unable to contribute any
thing to the campaign. His official postio
will make this improper, and for that reaso
there is argument in favor of having som
strong speaker on the ticket, a man who ca
tour the country as Roosevelt did in 1901
Beveridge would be an ideal candidate fro1
this point of view, but his own dsinclnatior
nay, his positive opposition, stands in tn
way. There was originally some objection
Cummins, growing out Of his pronounce
!, tariff revision views but the action OF til
y Iowa republican convention Of last week hs
= brought the Iowa party into line with til
x president and the other party leaders, an
Cummins is therefore probably the mo-
. available man for vice president at the pre-
ent moment.
IN 1t is known positively in Washington tn;
10 while not seeking the nomination, he wou
1, not decline it. and his canvass for re-electio
: in Iowa this year, on the platform adopte
- - last week, will probably bring him into il
- creased prominence as vice. PRESIDENT!
possibility. His nomination would probabl
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