Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-25

IN IOWA:


Humboldt, April 24.-As the time OF
calling the state republican convention
draws near one hears more or less talk
all along the line. What follows is the
expression more of the people rather
than of the politicians. 1t would seem
that the Cummins crowd" n and
two years G did not care particular
ly about the so-called Iowa idea
They voted it into the state platform
because they believed III a revision of
the tariff from time to tire as the bust
ness interests of the country demanded,
but with no more tendency towards free
trade thar the editor of the American
Economist has today. Then came the
fight on Cummins, using the Iowa
idea" as a club to pound him and his
followers. This closed UP the ranks
and made his sentiments on tariff re-
form those Of his hencllmen all over
Iowa. And SO when lately the Blythe
interview appeared, repeating a sug-
question that Senator Allison write the
tariff plank in the com:rg convention,
the "Cummins crowd were willing to
accept the olive branch knowing full
Well that they could vote down any
plank that would place Nh. Cummins in
Il false position in accepting a renomi-
nation for the governorship.
But the Insurgents OF the Capital,
the Cedar Rapids Republican. the
Hawkeye and the lesser weeklies, who
We're disgruntled because the editors
thereof failed to &c. a nomi-
nation for office or had some
pet state institution placed be-
You'd their ~pap-sucking proclivities,
Immediately commenced to crow: The
Iowa idea crowd wes whipped" This
year it would be taken out of the plat
form. Free trade republicans would not
This followed by a knowledge of the
bureau of Iowa congressman sending
broadcast letters to Iowa farmers
asking. do you want free hides, free
beef, poultry, eggs, butter. grain" etc,
knowing full well in advance what the
answers would be, ana presumably
getting such letters for use in the mex
convention. All this has brought to the
of the Cummins crowd that pos
sibly the Blythe interview vas a bait
q sort of soothing potion to lull them in
to security. OF course the Cummins men
that this Blythe interview was
made public at just this time so that
the stand patters" would thus, in any
event, avoid the stigma of being
down at the next convention.
With truth after the convention they
can say. I'VE proposed to have Senator
Allison write the tariff plank, and we
satisfied" But suppose by hook or
crook, thru the aid of the coterie of
Iowa congressman, aided by the bu-
reau of information from the farmers,
they should manage to get control of
the next convention and go back on the
tariff plank of the two previous con-
ventions, where will this leave Governor
and the so-calied Iowa idea?
With this all in mind the delegates from
Iowa are going to the
convention prepared ito speak
but carrying a big stick" They
are willing to accept the situation as
expressed in the Blythe Interview. But
they are going with their eyes opened
by the unwise present talk and proceed
of the "insnrgents.' And the moral
Of this,t advice to be given the ma1con-
tents, is don't row TIL you're out of
the woods" Don't claim you've licked
your mar till you've got him down
and have choked the life cut of him. All
while, "brutally frank" is speak
ing after the manner of men" lin north
western Iowa).