Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-25
EOOKER-0N IN IOWA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Mingo, July "a. = To doubt the
lrepublicanism of the staid, old
Hartford (Conn.) Courant re-
quires more higher criticism" than to
Indulge in the same action concerning
the Old Testament. So what it has TO
say in recent issue about the late
Iowa republican state convention is of
Interest. Hear it:
They have renominated Governor
Albert B. Cuminins-the man who has
ideas and the courage thereof-with
great shout of reclamation.
They have also acclaimed his frank
announcement from the desk of the
state convention that he's going to do
what he can and all he can to make his
ideas about the tariff and reciprocity
the prevailing ideas of the republican
party.
More than that they have again
embodied those reasonable, sensible
IiGeas in their platform. They too
stand pat They are protectionists, but
rot fossilized protectionists. They are
for a tariff without individual favorit-
ism or domestic monopoly in 1t, and
adjusting itself from time to time to
the actual requirements. Duties that
are too high they would lower and du-
/, ties that are too low they would IN
crease. Their doctrine is that tariffs
are made for man. and not man for tar
lifts. 1t is the Henry Clay and Abraham
EIincoln doctrine.
WHO drew up this Iowa tariff plank?
President Roosevelt didn't, tho we'd
be willing to risk a cookie on the propo-
81, 10 il.nc
has been ascribed to Senator Allison.
but this seems to be an error. Writing
from Des Moines Tuesrav night, cor
respondent of the Washington Post re-
ports that the question was put TO Gov
ernor Cummins and that he replied:
The plank was drafted by me on the
26th of April and it was placed in the
| platform today without the change of
word
The four words. 'affording shelter to
monopoly which had such a curious
effect on the nerves of Messrs. Shaw.
Henderson and Hepburn last year, are
not in the plank this year. Perhaps they
were omitted from motives of human-
lily. In view of what is in, the matter
is unimportant. We are no more welded
| to particular forms of words than the
republican national convention OF 1895
was to particular schedules"
| And this same down east paper, pub
IHshed within 100 miles of Senator AL
drich's sacred realms. quotes approx
| ingly from the Washington Star, under
| the headlines of The Des Moines Ut
| terance-What 1t Signifies and What 1t
ForeshadoWs:"
.srhe platform of the Iowa republic
| ans is now before the country. and
surely its treatment of the tariff ques-
ton is entirely acceptable to every
| friend of tariff revision. What is
known as the Iowa idea is most dis
tinctly endorsed. Governor Cummins,
Its foremost advocate and representaS
| tive, is the nominee by acclamauoG for
| re- election. and his party at nome Is
enthusiastically behind him. What
more could the tariff revision1sts ask
| of Iowa? And If Governor Cummins is
re elected, as seems almost certain,
after a campaign conducted by him ag-
gressiyely in explanation of his views,
how will it be possible for the next re-
publican national convention to frame
its tariff deliverance on other than re-
vision lines?
This result in Iowa has never been
| in serious doubt. The effort has been
made not only by some standpatters,
but by the political opponents of the
Republican revisionists, to confuse the
situation. and even to misrepresent the
tissue. Protection, as we all know, has
never been assailed by the revisionists.
Nor has the wisdom which fashioned
I'LL 1nan
| bv them. They have been at pains at
all times to pay tribute both to pro-
lection and to the sagaci.y and patriot
ism of the men who applied that policy
to the conditions which prevailed at
the time. six years ago. OF the return OF
the party of protection to power. AT
Des Moines, therefore, 1t was but
question of giving an intelligent ex-
preston to views which had never been
challenged by anything more convinc-
ing than the lofty generalization to
stand pat
"Of course we can not stand pat In
| the sense In which it Is urged by the
| Aldrich wing of the republican party.
Laws which make for progress must, in
| the very nature of things, when prog
lress comes, be changed. They must
be adjusted to suit the conditions they
assist in producing. The Dingley bill
l. was passed to meet an emergency. 1t
very much more than accomplished its
object. The emergency has long since
passed. Where there was depression
then there is buoyancy now. So that
we need to have the law which has
brought us out of the valley of the
shadow of death changed to help us
along the highway of sunlight and
prosperity. That is all the revisionists
are asking. Less than that the country
can not afford to accept.
"Revision is coming. Ohio has
spoken for it. Iowa follows. The SEN
timent is strong. and is growing. Every
month of prosperity adds to the ne
cessity of overhauling our tariff sched-
ules in the interests of equity and COM
mon sense
The writer has been trying to get
some democratic opinion concerning the
present situation and fails-for TINS
reason: He can not find the democrats.
This referring to the people and not TO
the few leading politicians. One thing
stands out plainly: the silver wing of
the democratic party Is terribly dis
|gruntled by the action of the last con-
vention. and the hard money crowd.
not being exactly sure Of their new ma
iority position, are keeping mum and
mot rubbing 1t into the Bryanites. Both
wings of the party. that is. the few
representatives the writer has met, are
fiTsiC In \, "a