Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-05-11
IOWA IDEA PROVES TAXING
Report That President Roosevelt and Gum
Minis are Of One Mind
SLIGHT CHANGE IN vERBlAeE OF PLATFORM

| senator Allison Said to Have Been
Delegated the Task of bringing
over Rest of the Iowa
Delegation.
CHICAGO. May 1O--A special to the
scord-Herald from Sioux City, Ia, says:
, resident Roosevelt Senator Allison and
! Governor Cummins have agreed on the
tarin plank of the republican national
/ platform Of 1904. IL they succeed in their
purpose the tariff reform idea advocated
| by Governor Cummins will be embodied In
that platform in general though not speci-
! nc terms
The words shelter for monopoly which
| caused the chief opposition to the Iowa
platforms of the last two years because
| by implication they asserted that tariff
might afford shelter to monopoly, will be
eliminated, but the word monopoly" will
be used In almost the same sense
Governor Cummins recently visited
Washington to consult with President
Roosevelt upon the latter's invitation. Dur
| Ing the presidents trip through Iowa the
| governor was closeted with him for twelve
! hours in his private Office on the special
train. Governor Cummins presented to the
president letter from Mr.. Allison in
| which the senator outlined to him the re-
suit of two conferences between Messrs
Cummins and Allison. The president
heartily approved the program therein
mapped out.
This program in brief was that the Iowa
platform to be adopted at the state conven.
ton to be held July should be modified in
the manner outlined above, and that Gov
ernor Cummins previously expressed de.
fhof kt1 yNIo
In the next national platform should have
their joint support. They agreed that Gov
ernor Cummins' views had been misinter-
preted and maliciously misrepresented and
that they were substantially those of
Roosevelt and Allison.
Terms of "IOwa" Plank.
The Iowa idea fathered by Cummins,
which appeared in the two last republican
state platforms is as follows
We stand by the historic policy OF the
home industries and point for its ample
Ylndlcation to the extraordinary rapidty
win Whlch our national resources have
been developed and our Industrial and finan-
ciai independence secured. We favor such
changes IN the tariff from time to time as
become advisable through the progress of
our industries and their changing rela-
lions to the commerce of the world We
natural complement of protection and urge
Its development as necessary to the realiz3-
We favor, any modification OF the tariff
scneuules that may be required to prevent
their anording a shelter to monopoly.
Views of CummIns.
At the Washington conference the presi-
dent sought to ascertain exactly the ortho-
doxy OF Cummins' principles. 1t was then
discovered that the president and the, Cow
ernor could practicaf1y agree by utilizing
fffA
adopted at the St Louis convention. Gov
ernor Cummins declared that the st. Louis
declaration was as radical as he ever
thought of advocating
Senator Allison was then approached as
the one influential member of the Iowa
delegation at Washington capable of bring
ing his colleagues around to the Cummins'
idea.
The result was the eventual agreement
that the st. Louis platform plank, as 1t will
be rewritten. shall be- in substance:
we are not pledgedto any particular
scheoules' The question of rates Is prac-
ucai one, 10 be governed by the conditions
OF the time and of production; the ruling
lection and development of American labor
and industries. Reciprocity and protection
6snd I~in IN bsSd measures OF republican policy go
what we produce and free admission for
duce. "'' P'o7
Fight over the idea.
The fight over the Iowa idea has been Of
long standing and has found all the old
Iowa political leaders bitterly denouncinR
Cummins as a free trader instead of a pro-
tectionist Secretary. Shaw has been his
particular opponent. Congressman Hull
Hepburn. Lacey, Cousins and the others
have been scarcely less his foes and even
nf crfoN
garded him largely in the light of hereto
Senator Dolliver alone has stood by Cum
minis. His great personal magnetism and
the disfavor acquired by the so-called ma
chine" however. enabled Cummins over
whelmingly to control every state conven-
tion and to secure an unparalleled vote at
the general election.
Senator Allison, while apparently training
with the machine" or anti-Cummins fac
tion, was careful to avoid becoming act
lively connected with the fight. In his early
political career he was twice defeated he
cause he was declared to be somewhat of a
free trader
After Cummins' visit TO Roosevelt a meet
ing between Cummins and Allison was ar
ranged, at which a mutual understa ndinp
was arrived at Allison urged Cummins 10
modify his views. but the latter. cone5apt
in his personal following, steadfastIv in
sisted that tariff reform must be advocated
and that his own ideas in general prevail
Allison then, as concession to the other
faction, suggested Congressman Hepburn
for temporary chairman Of the state con-
vention. Here again Curnmlns had his
way and suggested George D. Perkins.
former congressman and editor of the Jour
nal of this city as a neutral chairman.
It was then agreed that Allison should
write the platform, but that It should he
along the lines agreed upon. and practi-
cally dictated by Cummlns though not de-
parting materially from the national plat
form OF 1896