Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-11
Lands A D|S|URD[R
Meddlesome Indiana Congress
man Undertakes to Lecture
Iowa Republicans
TALKS MUCH AND SAYS LITTLE
TALKS MUCH AND SAYS LITTLE
incidentally He Has Been Attempting
to Revive the Shaw Boom for the
Vice Presidency-speaker Eaton on
the Iowa situation-No Controversy
Over the Platform.
,pecial to Times-Republlcan.

I Special to Times Republican.
1 Des Moines, April 11.-A number OF
politicians have been in the city this
week and informally the subject of the
|next state platform for Iowa repuoli-
cans is freely discussed among them.
4 The general understanding now is that
there will not be any trouble over the
platform There has been no occasion
lfor any serious disagreement. The inn
portance Of the little differences has
has been magnified by some persons
for obvious reasons. One who appears
Ito have come into the state for the
express purpose of making trouble ana
stirring up discord is Representative
/ Lands, of Indiana, who has been lee
turing little and talking good deal.
Landis in an interview at Waterloo
4 undertook to make 1t appear that the
entire responsibility for the retirement
1 OF Col. Henderson from congress ana
/ the speakers chair was to be placed
on those who signed petition to MIN
4 last year to have him support tariH re-
vision Lands bitterly denounced those
who thus expressed view in harmony
with the state and national platforms
land denounced them for thus forcing
the Iowa man out OF the speaker
chair Incidentally Lands has been
I spreading the Shaw boom for vice
president all over the country and IN
.Isisting that he is the one great states
/ Imam from Iowa who ought now to be
1 elevated by the favors of Iowa people.
lIt appears that Lands has been max
ling his strong talk about Henderson
lat all places in the state where he has
Ilectured. He did SO at Usage. Speak
Ter Eaton, who was in the city this
week, says that Lands talked to him
lat Usage substantially as he was
] & lted ut Waterloo.
i lie ought 70 have known better
said Speaker Eaton. than to go right
/ into the Third district of Iowa, where
the republicans know great deal more
about the Henderson incident than he
does, and undertake there to place the
whole blame on the republicans who
modestly and properly asked him to
stand in line with the Iowa platform
for tariff changes. The republicans OF
Iowa are not to be divided and dis
turbed by any discussion of the Hen
derson matter this year. 1t is entirely
unnecessary. II Henderson had stood
for re- election he would have been re-
elected by the same majority that
Birdsall got. 1t was his blunder."
4
II look for a quiet year politically
in Iowa." said Mr.. Eaton. 1T will be
| lfnnv,
party We have had a good deal of talk
and discussion about the dissensions
among Iowa republicans the past two or
three years. Now as a matter of fac.
1.-The republicans of Iowa are now and
have been all along in line with the
republican party of the nation. There
are no republicans in Iowa who are
advocating anything that is not in per-
| feet harmony with the republican ma
tional platforms. There are no diff
ferences to settle. There is no dis
cord to be ended. The Iowa platform
this year will be good sound republican
doctrine like it has always been. AS
for myself would as soon permit SEN
ator Allison alone to write it, But of
course he will not be delegated to write
| it alone. He perhaps ought to be
on the resolutions committee and be
the dominant factor there. j. ne writes
the platform we may be sure that 1t
will be good republicanism, that it will
be in harmony with the past utterances
of the party, that it will not be out of
harmony with the national administra
! ton. But we may rely on the repub-
| lican state convention producing good
results-a ticket all will support and &
| platform that will reflect the honest
sentiments of the republicans of Iowa.
1.-TWO years ago we had spirited pre-
| .imnary campaign and there was much
/ feeling manifested before the conven-
tion and at it, But when it was over,
/ when the party had spoken, we We're
again all as one. 1t will be so this
| year"
/ State Auditor Carroll has just found
another place where the law against
insurance compacts and combines is
pinching. This was somewhat uneX-
pected. 1t is in the business done by
the mutual assessment fire insurance
companies. AS an incident to the prob
lem of. disposing of the contingent fee
question. which is held 70 be illegal in
such companies. Auaitor Carroll
! learned from the company's reports
that the Property Mutoal Insurance
Company was engaged in charging its
customers an advance contingent fee
based on the Bennett ratings. He no.
tilted the company not only that the
contingent fee was Illegal. but warned
the secretary against making use of
| the Bennett rates or any other fixed
rates as the basis of business. meet
| ing of these mutual companies or of
some of their officials is called for the
purpose of incidentally considering the
contingent fee question. but more
largely for the purpose Of considering
the effect of using the Bennett rates.
In regard to fixed rates or rates made
under an agreement State Auditor Car
roll last evening said:
Il wrote one of the company Off
cials. warning him against making use
of rates or schedules that would sub
iect the company to the charge of en-
tering into combine or compact. or
course If the companies want to go on
and violate the plain statutes of the
state against compacts and fixing rates