Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-07-30
THE NATIONAL PLATFORM,
That of Iowa Republican COnventisn N
NjH in All Probability
lie Adopted.

The Boston Herald's Washington cor
respondent sums up the prevailing SEN
timent at the national capital and says
the Iowa platform will be adopted by
the national convention next year. This
is the disinterested opinion of a nom
partisan observer The Herald is in
dependently democratic, and like other
democratic papers, rather inclined to
disparage the tariff revision sentiment
in Iowa. The democrats intend to make
the campaign next year on this issue,
and will monopolize it if they can. To
this end they agree with substantial
unanimity that the Iowa idea is now
dead and buried. But the Herald with
more fairness than the democratic press
in general, says:
1.-THE Iowa tariff and trust planks. writ
ten by Senator Allison and accepted by all
factions in the republican state conve Mt tion,
may he adopted as part of the republican
platform at the national convention next
year They were read with the greatest in
terest by public men here in view of the
fierce fight in the past between the tariff
re"isonists and the stand patters' in tho
re. bliCan party of Iowa. The mastery
ham, of Senator Allison. prince of concll-
iators and gifted in compromise, had
wrought out planks which were as salts
factory to the radicals as to the cOnserva-
tives. and acceptable as well to President
Roosevelt. Governor Cummins, as the
leader of the radicals, and the Iowa mem
bers of the cabinet Secretary Shaw and
Secretary Wilson, with other conserva-
tives, agreed that Senator Allison was the
man to draft the declaration that would
harmCnlZe the differences and he has sue
CtElgl in doing The Iowa rful1i1' re n .
have taken. through his guidance what is
President RooseVclts position, and what
will undoubtedly be the position of the
republican national convention in 1854 If
the committee on resolutions in that con
vention,s of which Senator Lodge may be
chairman, does not adopt the Iowa tariff
and trust declarations in phrase, it will do
so in fact and the convention will adopt its
report. Tariff revision is promised. The
fact remains, however, that tariff revision
Will not be begun during the life of the
present congress. 1t has been set aside for
the time being at least. In the minds and
plans of the high protectionists II has been
set aside until after the presidential eec-
ton, and this means until after the next
presidential Inauguration and until the
next congress convenes in December, 1896,
unless earlier called in extra session"
This is not an unfair statement of the
the situation, says the Des Moines Re-
gister and Leader The Iowa platform
promises revision, but not until the first
congress of the new administration as
sembles, unless an extra session should
be called after the presidential election
There is no reason to believe the Her
AIDS correspondent is not right in his
guess that the Iowa idea will be the ma
tional idea next year. 1t is known to be
the Roosevelt idea. 1t is incorporated in
planks that have been carefully drawn
and that have been indorsed by the re-
publican leaders. The national conven-
tion cannot do better if it tries, and it
will have little disposition to try.