Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-29
.A PLATFORM FOR ALL
Believed That State Convention
Will End Any fractional
Differences
SCHEMES TO CREATE DIscoRD
In Spite Of These, There Appears to
Be Nothing in Sight But Harmoni-
Gus Convention-Some Facts About
the Parliamentary Pominent Dele
gates Will Attend.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 29.-Republicans
have already commenced to arrive in
! the city prepared to remain for the
week of the republican state convention.
Gov. A. b. Cummins arrived home from
| Waynesburg, Pa, where he delivered
the commencement address for his
alma mater and visited at the scenes
of his childhood The delegates already
the small army that will be here on
| Tuesday and Wednesday-every coun-
ty in the state represented, many with
double delegations and visitors in ad-
dition. All interest centers in the plat
form utterance of the convention. me
prevailing thought of the convention
will be elimination of factional differ
lences. The effort will be to make a
clear and definite statement of the poll
itical views of the majority or the Iowa
Republicans upon the issues of the
| day--rlot an effort to suppress protest
| with mental reservations, not to over
ride opinions and silence criticism, but
| to reach a common ground where all
may stand with security. Leaders OF
the party are confident that platform
| will be prepared and adopted that Will
meet with the approval of all repub-
licans. one that will be hailed by the
most ardent stand patter as just to his
liking, and yet which will so contain
the essence of all that the revisionists
have contended for that they will be
first to support the platform The dis
cussion will be before the adoption of
the platform and not afterwards. Some
weakness was felt in the position last
year when the platform was adopted
unanimously in convention and after
the convention the bitterest controver-
sizes arose among the delegates who
had attended. a little later a confer
ence of candidates was held which
sefsrei onfN TO reopen the whole con-
/ tr6vlrs rsy over trivial details and de-
/ velop that the work Of the convention
was after all only superficial. In this
respect at least, the democrats both
last year and this were wiser, for they
brought their differences before their
conventions, debated them fairly and
frankly in the open and fought out their
factional troubles before the tickets
We're nominated Now it is proposed
that whatever Of differences the repub-
Ilieans have shall be fought out before
the convention closes its work, so that
there can be no complaining afterwards.
When the convention adjourns it is be-
lieved that an end will be put to fac
tional matters in the party.
1 yrl,- to- I,a; -fa}
ton the past week deliberately de-
clined to place any embarrassments
lin the way of the republicans for this
week. A plan had been we'll laid to
Ihave the democrats adopt n tariff plank
that would indorse the so-called Iowa
idea as the democrats did last year.
and go little further in trying TO
make it appear that the republican po-
sition is in full accord with the dem
ocratic view This scheme was care
fully nurtured by some claiming to be
republicans but spelling for factional
differences in the party. They went
among the democratic delegates and
lurged them to indorse the Iowa idea
and to declare that Gov. Cummins was
of their kind. A resolution to that ef-
feet was carried before the resolutions
committee and the representative OF
republican newspaper of DeS MONIES
was in the committee room of the dem
ocrats during most of the deliberations
over the platform. But the majority
| of the committee utterly repudiated
the scheme and nothing was done. AT
the same time rumors were brought to
the state from Washington cleverly
planned to bring about factional dis
i cord 1t was hoped that leaders OF
the former factions might each gain
the notion that they We're just about
to be sold out" that on both sides
there would be resentment of the ef-
| forts of the peacemakers to find a COM
mon ground that as a result some who
are less thoughtful than others might
| say and do things that would cause the
party embarrassment at u confessedly
critical time. But all the schemes of
! democrats and factionalists have
proved abortive and there today APP
pears to be nothing in sight but .
| harmonious convention.
The platform of the Iowa republicans
will be one that will tit in well with
the attitude of the party in the past.
i 1t will be one that Will meet the views
of Gov Cummins and Senator Allison
and j. w. Blythe and George ID. Per
kins, and A. B. Funk and Col. Hep
burn and John Herriott and Major La
cey and all the rest. Gov. CumminS
| stated before the convention in this
county which gave him rousing In
| ldorsement that he would not only ad-
here to the iowa idea" but would
endeavor to carry that idea into the
| republican national convention and
| have il adopted there. 1t begins to look
very much like he will be able to make
| the Iowa idea" the idea OF the repub-
icans of the nation from the way ii
has been received all over the country
The state convention will this weel
| make IL clear statement OF that idea,
clearer and better than ever before. ani
it will be practically the plank that the
Iowa delegation in 1904 VIII carry te
! the national convention. II the lowe
| convention should, by reason of the
rachinations Of factionists refuse (
adopt u platform containing this ide;
in spirit and in essence, the conven-
| ton would have to seek Il candidate fol
| governor other than A. b. G. mmins.