The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-16
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10000, 900 the money has been expended
TO good advantage Probably the cost
has been much less than that. But that
SITUATIONS such as now confront the re-
publican party In Minnesota and Iowa
have come about without artificial aid,
IT Is ridiculous to believe. s5tg >: 5t
u the people Of these states had been
let alone, / know that revision platforms
would be generally adopted, and no man
would be sent as a delegate to Chicago
who was not in sympathetic touch with
those platforms. - No. eastern stately
when mean a state east Of the, Alle-
ghenies-will In Its spring platform in
dorse revision; and II no western or mid
dle western state. does SO, the work Of
handling the national convention and
committing it unresefvedly to the stand
pat" policy will be very simple and easy
of accomplishments: --..--
In other words, the trusts were
afraid, that tariff revision sentiment
In the middle west would show itself
this spring in state platforms and in the
personality Of delegates chosen to the
Chicago convention; and so they got
busy at an early hour, and seem to
have made, sure Of preventing such
an occurrence. -; ;5>s
Such a policy is not as daring as
might. be thought, The republican
candidate for the presidency will be
Theodore. Roosevelt. All thought Of
attempting to oppose his nomination
was abandoned some time ago. With
that abandonment came the adoption
OF the policy of controlling revision
sentiment and sending enough t'stand-
pat" delegates to Chicago from those
states to, strongly emphasize the plat
form utterances.
Attitude of President.
The president at heart is not radi-
| cal protectionist. His tariff views, so
far as known, correspond very nearly
with those held by the rank and file
Of republicans in Minnesota, Iowa,
! Kansas, Wisconsin and the other
states where so much missionary
work seems lately to. have been done.
| II there is to be revision of the tariff
during the next political quadrennum,
| the president will have to bring. it
about by q message to congress, and
by many it is believed that such a
message will be written, either at the
short session of the. present congress,
next December, or at the opening of
| the ffty-ninth congress, a year later.
| It will be remembered that early in
/ the winter an agent of Wall street
conferred with the president, trying to
find out what he purposed doing about
several matters. If elected. Among
| tAS l1ldIlSIS. u1SCuSS6Q were Ifle con-
/ tinuation@ of prosecution against the
trusts, certain conditions 2 likely tc
grow out tof the supreme courts mer-
ger decision. and the tariff.
| Wall street wanted to be assured
that the president, if elected, woul6
pursue safe policy with regard t.
all these questions. It will be further
remembered that the Wall street gen.
tleman was shown out of the White
| House with scant courtesy. =
# The revisionists may as we'll aban
don all thought of obtaining anything
from the republican Sarty in it's Ma
tional platform this year. The "mis
sionary'' work done in Minnesota
vision states very clearly foreshadow
the utterances Of the national plat
form. ~: