The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-16
"SIANDPATIERS'
SHAPE SENTIMENT.
missionary" Workers Succeed in
Turning West From Tariff
Revision.
Campaign Managed in the East
Checks the Reciprocity
Movement.
Leaders Expect to Induce Min
nesota Convention to Adopt
Their Policy.

From Tho Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington.
Washington, March 16.-There are
a good many republican tariff re-
visionists in congress, and recent hap
penings in the middle west have set
them guessing. Knowing how strong
republican sentiment Is in that quarter
for a revision of the tariff at as early
date as practicable, these republi-
can congressman are at a loss to un
derstand how it is that in such states
as Minnesota, Iowa and, Kansas there
is apparently q strong disposition on
the part Of republican leaders to COM
nit the party to ''standpat" policy.
Kansas last week held her state
convention for the selection Of dele
gates at large to Chicago. The plat
form she adopted was to all intents
and purposes Of a 'standpat" char
acter.
In those parts of Iowa which have
minis, representing revision sentiment,
have been routed, and it is conceded
here by the Iowa members of the
house Of representatives, that the
state convention, called to meet at Des
Moines, May 10, will complete the
work thus begun, and announce to
| the country that Cumm1ns has only q
fractional following in the Iowa party.
| In Iowa, also, the program of the
| leaders Is to send as delegates some
| Of the most noted "standpat" repub-
licans in the state. notably J. w.
Blythe Of Burlington, who is the agent
in Iowa politics Of the Burlington
railway system.
"Standpat'' Platform.
In Minnesota, the understanding
here is that the ''standpatters'' will
control the state convention, called
to meet at Minneapolis, March II,
and compel the adoption Of plat
form which will commit the party
Of the state to that policy. In addi-
ton, it is apparently the intention
to send as a part Of the Minnesota
delegation to Chicago, several Of the
strongest antirevisiontsts in the state.
! There Is a very strong belief here
that an effective campaign has been
made In the states named-and per-
haps it has extended to Wisconsin, Ne
braska and the Dakotas-to secure the
adoption of platforms and the election
Of delegates to Chicago unfriendly to
tariff revision. This campaign, it is
| also believed, has been managed and
financed from the east, by men and
interests who are heavy beneficiaries
| Of existing tariff schedules, and who
| think that if sentiment in favor Of re-
vision can be checked in the great
middle west republican states, where
| it is strongest, there will be no Hkeli.
hood of tariff changes at least for an.
other quadrennial period.
The question these members of con.
gress are asking is: How is it thai
stand pat sentiment has been per.
mitted to develop in revision strong.
holds?"
Speaking on this subject to-day, one
Of the best known congressman from
the Mississippi valley, an influential re-
republican, and a revisionist, said tt
me:
T don't know how much it has cos
the tstandpatters" to shape party senti
ment to their liking in the middle west
but will say that if it has cost then