Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-16
WARM Fight B
NOT IMPROBABLE
Conjectures on Possible Makup
and Action of Republican
Resolutions Committee
WILL THE CONSERVATIVES VIM
At Least Four or Five of the Eleven
Members of the Committee Will BE
Men Who Will Stand For the Party
Prinoiples-status of the Various
Districts.
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Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, May l6.--With the dele
CATION to the national convention from
Iowa practically disposed of in advance
save in a few instances, attention will
be turned to the makeup of the COM
mittee on resolutions of the state re-
publican convention. This committee
consists of eleven men selected in dis
trict caucuses to be held on the morn
ing of the state convention. Much de-
pends on the personnel of this commit
tee and doubtless the ablest men of the
party Will again be selected to go upon
that committee and to prepare the plat
the committee is wise there will be a
perfect love feast at the convention.
But it is altogether within proba-
bility that the committee will fall into
hands of persons who viii want to say In
a formal way, just what they have
been saying In the preliminary CAM
paign- The chance for a fight is excel
lent. 1t will be easier to go wrong than
to go right.
il there is to be report from the
committee on resolutions embodytng a
statement of principles antagonistic to
previous statements which have been
unanimously indorsed In Iowa, IL the
standpatters are to really stand pat on
their position. If there is to be condem-
nation of reciprocity and revision and
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iff changes such as have been advocated
in Iowa the past half dozen years--then
there will be the warmest fight on the
floor of the convention witnessed in
many years.
A report from the resolutions COM
mittee that would exclude the tariff re-
visionists of Iowa from participation
in party affairs. at least until after the
national convention has reopened the
door, would mean a minority report
placed before the convention.
There will be at least four or five OF
the eleven members of the committee
who will be conservative men and who
will stand for the party principles. The
First, Fourth. Tenth and Eleventh dis
tricts may be depended on to place on
the committee men who will not toler-
ate any repudiation of the platforms
which were adopted unanimously In the
state conventions of the past and the
national platforms from which these
state utterances were taken. 1t is GER
tain that the Tenth will send George
e. Roberts to the committee again, and
coming fresh from Washington he will
have great weight. The Second district
will place on the committee some man
like ex-Congressman Joe Lane, who
would plan for conservative platform.
1t is possible that the Third district will
name a man like Senator Allison. who
had a part in the preparation of the
state platforms. or Congressman Bird
sail The Seventh district will have on
the committee Lafe Young. who is on
record as declaring that all tariff
changes are obnoxious. whether by re-
publicans or democrats. He presented
typical standpat resolutions to the Polk
county committee on resolutions at
the last convention, but was turned
down, and if there are to be standpat
resolutions presented to the state con-
vention, he is looked upon as the man
to do 1t.
But a majority report presenting
standpat resolutions and practically re-
versing the party policy in the state,
would call for minority report pre-
senting substantially the state platform
of last year or the national platform OF
1896, or containing the ideas expressed
therein as to tariff revision and reci-
procity. Then there would be fought
out on the floor of the house the ques-
ton of what is really the party senti-
ment. The best debaters of the party
would be drawn into it. Delegates
would be brought face to face with a
in the state.
With the issue sauarely drawn there
are those who believe the result could
not be foretold. 1t would involve, on
the part of many delegates, backing
sauarely out OF their position or putting
the party in Iowa in direct antagonlsm
TO the party in the nation. But II would
make the record of the party. 1t would
show the exact strength of the stand
nat movement III the state. The ad-
yer.ising department of the standpat
has been claiming all but
about ten or Il dozen of the counties of
the state. Their opponents boast that
they could not deliver half of the votes
of the convention for resolutions stat
ing their position
There are those on both sides of the
factionai fight who would welcome
chance to have it out in public. The
claim they have full con-
troll, that a year go the other fellows
had control and they did not hesitate to
indorse tariff revision, and now that
the anti-revisionists have the power
they should proceed to rub it in as hard
as possible The followers of the Iowa
platform on the question of revision
would welcome chance to make a rec-
ord aud show Just where they stand
They would ask that the platform ut
terances of the past be adhered to in
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