Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-19
SUDDEN BACKWARD STEP TAKEN
IN NATIONAL FIGHT A
NOTABLE ONE.
HERRIOTT is A
s.STANDPATTER'

Lieutenant-Go Governor In Timely Ad.
dress at Des Moines Last Evening
Declares in Unmistakable Terms
Against Tariff Ripping.
[BY LEON BROWN.l
Des Moines Bureau of the Courier.
Des Moines, March 1e.
There is a decided feeling of relief
among the republicans generally. 1t
was evident to the thoughtful men that
if the bitter factional strife was kept
up within the party In the state it
might be unfortunate for the national
situation. All eyes were on Iowa. The
national leaders were wondering what
the state would do on the tariff ques-
ton. The compromise of 1903 was not
satisfactory to any body but it was un-
dertaken with view of carrying the
state over the presidential campaign
without involving it in a struggle which
might threaten the national ticket
not because Iowa is doubtful but be-
cause the agitation against the repub-
lican principle of 1895 might involve
some of the doubtful states in row
that would result disastrously. Then
| the governor came out in his inaugur-
al, not for the platform of 1903 but for
| free trade between Canada and the
United States in natural products. This
at once aroused the farmers of the
state. For instance at Minburn the
| farmers passed instructions for the fol-
| lowing national convention delegates
at large from Iowa-Senators Allison
and Dolliver, j. w. Blythe and Robert
G. Cousins, omitting the governors IS
name altogether.
Winnebago Too Strong.
But if the Winnebago county repub.
licans had not adopted the resolutions
which they did, perhaps the fight
might not have taken on exactly the
| shape it did. Those resolutions, which
are understood to have been carried
to Forest City from the capitol in this
city, declared, not for the plank of the
Iowa platform of 1908, not for the gov
ernor's inaugural address idea that
there should be free trade in Canadian
natural products, but declared for as
free trade relations between the United
States and Canada as there existed be-
tween the states of this Union.
Well, this declaration probably was
the straw that broke the camers back
Word came in from all over: "We
can't stand it; it's going too far" The
farmers began to be heard. There
were quiet conferences in the country
at nightfall, after the work was done
An attack on the republican principle
Of protection seemed to threatened
i Mr.. Funk WithoraWs.
And now the whole scheme has fall
en- fiat. Mr.. Funk has quit. The Cum
Minis people admit that the fight is
over. Mr.. Blythe will go on the lowe
delegation without opposition. The
Iowa plank of 1903 may be reaffirmed
At least there will be no effort to inject
into the national convention and plat
form the contention for which the gov
ernor stood in his inaugural address
and the Winnebago county republicans
stood in their resolutions.
State Treasurer Gilbertson is from
j WinneDago county which he controls
u politically. There will be no fight or
i him at the second state convention fol
/ denomination for a third term.
4 Herriott's Timely Address.
i Lieutenant Governor John Herrioti
made hit at the Grant club meeting
i last night. His argument for protec
ton and the national platform of 1896
was model. '"It has been suggested
i he said ''that the Iowa convention oi
May 1S, could do no better than re
i adopt the plank In the national plat
form of 1896, on the tariff question. A
1 right settlement, and then the country
wants rest. That was the language
The immortal Mckinley and Hanna
drafted it.
"The right settlement came in 1897
when the Dingley tariff was adopted
said the lieutenant governor. "Ther
the country rested but during its res
the most lavish prosperity came, more
lavish than had been dreamed posi-
BILE, So lavish that it frightened its
beneficiaries and they began to hum
means to chain it down.
"The trust appeared The tariff rip
!, tariff tinkering. But the Presiden
said it would do no good, and the trus
fell of it's own weight, destroying the
argument that the tariff ever sheltered
trusts. The history of steel and leather
i and salt and shipping would convince
the most foolish man that the tarif
cannot affect the trust. So the tarif
rippers dropped the trust remedy prop
osition and adopted reciprocity as tn,
means of getting at the vitals of thu
republican doctrine of protection. Thi
| is being whooped mp for all it il
worth
What He Meant.
4 This is not the language of Mr.. Her
riott His language was calm, digni
| fed, polished and perfectly effective
But he meant these things-that tariff
a ripping ought not to be indulged in OF
the eve of presidential campaigl