Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-28
He Wants the National Plat
form Declared Identical
With Iowa Utterance
REGARDING DEsPuTED ISSUES.
Thinks Adoption of Resolution of
Which He Has Offered a Draft,
Would Settle the Matter-Platform
Perfectly Plain to Him - State Ex-
ecutive Council Hearings.
pecial to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 2S.-A Des Moines
republican has offered the following as
the draft of resolution he says he
would like to see introduced at the
republican state convention in Des
Moines in July in the interest Of har-
lnoay ard to prevent speakers from
fol owing the we'll worn precedents Of
the parry:
Resolved that it IS the sense of the
Iowa republicans that the national re-
publican Ia form adopted at Chicago
June % i9ti. Is identical in purpose
and meaning with the Iowa republican
platform adopted at Des Mo nes MAY
poses of tile party with regard to re-
I:s'on AMI reciprocity, and that it ad-
mits of no concession that tariff
schedules should be revised or altered
or ripped nor any argument in favor of
reciprocal arrangements for the extern
sion of our foreign trade; and the re-
publican state committee is instructed
to not make speaking dates for any
orator who has not subscribed to this
statement Of the ri.per Interpretation
of the party platform"
Il believe this would settle it, he
said. THE platform is perfectly plain,
and it is Just like the platform we
adopted in Iowa. The fact thae ol-
IOWA member OF the committee got o.1
the minority side and joined with
Idaho Nevada AMI ether progressive
states in opposing the seatement of the
platform makers proves conclusively to
me that our Iowa convention of NJ iy
last was SURPRISING in its great ws-
dom. Wa've go. to make 1t plain To
the people that We SIRE not democrats
and free traders
Tie hearings of the state executive
councii of Iowa on the reports of rail
road companies, express, telegraph,
telephone, freight lines, etc, will begin
July IL and last all the week. 1t is not
anticipated that there will be any ex-
tended argument before the council in
egard to the railroad assessments or
on any other subject. The whole sub
ject was exhausted last year and the
council has the same membership as
at that time. The enormous raise In
railroad assessments was made at that
time to make up for some failure of
previous councils to keep pace with
the growth of the business. This year
there will be no report of assessment
of real estate in the state. Last year
the council had this problem of equal
izing assessments before it and met
difficult problem in a heroic manner.
changes merely for the purpose
of equalizing as between counties, but
in some cases aroused indignation by
this action This year the telephone
assessment work is likely to take
much longer time than usual, as the in
crease in number of companies contin-f
ues In regard to the freight line COM
panies there will be some work, for
the law was changed and reports are
different this year from what they were
last year. This branch of the assess
ment work has never proved very sat
isfactory and the taxes received from
this source will not be large.
One of the new books of fiction is
Confessions of Retired Politician
Dy TOTTtSl SliSSGS' anu 'tio W ~ -e''
interesting book. Governor Cummins
received, on his return from Chicago,
a copy of this book from the author
in which he had written: May the
man of the Iowa idea never write him
self a retired politician" The author
keeps close tab on current affairs in the
nation.
State Treasurer Gilbertson was un-.
able to attend the republican national
being detained in the state
by a lawsuit, but one of his friends
that he had taken the trouble
to make inquiries among the lowans
who attended the convention at Chi
cago and found no sentiment in favor
of bringing out candidate to oppose
1t is now practically certain that the
brigade encainpments for Iowa ma
tional guard Will be held near Des
Moines on the ground that will be pur-
chased for permanent camps. The ne-
gotiations are making some progress
in that direction.