Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-25
BOTH J ACTIONS
ARE SATISFIED
Republican National Platform
the Subject of Paramount
Interest at Des Moines
sTANDPATTERs CLAIM CREDIT
While the cummins Men Exhibit Real,
Genuine Pleasure Over the Result -
Senator A. 3. Funk Gives His opin-
ion Of the Convention Results in
Newspaper interview.
Special to Times Republican.

Special 10 lIIeS. .ItepuUtlCdHS
Des Moines, June 25.-This is quiet
time about the lobbies as few of the
evidence. Those who do show up. how
ever indicate that their interest IN
political affairs has not abated. The
platform, of course, is the subject of
paramount interest and incogruous DIS
1t may seem, men of both factions
seem satisfied. The Cummins men ex-
hibit real genuine pleasure and the
are disposed to claim
credit for what was done.
Senator A. b. Funk. here for day
or two in connection with the work
of the capitol Improvement commits
sion, said. when seen at the Sayery:
The attitude of the party towards
protection is wisely expressed in the
national platform. Many republicans
would have had reciprocity discredited
and the door closed against the revis-
ion of the schedules. Others would
have gone so far in the other direction
as to have made uncomfortable footing
for large element in the party. No
faction has just what it desired. but
it is much more important that all re-
publicans can unite in carrying for
ward the great work of the campaign
on a platform that is generally accep-
table. Under the action of the ma
tional convention it, is up to congress
to decide when and how revision shall
come and reciprocity shall be extend
ed. and the people can always shape
the work OF congress when they get In
dead earnest as to any matter OF pub-
lie policy. The party is particularly
strong in its administrative record, and
in the personality of President Roose-
velt, who is in character and accom-
plishment both platform and candidate.
Iowa will break all former glorious rec
ords at the polls next fall
Congressman j. A. T. Hull, who, It
Will be recalled, has not been radical
at any time. though opposing Governor
Cummins, stated in regard to the plat
form:
Il am very we'll pleased with it,
The platform stands for protection. 1t
seems to me that it will suit every
body. especially if it suits the revis-
ion people, for know the standpatters
will like it."
Il was confused somewhat about
what really happened in Chicago"
said E. p. Shoentgen, of Council Bluffs.
Il read in the Nonpareil how the
had everything their own
way and how the platform was a
standpat production. Then / read the
platform and couldn't see how it could
made here in Iowa short
time ago. On the train got an Omaha
Bee with Governor Cummins' statement
in regard to the platform and I could
see that he had abundant cause to re-
joice. / don't see what the stand
patters got out of it. but if they say
it is their platform, why let 1t go
at that"
IF the standpatters like the plat
form then all will be pleased said Q.
A. Willis, of Dallas county. deputy
treasurer of state. IF that is stand
patism as the Iowa standpatters want
ed it, why didn't they make that kind
of platform in Des Moines? If they
wanted revision by the friends of pro-
lection, why didn't they say so here
In Iowa? If the wanted reciprocity as
a way of getting the markets of the
world they should have said so in Des
Moines. And if they had said 1t there
would have been no occasion for John
A. Kasson and William Larrabee to
criticise the standpat platform they put
up. If this is standpatism, then all
are standpatters."
The st. Paul Dispatch. a republican
newspaper of widest circulation,
power in Minnesota and rejecting well
he northwestern sentiment. editorially
presented the statement which Gov
,rnor Cummins offered to the Iowa
at Chicago as representing
lis views of what should be put into
he national platform, saying by way
# Introduction. the day before the
platform was actually adopted. as fol-
ows:
ITO mark the ground whence the
,arty is now leaving, and to make it's
hiding certain when the party comes
Jack to solid ground again. the pro-
,osed policy of Iowa's sane governor
hould be recorded"
And again in comment:
"Some day. coming up out of the
of defeat the party will
dopt policy which will be deemed
adical. compared with that which
Governor Cummins now suggests and
which the rabid reject The stone
which the builders now reject will
hen become the corner of the temple"
At Chicago, in the corridor of the
,tratford one Of the South Dakota
elegates to the republican national
onvention stepped up to the writer
nd greeted him warmly. Are you re-
ponsible for the publication Of that