Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-23
1HE sIANpPAr GHOST DANCERS.

There is an evident desire which Is
made patent by the editorial express
sion OF certain newspapers. notably the
Des Moines Capital and its much less
notable but equally vindictive and un-
scrupulous satellite, the Cedar Rapids.
Republican. to head an attack on last
years republican state platform The
hesire referred to has not the dignity
IT n movement. It is more in the ma
Nure of ghost dance instituted by
mfr. Young. of the Capital, to the pos
nible seduction of other braves into
outbreak and rapine. The Indian trick
n Polk county worked SO well that the
rreat war chief of the Capital sees a
possible string OF scalps and postoffices
already drying on his totem pole. His
war horn is shaking the hills at the
confluence of the Raccoon and the Des
hSnines. There is an answering toot
from Pottawattamie. The teepee of the
Cedar Rapids Republican glares with
war paint and resounds with the
:
rrfnding of teeth; and from far OF
xunrwa there comes a fitful and inter-
,nIttent sound of desultory tom-toming.
The hatchets OF the Republican are
eharpened alike against friend and foe
md it assures Senators Allison and
Dolliver and even Mr.. Blythe that all
their prestige will not protect them
against overthrow unless they are all
In favor Of making clear and distinct
ntterance this year without regard to
what was in the platform last year"
There is nothing equivocal. but much
that is foolish, in the threat that the
Republican makes against the sena-
tors OF the state selected by common
consent and avowedly at Mr.. Roose-
velt's request to represent Iowa as
delegates at large in the national con-
yention of the republican party. 1t is
the apotheosis of brazen assumption
end Grass impudence for the Cedar
Rapids newspaper to assume an atti-
tude of dictatorship over the Iowa
senators and threaten them with de-
feat before an Iowa convention of re-
publicans as the penalty Of possible
heedlessness. Much Office holding has
made the Republican mad.
II there are four men in Iowa who
are bound in sincerity to the republi-
can platform of last year, they are
the four who had most to do with it's
making and adoption and these are
the four to whom the standpat press
delegates NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Allison.
and Dolliver, Governor Cummins and
y. w. Blythe. The platform was the
Joint production OF Cummins, Allison
and Blythe. 1t was reported to the
convention which adopted it without a
dissenting voice or vote. by Mr.. Blythe.
1t was designated by Senator Allison as
the embodiment of the principles AMI
policies of the republican party from
Its birth to the present moment"
Senator Allison said more. He placed
himself squarely in line with the plat
form when he gave 1t his personal en-
horsement in these words:
II indorse everything said in that
platform, not because 1t is there wholly
but because l believe it to be sound,
and just, as respects the application
of the principles which the republican
party avowes and adheres to- Therefore
1t is that l shall expect to do every
thing I can properly to promote the
policies which we have promulgated
here today
That was Senator Allison's posi-
tfon to the platform last year. SEN
ator Delivers position has never