Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-10
Webster City Paper Traps Des
Moines Capital Into Self
qualification
STEALS CAPITAL EDITORIAL
Capital Then Proceeds to Rend the
Webster City Editorial with Furious
Charges Of democratic" and "Mus-
wumpian"-Trick is Then Exposed
and Politicians Laugh.

Webster City, Oct. 10.-The Free
man Tribune of this city has success
fully worked as smooth a piece Of
practical Joking on Lafe Young and
the Des Moines Capital as was ever
perpetrated in American politics. II
and laughter by the politicians of this
state, altho it may make Lafe's home
coming somewhat bitter with embar-
rassment. Remembering what tariff
revisionist Lafe Young once was. be-
fore he fell. out with Cummins. for
reasons best known to himself, and
became the press representative of the
American Protective League in Iowa,
the Webster City paper clipped from
the files OF the Capital a paragraph
from strong tariff ripping editorial
which appeared in the Capital July IL,
1901, and published the same as its
away the boys in the office failed TO
recognize the Capitals legitimate off
spring and. remembering only their in
structions to serve standpatters, pro-
ceded to rend the Capitals former
child with the fury of savage. The
Webster City paper then apologized
for its meanness in publishing the
Capitals tariff ripping editorial as its
own.
The unrecognized clipping from the
Capital of July II, 1901, was as follows:
The republican party may as we'll
get ready to face and meet the fact
THAT tariff revision will be one Of the
chiefest political issues in the near
futures The consensus Of opinion is 70
the. effect that the time is ripe, or at
least rapidly ripening, for, some
changes in the schedules of tariff
rates"
The thing that tripped the
Capital was statement as
explained by the Webster City paper
In order to season the bait and make
it look tempting to the Des Moines
added that the Capital would hardly
deny these statements"
But the Capital would deny them,
and on October 6, 1905, it rushed at
its unknown offspring with the follow
ing:
IF the Webster City Freeman -Trib-
une, or any of its journalistic tariff rips
ping consorts can furnish any tangible
evidence rising to the dignity of a pub
lie demand for an overhauling Of tariff
schedules the Des Moines Capital will
give the fact such consideration as it
deserves. Quotations from democratic,
mugwumpian or professional reform
organs will not be considered COM
petent evidence in the present contro-
versy for the reason that that class Of
newspapers are constitutionally oppos-
ed to all tariff schedules-or at least
have never been known to be pleased
with any tariff ever devised by a re-
publican congress.
Who wants a revision of the tariff?
Sifted to the bottom the conclusion
is amply warranted that the only
serious demand for tariff revision
emanates from the democratic and
mugwumpian sources, where all tariff
schedules are held in contempt, and
from which assaults upon the pro-
tective system have been periodically
made for fifty years"
To bar quotations from democratic,
mugwumpian or professional reform"
organs was too much for the Webster
city paper. It apologies with the re-
mark that successful political
weathercock and economic jumping
jack must not be forgetful." When
the Capital sees it's own editorial of
July IL, 1901, and forgetting its face
declares that 'the only serious demand
for tariff revision emanates from DEM
ocratic and mugwumpian sources,
where all tariff schedules are held in
contempt" the Webster City paper fig
uratively rolls over and over on the
ground and laughs and laughs ana
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