Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-11-03

menting OH the present status OF The
stand pattc"s the ST. Louis Republic
says editorially:
The old guard of the fossilized stand
pat faction of the Republican party in
congress have been gathering in Wash
ington, buttonholing the president and
murmuring into his ear that the country
IL still solid for Dingley. Nobody at all
wants the tariff tinkered a little bit, is
their story. They claim that they have
converted MIR. Roosevelt to their way Of
thinking and rejoice greatly in the assur-
ance that he will go softly on the tariff
in his message or not mention it at ALL
This Is very good for buncombe, but
somebody would like to know how in the
heavens above or in the earth beneath
they have converted the president from
policy which he has never professed
From his accession to the presidency
until now Mr.. Roosevelt has thrown cold
water on all suggestions of tariff revision,
declaring that the most oppressive trusts
are not those sheltered b. the Dingley
act If he Sights the tariff issue in his
forthcoming message he will be doing
just what was indicated at least three
years ago.
Whether Mr.. Roosevelt is satisfied that
the Dingley trade killer is good enough
for the present and that the people will
put up with its robberies awhile longer is
matter of small Importance. Tho fact
In the case is Mr.. Roosevelt Is set in the
determination to effect railway rate leg
tslation and does not wish to be diverted
from this task by what he may consider
side issues If the tariff needs fixing the
tariff can wait
That Is Roosevelts side Of the situation.
His stand pat visitors have had nothing
whatever to do with it. He Is going in
for rate regulation, and he knows mighty
we'll that ii soreheads like the Republic
ans of the west and of Massachusetts can
set the Republican majority in congress
by the ears with an interminable wrangle
over tariff revision, reciprocity, maximum
and minimum and things Of that sort his
game Is lost. He will, therefore, hold
congress up as closely as he can to rate
revision until that question Is disposed Of
Stand pat senators and representatives
In Washington are talking what they
wish rather than what they know. There
Is Rodenberg of the East st. Louis dis
trict. He says that everybody in his
neck o the woods is satisfied with the
Dingley robberles. The Honorable Joseph
g. Cannon talks in the same vein. But
Senator Cullom has been tolerably hard
up against the grindstone since June and
- uol LlldhlIlS any dLluaVlI6 10 their
statements. He knows better. He knows
that the reciprocity convention meant
something. and he went around to enough
old settlers and old soldiers meetings
during the summer to find out that the
Republicans of Illinois are not satisfied
to let the Dingley tariff alone.
II the Massachusetts Republicans are
in any way representative of their party
In the east, Republican senators from
That section q G of IN, l,air
stand pat stand as Rodenberg and Can
non are out Of line with Republican SEN
timent in Illinois. Massachusetts Repub-
licans in their platform not only declare
in favor of tariff revision, but urge a
propaganda among Republican congress-
men from other states to impress upon
them the wisdom of a consideration of
the tariff for a purpose of revision and
REIMBURSEMENT"
Between Republican congressman who
follow the president in the direction of
rate regulation and those who follow
their inclinations to pluck Dingley there
is promise of abundant harmony Of the
parrot and monkey kind.
Senator Joseph Benson Foraker of
Ohio is now busily engaged in explain
ing that in his speech opening the
Buckeye campaign he did not antago-
nize President Roosevelt's rate making
policy. Perhaps Joseph Benson's ex-
PLANTATION department was aroused to
activity by the report that his rival,
Secretary Taft, is to be sent into Ohio
to speak by authority for the president.
But if Senator Foraker is opposed to
comforting on the interstate commits
OF ia toe, n
ident is in favor of comforting 1t all the
explanations he can make will not alb
solve the senator Of unfriendliness to
the White House policy.
1t is given out in the press reports
that Governor-Senator La Toilette of
Wisconsin has made forty dates to
speak in Iowa and that, in connection
with Governor Cummins, he is going
after the scalps Of the Hawkeye con-
Eressional delegation. If that report
tan be depended on, another thing can
also be depended on, and that is that
there is quite likely to be hot time
N Iowa in the near future. While La
Toilette and Cummins are lifting the
scalp of Colonel William Peters Hep
burn they will do well to be very care
full or they will come forth from the
scrimmage minus their own scalps.
Mr.. Overstreet, representative in con
gress from the indianapolis district in
n recent speech as chairman of a con-
vention to nominate city officers made
two violent assumptions = first, that
Republican policies created the present
prosperity; second, that the defeat of
the Republican city ticket would jeop-
ardize that prosperity. What Over
street needs is an introduction to the
marines. They might believe him.
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