Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1906-06-13

now one of President Roosevelt g most
trusted advisers, addressed two large
and enthusiastic meetings Of Republi-
cans at Newton and Knoxville last Sat-
urday. Coming direct from Washing
ton and from the councils of the Presi-
dent, he brought a message Of real
Republicanism, of Roosevelt Republi-
canism, which the people who heard him
received with appreciation.
He deprecated the trend towards
party disorganization, and said our gov
eminent was government Of parties,
and it was both impracticable and i'm
possible to have it otherwise.
Referring to the claims made by GER
tain persons that the representatives
of Iowa in Washington are not in har-
mony with the President, he said:
care the Iowa representatives at
Washington out of harmony with the
PRESIDENT No; the president is in al
most daily conference with several
members of the Iowa delegation.
say to you that the members of the
Iowa delegation are in closest touch
and fullest accord with the republican
party. 1 say to you that the members
of the Iowa delegation without excep-
ton are in harmony with the president
of the United States, the great leader
of his party, and they each and all en-
joy the confidence of the president
Then why, he asked, should the Iowa
congressman and senators and the Iowa
members of the cabinet be criticised
in the press, from the rostrum and in
convention resolutions for indicating
that they have not lost interest in the
state which has honored them and in
the party which they represents
After proving that he as well as the
rest of the Iowa representatives in
Washington were in fullest accord with
the President, the Secretary showed
that the talk of railroad domination in
Iowa was a manufactured issue and
that the only issue within the party
in Iowa was the tariff question and the
demand on the part of the Cummins
crowd for immediate revision. He then
showed that in this they were in opposi-
ton to the president. His words on
this subject were as follows:
stSince his election in 1904 President
Roosevelt has submitted three messages
to congress, in no one of which did he
recommend tariff revision. He has also
made many speeches, but in no one has he
recommended revision. Since that plat
form was adopted congress has been in
session an aggregate of over ten months
and the committee on ways and means,
which must originate tariff legislation
has formulated no revision bill, nor has
it considered the formulation of such
a bill. Since that platform was adopted
the congressional caucus has met again
and again, but it has recommended no
tariff revision. Does not the
republican president, the leader of his
party, speak with authority, and as re-
publicans are we not bound by his rec
concentrations, and by his failure to rec
ommends Is not the republican ma
jority in congress clothed with author
ity to speak for the party, and is it not
clothed with authority to keep silence
on any subjectf Shall not the repub-
lican party in Iowa be loyal to the ma
tional republican party, or shall it take
issue with that party and furnish CAPT
tai for our political opponentss" \
He declared that the democrats would
not demand free trade, but revision in
the coming campaigns and In the next
congressional campaign, just as the re-
vision wing of the republican party in
Iowa is now demanding, and the success
Of the revision wing in Iowa would do
more to strengthen the hands of our OPP
ponents than anything that could hap
pen between now and election day.
Continuing on this topic, he said:
CT say to you that the only phase OF
the present contest in Iowa which has
attracted national attention is revision,
and the success of the candidate who
takes it upon himself to speak OF the
effects of the Dingley tariff as robbery
will be understood in every state OF the
union as reputation of the national
republican party"
SECRETARY sHAw's SPEECH.
The secretary's speech at Newton
was in part as follows:
"Our government is a government by
parties. 1t is both impracticable and
impossible to have it otherwise. We
read that in olden times countries pros
pered or languished, advanced or retro
graded according to the character OF
their rulers. In the United States we
prosper or languish, advance or re-
trograde-not according to the char
acter of our chief executive, but ac-
cording to the wisdom or lack of wis
dom Of the party in power. We pros
pered during Mr.. Cleveland first adj
ministration and languished during his
last administration, not because the
chief executive was wise in the sos
and unwise in the ZOOS. We prospered
during the former because the senate
remained republican and republican leg
islation, republican policies prevailed,
and we languished during the latter be-
cause democratic policies then pre-
vailed.
"The remarkable prosperity, the un-
precedented prosperity which we have
enjoyed for the last nine years is trace
able only in small degree to the indi-
vidual wisdom, great as it was, Of Viii.
liam Mckinley; and to the individual
wisdom, great as it is, of Theodore
Roosevelt. Our prosperity has been de-
pendent in larger degree than most men