The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-30
BOLT OR NOT BOLT,
IOWA REPUBLICANS ARE IN A
 GREAT STEW.
First Speech of Cummins is to Decide the Question of Bolting for
 Many-Interest in
 Tariff Views.
Des Moines Special to Chicago Record
 Herald.

Des Moines Special to Chicago Record
 Herald.
 When Frank D. Jackson was nomi mated for Governor by the Republicans of Iowa in 1893 many Republicans threatened to bolt the ticket Among those who hesitated about supporting the ticket were several newspaper edi- tors. The controversy was one relat- ing to the liquor question--the Repub- licans of the State having abandoned prohibition as statewide proposition and having indorsed modification of the law to give local eommunisiss nm nit les seif- fore the campaign closed many of the newspapers had returned to the fold and the State went Republican after two terms of a Democratic Governor.
 The same situation now exists In Iowa number of leading newspa- pers have threatened to bolt the tick ct. They have refused to line up m support of Governor Cummins and still from that of 1893 in this respect. that the bolters of this year are saying that they are waiting for the nrst speech by Governor Cummins to de- eide whether or not to support him,
 This involves a national question. the tariff. The position of Governor Cum mins with respect to the tarin mas been misrepresented to the people by derstood by many in Iowa. In some sections of the State 1t has been de- clared that he is a free trader. and many people honestly believe that he is not orthodox with respect to the tariff. The corporations which have been seeking his final defeat since he vetoed the Molsberry bill In 1902, measure which he declares was calcu- poration iniquities into Iowa, have cunningly utilized things said by him and his progressive ideas to deceive the people into believing that he is against the tariff for protection.
 He is as strong protectionist as any Republican in the United States. He believes thoroughly in protection by and through the tariff. He be- lieves the national platform utter tective tariff should be changed on ac- count of changed conditions they should be adjusted and not maintained: the tariff and is in favor of such pro, tection for American industries as will preserve the home market to them.
 Nevertheless the farmers of the State have been so often tSid that Governor if that some of them have come to believe it. The purpose of the coming campaign in Iowa will be to reach the people who have been deceived and set them right with respect to his thor ough Republicanism with regard to the tariff
 The Iowa platform tariff plank was mOdeIeQ on the national uIteTdHCe anu met the approval of Governor Cum mins. It is sufficiently broad to allow the three classes of Republicans to stand side by side. These three classes include those who believe the tariff should be revised and revised now. those who believe 1t should be re- vised, but want to wait to do 1t be- cause times are good now, and those who do not believe that the tarin ever should be changed.
 Governor Cummins has made dis tinction between c campaign preced- ing a party convention and cam paign waged between the parties. In the former campaign the utmost free dom exists, Republicans within the party discussing the attitude the party should take on any and all questions. One may advocate immediate tarth re- vision, another none at all. But when 1t comes to a fight between the par ties 1t is the theory of the Governor friends that general declarations should be admitted to the platform on which all members of the party can stand. This was done in the national platform.