Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-29
Evidence That the Trust Organ
ization Will Attempt to Line
Up the State
TAFT AS TARIFF RIPPER
Such is tho Scheme Proposed at
Conference Recently Held in Chi
caao-cannon and Fairbanks to Be
Pushed by the Anti Roosevelt
Forces.
Special to rimes-Republican,

Special to Times s-Republican,
Des Moines, May 29.--Will the trusts
put a crimp in the Taft boom in Iowa
and induce the leaders of the anti
Roosevelt cause to come out squarely
for the Cannon Fairbanks scheme?
Information here is to the effect that
the business manager of the trust or
ganization-the American Protective
Tariff league-will either come to Iowa
or send some trusted person here or
get into touch with those whom he can
reach and give the Iowa situation a.
new coloT at no distant date.
Everyone has known all along that
Taft follows the principles Of his
president in the matter of the tariff
and personally has no patience what
ever with the view that the tarin
schedules should never be touched un-
til after calamity comes. But the high
tariffites have felt that they could ig-
more Iowa entirely, and after the with.
drswal of Shaw from the presidential
race, word went out that the league
was not going to pay any more atten-
tioa to Iowa and the state could go re-
vision If it wanted to. Accordingly a
number of those who have been car
rying water for the tariff league a long
time, being abundantly compensated
therefor, commenced to firt with the
revision idea again. The result is that
the Taft boom has had some strange
supporters.
Now it is learned that one day last
week conference was held in the
Auditorium in Chicago, attended by
representatives of the trusts and that
1t was then and there decided that the
whole Taft boom must be crushed out
at once, and this includes Iowa.
The program is to kill Taft by par
aiding him as tariff ripper and a
dangerous demagog then to get the
delegation for Speaker Cannon ulti-
mately to be turned over to Fairbanks
or anyone whose nomination will be an
Indication that Roosevelt has been re-
pudiated and his policies discredited.
OF course there may be pretense that
the delegation is to be selected as a
Roosevelt delegation but care will be
taken to pick only those who would
vote for anybody but Roosevelt type
of man. It is anticipated that there
will be fight even in Illinois for this
kind Of program, for the sentiment
among the great manufacturers in
Chicago is strong that the door should
not now be forever closed to republic
can revision OF the tariff. In Wiscon-
son 1t is believed there will be a fight,
since the legislature has just elected
to the senate one who Is pledged to
tariff revision, and the republican par
ty of that state is in favor of action.
The fact that Secretary Taft in an
interview in Washington came out III
favor of modification by republican
congress Of the tariff schedules and
that this was done when the secretary
Of the American Protective Tariff
league forced him to declare himself,
indicates that the trust organization is
watching the situation closely The trust
literary bureau is already denouncing
Taft as q free trader" and spreading
the news that he cannot be regarded
as safe man with the tariff. The
Washington correspondent of the high
tariff Chicago Inter-ocean declares
that the action Of Taft "sets in molten
against him machine which numbers
its parts in every state in the union,
and which is particularly strong in its
representation among republican polf-
ticians. With this issle drawn as it
now is, an anti-Taft and anti-revision
element will begin its fight on the
secretary of war"
It is learned that the Chicago meet
ing resolved upon starting the Can
non boom as the only way Of prevent
ing the selection of Roosevelt dele
cation in Illinois. Cannon took occa-
sion recently to announce again that
he is opposed to any change in the tar
iff. 1t is recalled that Senator ALI
son, who is now in robust health, has
recently declared that the tariff is to
be the issue of the campaign. IF the
trust organization thru it's accom-
plished secretary and manager. who is
the editor of the trust organ in New
York, can force the issue along this
line, it will be done.
It. is now regarded as certain that
within very short time some of those
who have been making pretense Of
support of Taft and Roosevelt and re-
vision sentiment will turn against
them, at the behest of the trusts. and
begin work for Cannon or Fairba nks
ON the score of their being near neigh
bors.
It is recalled that some years ago
when leading republican newspaper
of the state had been supporting the
Roosevelt progressive movement for q
time, on cash basis it is said, Its edi-
tor made trip to New York, and that
soon thereafter his picture appeared In
the trust organ with mention" for
president or governor, or some other
job, and that soon thereafter the
newspaper came out viciously against
any 'tinkering with the tariff" 1t was
then published in other leading news
papers Of the state an intimation that
the change OF heart was made BY such