Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-12
LATE Young Returns From Con-
sultation in East and Com
mand Has Been Sent Out
TACK NOT YET REVEALED
Presumed That Fight Will Be Gen.
tered on an Effort to Keep Cummns
Out Of Senate = Long Distance
Phones Kept Hot Issuing Orders to
the Faithful.
Special to r,mes-Republ,can.

Special to mes-Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 12.-Lafe Young,
leader of the standpatters for Iowa, has
returned from seeing the men who do
thing politically. Great activity in the
standpat camp will follow. The cue has
been given.
1t is recalled that several years ago,
after Lafe had been writing the red
hottest editorials ever in favor or
then immediate revision of the tariff,
and after he had been insisting daily
in his paper that the tariff schedules
were very bad, he journeyed down to
Washington and on TO the head office
of the protected trusts, the American
Protective Tariff league. Then he
came home. Immediately thereafter
there appeared in the organ of the
trusts. the American Economist. full
page front cover picture of Lafe with
the inscription. prominently mem
toned for Governor of Iowa" That
was the only mention" visible. Imme-
diately there followed one of those
somersaults for which Lafe is justly
famous and he commenced to declare
that revision of the tariff by republi-
cans would be just as bad as by the
democrats and that revision by the
democrats either before or after elec-
ton or by anybody at any time was
terrible wicked thing.
Later he took d relapse and just
about two years ago he was very quiet
for a time. He even went so far as
to write some real nice things about
republican administration of Iowa at
fairs Another journey and again the
cudgel was taken up and tariff tink-
ers' were whacked right and left
More recently Lafe has been again
on the waiting list, saying nothing. do
ing nothing, and apparently all at sea.
Another journey to where politics is
measured out and paid for on strict
ly business basis. 1t is expected that
soon there will again appear some evil
this year in the big game.
1t so happens that the trusts have
taken especial dislike to Judge Taft
and almost equal dislike to Hughes,
on the tariff question, and it is sur
missed that from this time forward there
will not be so much support of Taft
as great man on the tariff. In fact the
tariff views of Taft will not be much
discussed by those who have been de-
nouncing all revisionists as tariff tink-
ers. Already there is manifest some
lukewarmness toward Taft and his
tariff views. 1t may go much further.
But there is one thing that the pro-
tected trusts would like to have done.
so the word comes from the east and
that is that Governor Cummins must
not be permitted to break into the
United States senate under any cir
to demand that before this is done
Iowa shall be turned over to the dem
ocrats and the state be abandoned by
the republicans. AS a result it is re-
garded as certain that we are just on
the verge of fight which will be one
of the most vicious ever known. The
plan is to stir up all the factionalism
possible, to arouse the protected in
terests of the east so that they will
pour money into Iowa again as in the
past, to denounce the republican gov
ernor of Iowa as democrat" and all
his friends as factiOnaliSts; and fin
ally to engage in the biggest cam
paign of mud-slinging, deception, mis-
representation, ETC., ever known in the
state.
1t is stated here today that the plans
are being made for a conference of
standpatters, to be held either here or
in Burlington or Cedar Rapids-or in
Chicago, which is their favorite place
and that when this is done the gen.
eral plan Of action will be adopted. =.
1t is understood that since his return
Lafe Young has kept the long distance
telephone wires hot sending for the
faithful of the factional interests to
come to Des Moines and meet him and
get instructions as to what to do. He
claims that he will have them all in
here very soon and the campaign will
be started right.
With the Shaw candidacy absolutely
disposed of any out of the way the
Taft people who are looking at Iowa
from distance feel absolutely sure
of a delegation that will be for the
Ohio candidate. They are absolutely
relying upon the action of the progress
sives, of those who represent the ma
iority in Iowa. and feel sure that when
the earliest conventions are held that
the trend will be so pronouncedlN to-
ward Taft that no further work need
be done II is expected by the Taft
people that the conventions to be held
in Iowa this week will take the lead
in pronouncing for the policies of
President Roosevelt and their continu
alton thru Taft administration. 1t is
the plan of the Taft people to force
the matter here. They want resolu-
Stions indorsing the whole progressive
policy of the Roosevelt administration
with the attitude of Roosevelt, Taft and