Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-24

Mr. Taft knows that they are not true,
but have. been made for the sole pur-
pose of casting suspicion on any tariff
bill the ways and means committee
may report. It is part Of his duty as he
conceives it, to let the country know
where he stands as to revision, and
where at the same time, he believes
congress will stand. Mr.. Burtons state
ment made at Hot Springs last week
was unwisely worded. I believe that 1t
went to greater lengths than Mr.. Taft
would indorse.
Harmony is Anticipated.
'There is no thought of war on the
speaker nor any thought on the speak
ers part. as we understand it here, OF
making a. contest with the new presi-
dent as TO whether the people are to
have a genuine revision or make be-
lieve" one
"rhe Roosevelt administration has
had no word indicating that the speak
err will not fall quickly into line with
a reasonable tariff BILL
AT the same time there is a we'll
grounded belief here that Mr.. Taft Is
preparing to make a determined stand
if need be for carrying out in good
faith all the pledges made in the chi
cago platform of last, June. Tariff re-
vision was only one of these pledges.
The Roosevelt policies as a whole were
Endorsed and several of them We're
specifically mentioned. Speaker Cannon
is known to be bitterly opposed to some
of those policies, for instance. among
others, to postal savings banks. which
the Chicago platform in strong lanugag
committed the republican party to IN
stitute.
Washington believes that the new
president will want to have a working
agreem emit with the speaker of the next
congress, looking to the carrying out OF
all platform pledges, and that he VIII
not consent to having the speaker,
whether Mr. Cannon or another, put
himself arbitrarily in the way OF the
party's keeping good faith with the
country ~
Posta, Bank Good Politics.
Mr.. Taft is quoted as believing that
the enactment of postal savings bank
law in addition to keeping faith WITH
the country, will be good politics, in
asmuch as 1t will take from the demo-
Gratis the strongest argument they had
in tho middle west in the recent cam
paign.
According to this view Of the case,
which is very much broader than that
which refers to tariff revisions alone
Mr.. Taft is shaping his plans for an
administration which will leave the
country nothing to find fault with, SO
far as redemption Of platform pledges
is concerned.
Neither he nor Mr. Roosevelt expects
that Mr. Cannon will put himself IN
the way of such a praiseworthy under
taking. It he should do so, so much
the worse for him. Mr.. Taft, it is we'll
known, is hard fighter, with mind
of his own, and abundant moral cour-
age.
To Stand by Platform.
Nobody will be more greatly sur
prised than Mr.. Taft, Should the speak
err indicate purpose to stand IN the
way of making the Chicago platform
pledges good. In such an unexpected
event, it is quite likely that Mr.. Taft
will accept the gage of battle and
make fight on the platform:
Shall the republican party keep its
word to the people of the United
States?'
The Roosevelt policies have only re-
Gently been officially adopted by the
party, and Mr. Cannon heretofore has
been at full liberty to oppose them.
Now. however, the situation is
changed, and Mr.. Cannon, cannot oc-
cupy his old position of hostility with
out bringing on bitter struggle with
in the ranks of the party. That he
will do this, nobody in Washington be-
lieves.