Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-20
No GREAT REJOICING
AMONG S|ANDPA1S
Several of Radical Element De-
clare the Faction Has Gone
Over to Cummins
sALlNGER SUPPORTS GOVERNOR
Western Iowa Politician Announces
He Has Changed Front = Payne
Says He Can't Swallow Platform and
Wilson Says It is Good Progress
sive Document.
wa Politician Announces
Special 10 ZINES Republican.

Special 20 Zines Republican.
Des Moines, March 20.-Ben |. SAL
lobby of the Slavery Wednesday night
that he will vote for Cummins for
United States senator Salinger is q
standpatter on the tariff and has affili
ated with the standpatters of the re-
publican party. He worked for the
nomination of George ID. Perkins in
1906
There has never been anything be-
tween Cummins and myself except the
! ger. Now the standpat leaders have
/, gone over and adopted the Cummins
idea of the tariff in the Ohio plank, and
| if | must swallow that idea of the tariff
! Ill take it straight and vote for Cum
minis. There is nothing left in the
senatorial contest but the personal
| equation.
| w. o. Payne. editor of the Nevada
Representative. following the conven-
ton declared that they couldt ram
the Ohio plank down his throat and
intimaled that in his estimation the
standpat leaders of the republican
convention had gone over bodily to
Governor Cummins idea of the tariff
| When pressed for an interview. he de-
cined to discuss the matter further at
| The present time.
| James Wilson, of Adair, who was
| the private secretary and campaign
manager of Hon. John Herriott two
| years ago, and is now a candidate for
| lieutenant governor, declared that, as
he considered it, the progressives had
great cause for rejoicing in the results
OF the state convention of Wednesday,
AS he saw 1t, the progressives were
given as good a platform as they
could have drawn themselves, and the
only resolution they could object to
was the endorsement of Allison, and
on that they had gotten their protest
and the reason for their protest so
we'll before the public that it robbed
the Allison resolution of most of it's
prestige, and furthermore they had
gained a considerable amount of
prestige by the standpatters coming
over to them bodily on the tariff.
Progressives generally are pleased
with the results of the convention.
Governor Cummins, Lieutenant Gov
ernor Garst and others express great
satisfaction. For years Governor Cum
Minis has been defining the tariff as
the difference in the cost of production
at home and abroad, and Lafe Young,
thru the Capital, has termed it tariff
ripping. Congressman Lacey has ar
gued against it, and George d. Per-
kins taken exceptions to it. Wednes-
day these men had control of the state
convention and they adopted the Ohio
tariff plank, which reads:
Revision of the tariff by a special
session of the next congress. insuring
the maintenance of the true principle
of protection by imposing such GUS
toms duties as will equal the difference
between the cost of production at
home and abroad, together with a
reasonable profit to the end that with
out excessive duties, American manu-
facturers, farmers, producers and wage
earners may have adequate protec-
ton"
this plank in platform. it would have
been termed political heresy by the
standpat press Now that the stand
patters cannot even wait for congress
to take the matter up at a. regular ses-
sion progressives are anxiousy await
ing the attitude of the standpat press
on the matter.
All in all the progressives got more
out of the convention than they had
ever hoped and possibly more than
they would have gotten had they con-
trolled the convention. Leaders of the
progressives believe that the results
give no prestige whatever to Senator
Allison After thirty-six years In the
senate a convention of republicans as
sembles and $40 vote that they do not
wish him to continue while 673 vote
that they do. The campaign for United
States senator will now be entered in
to in earnest, unhampered by presi
dental matters as real state issue.
In the meeting of the committee on
resolutions when the progressives de-
INJURED to the endorsement of Allison
as out of place the standpatters de-
clared that the progressives would en-
dorse Cummins if they controlled the
convention. The progressives protest
ed that they would not and finally the
only excuse given for the endorsement
was that unless they endorsed Allison
it would be heralded as a progressive
victory.
1t is learned from close sources fur
thermore that the standpat element of
the committee had some difficulty in
getting the tariff resolution framed up
The four progressves waited patiently
for the standpatters to get ready to
meet with the minority When they
finally got together they discovered
that the committee had written about
a dozen planks. They had taken parts
of many offerings and pasted them to-
gether so that there We're FIVE thick
nesses Of tariff plank resolutions pasted