Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-12
NEXT STATE platform.

Replying 70 the Times-Republican'
comment that the action Of Iowa's two
senators in voting against the tariff
bill was insurgency that insurges' the
standpat Hawkeye at Burlington opens
the platofrm fight Of the next state
convention as follows:
"Of course the general public knows
that the president has published a
statement to the effect that il does
meet the pledges of the republican
party and he has given the measure
his sanction, not only by signing it,
but to cast the entire influence of his
administration in behalf of its adop-
ton by congress. The situa ton then
is thus A republican congress has
enacted and a republican president
has signed and personally endorsed a
measure which all the parties con-
cerned declare to be a fulfulllnent of
republican pledges. This declaration
will be echoed and reiterated by the
various republican state conventions,
and by the next national republican
convention. 1t goes without saying
that it will have the assent not only
of the leaders but the rank and file
of the republican party. 1t will have
the denunciation of the democratic
party.
''At Thu; point the question naturally
arises what are the republicans Of
Iowa going to do about ito What are
the senators and those congressman
who bolted the party at Washington
and refused to stand by the admins
tration going to do about it? Will
they seek to justify their detection by
an appeal to the people of Iowa to
stand by them in their insurgency, an
appeal which if successful, would
ALLEVIATE the party in Iowa from its re-
lations TO the republicans of the other
states Of the union, and the party in
it's national organization?
"Tnese questions are the more seri-
Gus because If the boiling senators and
congressman and the press that COM
mends their course continue their in
surgency it probably means another
division in the party, and the organi-
cation Of an Independent republican
movement antagonistic to President
Taft's administration. That would be
a lamentable political sequence; yet
the logical fruitage of the disorgani-
cation initiated at Washington"
So we have it. The next republican
state convention must not endorse the
action of 1owa's two republican sem
ators for fear that it will be construed
as a Reputation Of President Taft. The
Hawkeye is beginning early and in
awful hot weather to bamboozle the
republicans Of Iowa. Any man who has
been reading the newspapers knows
that 1owa's two senators and President
Taft were working for the same thing,
revision downward. They together
forced a downward revision so far as
they could and when all had been said
and done the two senators recorded
their votes consistently with their po-
sition. President Taft had a different
duty under the constitution. The bill
came to him for signature or veto. II
he vetoed the Dingiey law would have
remained, and since there was some
thing Of revision downward'in the new
ill he signed it. No man honestly dis
.nssing the proceedings will argue that
1he president got all OF the downward
lewiston he wanted. Iowa's two sem
stors were FREQ 70 say that the. bill did
not meet their demands and they ss(d
20. Taft admitted as much when he