Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
ACTION OF STATE CONVENTION
IN DECLARING FOR REVISION
POINTS WAY FOR SENATORS.
WILL BE FORCED TO SUPPORT
TARIFF CONFERENCE REPORT
Burkett and Brown Were Waverinq-
Votes Needed to Put Presidents
Program Thru Senate - Nebraska
People Largely Opposed to Free
Hides-Taft Official Family.
Especial Correspondence

4 Especial CORRESPONDENCE
Washington, July 2s-A republican
state convention which met at Lincoln,
Neb., yesterday, may prove of large
Importance in connection with the final
development of the tariff legislati ton. 1t
was gathering of about 900 dele
gates. whose business is merely the
making of platform on which the
party candidates will stand in the
state election this year But this year
Is preliminary to next year, when Bry-
| an is expected to run for the senate
All agree that in the last few weeks
interest in the tariff legislation as no.
body could have dreamed, month ago.
would take place. There has been, for
one thing. a wide variety of comment
on the courses which Senators Brown
and Burkett have pursued. and some
criticism based on the belief that they
have voted at times with the Aldrich
forces when they ought to have stood
with the insurgents. This criticism has
been directed against Mr.. Burkett
rather more than against his COL
league
A carefully prepared poll of the sem
ate was shown today. which came
from the office of an eastern republi-
can senator. showing that the adoption
/ of conference report by the senate
was likely to depend on the votes of
three senators-Burkett Brown and
| Crawford of South Dakota As those
three should go. SO would the result;
if they voted for the conference report.
il would pass the senate If against it.
it would be defeated. The action of this
Nebraska convention in declaring for
The national platform will, it is be-
lieved, compel the two men to support
/ the conference report.
This belief is based on the free raw
materials proposals, on which a care
full canvass of the senate had been
made. The opposition to free hides has
been insisting that free hides without
free shoes and leather could not go
thru: and the question was whether
these three pivoted senators would vote
for free hides without free shoes and
leather The other seven of the ten
republicans who originally voted
against the tariff measure We're set
down 10 oppose the conference report
on these terms.
The situation of the Nebraskans is
most curious. They are both very anx-
;ious to maintain regularity; to stand
with the president. They are expected
70 vote for any bill TO which the pres
ident will give his Endorsement. Re-
Gently they have been casting about
for excuses to vote for the conference
report, despite that sentiment against
The measure has been growing in their
state. 1t was considered that If the
Lincoln platform convention should
adopt such an expression as seemed to
represent disqualification of the gen.
eral protest of Nebraska against the
bill as a whole it would powerfully in
f1,.ence the wavering senators against
| 1T On the other hand the declaration
enough for Taft to sign" is good
way for the senators to support the
conference report.
Private information, by way of let
tiers, and thru Nebraska people who
come east. has been recently that the
state is fairly seething with trouble
about the tariff and other things. There
has been an increasing conviction in
the Washington delegation that if SEN
ator Burkett wins next year in the
| fight for the senatorial nomination, it
will mean the organization around
Burkett of a powerful machine which
will undertake to manage things in
| future. This machine, according to re-
ports which are getting to be frankly
accepted and discussed as reliable
among Nebraska people in Washing
lton, will aim to keep Mr.. Burkett in
the senate, to make William Hayward,
/ Of Nebraska City, who is secretary of
/ the national committee, the nominee
1 for governor next year, to turn out
Representative Norris and probably
Representative Hinshaw from their
/ seats in the lower house next year, and
to unseat Senator Brown at the ex-
piration of his present term and send
| Victor Rosewater in his place.
Whether there will be opposition in
his own party to Senator Burkett's re-
nomination is likely, according to the
gossip here, to depend largely on three
men-Representativ Norris, form n
| Governor Sheldon, and William f.
Andrews, auditorium of the treasury
If these three should get together and
agree to toss coppers to decide which
of them should make the run against
Burkett, with the active support of the
other two, they would make real
trouble
That the Taft official. family will be-
gin about Jan. to be rounded into its
permanent form and membership. is