Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-08-03
REPUBLICANS IN
IOWA ARE SPLIT
Insurgents Control State Con-
vention Which Met This
Afternoon
HARMONY SEEMS DISTANT
Tariff to Be Condemned and Pro-
gressive Congressman to
Be Lauded.

DeS MOlneS, la, Aug. 3.-Wltn the
standpatters and progressives appar-
entity hopelessly at variance over the
essential matter of the tariff plank,
the Republican state convention was
called to order today to write a plat
form. select a state central committee
and nominate candidates for state SUI
perintendent of schools and two SUI
preme court judgeships. Discord is
expected to be more in evidence in
the campaign than effective at the
convention, which has a safe progress
sive plurality. The platform will be
an Enthusiastically insurgent cOndemna
tiOn of the tariff law and enconiums
for the states insurgent congression-
al delegation The two factions are
steadily growing further apart Last
night the talk was for harmony but
the conservative platform makers
got off the harmony reservation. They
prepared planks endorsing Taft for
signing the Payne tariff bill and gave
an unqualified approval to the tariff
law
Forthwith the insurgents made it
distinctly understood that such planks
are not to be considered for a NOM
ent. The patters let it be known that
they will go down with their colors
nailed to the mast head. Former Con-
gressman Lacey sounded the keynote
for the conservatives in a speech last
night in which he said it is import
ant that Iowa go Republican next
election but asserted amid applause
that it is more important that the Re
publican party should go Republican.
A Taft Demonstration.
Des Moines, Aug. Ex-senator Cum
Minis threw the Republican state con-
vention into disorder today when he
named the party of Lincoln, of Grant, !
OF Roosevelt etc, ignoring President
TAFT. Former Congressman Lacey, al
staDd-patter, walked down the center
aisle crying Taft! Taft! Taft" in
which he was joined by his fellow
stalwarts, Roosevelt's name was
cheered standing. Cummins ignored
Lacey's cry, but it was some time be-
fore he could resume. A number of
regulars" did not stay to hear the
address out. The resolutions commit
tee stands six progressives to five
stand-patters. The majority report
makes merely a courtesy reference
to the national administration. 1t
says: "The Republicans of Iowa do not
recognize that the tariff revision of
1909 is satisfactory fullflment of
party promises"
Address BY Senator Cummins.
Gentlemen of the convention: Har-
mony is like the poet, it is born, not
made. If it is amongst us we will
speedily hear its sweet sound; but if
it is not here, the effort to create it
with deceitful protestations and false
phrases will end in miserable failure.
There is more discord in the suppress
sion of honest conviction than in the
open, candid expression of opposing
views.
This is not an age of plain living,
but it is an age of plain speaking
and therefore, with malice toward
none, and charity for all" l speak to
you according to the truth as I see it,
and according to my duty as | under
stand it.
This convention, although COM
posed wholly of Republicans, is the
outcome of a political struggle carried
on with exceeding earnestness in ev-
cry county of the state. There may
be few delegates who are here by
accident, but substantially all of you
are here by design. A concious pur-
pose is behind you and clear obli-
cation is before you.
Every man who believes in free
government must believe in the rule
of the majority, but that implies no
more than a peaceful submission to
the will of the majority, and does not
imply the surrender of the high priv.
ilege of recording a sincere belief.
1t was vain and idle thing to pass
through the fight of the primary and
the county conventions unless a grave
and important issue was involved ::
and it would be the climax of folly for
this body of men, after the Republi-
can voters had determined the issue,
to fall in recording the verdict and
in publishing to the world, in fitting
terms, the decision which the Repub-
lican electorate has rendered. 1t is
not my purpose to define at this point
just what the issue between Republi.
cans has been, and is, not only in
Iowa, but throughout the length and
breadth of the country. 1t is sufficient
for the present to say that it relates
wholly to those questions which con-
Germ the control, regulation and re-
striction of the powers and practices
of combined or concentrated wealth