Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-23
Official Paper d City and County
A Bolt.

newspapers on the Iowa republican
platform leaves no doubt of the regu
lars purpose to vote against progress
i've nominees for office. There is like
Nv to be less secrecy IN their course
this fall than there was four years
ago, when 10000 of their number
voted against Cummins for governor
There is striking similarity in the
views expressed by the Sioux City
journal, the Burlington Hawk-Eye,
the Cedar Rapids Republican, the Des
Moines Capital and other pronouncedly
standpat journals. Typical of the ex-
pressions of all are these extracts, the
first from the Cedar Rapids Republic
an under the caption "Bolting Official
ly Endorsed:
Many delegates went home from tne
republican state convention Wednes-
day feeling that, at last, in Iowa,
bolt from the republican party has
been officially endorsed. Ii the two
senators have been anything, they
have been boilers from the national
nartv. They and their friends do not
disguise this fact. They bolted the
national administration and the repub-
lican majority in congress. The ma
ioritv was overwhelming but they sue.
ceeded in getting the republicans of
Iowa to go with them, outside of the
The name of the republican presi-
dent of the United States was all but
Kissed in a republican state conven-
ton. Senator Cummlns spoke nearly
an hour and half and refused to let
the name of Taft, the republican pres
ident so much as pass his lips. FOR
five minutes the convention insisted
that he should name Taft among the
republican presidents he was enumer-
ating. But he stopped with Roosevelt.
The climax was carefully worked up
and the snub of President Taft was
adroit as we'll as bold.
1t was a queer situation IN repnb-
lican state convention They said it
was no longer an instruction, but
revolution. They have made boltlng
respectable and republicanism IN Iowa
is one glorified bolt. 1t was in vain
suggested by some cautious ones that
if boiling was officially recognized that
it would become the fashion and party
ties would no longer be binding.
Even less yelled is the Burlington
Hawk-Eye's warning to the insurgents
what to expect, under the caption
"Absolved":
..All republicans in Iowa are now re
leased from party fealty. This IS ON
cial. 1t was. freely proclaimed from
the state convention platform by the
Iowa senators and Justify cheered by
the insurgent delegates. insurgency
at individual will and independence by
local option is the political tenet in
Iowa from now on.
.'The Iowa senators not only pro-
claimed from the platform their indie.
pendendence of party ties individual
Independence each speaking accord
ing to the truth as he sees it and ac-
cording to his duty as he understands
it, and received the seal of approval
by their followers, but they have il
Illuminated in their public service what
they mean by individual independence
and interpret the republican platform
as they see it. and as the understand
it. That Interpretation goes to the ex-
tent of open, fierce and continued oppo-
sition to republican president, to re-
publican congressional caucuses and the
republican national organization.
s'And that which the republican voter
may think and say and do in his 'indi.
didual independence Of party allegi.
ance, and still claim to be republican,
the republican newspaper will be en-
titled to do. The republican press Of
Iowa affiliated with the regular nation
al organization is released from any,
real or implied obligation to the part,
in this state. This doctrine has beer
SO distinctly, incisively and comprehen
sively enunciated at DesMoines and ap
proved with loud applause upon tn
floor of the convention, Illuminated b.
numerous examples at Washington, ant
reiterated in leading insurgent news
papers, that no possible ground of jus
criticism can be placed upon regula
republican papers claiming equal priv
leges of independence.
Far from composing the difference
between republicans it is obvious tina
the convention and the platform ag
gravated the differences and that thu
guerilla warfare of 1910 will be worse
than that of 1906. And this because
the standpatters will recognize thai
the election of an insurgent to congress
is rebuke to them and to Taft, .ant
the insurgents that a standpatter'
election is constructive reputation OF
Cummins and Dolliver and the whole
movement for reform. Dubuque Tele
graph Herald.