Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-04
BRANDS TARIFF Law
Iowa Republican Convention
Declares It Unsatisfactory.
PROGRESSIVES IN CONTROL
Have Majority of Nearly 300 on
Every Question.
MILDLY INDORSE PRESIDENT
Motion to Substitute the Standpat
Planks in Platform Defeated
by 568 to s15.

| DIES MONIES. August 4.-The platform
adopted the Iowa state republican con-
vention here yesterday mildly Endorsed
the Taft administration. but was radically
| insurgent in all other features, including
the tariff
The new tariff law was branded as
failure in the light of the party pledge of
1908.
| sop to harmony was flung out In the
| Endorsement of the administration of Gov.
Carroll
An attempt to use the steam roller"
and make the state central committee
overwhelmingly progressive was called
| off, presumably at the hint of Senator
Cummins. Portraits of Taft and Roose-
welt were hoisted at times and were fol-
lowed by demonstration each time.
Judges Horace E. Deemer and w. D.
Evans were nominated for reelection to
the supreme court bench by reclamation.
| A. M. Deyoe was the choice on second
ballot for state superintendent of public
instruction.
The progressive majority ranged close
to 800 on every question. The resolutions
committee was progressive, 6 to 3.
Defeat of Standpatters.
The standpat delegates went down in
defeat with their colors riveted to the
mast. They fought in every committee
where fight was possible, insisted on roll
| calls and battled every inch for their
| principles.
Their resolutions, incorporated in the
minority report of the platform commit
tee and voted down by the convention,
| read, in part. as follows:
| THE record of achievement of Presi-
| dent Tafts administration and the Sixty
| first Congress is unequaled in our history
and guarantees faithful adherence to all
the pledges of the last republican ma
tionaI platform. We also indorse the
Taft policies in fulfllment of the work
SO conspicuously inaugurated by his dis
| tinguished predecessor, and congratulate
the party and the country upon the
| achievements of the administration in
constructive legislation touching railroad
| regulation the work of conservation and
all matters disclosed in the record. His
| administration is entitled to the unequiv-
ocal support of every republican
1t also indorses the action of Presi-
dent Taft in approving the tariff bill,
| suance of the pledges of the republican
party and commends Ibis prudent bust
| nessliNe and economical administration
| of all the affairs of the nation"
Ex-Representative Hepburn's motion to
substitute the minority planks for the
| majority was lost by 56S to S15
Text of the Platform.
The platform adopted reads as follows
''Vhe republicans of Iowa, through their
| delegates, selected according to the law
of the state, make the following declara-
tions of their views upon public affairs:
They declare that to deserve the con-
tinued support of the people the party
should oppose by every means in Its
power any political encroachments or
| legislative interference by those who seek
| to raise extortionate profits through the
acquisition of unjust privileges.
They reaffirm their loyalty to the re-
| publican national platform of 1908, and
pledge themselves to do whatsoever they
effect.
They especially emphasize their long
and well settled faith in the republican
doctrine of protection. Its soundness and
wisdom are beyond controversy, and 1t
| ought to be accepted as the established
policy of the nation.
THE last republican national platform
announced with clearness and precision
the rules for it's application to imports.
and when so applied it safeguards equal
~ the interests of labor and capital and
promotes equally the welfare of the pro-
ducer and the consumer.
Tariff Revision Not Satisfactory.
Iney 90 not recognize inc revision
of 1909 as a satisfactory fulfllment of
the party promises
I'm order to bring the tariff law into |
a complete compliance with the rule of
the platform it is necessary that the |
difference between the cost of producing |
dutiable commodities at home and abroad |
should be correctly known. |
The Revision Preferred.
Therefore, they favor the creation of |
an Independent, non-partisan tariff COM
mission, which shall be the instrument
tally of Congress to ascertain the diff
ference between the cost Of production
here and in other countries, and publish
the facts so that not only Congress but
the people shall be advised of the results
of its investigations. Until such COM
mission is authorized they approve the
effort of the President to secure the de-
sired information through a board of ex-
perts employed for that purpose.
They profoundly believe that when the
tariff is again revised it's schedules should |
be considered separately, SO that each |
subject can be dealt with upon it's own
merits and thus secure fair and ina in