Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-13
SPEECHES AROUSE IRE
INsuReENr kEYNoTEs BY IOWA
SENATORS sTIRs REGULARS
IN WASHINGTON.
DEMAND FOR REPRlsALs
MADE ON THE PRESIDENT
standpat Leaders Plan to Fight Presi-
dents Demand For Tariff Board and
Further Revision -oratoricaI Cam
paisn Opens and Battle For Life Of
Factions is to Be Wased.

Washington, May 13.-In these days,
when practically every speech made
by man in public life is "keynote,"
it would be strange indeed if excep-
tional attention was not directed in
Washington to the addresses made at
Des Moines by Senators Dolliver and
Cummins. The interest is all that
might have been expected. With an
other mote" to be struck in the house
of representatives by Mr.. Payne, a coll
laborator in the making of the pres
ent tariff law, it is assured that the
music accompanying the big national
political extrava ganza of the season
of 1910 will be sung in divers and
sundry "keys."
An interesting fact in connection
withs the Dolliver and Cummins
speeches is that the Iowans We're talk
ing for more than their individual
selves. Before they went west there
was a conference of practically all-the
progressives in congress-the insurg-
ent members of the house as we'll as
senators-and the plan of attack on
standpatism plainly outlined and with
as the plan to be pursued all along the
line.
Insurgents have felt that the regular
leaders, failing in the attempt to read
progressives out of the party, would
get their scalps if they could in some
other way. On the theory that fire
must be fought with fire, the insurg-
ents, so-called, are going after the
IND ix,i5 n nd nn11aot ivo1v
in territory within progressive bound
aries, determined to "get them" just
as much as if the supporters of AL
drich and Cannon We're in the ranks of
the democratic enemy.
Taft's Stand Interests.
There has been much curiosity on all
sides today to know what President
Taft may think of Senator Delivers
attack on the tariff figures used so
elouuently in the executives celebrated
Winona speech last September. The
president had a very busy day, how
ever, receiving complimentary visits
from prominent Polish citizens here to
attend the unwilling of the Pulaski
and Kosciuszko statues and spending
half day participating in the unveil-
ing ceremonies, and those merely idly
WOuueIlHS lOuHo III oPpOA soiAASS w
crafty their curiosity.
But the president saw signlhcant
galaxy of standpat statesmen early in
the day, despite pressure of other mat
ters. and it is safely surmised that he
talked with them relative to the latest
angles Of the complex situation. There
were Aldrich, the republican senate
leader, andsSenator Crane, the republic
can file closer There were Represent
atives Payne and Dalzell, who think
tariff board expansion is "foolfshness,
and Tawney of Minnesota, who, as
chairman of the appropriation commit
tee, wants to help out the president
with his tariff board idea in return for
the friendship the president has dis
played for him.
Urge President to Fight.
Political mind-readers figure out that
what Senator Aldrich and others prop.
ably said to the president was In SUD-
stance something like this:
cts time to take the bull by the
horns. There no longer is any use
temporizing with these insurgents.
They are out to defeat your policies
and to discredit your administration.
The only thing to do is to stand our
ground-more than that, not only to
defend what has been done, but make
an attack and show the country that
the insurgents and not the regulars are
seeking the prevent the fulfillment OF
platform pledges. You are the leader.
You lead and we will follow and fight"
without any statement from the
White House today, every well-posted
observer knows what President Taft
thinks of the Dolliver-Cummins school
of insurgents. He has let that be
known befores this, and the latest hap
nenings would not alter his opinion
He regards the radical insurgents as
"black flag" insurgents. Dolliver, &C
cording to the presidents friends, ne
regards as a man who has trimmed ms
sails to meet his environment-one VINO
has forsaken sound republican prin-
cipIes in order to appeal to the sentl-
ment Of the mob.
oratoricaI Campaign Due.
The big guns of both the republican
and democratic sides of the house VIII
omen an oratorical bombardment tnat
will last for several days and when IS
designed to have its effect upon the
country and reflect the consequences
in the election next November.
Mr.. Payne started the fight yester-
day with a speech showing how grand
q thing IS the tariff law bearing his
ic axnectQd TO fur.