Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-30

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THE PLATFORM FROM IOWA.
The republican state convention
meets in Des Moines Wednesday, 1t
will be controlled by the friends of
Senator's Cummins and Dolliver farnil-
iarly known as progressives. About
all the business they will have to
transact is to elect state central COM
mittee which shall manage the party's
campaign and to adopt a platform. All
are agreed as to what the platform
should be in effect, both progressives
and standpatters. That is. the progress
hives are determined that the republic
leans Of the entire nation shall know
that the republicans of Iowa believe in
the political course pursued by the two
senators from Iowa and the standpat-
tiers are daring the progressive to say
what they think. Thus it is by COM
be positive without seeming to strad-
die.
But what VIII 1t say? That is the
question. Well, that will depend upon
the man chosen by the leaders TO write
II, but in the main it will endorse
President Taft insofar as he has en-
deavored to carry out the promises OF
the platform of 1908 Such fulsome-
ness as was tolerated by the progress
sives of Nebraska coming from Iowa
would confuse all else that Iowa might
say because II was the Iowa senators
who led in taking issue with the presi-
dent as to legislation of vital import
ance TO the public welfare. Further
more Iowa progressives do not endorse
the punishment of the political persons
Of Iowa senator's by the withholding OF
federal patronage and they are not
going TO hypocritize by saying too
much
The platform will endorse the state
ticket. The progressive majority can
consistently do this and SO can the
standpat minority for the ticket is
made up of candidates from both fac
tons. But as TO the governor here
again fulsomeness would be misleading.
by entitled TO his partys support but
since his nomination he has been placed
under indictment for criminal libel by
a grand jury and should he be con-
victed, would probably withdraw. A
majority Of the convention will sympa
thize with Cownie and to indulge in
ernor would demand an expression to
square their conscience as to Cownie.
This would land the convention into a
trial of the governors case and de-
feat the partys candidate at the polls.
The less said specifically about the
governor and the more about the ticket
for harmony
But it is as to progressive principles
that the platform should ring. This is
the cause in Iowa that gave to the
people the statewide primary in place
of the convention which the railway
attorneys used to manipulate. The prt-
mary will be commended. It gave to
the people the two cent fare law and
took away from the railroads the pass
whereby they were wont to corrupt
politics. Both measures will be COM
mended. 1t declared for downward re-
vision Of excessive tariffs long before
Taft ran on that kind of a platform
and the platform will make clear that
Iowa's senators were within the dis
charge Of their duty when they OBJ
jected to a compromise which failed to
revise in accordance with the difference
in the cost Of production at home and
abroad. The fundamental creed OF the
progressive to stand for the rights of
the public in defiance to the greed of
special interests, whether in tariff bills,
rate bills, bank bills, public land bills,
subsidies OF otherwise will be de-
fined. Cummins will make the speech
in the morning. His friends will write
the platform. Dolhver will be there
looking pleased. 1t Will ring with re-
publicanism as understood by these
two men who have each spent long
pub iIaa.sssss: 2c1 - -.rsll voice nation s
reply to the doctrine recently enunci-
ated by machine politicians in Ohio
that whatever Is, In the works of a
Republican majority. is right