Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-14
REPUBLICAN, s0iIoRs &C Esu GzhT.

! Insurgent senators and congressman
al Washington who have found such a
deaf ear in he halls OF congress can
take supreme satisfaction in the Chi
cago Tribune's evidence that their re-
marks have been heard and over
wheiringly endorsed by the country at
large. Senator Delivers definition of
an tnsurgene as made 10 the magazine
editors at banquet viii have 70 be re-
yised or amended. Instead Of being
member Of congress who wants 10
hear a hi! read before i IS voted upon"
an insurgent can now be dehned as
a representative Of the sentiment OF
ave-sixehs Of his republican party in
me country at large" The Chicago
Tribune has taken a straw vote Of the
republican and independent newspaper
editors Of twenty-six states lying west
Of Pitrsburg and finds that OF the
strictly republican editors. five are OPP
posed 10 the reelection of Speaker
Cannon 10 one who favors it and that
the recent Aldrich- Cannon tariff law
which the president has tried to make
orthodox repuDlicanism is opposed by
the republican editors 70 the extent Of
three 10 one.
In detail the result Of the poll dis
closes some remarkable incidents In
Illinois. for instance Speaker Cannon
loses MS own state by four 10 one with
/ 25s republican editors voting. Not a
single congressional district in that
STATE. not even his own, can find ma
jority OF republican editors fayoring his
reelection.
Iowa, Of course, goes overwhelmingly
against the speaker and against the
Aldrich- Cannon tariff law. Out of 2s3
republican editors or an average Of
three 10 the county almost six 70 ons
oppose Cannons reelection and out Of
4s6 republican editors voting or Ave
10 the county three 70 one are opposed
10 the tariff law which Senator's Cum
Minis and Dolliver attempted 50 ably to
correct in its vicious parts. Coming
at this time it may be OF value as
pointing 10 the color Of a platform
which The party's state convention in
Iowa will adopt this summer. Incl
dentally there are a few mem bers Of
congress from this state who have
been somewhat dilatory in sizing up
me sentiment OF their people al home.
As suggesting how an electoral vote
might stand It should be noticed that
not single one OF the tHenty-six
states showed q majority for Cannon
and Missouri x the only state favor
f ing the new tariff law.
The Tribune gathered answers from
an EDITORS on the Cannon PROPOSE
ton and 1902 on the .a-iff bill, Prac-
ricalIy al are republican EDITORS. only
very few consider themselves inde-
pendent and democrats we're not count
Ell. SIX 70 51e ou. Of. the 3,77l in
twenty-six states are opposed to Can
non and four 70 ore out Of 4.302 in the
same states are opposed to the tariff
law. Were President Taft 10 make
rip thru The west this spring ne would
appreciate the error he once made in
attempting 70 present the Aldrich-Can-
I non tariff !ar IS nrthndoy republican,
/ ism. The result Of the Tribune's poll
| will be 10 give the congressional cam
! paign committee the nightmare and on
! the morrow there will be mild recog-
milton of the insurgents plea that a
tariff commission be given authority to
get busy on questions of the difference
between the cost of production at home
and abroad, which question Senator
| Cummins says was not considered or
| even inquired about in the drafting of
! a single scne dule in this last tariff bill
The suggestion win even become pop
ular at the White House
| Beating Around the Bush.
New York Tribune.1
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