The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-08-11
THE OsKALOOsA HERALD. THURSDAY, AUGUST n 1910

THE OSK-AL(
yention after all took no ground that
will debar the republicans of Iowa,
the senators included, from giving
President Taft their Endorsement in
1912, should this course be deemed
expedient, at that time. 1t merely
gave a lift to the ambitions of Sena-
tor Cummins, who aspires to be the
party's nominee for the presidency
in 1912, but who, as may be inferred
from his record of the past, will ac-
cept the decision of the party at that
time in respect to men and issues.
If he can not be president he viii
wish to continue as senator and when
a candidate for senator his aim win
be to compose and not to emphasize
party differences. This, not being a
senatorial year, is not harmony
year.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Who best
has been keeping the party faith?
That is the question that the Iowa
republican convention asked and an
swered. And the answer comes clear
and unequivocal. Cummins and Dol
liver and those who have stood and
worked with them profit in this ex-
animation. The Aldrich Cannon
brand of craftsmanship loses. Presi-
dent Taft is accorded indorsemnt in
sofar as he has kept the faith of 1908.
The republicans of Iowa could give
him no more and be true to them
selves and to the professions made
by themselves now as well as in 1908,
and by the party at large then. If
the Chicago platform of 1908 was
good republicanism- it was
then the Des Moines platform of 1910
is likewise good republicanism. Now
that all doubt is past, now that re-
publicanism in Iowa is defined. there
should be. no difficulty in presenting
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Who best
a solid, party front in November
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Burlington Hawk-Eye: The ticket
is albright and ought to be elected.
The platform is wrong in part and is
not defensible as a whole. 1t is the
duty of Iowa republicans to stand by
their organization and elect their
state, congressional, legislative and
county tickets without factional divis-
ion or encouragement to our political
opponents. To vote for democratic
candidates, as Mr.. Cummins has done,
or to enter protest by absence from
the polls, is not the best way to con-
serve party interests or to fulfill the
duty of citizenship to the country. In
time of war, shoulder the gun and
get on the firing line. But as to the
platform, the situation is entirely diff
ferent. That is only an expression
of opinion, of beliefs and of purposes.
One can be a faithful Christian with.
out accepting all the creed of the
church. A creed is only a statemnt
creeds change in different ages. They
are ehangeable, and latitude fof be
lief is now tolerated Political creeds
are subject to the same laws of evo-
luton and liberty. No timid Iowa
republican need hesitate to dissent
from the Bryanistic ideas that have
been injected into the Iowa platform.
He has the gracious permission of
the dominant leader of the party in
this state to differ.
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Marshalltown Herald: The plat
form adopted by the republican state
convention at Des Moines may be
said to be fairly satisfactory to both
the regular and insurgent wings of
the party. Certainly it ought to be
to the insurgents, be-
cause they drew it anu adopted it,
having a majority on both the reso-
lutions cOmittee and in the conven-
tion. The resolutions were intended
as compromise, and were therefore
not Objectionable to the stalwarts,
they showed their disap.
proval of the plank with reference to
President Taft and the national ad-
ministration by bringing in a minor
ity report. This was done, of course.
not with any hope that it would be
adopted by the convention, but to
put the majority squarely on record
as a matter of political history.
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Waterloo Courier: Not only is Iowa
to rejoice over her courageous declar-
alton of progressive republican prin-
ciples which spell the political future
of the United States; but to Iowa re-
publicans belongs the palm for being
the first of any state party to write
and endorse platform which dis
plays the courage of conviction as
against the oveTwh Ginning influence
of regularity and the stereotyped
platform which with little exception
has carried in every other state con
vention up to date. AS compared to
the wishy-washy, crayenly and degen.
erately political, vote-sucking docu-
ment adopted by the Minnesota re-
publicans 90 it is a classic, and in
contrast to the standpat creed edited
at Beverly and adopted by the Ohio
state convention. it Is progressive. 1t