Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-03
URGES IOWA TO CARRY
CONTEST TO EVERY DISTRICT
Senator Urges Seventh District to Re-
pudate Hull, Who is cannon's Aide
Wants Progressive Congressman
Sent to Washington to Help sena-
tors-Prouty and Others Also Speak.
Special to Times-Republican.


night at the dollar dinner at the Saw
cry when 400 diners and others listened
to Senator Cummins The senator
served notice that the progressive
struggle was to be carried on until the
reforms demanded are secured. Defeat
in tariff revision should not dishearten
but should encourage progressives, and
urged progressives in Iowa to send to
congress from this state men who will
Trailing their efforts.
He minated that the state admin
istration of Iowa. also, should not be
allowed to rest in the hands of stand
patters When the sentiment of the state
Is clearly progressive.
The senator spoke against CONGRESS-
man Hull, insisting that the captain has
not been as faithful to business inter-
ests OF the district as would a con-
gresham who would be interested in
securing fairer freight rates as well as
IN securing military tournaments, which
seemed to be the extent of the ambition
OF the earnest adherent of Speaker
Cannon, who represents this district.
| State Senator C. C. Dowell presided
at the dinner. Scores of republicans
from out of the city were present. Dur
ing the day conferences were held along
the line of the senator's speech. and
it is not unlikely that a progressive
candidate for governor will be b. ought
out soon against Gov. B. F. Carroll.
Judge S. F. Prouty, of Des Moines, was
one of the speakers and as he is now
the sole candidate against Congressman
Hull, in this district allusion by SEN
ator Cummins to his faithful support
of the progressive cause was regarded
by the audience as significant.
Senator Cummins said in part:
Progressives Are Not Anarchists.
do not intend at this time to enter
upon the inquiry as to the comparative
debt which this age owes to the pro
gressive" and the "standpatter" fur
Their than to suggest that the "stand-
patter' has the melancholy but posi-
bly, agreeable privilege of insisting that
had it not been for him we would have
moved too fast; while the progressive
must find deal of comfort in the re-
Election that had it not been for him
we would not have moved at all. Upon
an occasion like this the only ma
teriality of the suggestions have been
ma king is that it affords strength and
standing to remember that we who are
following the progressive banner are
: not horde of wild-eyed. tumultuous
; anarchists who have precipitated our
: selves into the calm and quiet of a
standpat community. but are simply
(, fighting battle which has been in
: progress since the world began, and
that all the victories which our ciyili-
cation recalls with gratitude and pride
in the whole course of two thousand
years are the victories of the progress
sives over the standpatters. 1t helps US
also to be serene and confident in the
faith that the standpatters will &c
down before our assault just as they
have gone down in the conflicts OF
! twenty centuries of warfare.
To be entirely accurate, l ought tt
say that these moral, social, industrial
l and political victories which have SC
brilliantly illuminated the pages of his.
n tory have not been won thru the ex.
i tinguishment of the standpa tiers. bu
thru force which slowly, gradually
Il
4 progressives. The "standpatter" of thi:
year accepts the doctrine which tn.
progressive fought for last year anc
calls in Conservatism for in tn,
meanwhile the progressive has gon.
forward and is doing his best to fore,
4 another step in the march toward bet
Il ter things.
Just now the fight involves the tar
if, the regulation of interstate and for
egn commerce and the conservation o
our national resources intend to stat
- as plainly as I can the issues betwee,
US. 1t is, of course, to be understoo
: that the progressives hold varyin
a opinions upon these subjects, just a
there are wide differences between tn
: standpatters; but the tendency of tn
Il progressive element as a whole is in on
{ direction, and the tendency of tn
8 standpat element is in another
r. The Tariff Disagreement.
With respect to the tariff the stand
patetrs feel that it makes little If an
difference how high the duties are,
they be high enough to exclude impo1
tations. When they approach the sui
x ject their first and ! have sometime
= thought their only concern, is for tt
producer. They are SO much afraid
hurting him that they close their cal
to every voice save his, and assun
. that, knowing what he wants, he wi
J not ask for more than he deserves. TT
echoes Of the platform Of 1908, whic
contains the pledges of the republica
party to the people of the country ha,
"a become so faint in their councils tn,
49, they are drowned in the cries Of in
poverished manufacturers. On the oil
ID err hand, the progressives rememb
w that we promised the American pc.
pie that the duties on imported con
is petitive commodities should be mea
1g ured by the difference between the co
of production in this and rival land
er and that we made the promise in ord
to give at once protection to the pr
durer from unequal competition al
tn protection to the consumer from avar
- cious extortion. We know that in maj
fields Of industry home competition h,
been substantially destroyed, and \
intended to subject our home produce
4" to the fear OF foreign competition
prices were raised above e fair q,
reasonable profit.
For years the standpatters success
II fully resisted the demand for a revisit
III Of the tariff, but hnally the progressi
force in the rank and file OF the par
compelled the national convention
recognize the necessity and justice
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