Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-10
SURPRISING INSURGENCY.

The Washington correspondents
seem to have convinced themselves
that President Taft is lending an ear
TO the appeals of certain standpatters
in Iowa to aid in the local campaigns.
Whether their fears are we'll founded
or not makes very little difference in
the Iowa situation. If President Tact
should do so astounding a thing as TO
appear in person al Knoxville as
Speaker Cannon did and deliver
stump speech against Prouty it would
do Judge Prouty very little harm but
it would injure the president immense
~. The facts are that republicans Of
Iowa are making up their own minds
as to what republicansm should con-
sist. President Taft as a leader is as
vet on probation If he makes good
his word will be listened to in the dis
tricts. If he does not make good the
districts will begin TO demand new
leader.
The people of Iowa feel that they are
being fairly we'll represented at WASH
ington by their two senators. When
the postal savings bank bill came out
of an Aldrich- made committee so
drafted that the deposits Of peoples
savings with the postal banks We're to
be used to buy back at par the govern
ments Panama 2 per cent bonds which
Wall street bankers had bought at a
discount and thereby pay Wall street
a fat profit of some s12,000.000, the
people of Iowa applauded Cummins,
and Borah, and Dolliver, and the other
fnsurgent senators who forced an
amendment that blocked the Wall
street game. While there is some con-
fusion as to whether the president had
winked at the Aldrich bill or was quiet
~ letting the insurgents eat it up it is
certain that the president could not
make respectable start toward giving
CHAT kind of a game popularity ii
Ibwa even if he should listen to enough
bad advice to attempt it.
Again in the case of the railroad bill
NOW before the senate. Heretofore
when shippers on appeal to the inter-
state commerce commission secure a
favorable decision and the railroads
appeal to the United States supreme
Court the custom has been for the
commission to join hands with the
shippers and stand together in Defend
ing the decision. A vigorous defense by
lawyers who are posted on the sub
feet has thus been obtained. When the
Aldrich bill came out with provision
to make all appeals from the commits
sion suit against the United States
and expressly excluded the commission
from defending Its own decision, ex-
GLIDING also all the parties interested,
the people of Iowa saw nothing but q
desire to send all rate decisions to
chasing a circumlocution office thru
out eternity. They applauded the Cum
mins-Clapp minority report and if the
president should try to get them to stop
applauding he would receive only cat
calls from the gallery seats.
When a national platform declares
for a tariff revision based upon pro-
lection equal to the difference in cost
of production at home and abroad and
the protected interests are allowed to
write their own schedules without one
single inquiry being made by the COM
mittee as to the difference in cost Of
production at home and abroad the
president can not convince the people
of Iowa that the-platform pledges have
been kept.
These things are fast getting to be
serious for the republican party. The
editor Of the Reviews of Reviews says
that insurgency can not be downed or
suppressed without driving the mid
die western states out of the party and
&c drive them out throws the country
democratic so it is not likely that the
president is going to attempt half what
the correspondents fear of him. The
regret is that he has not yet seen the
necessity of doing more to prevent the
public need for insurgency at Wash
ington.