Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-12
STEAMBOAT NEWSPAPERS IN IOWA
AND OUTSIDE FIND FAULT
WITH PRESIDENT.
IOWA WOULD BE LOST
" LEADER SHOULD ARISE
Reejoroeity Pact Cause Of Much Ad
vsrsse OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Pub
Ssssion-Outleok Magazine Sees
Diundsr in Taf<s Hearst Thanks.
Special TO Times Republican.

Special TO Times Republican.
Des Moinee, Aug. Eff Leslie NJ
Shaw had not abandoned Iowa as a
political residence there would be things
a-doing in the state now. So said a
state house politician the other day.
He recalled how Secretary shaw was
quite ready three years ago to lead in
the fight to put Iowa into the standpa
column, and the leading srandpar organ
here did in fact start the movement
for him. Then shaw got into the game
with the allies who We're determined
that only a standpa-ser should be
nomina ted at Chicago.
It Is said that It now needs only some
resoiu1e leader like Leslie VI. Shaw or
the late J. W. Blythe 10 start the move
men. that would take Iowa away from
Presiden. Taft and eTec. the break
which was tried three years ago with
out success. The newspapers that We're
champions Of the so-caued Taft C-uU
movement TO get the Offices a year ago
are n1aaifesting an ugly disposition.
Each week Charley Junkin. committee
man for the First district, gives the ad-
rninistration a swipe Each Week. such
papers as the Mircheiville Index, Col
fax Clipper, Tin-on Eagle. keoseuqua
Republican and Marion Register give
expression to the discomfort which is
in the minds Of the ostensible Taft sup
porrers over the Taft program on the
tariff
Criticism Galore.
The iowa Homestead this week comes
rust as close as possible TO advising the
defeat by the votes OF the farmers of
everyone who advocated the Taft reci-
proci,y plan. The Homestead an-ici-
pates tina, when a veto is in1erposed 20
prevent reduction in the tariff on "a
host OF articles which car De imported
to compete with me tariff protected
outpu, Of the entrenched interests the
excuse will be made that congress
should await report from commits
sion. and adds:
Did President TAFT urge congress
and the nation 10 wait upon the report
Of the tariff mnlssion when the
products Of the farm were at stake?
Is It justice 20 wait when the duty is
to be removed from what the farmer
buys, when 1. was not necessary TO
wait when the duty was TO be removed
from what the farmers produces"
Here, also, Is the rock ribbed stand
pat vtnton Eagle in which 3. Murphy
declares that:
Not in Our lifetime has The repuo-
lican party paid as little respect 70 the
wishes and desires OF the farmers Of
the country as It has IN the enactment
OF this so-cared Canadian trade ar
raneement. Large bodies Of farmers
have called upon President TAFT 70 pro-
test against the Canadian agreement
and it had as much influence upon him
as would pouring water OF a ducks
back. 1. is beyond the power OF the
Eagle to tell It's readers why President
TAFT has become 80 infatuated With
the Canadian free trade pact
kewspa oers Accused.
The Ea gle refers to the Taft treaty
as so called" and Committeeman
Junkin. radical etsndpatter. also refers
to it as his so-called reciprocity pact
With Canada Junkin goes into ex-
the s,andpat view Is being modified
saving:
THE people az the country ought 10
know that the present tariff situation
II due more to the efforts Of the Ma
tioral Publishers Association. an or
ganization Of great newspapers, than
any other single influence"
Junkin also declared it to be the
biggest game Of 'bunc' that has ever
been practiced upon the country"
The view Of the motive back os
President Taft IN projecting his so
called reciprocity, as the Iowa stand
patters would call It, as presented by
these latter. 10 sustained by the Ameri
can Review Of Reviews which declares
that:
NO one dreams for a moment that
this special session would have been
called n 1t mad not been Tor the urgency
OF the newspapers In their demand for
free paper and pulp"
"outIook" Finds Fault.
Criticism of the political phases Of
the whole program Of vote getting has
also come from an unexpected source.
The Outlook Of New York City. which
journal has been a staunch defender Of
the Taft idea Of what is reciprocity az
embodied in his bill, Is finding fault. It
says:
1T was a tactical mistake for the
president OF the United States to send
to the Hearst papers his high appre-
citation OF the energetic work Of the
seven Hearst papers and Of the mem
bers Of your staff for their earnest and
useful effort to spread the gospel Of
reciprocity because this message OF
congratulation has prejudiced. If it has
not imperiled. the cause of reciprocity
in Canada"
The reason assigned is that in Can
ada 1t is generally believed Hearst is
working for Canadian annexation.
Whether this coupling UP Of the TAFT
treaty with the influences and the de-
rires Of the Hearst papers Will be OF
advantage TO Taft in the Canadian
elections or not remains to be seen;
but Il may also have something to
do with the way the matter is regard
ed when It comes to vote IN Iowa,
for whatever may be their merits the
Hearst papers are not regarded az
leaders Of political thought for Iowans.
There IL no question whatever that
the old standpat crowd that was al
most ready to give Iowa to Shaw three
a. l. tea