Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-20
CANDIDATE AGAINST cuMMiNS
DID NOT MAKE RECORD IN
FAVOR OF TARIFF.
LET ANTI-REciPRoclTY
RESOLUTION STAY BURIED
Ignored Golden Opportunity TO Register
Objection to Taft's Free Trade Plans
With Nsishbor on North - Sole
Record on Tariff Question While
Membsr Of Iowa Legislature.
Special to Times Republican.

SpeClal TO IlmeS- Republican.
Des Moines, May 2O.-A Scott county
inquirer has asked for information
definite and positive as to the basis
for the claim that is being made in
the campaign that Art Savage. the
wealthy Adair banker, has a great. rec
ord on the tariff question. The back
ers Of Savage are claiming that he
would be man Of great influence in
shaping up tariff legislation in con-
gress.
One Of Savages associates in the
state legislature recalls that there was
one occasion. At least, when there was
a call for making record on the tar
If. Savage, of course, Is willing to
stand by his own record. 1t is worth
while knowing what that record is, just
as he made 1t.
On Feb. I, 1911, there was intro
duced In the state senate by Senator
Adams q concurrent resolution MEM
orializing the Iowa delegation in con-
gress to use their best efforts to pre-
vent the ratification of the reciprocity
treaty made by this government and
the Canadian government. and now
pending before the congress Of the
United States"
The substance OF the resolut ton Jus
tilted this caption. A treaty was pend
ing 1t was Canadian reciprocity
treaty framed up as the then President
Taft. believed It should be. The reso-
luton recited that this agreement
places on the free list the most I'm
portant products Of the farms Of Iowa
and the other states Of the upper Mis-
sissippi valley and further that Gin
this reciprocal trade agreement no pro-
vision has been made whereby the
commodities which the Iowa farmer
buys are to be In any way cheap
ened."
Golden Opportunity Ignored.
Surely here was golden opportun-
ity for any one having his heart set
on opposing Canadian reciprocity and
determined upon defending the Payne
Aldrich tariff law at all hazards.
The concurrent resolution, as will be
observed, was introduced early in the
session, so that every one sufficiently
filed with wrath against the hated
Canadian reciprocity plan Of Taft
might load himself for an outpourin1.
Of eloquence.
But when the resolution was read it
was laid over" under the rule which
forbids the consideration Of a resolu-
tion the same day 1t is offered.
The resolution, in the condition Of a
laid over" matter, was in fact at the
secretary's desk ready to be taken w
at any time on suggestion Of any SEN
ator. 1t was before the house, not in
the hands OF any committee.
And Senator Savage was member
OF the senate. That was the session
where they held joint convention
every day and members were always
on hand. No absentees that time.
Savage could have called up that reso-
luton any day. A word from him to
Adams. his boon companion, would
have precipitated the fight.
Yet Savage never voted for the reso-
luton. He never made a move to call
1t up. He never asked what had be-
come Of 1t. He never showed the
slightest zeal in making war on Can
adam reciprocity when there was a
Canadian reciprocity treaty pending.
If Savage has any other record than
just this on the tariff it has escaped
attention. He never made a speech
on the tariff He never said anything
about the tariff, publicly or privately.
Nobody knows what he would do II
placed in a position Of responsibility,
for when so placed he lodged.
This is the Savage record on which
he is running as a champion Of the
plans and purposes Of the American
Protective Tariff league, and 1t is the
only record he has