Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-29
DEFINES QUESTIONS TO BE MADE
ISSUES IN PRESIDENTIAL
..E s-E+
atr CAMPAIGN. ~.
NATIONAL DEFENSE AND
WILSON'S sHoRrCOMlNGs
Tariff Board Plank to Be Among
Platform Observation-Disclosures Ma
rine Also to Be Favored, Declares
National chairman-War's Influence
Pointed Out.

Chicago, May 29.-Here are the four
! big planks the republican carpenters
! will put together in the national plat
form to be constructed in the Coli
scum next week:
/. Adequate national defense.
2. President Wilson's shortcomings.
, 3. Nonpartisan, scientific tariff COM
, mission.
4. Merchant marine.
On this platform and a candidate
who will be honestly in accord with it,
republican chiefs believe they will
satisfy the progressives, and particu-
larry Colonel Roosevelt, even if the
nominee be some other man than the
colonel.
This is the forecast of Charles D.
H!les cha frrnan of the republican ma
tional committee.
HiiIes Breaks Silence.
Mr.. Hilles. who thawed out in fine
style yesterday, discussed the conven-
ton from several angles. expressed
his views on T. r. and the platform.
and went SO far as to prophesy an
other split in the party, or at least a
progressive detection again, If the con-
vention did not measure up to the for
ward looking ideas of the American
people. That the convention will, how
ever. measure up to this standard is
his firm belief
Il am not in Mr.. Roosevelt's conf
dence," said Mr.. Hilles, but, looking
at the situation as any man might
who wants to see the best thing done,
l should say Colonel Roosevelt can
support the republican ticket this fall.
even should he not be nominated. If
the ticket and the platform is on the
square. / shink it will be-
Sees Union on Platform.
IF the republicans put forth plat
form that is not bunk, but a sincere
decla ration Of principles. and nominate
a candidate for president the people
believe will adhere sincerely to the
platform and is equal to the task Of
living up to the platform, l do not be-
lieve Colonel Roosevelt will lead a
third party movement this year.
ION the other hand, If the platform
is bunk platform. which no well in
formed man anticipates, and If Colonel
Roosevelt had reason to feel himself
and his principles outraged he might
run again on third ticket. In that
event the republicans would have a
hard time defeating Mr.. Wilson.
| Expects No Split.
But ! don't look for that develop
ment. I am basing my opinion on the
statement issued by the progressive
national committee at its meeting
! here in Chicago. understand Mr..
Perkins dictated that statement HIM
self.
In that the progressive party an
nounced that it was ready to join
hands with the republicans, provided
the main principles for which the pro-
gressives have contended are set forth
in the republican platform and pro-
vided, further. that the nominee of the
republican convention measures up t.
! that pronOuncement.
1T will be recalled that the Perkins
statement specifically said that that
, did not necessarily mean the republic
cans would have to nominate Colonel
1 Roosevelt.
! No Guess on Nominee.
! LAS to who Will be nominated no
! one can even guess at this time. be-
lieve the republican convention this
| year will be composed of delegates
{ who are independent in their thinking
and who will deliberate soberly and
seriously on the national situation. /
don't think it will be convention that
| can be classed as deliverable in the
! sense that word is used.
I This will be convention in which
! the deliberate and sincere judgment OF
majority of the delegates will prevail
in the end. I make no comparison
with other conventions and do not
mean to make any insinuaticns. but
! The whole national situation this year
| is such that the republican delegates
will think carefully and soberly and
even prayerfully before they commit
| the party on these vital issues.
Politics Is Patriotism. II
MCKINLEY, in one of his great cam
paigns, said that whatever may have
been the situation before that this was
a year in which business was politics
and politics was business.
1--WE can paraphrase that little and
say now on the eve of the opening OF
the republican national convention.
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