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-i mVwimwm,Pt' vmmWmwmwm M - ' . .. fclf ,LJBSM TPPfffgw t- -; - w, ! , --' The Commoner. VOLUME 6, NUMBER 5X 'if . i( - ; H tffl m iif 11 -i V h . i'HJ ...fe!j M"jSf M J I mi W ij fc,v ,va ij nt Jfl tOSK i.w )j , H'3r.;: ill ' . i t ii. .".... -.( I! ! .. , ?f .1 . 1 . y y . ft I' M tit . ' : r t' j v Vt . ,! i.i 'i . Hi ' til ' ' ' r i M ;r .i ! f" I t I'd It it. , i i liP 'i I i? '; f if I'l . IriH n 5" ; ! ? if t n' f The Commoner Cummins And His Tariff Plank ISSUED WEEKLY WHiUAM J .13HYAN CHAWLKS W. BltTAK Editor and Proprietor. Publisher. Riohakd L. MKTCALim Editorial Rooms and Business Associate Editor. Office 324-380 So. 12th Street. Knlercd at the postofllce at Lincoln, Nebraska, as second class mall matter. Ono Yon $1-00 Six Months 50o In Clubs of 5 or moro por Yoar 75o Thrco Months '2 Slntllo Copy....- 5o Sample Copies Froe Foroiin Postage 52o Ex-(re. SUBSCRIPTIONS can bo sent direct to Tho Com moner. 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Thus, Jan. 31, Ob, meanfr that payment has been received to and inciuu lng 1 a last Issuo of January, 190G. Two weeks aro rcquirbd aftor monoy has been received beforo tuo date on wrapper can be changed. CHANGE OF ADDRESS.-Subscribers requesting a change of address must givo OLD as well as the Niuvi address. ADVERTISING rates furnished upon application. Address all communications to THE COMMONER. Lincoln. Nob The paper trust has quit business in the papers. It seems that the Shaw presidential boom is not an "Iowa idea.' When that court injunction hit Tom Johnson it rebounded with a d. s. t. If not impertinent we would like to inquire what-has bpcomp of that injunction against the beef trust. A Connecticut revolver maker left an estate valued at $50,000,000. ' That represents a great many "innocenfby pders." Government by injunction will hereafter be ware of a large, smooth-faced fat man who has the courage of his convictions. Mr. Rockefeller assures us that he has never been a pessimist. But he has been an "assimila tionist," if there is such a word Mr. Rockefeller says he is glad to get back to his own country. And he probably put espe cially strong emphasis on "his own." We hasten to assure our South American neighbors that the brand of taffy dispensed by Secretary Root is not only palatable but unadulterated. Mr. Rockefeller says "the day is coming when all of us in .this country will be better acquainted with one. another." Not .if we can help it, Mr Rockefeller. The czar asked Ambassador Meyer what the American people thought of him as a ruler. That Is where Ambassador Meyer had to show his training as a diplomat. An actress now coyly admits that she was secretly married a couple of years ago lie klpt the secretes long as she could because her hus band is a Pittsburg millionaire. ,. Senator Penrose is inclined to think that he will be chiseled out of the g. o. p. leadership in nn,S3;lvanIa ,before set those names chipped off of tho capital doors at Harrisburg. Mr. Parry's declaration that Representative Cannons position on the labor question is all correct is not calculated to strengthen the speaker with the workingmen voters of the Danville dis- A. F. Mood, Clareraore, I, T., asks where bo can obtain the work entitled ''Plistorfof the free Mongrlewiringland',' 7ritte" August SL tlJLlme one Sive Mr. Mood the v' 'UHUH 4 Friends of Governor Cummins have already discovered that they handicapped their candidate when they undertook to frame a platform which could command the support of the standpatters as well as the tariff revisionists. The differences between these elements wore too radical to form a union on the tariff question unless one or tho other surrendered. In order to cater to the tariff sentiment, Governor Cummins' friends framed a platform intended to be soothing to the standpatters, but it is plain from the reading of the Cummins platform that his platform builders went too far in their defense of the protective system1. Some of the comments on this line by news papers throughout the country will be interest ing. The New York Commercial, a republican paper, says: "Next we shall hear that there isn't any 'Iowa idea' at all, that there never was one and never can be. Here is a Cummins supporter, fresh from the convention, explaining things in an interview at Sioux City: The fact that the six standpatters who controlled the committee on resolutions didn't raise a word of protest at the tariff revision plank shows, he says, that 'the impression that this has been a tariff fight is erroneous.' No tariff fight in Iowa? Then there can be nothing left of the Hon. Albert Baird Cummins but an empty name. The country at large had somehow come to look upon him as a tariff fight personified. But let our Sioux City iconoclast proceed with his explanation: Per kins circulated that story about a tariff fight, he says, when he was in search of an issue on which to make the race for the gubernatorial nomina tion against Cummins. And when Oyster Ba.y declared against using tariff revision in the con gressional campaign Perkins grabbed at the in cident like a drowning man at a straw. 'He thought,' our explaining analyst goes on, 'that he had put Cummins in suchva position that he must either change his views or else promulgate a platform putting Iowa at Issue with the national party and embarrassing congressmen in their campaigns.' And then follows this very remark able confession: 'We met that problem by word ing our tariff plank moderately and emphasizing the real issues of the campaign the primary election law and the elimination of corporations from politics.. But.no one need think Cummins is less a revisionist than he has always been.' But everybody will -is bound to. If his apologist tells the story accurately. Alfred Baird Cummins is a smashed idol, and the 'Iowa idea' only the mere memory of a hollow mockery." The Kansas City Star, an independent paper with republican leanings says: "The trouble with Governor Cummins as a presidential possibility is that he has not 'made good' even with his own commendable hobby of tariff revision" m T?.e Waington Post, which it would be difficult to classify, says: "Governor Cuirmins has performed the bombastic martial feat of that king of France who marched up the hill with ten thousand men and then marched down again Having victory in his grasp he has surrendered to the distracted hosts of standpatism. The country had expected something better of him" The Philadelphia Press (Rep.) says that Gov ernor Cummins' platform is "sound and strong enough for the stiffest protectionists. It stand! by the protective system to the utmost and it nM?i revlBlony nder such conditions nized it." Protectionist has always recog- The New York Tribune (Rep.) referring to Governor Cummins says: "Between nominating conventions and away from home he has some mes seemed to antagonize protection sentiment. 7ono ?n,from the Iowa Ptforms of 1901, norL?l19?a" f. them framed his sup! porters for him to stand on his position is in ?,ay ?xtreme r unreasonable. This year's SJJ ?c!a"fon wj?ich merely repeats that of teaching? TeamrmB the best republican The New York Evening Post (Ind.) says that ?w.roi?nriiCUmrainS has backed down, adding? We challenge any republican not mini s one or wiXut 2MSP t0 at -nsL mediate tariff revision; Cummins sough? personal advantage. He has gained what he sought' his supporters have lost what they believed from s assurance they would gain through him He hhs betrayed his supporters. He has been loyal ?o his insatiable and ever ascendant egotism. He is a chameleon and his dominant hue is yellow." The Sioux City Journal, edited by George D. Perldns, Governor Cummins' chief opponent points out that the platform adopted by the demo crats says: "We believe in tariff for revenue only, and in approaching to that condition of our revenue laws there should be immediate relief granted to the people who are now being robbed by extortionate prices exacted under the shelter of the tariff." The Journal then points out that the platform adopted by the Cummins' convention says: "Wo are uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protection. We believe that all inequalities In the tariff schedules,, which in evitably arise from changing industrial and com mercial conditions, should be adjusted from time to time; and, condemning without reserve all assaults upon the protective system, we favor such reasonable and timely changes as will keep the tariff in harmony with our industrial and commercial progress." The Journal suggests a joint debate between Mr. Porter, democratic nom inee for governor, and Governor Cummins, and points out in advance that the democratic posi tion is not dissimilar to the position all along taken by Governor Cummins until the tariff plank for 1906 was injected into the platform. " DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN FUNDS A Washington dispatch says that Chairman Griggs of the democratic congressional commit tee will send a circular letter to each of the 30,000 democrats or as many of them as aro living who subscribed one dollar each to the democratic campaign fund in 1896. Another let ter is to be sent to the editors of democratic newspapers asking them to 'call upon their sub scribers for one dollar contributions. Some money is necessary to carry on a po litical campaign. Men who object to political parties obtaining their campaign funds from spe cial interests ought to be ready to contribute at least a small sum for the payment of legitimate expenses. Every one who believes in democratic principles and who can contribute should send a dollar to Chairman Griggs. Commoner readers ought not to permit this opportunity to go by. Remember that victory in the congressional campaign is important to popular government. If every Commoner reader who sympathizes with the work Chairman Griggs and other democrats are trying to do, will send one dollar, the democratic committee would not find itself embarrassed from a lack of money to pay all necessary expenses. Such contributions may be addressed to Hon. James M. Griggs, chairman of democratic congressional committee, Washington, D. C. JJJ THE PRIMARY PLEDGE As this copy of The Commoner may be read by some one not familiar with the details of the -primary pledge plan, it is necessary to say that according to the terms of this plan every demo crat is asked to pledge himself to attend all of the primaries of his party to be held between now and the next democratic national convention, unless unavoidably prevented, and to secure a clear, honest and straight-forward declaration of the party's position on every question upon which the voters of .the party desire to speak. Those desiring to be enrolled can either write to The Commoner approving the object of the organiza tion and -asking to have their names entered on the roll, or they can -fill out and. mail the blank pledge, which is printed on page 16. Extracts from letters received at The Com moner office follow: William Bayne, .Varnells Station, Ga. I hand you herewith primary pledge with eleven signa, tures. Wake Massie, Lebanon, Mo. You will find enclosed seven signatures to the primary pledge. R. M. Roddie, Ada, I, T. I am sending you herewith, forty-six signatures to the primary pledge. I. R. Smith, Stoneville, N. C I send the abovo sixteen names as primary pledgers. Keep up the fight. Wint Coleman, New Concord, Ky. I send you herewith forty-two signatures to the primary; pledge. ' f i i i 'mi..