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The Commoner Cummins And His Tariff Plank
ISSUED WEEKLY
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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
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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. '
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