Show THE TILE IOWA lowi DEFECTION Gentlemen may cry Peace peace but there Is no peace The war has lifts actually begun That was the declaration of Patrick Patric k Henry in the Virginia house of ot bur burgesses burgesses burgesses gesses and that appears appears to be about the size of ot the situation in Iowa today to today today day Senators Cummins Cummins and Dolliver Dollive r have scurried back to the Hawkeye Hawkey e state to engage in battle with the reg regular re ular Republicans The delusion that has existed re regarding regarding regarding garding the attitude of ot the insurgent senators has been swept away and it itIs ItIs 1 t Is utterly and entirely useless to dally daly y with them any longer Some of ot us have fondly supposed that they would return to the fold Not so They have hav e not only gone astray themselves but bill butare butare t are trying to seduce others Iowa the Republican can state which has never been represented represented by a Democrat in the United Unite I States Senate in our day and generation genera generation generatIon tion Is now face to face with a situa situation situatIon tion unparalleled in modern politics Both Soth her senators elected as Republicans Republicans Republicans and still claiming to be such are organizing a campaign the pur purpose purpose pose 1 ose of which Is to discredit a Republican Republican Republican lican administration and d elect mem members members members bers of ot the lower House of Congress Congre who will vote with the Democrats Senator Cummins who Is ls In great part responsible for the existing order of ot things has been off 0 color for a number of ot years He poses as a tariff tars ff reformer Dolliver Is a recent con convert convert convert vert to the liberal Ideas most likely because Cummins was in 1 n control of at the political machinery of ot o othe f the state and his toga was in danger Cummins can plead that his actions are the result of ot a profound conviction conviction tion that he ha has always been a low la tip tariff man and had no part or lot in f n constructing the laws prior to the en enactment enactment of the bill Not so with his senatorial colleague Dolliver was a member of the lower lows lowerHouse lowerHouse r House of Congress for many years an anable anable able efficient and stalwart Republican During his term of service he was a member of ot the ways and means means com corn committee committee and aided in making the sched schedules schedules schedules ules of ot the tile tariff bills bUlB At no time tim e was his voice raised In protest against again st the rate on so much as a single ar article article tide Not only was he an advocate of at the tho th Republican principle of ot protection but bu buthe buhe t he was also in fn favor avor of ot fixing the tho th e schedules nigh enough to protect the th e manufacturing industries of the coun country country country try to the fullest extent and to Insure e the highest possible wages to workingmen work workingmen workingmen ingmen At that time he saw no In Injustice Injustice Injustice justice to the farmers of at Iowa Now that Cummins Is In control a change has come over the spirit cf his dreams and he not only denounces denoun es esthe the present tariff law but the others for tor which he in part was responsible Was Dolliver insincere when he went out upon the stump and defended the McKInley and Dingley bills or o Is he Insincere now in denouncing the bill billIn billIn billIn In his hh speeches during the extra session ses session session sion last spring Senator Dolliver said in effect that he knew a great wrong was being perpetrated by himself and ethers of ot the ways and means com committee committee committee but he failed to raise his voice in protest Nay he was first and fore foremost foremost foremost most In fn the work Was he an honest man while a member of ot the lower lowerHouse lowerHouse lowerHouse House Senator Dolliver Is an orator of at note In bygone years he has been a avery avery very effective advocate of ot Republican principles In the halls of Congress and upon the stump At that time he had upon the rock and his record was clear Now his voice Is lifted up denouncing the very principles for tor fo r which he once contended Is he hon lion honest honest est at the present time So far ar as the senators from Iowa are concerned the Republican R party can get along without them If they choose cho se to go over to the Democracy that tha that is their privilege It will be good riddance to bad rubbish But they should not be allowed allow d to o sit In the councils of ot the Republican party and at the same time abuse the leaders of ot that party and endeavor to bring the President of ot the United States into disrepute by picturing him as one con controlled trUed trolled by unworthy men Senator Brandegee is said to have advised Mr Taft to take his tomahawk in hand and go forth against the In Insurgents insurgents Insurgents His advice seen to be good The Republican party must stand or fall faU with the tariff Cum Cummins CUmmIns mins mine Dolliver and a few others assail the law which the President says Is the best ever enacted There Is no middle ground It Is war to the knife and knife knite to the hilt Further palaver Is useless One cannot serve God and Mammon Nei Neither NeIther Neither ther should one be e allowed to pose as asa asa asa a Republican n and advocate Democrat Democratic ic is free trade The Tha Issue Is plain Put I Cummins Dolliver LaFollette and Beveridge where they bel h outside the Republican party Then let the tha true and loyal Joyal Republicans gird up their loins Joins and go forth to battle On the whole It is better that the question should be raised at this time It would be bea Infinitely better that the Democrats should absolutely control the House than to control It by means of ot a coalition with the Insurgents Let the tariff be made the test of Republicanism regardless of the world the flesh and the devi By that sign we conquer |