EDITORIALS
"Cordial Support!" IOWA is a progressive state. Its people abhor Cannonism and Aldrichism. They believe fervently in the "Roosevelt policies." It is no occasion for surprise, therefore, to find...
...byers knows practically every man, woman and child in it, which fact will aid him greatly in the campaign which he is about to enter...
...Here is Lodge's reply: United States Senate...
...Yet there are those high in power at Washington who persist in calling the bill "the best ever...
...He is the mayor of the town...
...J. H. Stout, Menomonie...
...Smith has been one of the most valuable and leading members of the House of representatives...
...Th« manufacturer receives protection ranging as high as 100 per cent...
...H. Gill, Milwaukee...
...He is a forceful speaker...
...I have a protection of 50 per cent...
...What is the situation in the cotton industry...
...He must then be approved by the officers of the National Association...
...He has a large family of boys, and one daughter...
...John E. Mc-Connell, La Crosse...
...He was speaker of the House in the Twenty-sixth General Assembly, and in the extra session which followed, during which time the laws were codified...
...I don't need it and don't want it...
...No person will be chosen who does not subscribe to the entire conservation program, from Preamble to Conclusion...
...President E. l. eaton, Beloit College...
...By reason of his long residence in the Ninth District, Mr...
...As a member of Tawney's committee on appropriations, Smith's "cordial support" of the Roosevelt policies was nowhere in evidence...
...Perhaps nothing of greater importance is now before the Wisconsin committee than this matter of membership, and the fact that the officers are making additions with so" much care and foresight lends assurance that the campaign in Wisconsin will be successful and will set a high standard for committees in other states, when they are established...
...many of them would not have entered protest against reductions ranging from 10 per cent, to 25 per cent...
...The next ten years will see the application of all these sciences and resources to the development of the race...
...His profits are enormous and yet his employes are the poorest paid in New England...
...The change in sentiment in the Massachusetts district is indeed startling, the more so that it is the voice of the supposedly conservative East...
...Each new member must have passed the careful scrutiny of the executive committee, consisting of Chairman bray, President van hise, and State Forester griffith...
...T. J. Cunningham, Chippewa Falls...
...To use plain language, Senators Aldrich and Lodge and a few members of Congress from this section of the country endeavored to hog the tariff for New England...
...H. P. Bird, Wausaukee...
...The nucleus of the committee, as then reported, consisted of the following men: William M. Bray, Oshkosh, chairman...
...flWe have weighed the stars, bridged the biggest streams, tunnelled the thickest mountains, counted the atoms in a molecule...
...Other members will be elected from time to time...
...I could get along just as well on 25 per cent...
...To such we would call particular attention to the paragraphs in the Roll Call of this issue that tell about Smith's opposition to an appropriation to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the uniform accounting and publicity feature of the railroad bill— a Roosevelt measure—and his fight against the appropriation to enable the government to send out secret service men to trail down land thieves and grabbers of the people's natural resources—likewise a Roosevelt measure...
...The character of this committee and its purposes were set forth three weeks ago in an article in La Follette's on "Campaigning for Conservation...
...Measures advocated by Roosevelt in the people's interest usually required appropriations in order to be effectively administered...
...Very truly yours, H. C. LODGE...
...And by refusing to allow such appropriations Tawney rendered great service to the System and put a crimp in the Roosevelt program...
...February 26...
...Thos...
...President samuel plantz, Lawrence University, Appleton...
...My dear Sir: I have received your letter of the 21st...
...There are people who may regard Mr...
...T. E. Brittingham Madison...
...William J. Starr, Eau Claire...
...The boys lean toward the law, one, a graduate of the University of Michigan, taking over his father's law practice at Harlan, when the father was elected to the office of attorney general...
...Shinn's query than the friendly but guarded letter of Senator Lodge...
...He says: "New England is given protection out of all proportion to its needs...
...Edward M. Griffith, Madison...
...Take my own business, for instance...
...Smith (for campaign circulation) in the pose of a Roosevelt champion...
...We want more health, more leisure, more security, more happiness, more of the goods of this world for the average man—the sort of man who will use the postal savings banks when we get them.—From "1910," by Paul U. Kellogg in The Survey for January 8...
...The Association will place upon the committee representative men from every section of the state...
...many of them did not ask for the increases written into the law...
...The Fight on in Iowa HON...
...To FRANK SHINN, Esq...
...Tawney's record as "A Servitor of the System" was printed in La Follette's of October 2, 1909...
...He has done much to bring about the political reforms of the last ten years...
...In this way it is hoped to form a strong, active committee, every member of which is earnestly endeavoring to promote the cause of conservation...
...What will He Do...
...Ballinger's attorney wishes to know whether Glavis' motives are innocent or malicious...
...Smith is one of the "reliables" on Tawney's committee...
...What the public wants to know i»: "Are his charges true...
...Smith's record as a better answer to Mr...
...Carson, Iowa...
...I am very glad to make this answer in response to your inquiry because i know that Mr...
...A Strong Committee THE Wisconsin State Committee of the National Conservation Association is making encouraging headway...
...It is New England itself passing on its own tariff, the tariff made especially for New England and by New England...
...His sincerity and ability cannot be questioned...
...Eastern Insurgency EUGENE N. FOSS, who reversed a Republican majority of 14,000 in the Cape Cod district in Massachusetts, to a 5,000 Democratic majority, but who claims to be independent of either of the two great parties, ascribes the change of sentiment in his district to dissatisfaction over the Aldeich-Payne tariff bill...
...As such he has most consistently helped to strangle the very policies he now seeks to take to his bosom...
...On the question of the organization of the Secret Service it is well known that Representative Walter Smith differed from the views of President Roosevelt, but, so far as my knowledge extends, he cordially supported all President Roosevelt's policies in Congress...
...has suddenly been changed to "what will our ex-President do with us...
...Presumably for one thing, Gifford will not dismiss the insurgent movement as a mere "mirage...
...His prominence and efficiency in this important work directed the attention of the state to him, and he was brought forward as a candidate for the nomination for Governor...
...On February 21, Mr...
...byers' whole life has been spent in Iowa, principally in Hancock and Shelby counties...
...Lawrence C. Whittet, Edgerton...
...Charles R. Van Hise, Madison...
...W. H. Hatton, New London...
...This committee is an important one...
...It is no occasion for surprise, therefore, to find indications of an effort on the part of Congressman Walter I. Smith's friends to paint a portrait of Mr...
...As the head of the legal machinery of the state, be has made a great record, and a third term would be his without opposition, if he desired it...
...It is a verdict that cannot be charged to the incendiarism of the western insurgents, "bent on breaking up the grand old party...
...R. H. Edwards, Oshkosh...
...Farm, Stock and Home...
...byebs espoused the cause of Senator cummins at the beginning of the latter's fight for better government in Iowa, and was his close and helpful friend in every one of the hard contests which marked the road to the governorship and, later, the United States Senate...
...THE CALLING by former President Roosevelt of Gif-ford PiNCHOT to tell the strenuous one of the lay of the land politically at home, has caused much anxiety in certain quarters...
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...h. w. BYERS, who is a candidate against Congressman walter I. smith, in the Ninth Iowa Congressional District, is one of the strong men of the State...
...He was opposed by the railroad interests, with the result that leslie M. shaw was named...
...Frank Shinn of Carson, Iowa, wrote to Senator Lodge for enlightenment on the apparently puzzling problem as to whether or not Congressman Smith had "generally supported" the Roosevelt policies...
...He was a candidate for Congress in the Ninth district, at the time Congressman hager was nominated, the latter being successful by the narrowest margin at the end of a week's balloting...
...Since that was written, the following have been added to the committee: L. C. Coleman, La Crosse...
...byers is now serving his second term as Attorney General...
...Many of the industries do not need the protection given them...
...The query "what to do with our ex-Presidents...
Vol. 2 • April 1910 • No. 14
