Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-09-07
Republican and Democratic
Rule I'm iowa COntrasted.
Gov. STONES SPEECH AT RED Rock
Iowa, SEPT. ., 1871.

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The meeting having been called to
order at about 3 p. NJ, L. n. Crum,
Esq, of Otley, was called to the Chair,
and Gov. Stone took the floor accord
ing to announcement.
After few preliminary remarks
of general nature, the Governor
proceeded as follows:
Before advancing to the discussion
of National questions, | must crave
your indulgence for a short time,
while advert to some matters con-
nected with our State and local pol
itics. This l am constrained to do,
! because certain Democratic Stumpers
in this County have already COM
menced the reproduction and deliv-
cry of u speech, some what respectable
from its age, and still more remark
able from the many gross misrep-
reservations and glaring errors 1T
contains, in reference To the fiscal
affairs of our State, and their man
agement under Republican rule. l
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| Knoxville Dcna0cTdt OF this week.
1t was first delivered some three
years ago, substantially as it appears
in print today; and we have heard it
repeated over this County in every
campaign since then, with such
changes and Improvements only as "A
tolerable ingenuity, with long eNpe-
rience in the perversi0n OF facts ana
figures, have been able TO suggest.
Yet we are told that the
subject matter of this speech, as in
former years, is to be the slogan Of
its author, and the capital stock of
his party in Marion County, during
the present canvass. l have been
requested to notice this rinderpest
cargo, which, for prudential reasons,
has been kept in quarantine for three
years past, and aired at country
schOolh0uses, before going into print.
You shall be my witnesses today that
this fusilade Of Democratic lies is
fairly met and nowiSe evaded.
This puerilc effort to arraign the
Republican party Of Iowa for NAL
feasance in Office during the fifteen
years it has administered the affairs
of the State, will only excite feel
ing Of pity and contempt for its au-
thor in the mind of every intelligent
man.
AS a member of the Republican
party, | feel just pride in it
! Iowa record, and ] cheerfully accept
an invitation to defend it. And &c
do this the more etfectually, | shall
contrast that record with the career
or history of the Democratic party
in Iowa, during the eighteen year.
i'm which that party had absolute con
) troll of our affairs, and before the
Republican party sprang into exist
ence. / shall convince you that the
history Of this now vaunting ano
hypercritical party, so far as our OWL
State is concerned, is almost q tota
blank: that it has been a melancholy
failure: and that outside of few
brief Legislative cnactments. it left
no monument to remind Us oi its cX
istence, and no record OF its doing>
which an ordinary school-bOy could
not copy in full in half "A day.
Need you be told, my fellow citi
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publican ascend cncy in Iowa en-
brace the golden era Of It's history
that they comprise the period Of il
unexampled progress, Of its remark
able development, its astonishing
increase Of population, and OF 1T
hight st renown as Il great and Hour
ishing commonwealth. BGtin ordel
to fully appreciate the grand success
of Republican management ana pol
icy. it should be remembered th.l
this DeriOd also covers the most try
ing years Of monetary and tinancia
arrangement through which the ma
ti0n has ever passed. 1t includes
those wears Of terrible panic, convul
f sion and disaster. from 1857, whef
: banks and fnanciers began TO fail
when nearly every farm and home
stead i'm the West was under mort
rage: when our bank circulation
became annihilated, and until
period during the war, when Re
nublican Congress came to the rescue
; and furnished the country with
sound and reliable national currency
And here let me remind you tha
IN the lace bl tiitSS HIdiItiol' hiiHbh'
tipg. while the bonds Of other state
and of the Federal Government undel
Democratic management, and o
corporations, were thrown broadcast
upon the markets, and hawked about
mt ruinous and disgraceful dis
count. the credit and faith OF this
State remained unilnpared TO thu
end. Republican wisdom and econ
opy carried us safely through tho
storm. And to the eternal honor %
tha. party it can be affirmed that moi
onedollar of our matured State indebt
edness has ever been allowed to go
unredeemed for a single day-a facl
here assert, which cannot be truth
fully affirmed Of any other state in
the Union. Our untarnished faith
and our high credit abroad anlone
the capitalists of the world, afford
the most indubitable evidence that
the affairs of the State have been
wisely and successfully conducted by
the dominant and responsible party
But / shall not stop with these
general observations. ] prefer to