Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-08-22

great national question. II we could
have civil service such az Is advocated
by the courageous Roosevelt, IL would
be well enough; but with the interpreta'
ton put upon II by the last democratic
administration, the whole matter Ia to bo
nbhorred and subject for laughter
Speaking for myself alone. would put
IL thus: The democratic party in 1884
carried New York by fraud, and Grover
Cleveland became president. During his
four year term he turned out Of Office
every republican whom he could lay HE
sacrilegious hands on. In 1888 faii
election was held and tho republican
party came into its own again, The
hounden duty Of Benjamin Harrison
by the grace of the republican party,
president Of the United States 10 to have
none but republicans on guard any.
where, and 10 leave nowhere In all this
broad land any democrat. (applause) or,
what Is worse. q mugwump great cheers
In any official position. high or low.
Upon the question Of pensions, the re-
publican party has already made Ito
record, and by that record 1t must stand
or fall. The republicans Of Iowa believe
In the service pension for all surviving
soldiers Of the war for the Union, but
more than that for those that have be.
come incapacitated from earning theii
daily bread. This 10 what you promised
the soldiers you would do from 1891 TO
1865, when you asked them TO 60 into
hellish rebellion In order that you might
live. Now keep your pledges faithfully.
believe in Tanner, (applause. Ho 10
all right. He may talk too much, but
that Ia q great deal better than the dem.
ocrat, Gen. Black. In the same place
talking too much and paying too little.
(Applause.)
The republicans of Iowa have their
differences Of opinion, but we are strong
enough In sill essentials and sensible
enough cetainly to wash our linen In our
own back yard: and when that Is done 10
meet the enemy with an undivided front.
We have some difference Of opinion upon
railroad control, but We all desire the
same end, and to have prosperous state,
though we may differ as TO the means.
The great good sense Of the party will
find the proper way to do justice to
all and Injustice 20 none. The people Of
Iowa cannot live and thrive without the
railroads, and not that alone but they
must have the good will OF the railroads,
nor can the railroads live and thrive
without the people Of Iowa, and not that
alone but they must have the good will
Of the people Of Iowa That there have
been wrongs upon the people OF the
state, | think no unprecedented man can
truthfully deny, but now that the power
Of state to control has been vindicated
we must be careful that In righting one
wrong, we do not involve injury In turn.
The whole can be submitted TO the eI.
tremc good sense of time, and have no
doubt that In the end, we will all be
perfectly satisfied with the logic OF ad.
vance and the result that that logic brings,
There 10 another question which 10
purely local to the people Of the state
and should be so maintained. / refer 70
the liquor question. Iowa by a vote OF
80 900 ajority passed prohibitory
law, saying that In all this broad state,
from the Mississippi TO the Missouri and
from the northern land to the southern
border, liquor should not be legally sold.
II took no man In his own house. nor
what any man might do In his own
house; II simply said that the sale
Of liquors was an evil and that the best
way TO get rid OF that evil was TO make
the business illegal. This il had . per-
feet right to do and this 1t did. The
democratic party, however, with Ito
usual lack Of moral sense, denies that the
state has this right and persists all over
the state In decrying the law as failure
and help " show that 1t IS failure by
forgetting and defending all infractions
of the law,
You know and ! know that In the
greater portion Of the state, the prohibl.
tory law is as we'll enforced as any other
law upon the statute books, and that
wherever the city and county officers
have the sand TO do their duty honestly
and try to enforce the law, It's effects
are good and sweet and wholesome,
Of the law, whether he be prohibition.
cepse or for low license, In favor Of local
option, or pays to all men upon the sub
ject, there Is one platform upon which
he as a good and law.obsying citizen can
take an honest and honorable stand.
The prohibitory law Is law
OF the citizen passed In the usual
nounced constitutional by the courts and
should therefore be obeyed by all good
citizens with the same ready, cheerful
dnu VIKING oDeuienCo tnht III gi'en 10
any other law. Unless this Is done.
anarchy may follow and anarchy Is
certainly followed by such disobediepce.
Every good citizen should obey that
law as readily as the law against theft
or murder. There Is one platform upon
which all good and law .obeying citizens.
whatever may be their opinion Of the
main question. can take an honest and
honorable stand. and that platform 10,
obedience to all law. (Applause.)
The people Of Iowa must enter the
lists. ride boldly forward down the gang.