The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-07-10

Of the future. That type OF S'"''sh'at-
ship which so pcrsistently and successful
ly plotted TO pilfer from the INDUSTRIES
! that tho idle may thrive. will be given
It's death blow next November II you men
are wise iu your councils. and provide the
opportunity for the people TO strike the
blow.
BOIES' RECORD.
Horace Boies was born in New York
State and came to Iowa Ia his early man
hood He came not as an ADVENTURE, but
with the fixed purpose OF building up n
permanent home. which he did M the
! town of Waterloo While ne thus Nolun-
tarily and resoutely incurred all the in
convcnicnccs OF practically frontier life.
the result is that in his maturer years
the people OF his State have loaded him
down with the richest honors and rewards
| ID SIS I'm their power 20 bestow. and he Is
! to-day an inseparable and the most con-
spicuous part of the phenomenal history
OF our state. lot me beg Of this conyen-
I ton the privilege 10 give Won just one
/ glimpse Of Iowa history. As
90 the question OF Iowa being
80 great State concerning the
capacity Of her soil 10 produce uni-
formally abundant crops, 1 will not deal.
| 10 is enough 10 say that the diploma
awarded 10 Iowa boy the management or
the Columbian Exposition is the Official
declaration which secures 90 MS what had
| been before conceded by all, VIZ; The
browning glory of standing al the head
OF the long column OF the agricultural
States of this nation. Neither fire nor
/ flood have ever been powerful enough I'm
Iowa 10 constitute what in other localities
is a natural calamity. I have raised fifty
/ bushels of solid corn per acre, upon which
not one drop Of rain fen from the time
81 came uu until the ear was fully
grown. There is. perhaps, not another
spot 300 this wide world where such thing
/ is possible.
IOWAS POPULATIONS.
| "But while we are easily supreme I'm
| the Ccrn-hcld, Iowa Democrats have had a
hard row TO hoe in politics. The tor
monts inflicted by the seven plaques OF
Egypt must have been q solid chunk Of
comfort compared to the treatment ac-
corded Iowa Democrats boy the sixty, sew
onty. and eighty thousand uninterrupted
| Republican majority which for more than
Cd generation delighted in making an an
nual picnic out Of elocton-day, and just
for the fun of the thing trampie the Iowa
| Democracy bodily into the very earth.
! This huge army Of Republican voters was
! dominated 10y the spirit of am inexplica-
| Die fanaticism and the more we combat
| tod this spirit the fcrcer 10 grew. Natu-
rally Democrats became disheartened and
scarce. When this Republican reckless
ness was nearing the eliminating point,
when through sumptuary legislation
! every fundamental guarantee OF personal
/ liberty was endangered; when acts which
| throughout the civilized world are re-
garded as natural and treated as lawful
were in our State defined as crimes and
| compared 90 a capital offence; when the
/ constitutional protection OF trial by jury.
| which for centuries has been esteemed as
| the very climax of an the glory of our
Anglo-SaXon civilization when this was
| about 10 Dee eliminated from our judici-i
] system and the methods Of barbarous Rus
STA We're to be substituted, in fact. when
the whole machinery of local self-gOvern-
ment. the greatest of AN Democratic prln-
ciples. the principle of home rule, was
about TO Doe swept ont OF existence. when
| every lover of freedom was on the point
| of despairng. when there was no Demo
cratic leader anywhere in sight wise and
| bold enough 10 face the crisis, there was
| heard the voice of one ass speaking I'm the
wilderness. 1t was the magic voice Of
| Horace BOies summouing dist earteued
men 10 heroic action.
A GREAT FEAT
lie who it was who leapcd boldly to the
! very front and alone dened the seem
| ingly irresistible power OF an exultant
| foe 20 foe that had never been ch1stcucd
| 10y defeat. Tie accomplished what all
men united I'm declaring the impossible.
for in the two contests which followed.
which I'm many respects have no parallel
in the history of American politics. Hor-
ace Boies came off victor and thus did he
forever avert the danger of having q veri-
table despotism planted upon the fruit
ful soil of "a free State. a soldier can
only show his courage in battle. a sailor
his fcaressuess only while storm il
raging, the fremen I'm your great city
can only exhibit that sublime type of he
roism which we all so much admire dur
ing the time OF an actual confederation.
when property is 10 Doe saved and im-
perillcd lives are TO be rescued. so n
statesman can only show bis real capaci-
| ~. can only demonstrate the fun measure
Of his wisdom and power. during a crisis.
IL Us only during an actual crisis that the
| higher qualities of statesmanshiD can be-
| developed and tested. That Horace Boies
| possesses this rarcst of an human ca-
paciues. the power To- rise equal and Sue
pcrlor 10 crisis and control a. is at
tested hy this history of our State and
| concurrent testimony of political friend
and foe. This is the man who stands be-
fore the American people equipped with
these supreme qualifications. that we ask
| this convention 10 nominate.
BOIES' PLATFORM.
Upon the overshad0wing issue OF this
campaign, Gov. Boics stands upon an in
vulnerable platform. the Constitution of
his country. luasmuch as the Constifu-
ton in defining what the States shall use
as legal tender in payment of debts
dcsignates not gold or silver. but gold
and silver Gov. Boies believes that the
| bimctahic system thus provided for I'M the
fundamental law OF the land IS the svs-
TEN the Democratic party must endorse
and uptold. lie believes that so long as
the Constitution remains unchanged that
Congress has 10 power TO demonetize
either metal Hence. I'm common with
the great mass Of the American people
he believes that decentralization of silver
was not am ordinary political blunder but
an actual crime, and he can conceive q
no condition which can possibly arise that
will Justify the Democratic party i'm JUS
tifying that crime. or in helping TO per
petuate its direful results.
"Gov. Boies does not believe I'm n dis
honest fifty-ccnt dollar as It would work
ana injury TO the creditor class. neither
does be believe in q two-hundrod cent
dollar which IS stiI more dishonest. as n
unqucsti0nahly involves the bankruptcv
OF the debtor class Gov Boics' is an
honest American dollar authorized not bv
British Parliament but by a law of Tho
American Congress and coined for use
nruUUr The American t..rr.f, IL. 4.rf.-.