The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-10

any public question, has Governor BoleS ever
striven in the least degree to create sensa-
tion. To his everlasting honor. it must be said
that in the doing OF these things he has never
failed 10 make deep impression. This is the
ideal test by which the capacity of q public
man should be judged; this is the mig n
standard by which statesman reliability and
usefulness should be ascertained and deter
mined If you select Governor Boies as your
candidate and the people ratify your decision
i'll November, we can promise yon no pyro-
technie display from the White House during
his administration; there will be no rockets
sent up, the explosion of which will trlgnten
the tinorous or furnish subject for foolish
talk for the superficial; there will be no sensa-
tionaI performances upon the polfticai trapeze
at the executive mansion while horace
Boies is its occupant; he will write you
no startling message upon excitable public
topics; we promise you none OF these perform
ances; but I tell YOU what we can and 90
promise you, and that is the Inauguration ana
faithful execution of policy that VIII COM
mend itself TO every phllosophic MIND ana be
applauded by every sincere patriot; pohey
that will be characterized throughout by the
inyigorating force OF hard eommon-sense ana
be all aglow with the everlasting sunshine of
noble intentions; policy the primary object
of which viii be- not the creation OF oppor-
tunities for the unnatural increase OF the al
ready excessive fortunes OF an ayar1cious class,
but the strict maintenance of the natural and
constitutional rights of every citizen care
fully, including that great body OF our popula-
ton, the laboring classes-the people who
produce our National wealth, who never tire
of their devotion to the constitution, who
never desert their country's cause at any stage
of any peril, who are always true and steadfast
even in the very midst of an overwhelming
crisis, who furnish the volunteer soldier and
sailor in time of war and earn the wherewith
10 fha IA Va WI
pie who are the very mainstay of free govern
ment-to secure to these s larger share of the
fruits of their labor, to secure TO them i'm
partial justice, will be one of the cardinal
principles fully developed in the policy of the
Boies administration.
To secure TO him who earns dollar the dol
lar he earns is q task that will be vigorously
exacted of the craftsmanship of the future.
That type of craftsmanship which so persist
emily ana successfully plotted to pilfer from
the industrious that the idle may thrive will
be given its death-blow next November If you
men here are wise in your councils and provide
the opportunity for the people TO strike the
blow.
Horace Boies was born in New York State
and came to Iowa in his early manhood. He
came not as an adventurer, but with the fixed
purpose of building up permanent home,
which he did at the town of Waterloo. While
he thus voluntarily and resolutely incurred
all the inconvenience 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 1t is in their
power TO bestow, and he is to-day an insep-
arabic ana the most conspicuous part of the
phenomenal history of our State. Let me beg
ofthis convention the privilege to give you just
one glimpse OF Iowa history. As 10 the ques-
ton of Iowa being a great State, concerning
the capacity of her soil to produce uniformly
hYp tvf11 ~ &C.
20 say that the diploma awarded to Iowa by
the management of the Columbian Exposition
is the official declaration which secures to US
what had been before conceded by all, viz:
the browning glory OF a standing at the head
of the long column OF the agricultural States
of this Nation. Neither drouth nor food ha We
ever been powerful enough in Iowa to consti-
tute what in other localities is a natural cslam-
ity. have raised fifty bushels of solid corn
per acre, upon which not one drop of rain fell
from the time it came up until the ear was
fully grown. There is perhaps not another
spot in this wide world where such
thing is possible. But while we are
easily supreme in the cornfeld, Iowa
Democrats have had hard row to hoe
in politics. The torments inflicted by the
seven plaques of Egypt must have been solid
chunk of comfort compared TO the treatment
accorded Iowa Democrats by the sixty, seventy
and eighty thousand uninterrupted Republi-
can ma jority which for more than a genera
tion delighted in making an annual picnic out
of election day, and just for the fun of the
thing trampled the Iowa Democracy bodily
into the earth. This huge army of Republican
voters was dominated by the spirit of an mex
plicable fanaticism, and the more we combat
ed this spirit the fercer il grew. Naturally
Democrats became disheartened and scarce.
When this Republican recklessness was near
ing the eliminating point, when through
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guarantee of personal liberty was endangered,
when acts which throughout the civilized
world are regarded as natural and treated as
lawful we're in our State defined as crimes and
compared 10 capital offenses when the consti-
.tutional protection OF trial by jury. which for
centuries has been esteemed as the very CHI
max of all the glory of our Anglo-Saxon civ
ilzation, when this was about to be eliminated
from our judicial system and the method of
cold, barbarous Russia was TO be substituted.
In fact, when the whole machinery OF local
self-government, the greatest of all the Demo-
cratic principles, the principle of home rule
was about to be swept out of existence; when
every lover of freedom was on the point of de-
spairing, when there was no Democratic
leader anywhere in sight wise and
bold enough to face the crisis, there
was heard the voice of one as speaking in the
wilderness; IL was the magic voice of Horace
Boies summoning disneartened men to heroic
action. He twas who leaped boldly to the
very front and alone defied the seemingly ire
sistible power of an exultant foe, foe that
had never been chastened by defeat. He ac-
complished what all men united in declaring
the i'm possible, for in the two contests which
followed, which in many respects have no
parallel in the history of American politics.
Horace Boies came off victor, and thus did he
forever avert the danger of having veritable
despotism planted upon the fruitful soil OF
free State. soldier can show his courage
only in battle; sailor his fearlessness only
while storm is raging: the iremen in your
great city can only exhibit that sublime type
of heroism which we ali so much admire dur
Ing the time OF an actual confagration when
property is to be saved and imperiled lives are
to be rescued; so a statesman can only show
his real capacity, can only demonstrate the
full measure of his wisdom and power during
crisis. 1t is only during actual crisis that
the higher qualities of craftsmanship can be
developed and tested That Horace Boies pos
sesses this rarest of all human charlottesville
power to rise equal and superior to a crisisand
control it's attested by this history of our
State and concurrent testimony of political