The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-10

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type greeted the announcement. and the
Boies' ua nuer was raised
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good delivery and was listened 70 with at
tentiOn. lie said:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen OF the
. Convention: ] am authorized by the de-
mocracy OF Iowa 10 present 10 this conven-
ton for the nomination for the high Office
OF president the name OF Horace BOies Of
our state. / want 20 assure this conven-
Ton iu advance that this is not the re-
suit Of any question Of mere local pride.
nor is u the result or any consideration
OF the question OF mere availability. We
ask you 10 nominate the candidate Of our
choice upon far broader grounds-upon
the broad ground that Horace BOles Is
ernphatcally a broad man. Those OF Us
who know him best do not hesitate either
here or elsewhere 10 declare with all the
confidence that a thorough knowledge OF
the truth can inspire that he Is a man Of
the stanchest character, possessing pow
erful personality and equipped with a
combination Of mental qualities that viii
make him, II elected, an ideal executive
Neither In formulating a policy. nor IN
the execution OF the same. nor yet in pre-
/ senting an argument upon the merits or
dement's or any pubic question, mas Gov.
Boies ever strivcn IN The least degree TO
create a sensation, 20 his everlasting hon
OF IL 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 public man should
be judged: this Is the high standard by
which a statesman's reliability and useful
ness should be ascertained and determin-
/ ed III you select Gov Boes as your can
! didate and the people ratify your decision
/ in November, we can promise you no pyro-
/ teChnic display from the white house dur
] ing his administration; there will be no
rockets sent up, the explosion Of which
/ viii brighten the tmorOus or furnish a
l subject for foolish talk for the superficial
/ trapeze az the executive mansion, while
/ Horace Boies IS its occupant; ne will write
/ you no startling message upon eXcitable
public topics we promise you none of
1 these performances. but tell you what we
l can and do promise you, and that is the
I Inauguration and faithful execution of a
policy that viii commend itself TO every
/ phiosophic mind and be applauded by
every sincere patriot; a policy that will be
/ characterized throughout by the invigorat-
/ ing force of hard common sense and be all
/ agiow with the everlasting sunshine Of no
/ BILE Intentions policy, the primary OBJ
! ject OF which will be not the creation OF
! opportunities for the unnatural increase of
/ the already excessive fortunes Of an
| avaricious class, but the strict mainte-
/ nance OF the natural and constitutional
| rights Of every citizen, carefully includ-
/ ing that great body Of our population,
| the laboring classes, the people who pro-
! duced our national wealth, who never
! tire Of their devotion to the constitution,
/ who never desert their countrys cause
/ al any stage of any peril, who are al
ways true and steadfast even in the very
midst of an overwhelming crisis, who fur
/ nish the volunteer soldier and sailor III
| time OF war. and earn the wherewith to
| pay the cost OF the war when IL is over;
| the people who are the very mainstay OF
| free government, to secure to these a
| larger share Of the fruits OF their labor
| to secure to them an impartial justice,
| will be one Of the cardinal principles fully
! developed in the policy Of the Boies ad-
| ministratiOn.
Horace Boies was born in New York
| state and came to Iowa in his early man.
! hood. 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 volun-
tarily and resolutely incurred all the in
| conveniences 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
it is in their power to bestorw, and he is
to-day an inseparable and the most con-
! spicuous part of the phenomenal history
Of our state.
When this republican recklessness was
nearing the eliminating point, when
| through sumptuary legislation, eveery
| fundamental guarantee of personal lib
erty was endangered, when acts which
| throughout the civilized world are regard
| ed as natural and treated as lawful were
| in our state defined as crimes and COM
| pared to capital offense, when the con-
| stitutional protection of trial by fury
which for centuries has been esteemed as
the very climax of all the glory of our
| Anglo-Saxon civilization, when this was
| about to be eliminated from our judicial
| system and the methods, barbarous Rus
| STA was to be substituted; in fact when
| the whole machinery of local self-govern-
| ment, the greatest of all democratic prin-
| ciples, the principle of home rule was
| about to be swept out of existence: when
every lover of freedom was on the point
| Of despairing, when there was no demo-
cratic leader anywhere in sight wise ana
| bold
heard the voice OF one as speaking in the
| wilderness; II was the magic OF Horace
Boies summoning disheartened men to he
roic action. He who II was who leaned
boldly to the very front and alone defed
the seemingly irresistible power of an AK
ultant foe, foe that had never been
chastened by defeat. He ACCOMPLISHED
what all men united in declaring the I'M
possible, for in the two contests which
followed, which in many respects have 70
parallel in the history of American nolf-
tics, Horace Boies came off victor and
thus did he forever avert the danger Of
having Veritable despotism planted up-
on the fruitful soil of free state. A sol
dler can only show his courage in bat
tie sailor his fearlessness
only while a storm is raging; the fire.
man In your great city can only exhibit
mat sublime type of heroism which we
all so much admire during the time Of an
actual conffagration, when property is 10
be saved and imperilled lives are 10 he
| rescued, so a statesman can only show
the full measure of his wisdom and DOW
er during crisis, 1t is only during an
actual crisis that the higher qualities of
craftsmanship can be developed and
tested. That Horace Boies possesses this
rarest of all human capacities. the power
TO rise equal and superior TO a crisis and
control il is attested by this history OF
our state and concurrent testimony OF
political friend and foe. This is the man
who stands before the American people
equipped with these supreme oualifca.
tons that we ask this convention to nom
| mate.
Upon the Overshadowing issue Of this
campaign Gov Boies stands upon an in
Vulnerable platform, the constitution OF
ms country. Inasmuch as the constitu
ton in defining what the states shall use
as legal tender IN payment OF debts" des-
| lgnates not gold or silver, but gold ana
silver. Gov. Boes believes that the bine-
tallie system thus provided for in the fun
damental law of the land is the system
the democratic party must endorse ana
uphold. He believes that so long as the
constitution remains unchanged thar
congress has no power to demonetize
either metal. Hence, in common with me
/ great mass of the American Dao,r.