Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-10
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VIC u u'i INSPIRE, tlldt he is a man or
the staunchest character, possessing a
powerful personality and equipped with
ia combination of mental qualities that
VIII make MIN, if elected, an ideal Execu-
tive.
| knowing as we all do that the political
situation of the country is "A grave and
ominous one. this convention must not
ignore or evade the responsibility this sit
uat1on creates. which Is to give to the
American people a candidate, the mention
OF whose name. wherever known. VIII
carry with II an Overwhelming strength
and stand In case of election as an unqual-
i flied guarantee for the entire safety in
the management of all public affairs, the
just settlement of every pressing queS-
t1on and the speedy Inauguration OF Il
vigorous reign of exact justice.
| 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 of any public question has GOV.
! Boies ever striven in the least degree TO
create a sensation. TO his everlasting
| honor il must be said that in the doing
! of these things he has never failed TO
make deep impression. This Is the
ideal test by which the capacity of IA pub
lie man should be judged. this Is the high
standard by which statesman's reiia-
bilty and usefulness should be ascer-
tanned and determined II you select
Gov. Boies your candidate and the
people ratify your decision in November,
| we promise you no pyrotechnic dls-
play from the White House during his
administration; there will be no rockets
sent up the explosion of which viii fright
en- the timorous or furnish a subject tor
foolish talk for the superficial, there VIII
be no SenSa tional perfOrm3 noes upon the
political trapeze AT the Executive Man
sion while Horace Boies Is its occupant.
he will write you no starting messages
Itipon eXcitable public topics; we promise
| YOU none of these performances, but
tel you what we can and do promise you:
and that is the Inauguration and fabhiui
execution of a policy that VIII commend
itself to every phil0sophic mind and be
applauded by every sincere patriot-a
policy that will be characterized through,
out by the invigorating force OF nara
common sense and be all aglow with the
Everlasting sunshine of noble Intentions "A
lpolicy. the primary object OF which VIII
be not the creation OF orportuilieiss lo'
the unnatural increase OF the already eN-
cessive fortunes OF an avariclous class.
but the strict maintenance Of the natural
and constitutional rights OF every , en-,
of our popua ton. the laboriug Glasses.
The people who produce our national
wealth, who never tire OF their devotion
10 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 oVerwhelm-
ing crisis. who furnish the volunteer sol
ldier and sailor In time OF war ana earn
the wherewith to pay the cost OF the
war when ii is over. the people who are
the very mainstay of free government.
TO secure to these larger share OF
1.-The fruits of their labor, 70 secure TO them
impartial justice. WI be one OF the car
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policy of the Boies administration.
1 To secure to him who earns dollar the
dollar he earns is task that will be Wig
orousiy exacted OF the craftsmanship OF
the future. That type OF siatesmanship
which so persiatently and successfully
plotted to pilfer from the industrious that
death blow, next November, II you men
here are wise IN your councils and pro-
vide the opportunity for the people to
strike the blow,
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
a permanent home, which he did at the
town OF Waterloo. While he thus Volun-
tariy and resoiutey incurred all the In
iconveniences OF "a practically frontier life,
4 the people OF his state have loaded him
| down with the richest honors and re-
wards II Is in their power to bestow. and
! he Is. today, an inseparable and the most
conspicuous part OF the phenomenal MS
| tory of our state. Let me beg OF this con-
vention the privilege 10 give you just one
glimpse OF Iowa history. As Ia the ques-
tion of Iowa being great state. concern
| ing the capacity OF her soil TO produce
uniformly. abundant crops. VIII not
, deal. II is enough 10 say that the d.
ploma awarded to Iowa by the manage
| nent OF the Columbian Exposition is the
. official declaration which secures to us
| what had been before conceded by all
viz. the browning glory of standing al
the head Of the long column OF the asri-
cultural states OF TINS nation. Neither
! drought nor flood have ever been power
! full enough in Iowa 10 constitute what in
/ other localities is natural calamity,
! have raised 80 bushels of solid corn per
acre upon which not one drop of rain fell
! from the time it came ny until the ear
was fully grown. There is perhaps not
I another spot in this wdp world where
| such thing is possible.
But while We are easily supreme In the
| corn field. Iowa Democrats have had a
hard row TO hoe in politics. The tor
ttAfft Il Inv h.4 .lf
Egypt must have been solid chunk of
! comfort compared to the treatment ac
corded iowa Democrats by the $4,000
| 70. 0y0 ana 80 DOC uninterrupted Republican
majority which Tor more than genera
1 ton delighted In making an annual pic
mic out of election day and Just for the
mocracy bodily into the very earth
I This huge army of Republican Vot-
ers was dominated by the spirit OF
an inexplicabIe fanaticism. and the
. more we combatted this spirit the
fiercer it grew. Naturally Democrats
became disheartened and scarce,
When this Republican reckessness was
, nearing the eliminating .poinl when
through sumptuary legislation every
fundamental guarantee of personal lib
erty was endangered. when acts which
throughout the civilized world re-
garded as natural and treated as lawful
were in ouf state defined as crimes and
| compared to capital offences when the
constitutional protection Of trial by jury,
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 method of cold. barbarouS |
Russia was to be substituted; in fact |
, when the whole machinery of local self |
government. the greatest of all Demo- |
cratic principes-the principle of home !
rule-was about to be swept out of exist |
encr. when every lover Of freedom WA |
on the point OF despairing; when there |
, was no Democratic leader anywhere in |
sight wise enough and bold enough to |
face the crisis. there was heard the voice |
of one as speaking in the wilderness; ii |
was the magic voice of Horace Boies |
summoning disheartened men to heroic
action. He it was who eaped boldly to
the very front and alone detied the seem
ingiy irFesistihle power Of an e.uilant
foe. a foe that mad never been chaStened
by defeat. He accomplished what all men
united in declaring the impossible, for in
the two contests which followed. which
in many respects have no parallel in the
history of American politics, Horace
Bo:es same eff yicter and thus did he
forever avert the danger or having Ii
veritable despotism planted upon the
fruitful soil of free state. A soldier can
show his courage only In battle: sailor
his fearlesSness only while n storm is
raging; the fireman in your great city
can only exhibit that sublime type of
herOism which we all so much admire
during the time of an actual conhagra-
ton, when property is to be saved and
'mpefled lives are to, be rescued; so a
statesman can oHty5 shaw his real Ca
pacity, can only demonstrate the full
III.