The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-10


by the craftsmanship of the future That
tpye OF craftsmanship which so per-
sistently and successfully plotted to plifer
from the Industrious that the idle may
thrive, VIII be given its death blow next
November. if you men here are wise in
your counsels and provide the opportunity
TO 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
permanent home, which he did at the
town of Waterloo, while he was thus
voluntarily and resolutely mourning all
the inconvenience from a frontier life.
The result is that in his mature years
the people OF his state have loaded him
down with the richest honors and reward
in their power to bestow and he IS today
an inseparable factor in Il conspicuous
part of the phenomenal history of cur
safe. Let me beg of this convention the
privilege of one glimpse of Iowa history.
AS to the question OF Iowa being great
state concerning the capacity OF her
soil 10 produce uniformly abundant crops,
/ will not deal. 1t is enough to say the
Diplomas awarded to Iowa by the man
agement of the Columbian exposition, IS
the official declaration which secures 70
ms what had been before conceded by all,
viz. The GROWING glory of standing at
the head of the long column OF the asTl-
cultural states of this nation. Neither
drought nor flood have ever been power
Iul enough III 49,
was ,,,,,1-
I have raised fifty bushels of solid corn
pes. acre upon which not one drop or
rain fell from the time 1t came up until
the ear was fully grown. There IS per-
haps not another spot IN ms Wlde "orld
where such a thing was possible.
But while we are easily supreme IN the
rorn field. our Democrats have had hard
row 10 hoe in politics. me tormentS IN
..F
iicted by the seven plaques OIL Egypt
must have been a solid chunk OF comfort
compared with the treatment accorded
Iowa Democrats by the sixty, seventy
and eighty thousand uninterrupted iSepuo-
lican majority which for more than a
generation delighted in making an annual
picnic out of the election day ard just
for the fun of the thing tfainpled the
Iowa Democracy into the very eartn-
| This huge army of Republican voters was
dominated by the spirit of the lneXplc-
able fanaticism. and the more we combat
ted this spirit the fiercer it grew. Natur-
ally Democrats became disheartened and
scarce. When this
REPUBLICAN RECKLESSNESS
was nearing the eliminating point and
through sumptuary legislation every
guarantee of personal liberty was en-
dangered; when acts which throughout
the civilized world are regarded as natur-
al and treated as lawful. we're in Iowa
defined as crimes and compared to cap
ital offenses; when the constitutional
protection of trial by jury which for CEN
turtles had been esteemed the very climax
of all the glory of an Anglo-SaXon civili-
cation, when this was about to be elimln-
ated from our judicial system, and the
cold, barbarious system of Russia was TO
be substituted, in fact when the whole
machinery of our local government, the
greatest of all democratic principles the
principle of home rule. was about to be
swept out of existence; when every lover
of freedom was on the point of despair
ing: when there was no Democratic lead
er anywhere in sight wise and bold
enough to face the crisis, there was heard
the voice of one as speaking in the WIG
erneSS; it was the magic voice OF horace
Boies. summoning disheartened men TO
heroic action.
HE IT WAS WHO LEAPED BOLDLY
to the very front and alone defied the
seemingly irresistible column of an eXult-
ant foe-a foe that had never been
chastened by defeat. He accomplished
what all men united in declaring the I'M
possible for the two contests which fol-
lowed, which in many respects nave no
parallel in the history of American poll
/ tics. Horace Boies came off victor and
thus did he forever avert the danger OF
having a veritable despotism planted upon
the fruitful soil of a free state soldler
can show his courage only in battle; MS
! fearlessness only while a storm is raging
/ the fireman in great city car only eXhlDll
! that sublime type of heroism Which we
all so much admire, during the time or an
{ actual conflagration, when property is &c
/ be saved and imperilled lives are 70 pe
| rescued. SO a statesman can only snow
| his real capacity, can only demonstrate
; the full measure of his wisdom ana power
during crisis; IL is only during an actua
crisis that the higher qualities OF states
nanshD can be developed and tested
/ That Horace Boies possesses this rarest Of
| all human capabilities the power 70
/ pTSE L-nTTAT. AND SUPERIOR
| to 2 crisis and control it is attested oy
| this histohy ofo ur state and concufren
| testimony of political friend ana roe
! This is the man who STANDS before Ih'
| American people. equipped with thes'
supreme qualifications. that We ask I'M
| convention TO nominate.
Upon the overshadowing issue of thi
! campaign. Governor Boies stands upon al
inyulnerable platform, the constitution o
his country. Inasmuch as the constltu
! ton in defining what the state snail u.s.
as legal tender in the payment o
debts designates not gold nor silver ou
gold and silver, Governor BoieS bel1eTe
the bimetallic system thus provided Iol
in the fundamental law of the land is I'M
system the Democratic party must en-
dorse and uphold. He believes that 81
long as the constitution remains un
changed. that congress has no power t(
demonetize either metal. Hence, III COM
mon with the great mass OF American
people he believes the demonetiZatlon o.
silver
WAS NOT AN ORDINARY POLITICAL
BLUNDER,
but an actual crime. and he can conceive
of no condition which can possloly a.Ist
that would justify the DeInocfdI aus pa4 y
in 1ustlfyIng that crime or IN helplnS u
perpetuate it's direful results IoseIhUJi
les uoes not believe in d-Shohesl o
cent dollar, as it would work an mum
TO the credit system, ne3tneT uOes n
hrTT cent
,1,bicb iS still more dishonest, as II un'
1uestionably involves the oankruptCg "
the debtor class. Governor Boles De-lsE .' =
80 an honest American dollar, authorized
not by the British parliament, out py
law of the American CONGRESS- anI CO. ~ ~
for use among the American people. ny u,
believes in a gold dollar of 22.2 grains o.
Sold and in a silver dollar just 10 times
heavier. .+ pr;+ish in
duence over a century ago, winning tnt
fight when a mere weaklinS; naVlng now SD
.jeVeloped into the strongest people OF
earth, clearly enutHhg Us 70 id9 he -
ship among nations, 1t wouid ue ~
merely a pitiable cowardice on our Pat .
mt actual treason to the peOFI'
should we now capitulate 10 bAs--~i
greed - s,+o ,oir+s N tn,
election OF Horace Boies. History Seems
to be anxious to repeat itself Give "a
the man from Waterloo and aiies WI
flock to his standard whlch VIII 49, go, =.
Mark Hannas Napoleon No. as euee.
ualy as the European ai-.es ueS'4 - ~
che French Napoleon NO l.
AS he began to speak a Boles pannel
was held alOft by the Iowa aeiegs1t u 4
He produced a laugh when he SAID ina
there would be no sensational perform
a a.re on the political trapeze while
Horace Bo;es was in the white house
White was given an attentive hearing
There was no demonstration until hi
concluded. The Boies delegation ther
arose and cheered, but the galleries ap'
peared cold. To young woman II