Arizona republican., 1896-07-10

early manhood He came not as an ad venturer but with the fixed purpose of building up permanent home which he did at the town of Waterloo, while he was thus voluntarily mourning all the inconvenience of frontier life. The result is that in his mature years the people of his state have loaded him down with the richest honors and re- ward in their power to bestow, and he is today an inseparable factor and a conspicuous part in the phenomenal history of our state.
 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 to produce uniformly abund
 ant crops, will not deal. It is enough to say the diplomas awarded to Iowa by the management of the Columbian ex-
 position is the official declaration which secures to us what has been be-
 fore conceded by all, viz: the crown
 ing glory of standing at the head of
 the long column of the agricultural states of this nation. Neither drOuth nor flood have been powerful enough
 in low to constitute what was a na-
 tional calamity I 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 an
 other spot in this wide world where such thing was possible.
 "But while we are easily supreme in the cornfield, our Democrats have had hard row to hoe in politics. The tor
 ments inflicted by the seven plaques of
 Egypt must have been a solid chunk of
 comfort compared with the treatment
 accorded Iowa Democrats by the six ty, seventy and eighty thousand unin- terrupted Republican majorit, which for more than a generation delighted
 in making an annual picnic out of cleo
 tion day, and just for the fun of the thing trampled the Iowa Democracy l into the very earth. This huge army
 of Republican voters was dominate by
 the spirit of the inexplicable fanati-
 cihm and the more we combatted the spirit the fiercer it grew. Naturally | Democrats became disheartened and
 scarce. When this Republican reck-
 lessness was nearing the eliminating point, and through sumptuary legisla- i tion every guarantee of personal lib-
 erty was endangered, when acts which
 throughout the civilized world are re-
 garded and treated as lawful, were in Iowa defined as crime and compared to
 capital offenses; when the constitu-
 tional protection of trial by jury which
 for centuries had been esteemed the
 very climax of all the glory of an An | p1o iuiIi
 about to be eliminated from our judi
 cial system, and the cold, barbarous
 system of Russia was to be substi-
 tuted, in fact the whole machinery of our local government, the greatest of all Democratic principles, the princi- pies of home rule, was about to be swept out of existence; when every low
 CT of freedom was on the point of de-
 spairing, when there was no Demo
 cratic leader anywhere in sight, wise
 and bold enough to face the crisis
 there was heard the voice of one as
 speaking in the wilderness; it was the
 magic voice of Horace Boies, sum-
 moning heroic men to heroic action
 It was he who leaped boldly to the very front and alone defied the seemingly irresistible column of an eXultant foe foe that had never been chastised by defeat. He accomplished what all mer united in declaring the impossible fol : in the two contests which followed which in many respects have no paral Tel in the history of American politics Horace Boies came off victor and thu did he forever avert the danger of hay
 ing a veritable despotism planted up on the fruitful soil of a free state.
 "A soldier can show his courage onl. in battle; his fearlessness only whil, a storm is raging; the fireman in ; great city can only exhibit that sublim 5 type of heroism which we all so mucl admire, during the time of an actua t contiagration, when property is to b :. saved and imperiled lives are to b . rescued, so statesman can only shoI his real capacity, can only demonstrat s the full measure of his wisdom an 0 power during a crisis, it is only in ac l. tua1 crisis that the higher qualities c f statesmanship can be developed an u tested. That Horace Boies possesse d this rarest of all human capacities, tn Il power to rise equal and superior to = crisis and control it, is attested by thi d history of our state and concurrent tes : timony of political friend and fo' d This is the man who stands before tn e American people, equipped with thes Il supreme qualifications, that we ask tn 'f convention to nominate.
 y Upon the overshadowing issue ( n this campaign, Governor Boies stand u upon an invulnerable platform, tn n constitution of his country. 1nasmuc > as the constitution in defining whs Il the state shall use as legal tender l. the payment of debts designates nc l, gold or silver, but the gold and silve 0 Governor Boies believes the bimetall r. system thus provided for in the funds