The record-union., 1896-07-10
A DAY OF DAYS.
cesed ulxIS moIJ penunuoO) :.

an overwhelming crisis, who furnish
the volunteer soldier and sailor in time
Of war and earn the wherewith to pay
the cost of the war when it is over
the people who are the very mainstay
Of free Government-tO secure to these
a larger share of the fruits of their Ia
Dor, to secure to them impartial justice,
will be one of the cardinal principles
fully developed in the policy of the
Boies administration.
ITO secure to him who earns dol
lar the dollar he earns is a task that
will be vigorously exacted of the states
of the future. That type of
craftsmanship which so persistently
and successfully plotted to Dilfer from
the Industrious that the idle may thrive
Will be given its death blow next No
vember If you men here are wise in
your councils and provide the oppor-
tunity 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
voluntarily and resolutely incurred all
the Inconvenience Of a 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 bestOw, and he is to-day aninsepara-
ble and the most conspicuous part of the
phenomenal history of our State.
Let me beg of this convention the
privilege to give You just one glimpse
OF Iowa history. AS to the question of
Iowa being a great State, concerning the
capacity of her soil to produce uniform
~ abundant crops, I will not deal. 1t is
to Iowa by the management of the Co
lumbar Exposition is the official declar-
alton which secures to us what had been
before conceded by all, viz, the crown
ing glory of a standing at the head of
the long column of the agricultural
States of this Nation. Neither drouth nor
flood have ever been powerful enough
in Iowa to constitute what in other To-
calities is a natural calamity. / 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 cornfield, Iowa Democrats have had
hard row to hoe in politics. The tor
ments inflicted by the seven plaques of
Egypt must have been solid chunk of
comfort compared to the treatment ac-
T.
seventy and eighty thousand uninter-
rupted Republican majority which for
more than a generation 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 Re-
publican voters was dominated by the
spirit of an inexplicable fanaticism, and
the more we combatted this spirit the
fiercer it grew. Naturally Democrats
became disheartened and scarce.
When this Republican recklessness
was nearing the eliminating point;
when through sumptuary legislation
every fundamental guarantee of per-
sonal liberty was endangered; when
acts which throughout the civilized
treated as lawful were in our State de-
fined as crimes and compared to capi-
tai offenses; 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 sys-
tenn and the method Of cold, barbarous
Prussia was to be Substituted-in fact
when the whole machinery OF local self
government, the greatest OF all the
Democratic principles, the principle OF
home rule, was about to be swept out
Of existence; when every lover of free
dom was on the point of despairing
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 wilder
ness; it was the magic voice of Horace
Boies summoning disheartened men tc
heroic action. He it was who leaped
boldly to the very front and alone de-
fed the seemingly irresistible power OF
an exuitant foe-a foe that had never
been chastened by defeat.
HE accomplished what all men uni
ted 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
J5oies 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.
"A soldier can show his courage only
IN battle; a sailor his fearlessness only
your great city can only exhibit that
sublime type of heroism which we al
so much admire during the time of al
actual con1agration, when property Il
To be saved and imperiled lives are tc
he rescued-so a statesman can only
show his real capacity, can only demon
strate the full measure of his wisdom
and power during crisis. 1t is only
during an actual crisis that the higher
qualities Of craftsmanship can be deyel.
oped and tested. That Horace Boie:
possesses this rareSt of all human ca.
pacities, the power to rise equal an6
superior to crisis and control it, is at
! tested by this history of our State anC
concurrent Testimony of political frient
and foe. This is the man who stand!
| before the American people, equipped
with these supreme qualifications, tha
we ask this convention to nominate.
Upon the oyershadowing issue O
this campaign Governor Boies stand.
upon an invulnerable platform, tn,
Constitution of his country. Inasmucf
as the Constitution, in defining wha
| the States shall use as legal tender il
pa aymept of debts designates not golt
for silver. but gold and silver, Goyerno,
Boies believes that the bimetallic sys
tenn thus provided for in the funda
mental law of the land is the system
the Democratic party must indorse ant
lInhnld He believes that 50 long as tn,