Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-10
SANE Old DEMOCRACY
Dolliver Points Out the Dangers Of
Giving Democrats Reins of
Government.
New Issues as Vote Catching De.
vices by Which to Gain
Power.
Trust Problem One to Be Investi.
gated Before Making Unwise
Laws.

II LAWS.
4 Peterson, Oct. 1O.-Hon. j. P. Dolli-
4 yer addressed a large and enthusiastic
\ meeting on the political issues of the
i day at this place last evening. Mr..
4 Dolliver began his address with a trib-
A ute to the late Senator Harlan. The
speaker reviewed the long and eminent
q career of the veteran statesman as SEN
4 ator. cabinet officer, friend and coun-
4 selor of Lincoln and Grant, and ex-
4 pressed the regret of the people of Iowa
4 that his life had not been spared to in
spire and guide the youth of the com
i monwealth. Commenting on current
4 political topics, he said in part:
\ The two things that the democratic
A party will surely do if given unre-
II strained power in national affairs are
\ now hardly mentioned In the democrat
4 lc press. 1t is the habit of the party to
y mold on to an issue as long as there is
4 any prospect of votes in it, and then
Il abandon the discussion of ii. passing on
Il TO fresh fields and pastures new The
y only presidential elections they have
i Won IN our times We're won on the
4 question of free trade. The second time
Il they elected MIR. Cleveland they made
j no other issue They have been voting
4 IN the house for years for free silver
4 but they deliberately nominated the
4 most conspicuous enemy of Is to in
& the face of his letter denouncng that
4 humbug, and stakei their whole case
/ on a Wild and eNtravagant denuncia-
4 ton of the Mckinley tariff law of 1890.
4 That great national statute, while ii
+ only lasted four years, made two presi-
+ dents-one elected TO repeal 1t and the
/ other to restore it. The calamities Incl
4 dent to Mr.. Cleveland's second election.
4 everywhere remembered. in no way
1 disturbed democratic faith in the doe
4 trlne of free trade. They only made the
doctrine unavailable for the ensuing
campaign, driving the party to en-
brace the free coinage of silver-a
scheme of bogus bimetallism-in Viola
/ ton of the public conscience and who'll
7 ~ subversive of the little that re-
! NAMED of the national prosperity They
4 did not recant their faith in free trade
4 They simply began talking about some
/ thing else. Free trade remains the
j foundation of their real faith and creed
and needs nothing but the election of a
democratic president and congress to
4 be again brought to lirht. Whoever
now. therefore, casts his lot with the
democratic managers. takes the party.
4 not only for the things it now makes
y prominent in public discussions. but
i fos all that ii stands for, and especially
for its recorded purpose TO destroy the
1 protective system.
But even the new issue. advanced in
\ 1896 has become stale and Improbable.
II was voted 70 death IN that great
i election and nothing has since occurred
70 revive popular interest in it. Its
irrelevant statistics are forgotten. its
text book of familiar quotations no
longer excites applause, its First Bat
tie now encumbers the shelves of Sec
ona hand book stores. There is only
one living man Who can talk about it
4 without driving The audience TO despair.
That is MIR. Bryan himself. His EXTRA
ordinary talents as an orator alone
give currency to his time worn speech
on silver. To him alone the bewildered
remnants Of the forces Of 1896 turn for
comfort and consolation. He not only
r gets his weary disciples to listen to
him, but With a genius never before
equalled, gets them To pay an admis-
sion fee for the poor privilege. But H.
is all that is left of the unique enthusi-
asm which three years ago made every
street corner a parliament and every
babbling disputant a statesman. The
events that have followed that election
! have been even more fatal 10 the silver
propaganda than the original returns