Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-21
The TRUST CONFERENCE.
resolutions COMMITTEES Preparing
Its Rcport-shaw's Reply to steph-

RESOLUTIONS Committee Preparing
Its Rcport-Shaw's Reply to Steph-
ems.
st. Louis, Sept. 21.-The conference of
governors and attorney generals, to
discuss the trust question, was late in
assembling this morning. The members
OF the resolutions committee toiled until
after midnight in trying to bring to-
gether the widely divergent views pre-
sented. Finally they came to conclu-
sion and the matter was left in the
hands OF subcommittee, who were
still at work when the mornings ses-
sion began. A recess until II was
taken. Judge Reayis was selected as
temporary chairman.
At IL o'clock the conference took re-
cess for another. hour at the request of
the resolutions committee.
The republicans present yesterday
thought they saw an attempt from the
start to turn the matter into a channel
where it could be used to help out the
democratic party in the next national
campaign and they fought back accord
ingly. The result was political squab-
BILE which overshadowed all else and the
advertised purposes of the conference
were lost sight of altogether.
Governors Sayers. of Texas, and Ste
phens. of Missouri. started the thing
with speeches which would have found
favor in almost any democratic mass
meeting. and then Governor Shaw, of
Iowa, came back with an address in
which he declared the gathering was
called for a partisan purpose and paid
his respects to the chief executive OF
every enemy of the last named speaker.
Stephens speech bordered on the
Ridiculous and his reckless Juggling
with Romans and Roman history
caused good many smiles among his
auditors.
In this part Of his talk he went into
review of Roman history after a
fashion which afterwards subjected
him to several thrusts from Governor
Shaw. He spoke OF Tiberius, Gracious
and Cicero as contemporaries, located
Sulla as of the same generation as
Pompey and Caesar. and represented
the three as forming a ring for the
suppression OF the rights of the COM
mon people.
In conclusion he referred to the battle
of Actium as marking the end Of the
Roman republic.
Compressed into a moral" said he,
"the lesson thus taught may be ex-
pressed In two words. trusts, expan-
SION. and then growing alliterative,
he continued: TRUSTS and tramps. the
tandem team of imperialism" and then
with an appeal to his hearers, whom he
styled "sapient sons of .sainted sires,' .
he concluded: Within twelve short
moons the phalanxes will be drawn up
in battle array, when ballots, not bull
lets. will decide the contest; on the one
side the trusts and reluctant tramps.
on the other side the patriots, the peo-
pie: and on the one side the silken ban
ners will bear the inscription, Trusts,
imperialism;' on the other side the
glorious flag of our country, on whose
folds in letters of flame will be the
legend OF America, Liberty Choose
you today under which banner you will
fight
Governor Shaw's speech was some
what facetious and he was sharply
criticised by one of the speakers fol-
lowing.
Shaw said in part:
I regret that the call for this con-
ference did not include all that lis in
the mind OF him who issued 1t. 1t was
evidently his purpose to make it moi
only an antitrust conference but ar
anti-expansion and free trade, free sill.
yer convention. Had this been done
1t is quite possible a larger attendance
would have been secured; for certainl,
1t would have embraced subjects
upon which there are greater differ
ences of opinion than upon the ques.
tion of trusts alone. was interested
by the address from the governor OF
Missouri. for he stated that his state
had triumphantly exterminated the oc.
topus prefer a formulated bill, such
as l may safely submit to the genera
assembly Of my state rather than res
olutions. ! think I'm politician enough
to draft = set OF resolutions so drastic
that II needed al the trusts ana com.
blAations would Immediately take theil