Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-12
A Patriotic Argument in Favor Of
Republican Principles Enthusi.
astioally Received.
The Address Notab BILE for Polite Man.
ner in Which the Democratic
Position Was Riddled

pie OF Marshalltown and vicinity have |
ever been privileged to hear.
There are stump speakers, there are
campaign orators. there are political
haranguers in all parties, but there is
only one Shaw, and he is decidedly |
Shawesque. Governor Shaw not only |
drives his argumentative nails home,
but he clinches them after they are
driven, and he does 1T in method all
his own. While making no pretensions
at oratory, his speeches are more eff
3fective than are many of those of the
.oratorical class. While he handles the
opposition with gloves, they are only
eight-ounce gloves, and the force WELD
ing them is just vigorous enough to
wake the other fellow up and start him
to notwithstanding instead of clos
ing his eyes. He handled the tariff, the
money and the Philippine questions in
the same thorough and thoughtful
manner.
The Odeon theater was completely
filed Wednesday evening except few
seats in the gallery After several Sc
lections by the K. o. 7. NJ. band, Secre-
tary A. B. Hoover, OF the county repub-
lican central committee, introduced
Governor Shaw with brief remarks, in
which he referred to the coming cleo
ton as only a state affair but of ma
tional significance, and expressed him
self as confident that the administra-
| tons of the president and the governor
would be upheld on Nov. Z.
| Governor Shaw was given flattering
| greeting by the audience, which would
certainly have been larger but for the
! threatening weather. He opened by
saying that the campaign did not con-
J sist of two parties contending for the
I spoils of Office. 1t is not men but prin-
\ ciples that are involved. Men do not
make or unnake good times. 1t is the
4 principles. The money question, he
said, has been relegated to the rear
temporarily, but the democrats have
reaflirmed the Chicago platform of 1896
and w. j. Bryan will be their leader,
and you can't divorce Bryan from Bry-
Ianism. Bryan is bigger than any plat
form the democrats can write. Gov
ernor Shaw refuted the claim that this
4 country is subservient to England, and
said that this nation ought to be the
greatest producer and consumer and
ought to be the commercial center and
W
can do it il we will.
Governor Shaw discussed the money
Question and free silver at some length,
showing that every country trying free
coinage had abandoned 1T; that free
coinage means that the coin is worth
only the value of the material 1T con-
tains; that while the government can
: impart paying power to money it can
not impart a purchasing power; that as
long as two monies can be kept togeth-
er they are of equal power, but in order
to keep silver al a parity with colo
Grover Cleveland was compelled to Dor
row 100000, 900 in gold. The governor
complimented Cleveland for his display
of backbone in standing out agains'
his own party. He also complimentec
Bryan. Bryan. he said, is an orator
The governor wished he was one. Bry
an lacks logic, however. for which tht
governor said he was sorry.
Taking up the tariff question, Gov
ernor Shaw was able to show by man!
well-known authorities that prosperit.
lhas followed in the wake of republican
tariff laws and panics have been the Sc
lquel of democratic free trade and tariff
for-revenue-on laws. He then an
swered Bryan's question as to VIII.
farmers should be republicans, and ex
planned that the money question wa
/, taken up simply because the democratic
= party needed an issue, having practi
|cally abandoned free trade. He said tn
democrats saw their little brother-th
: peoples party-with a hrecracker tn
little tot had made himself. 1t wa
smoking nicely and promised to make
big explosion, and so they stole tn
!. baby brothers cracker. Then the bah
q stole march on the democrats by go
d ling to their playhouse and capturin
1. firecracker. playhouse and all.
In regard to the rev issue of trust
which the democrats are seeking I
.lbring to the front, Governor Shaw sal
lit was easier to say "Be it resolved
than TO say BE it enacted "-easier t
write q platform than to formulate
law The democratic platform strike
at every combination, including labo
unions. If farmer is making none
and sees he can make more money b
A buying neighboring farm. and goes
fla bank to borrow the money to do 81
that Is combination of capital and ae
cording to the democratic way {
thinking, trust. That some of tn
trusts were evils the governor admitted
and he suggested that the first ste
towards separating the good from tn
bad would be to compel every one
report on how it had used it's capita
!. the amount of the dividends, etc, and
7Ithe dividends were too large then thei
would soon be competition.
Before taking up the Philippine que.
ton, which the opposition party is seel
Hing to make an issue of, Governor Sha
Il requested that some one be secured
sing two verses of america" and Mi.
Martha Mcmillan, who was presen
: was induced to do so. the audient
II joining In the song. After Governt
Shaw got through with the Philippir
question, if there was an anti-expansic
ty democrat in the audience he was ce
~ tainly ashamed for being one.
lg The patriotism of members of all pa
d: ties at the crucial time was feeling
ne referred to, but after the war was ov
ell the democrats, in their anxiety to fiji
at an issue. commenced to criticise. Tht
ID. when the Philippine question aros
to President Mckinley. in order to avo
all responsibility, selected commissit
to draw up a treaty with SPAIN TIL
commission consisted OF five Spaniard
one pronounced anti-expansionist der