Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-03
WAR ISSUE
Fifth District Congressman AID.
dresses the Largest Gathering
Of the Campaign.
Answers Candidate White and Scores
the Party Of Atkinson and
Aguinaldo.
A Strong Presentation Of the Duties
and responsibilities Of the
People

Congressman Robert G. Cousins adj
dressed, at the Odeon Thursday night,
the greatest number of people assem-
bled in this county to hear political
speech during the present quiet but i'm
portant campaign. The theater was
crowded except for few vacant chairs
In the back portion of the gallery, many
preferring to stand throughout the eve
ming rather than to climb the gallery
stairs. Two hundred more occupied
seats on the stage.
Congressman Cousins has made adj
dresses that were more witty; address,
es that We're adorned with phrases more
flowery; that were decorated with anec-
dotes in greater number, but for sound
presentation of the duties and RESPONSE
bilities of the government and the peo-
pie of this country the address excelled.
Music for the meeting was furnished
by the K. o. 4. NJ. band. Both in the
size of the audience and in the frequent
applause with which the many strong
points OF the congressman's speech
were greeted the meeting was in great
contrast to that of the opposition party,
held in the afternoon and addressed by
Candidate Fred White. Congressman
Cousins was introduced by Hon. G.. F.
Kirby. who for years was prominent
worker in the democratic party, but
who could not swallow Organism in 1896
and had the manhood to say so. Mr..
kirby's Introductory remarks were very
brief, but they were significant. He said
there was nothing for him to say except
to assure his hearers that the gold dem
ocrats of 1896 would still act as the body
guard Of the republicans until 1900. Mr..
Cousins among other things said.
In the presence of such unrivaled
prosperity and distinguished success as
has attended the administration of
public affairs in the nation at large
and in the state of Iowa during the
past two years. it has not been deemed
necessary or advisable by republicans
to waste the time of the busy public
with a long and contentious campaign.
We are merely out In this beautiful
month of Autumn, rich with it's golden
hues and ripening corn and fattening
kline, holding few ratification meet
ings, preparatory to the general thanks
giving which follows the November
election. Our confidence which was in
spired by that intelligence, which has
long characterized the people of our
state, was not shaken nor even dis
turbed by the early and annual APP
proach of Mr.. White with his curious
budget of woes in one hand and the
heartily endorsed Chicago platform
up his other sleeve.
| The greatest confidence and the best
| founded hope which the American ma
| ton can have is that which is based
upon a realization of the intelligence
of the average citizen. If there were
as many schoolhouses and school
| teachers and as small a percentages of
| illiteracy in every state of this union
as there is in the state of Iowa. the
nation would go republican in 1900 by
at least two million majority-this is
| figuring on conservative basis.
PROSPERITY AND POLITICS.
| have been somewhat interested and
greatly amused by the manner in which
| the negative element and fault finders
l have approached and treated the pub
| lie questions during the past two years
/ In the first place general prosperity had
| to be confessed and in some way avoid
1 ed Soup houses had vanished and the
thousands of headquarters OF public
I charities had given place almost in the
/ twinkling of an eye to employment bu-
reaus and to revived and re-aniinated
industries. Contemporaneously with the
/ departure of the newly elected presi-
/ dent from Canton to the white house
the money of the country started from
| its hiding places and the wheels of the
carriage which bore Mr.. Mckinley tc
1 the inauguration ceremonies seemed tc
automatically start the wheels of indus
| try everywhere. The oath of Office
| which he took seemed to be repeated In
every household of America and in
spired universal confidence which
opened the hand of fear and found the
coordination to the long locked vault OF
! idle capital Nor was it temporary
! or spasmodic movement. Its continu-
! ance and increase has been autFlenti-
cally and historically certified by Dun
! and Bradstreet every week until the
present moment, when our volume OF
domestic business and of foreign trade
exceeds all records and is the wonder
of the world. Every product of human
toll has been equitably rewarded and
/ IL you want something done now you
must hunt for the man instead of the
man hunting you.
/ SOME QUESTIONS FOR MIR. WHITE
AS have said, this situation had to
!. be confessed and in some political way
avoided. Mr.. White, the democratic
candidate for governor. confesses 1t
and seeks to avoid it by the simple
averment that 1t all comes about by
a shortage OF foreign crops. Tell me
did shortage of foreign grain crops
enable foreign nations to purchase oil
/ Americas manufacturers s338, 70.
worth of American manufactured prod.
ucts In the fiscal year of 1899. while ir
! 1893 they only purchased of us $l5S, O23,-
/ 11S worth? Did a shortage of crop.
abroad enable them to purchase more
of American manufactures than they
ever purchased in a single year before
1899? Hasn't Mr.. White yet learned
that the very best market the American
farmer has ever had or can have fol
his products is that created by the
maximum employment of American la
Dor in American industries? Is II pos
sible that Mr.. White Is still laborint
under the delusion that American In
dustrial success depends upon q short
age of crops in other countries? Is i
possible that he has not observed the
difference between America employed
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