Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-04
|0NA Always LOYAL
Chairman Weaver Sends Greetings
to the Republicans Of Con.
trail Iowa.
a Few Words Of Good Cheer TO
the Roosevelt Meeting at
Waterloo.
The State Always Loyal to the
Party and Its Great
Principles
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican
Des Moines, Oct. 4.Chairman
Weaver, of the republican state com-
mittee. has Issued the following greet
ing to the great Roosevelt meetings at
Waterloo, Cedar Rapids and Daven-
port tomorrow:
To the Republicans of Waterloo and
Northern Iowa:
In the name of the republican state
central committee of Iowa send greet
ings to the republicans OF northern
Iowa, assembled to express their faith
in republican doctrines, and welcome to
Iowa the soldier-statesman of New
York, who with our great president
William Mckinley, bears aloft the ban
ner of 1epublicanism in this year OF
prosperity, 1900.
In the great conflict for honest
money, good government. humanity
and the spread of civilization, Iowa, as
ever, will be found in the front ranks.
Her sons were ready to answer TO the
call of tile; they We're eager to follow
and defend the flag. and now they are
just as eager to sustain the govern
ment and all that the flag stands for
with their ballots as they We're with
| their lives.
Iowa, the land which produces big
crops, grand men and women, eloquent
lsorators, true and patriotic statesmen
and noble and honest citizens in every
walk of life, greets today the man who,
as citizen, statesman, soldier, led in
every line of effort, whether 1t was In
4 lettering the municipal conditions OF
1.-the greatest city of our country or in
carrying the flag to still greater glories
Ion the summit of San Juan hill.
While this great gathering today Is
/ an expression of greeting and welcome
to the, integrity, the bravery and the
4 nobility of character of the man who
lis the idol of the rough riders, 1t Il
4 above and beyond all a recognition and
4 a declaration Of loyalty to the prin-
ciples of the great party, one of whose
4 foremost representatives today Is The
1 odore Roosevelt.
/ Iowa is loyal to this great party ant
its great principles. The administra'
4 tlon of President William Mckinley
finds hearty endorsement upon oul
broad prairies and beside our beautiful
rivers. Our state was made q part o.
4 this nation under expansion; our peo
4 pie have expanded from mere hand
4 full gathered along the banks OF oul
/ great river, until today we number wv
4 and a half million souls; we have ex
4 panded from few and feeble bushes
. enterprises until today Iowa stands Ia
Hin advance among the commerc1a
81 Estates in our nations we have expande
.SIfrom few hardy pioneers, poor y
il purse, but rich in pluck, until toda
J, our people have on deposit in the vari
a ous banks of our state more than $40.
I 100000 represented by individual de
-l4posits.
{ Since we have thus expanded It
) natural that we should believe in Tex
pansion.', ..MiEtarism" has no terror
) for us. Iowa sent 75. 900 soldiers to de
y ifend the flag in 1876. and when tn
e call came for men to sustain the hone
/ lof this government in the islands of tn
u sea Iowa offered many more men tina
/, her quota Iowa is not afraid that an
I Imam who wears the uniform OF q
4 American soldier and has sworn to df
n lfend the flag and our country, Will eve
: be found plotting against II. Iowa ma
q faith in the American soldier and as
n today greet one of the greatest OF OF
: citizen-soldiers, we. by that same ac
: proclaim to the world that we have 7
s sympathy with the sneaking hypocrits
: who would seek to sully the prou
e name Of our soldiers living and dead.
e A state whose loyalty has neve.. bee
I and never can be questioned. e1tene
7 this welcome, not only to Theodo1
Roosevelt the man, but to Theodol
Roosevelt the associate with Villa
Mckinley as the representative of u
: grand principles and glorious tradition
of the republican party.
n II. o. WEAVER, i
e Chairman Republican State Cent?
"a Committee.