Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-18

Cleveland, Oct. 1S-Last night the city
lof Cleveland gave Governor Roosevelt a
reception rivalling any similar demon
stration ever made here. There was an
Immense parade. consisting of half a
score of brass bands. dozens OF politi-
cal organizations, including many which
had come hither from other pdaces to do
honor TO the candidate for vice press.
dent. Superior street, the chief thor-
oughfare thru which the parade passed,
was ablaze with electric lights, suspend-
ed in loops crosswise and lengthwise
| from tall pillars surmounted by flaming
globes and decorated with evergreen.
Along this brilliant course thousands Of
rockets and flambeaux flared. The walks
We're thronged With men, women and
children. who drew 50 near that the
horses of the various mounted sections
almost trampled them. From the union
station. riding in a gorgeously decorated
lcarriage, drawn by four white horses, in
company with Governor Nash and Sem
ator Foraker, Governor Roosevelt was
escorted, while bands, played and cam
mon doomed salute along the route Of
the parade to a large tent on Marcelline
avenue, Newburg. where he addressed a
large audience on the subject OF pros
l;perity. HE speech was brief. consisting
of part of that delivered by him an
ilhour later at Central armory. At the
tent the governor was followed by Col.
Curtis Guild. Jr.. who made an exhaust
/ ;x.1 .l<
1.-THE meeting at the armory, making a
strong appeal in behalf of the republican
national ticket. and at the close of his
address Governor Roosevelt was intro
duced. The governor said in part:
u want to ask your attention Just a
moment to the question OF trusts. using
the word trust in the broad Specification
as meaning all big corporations. No one
! With common sense is 80 foolish as to
|desire the destruction of capital. Every
reasonable man understands and be-
| lleyes that overgrown corporations
should be subject to rigid supervision
| and. when nece ssary, to restriction. Mr.
| Bryan's declared remedy for the evils
which exist in such corporations is the
destruction OF the industries concerned
t,bearing down III one common ruin en-
lployer and employed. For example: Su-
gar is manufactured by such a corpora
ton. Mr. Bryan favors the destruction
of the sugar refining and beet sugar and
cane sugar growing industries Of the
United States by the introduction of free
foreign refined sugar. 1t would proba-
| bly, destroy the corporations he desires
to destroy. 1t would also destroy every
man who raises sugar beets or sugar
cane. or works in a sugar refinery.
have asked him to state which OF the
commodities made by big corporations
| he specifically desires to have made free.
ACCORDING to his statement and the
! Kansas City platform he would have all
lnfS them be made free. He would have
such commodities as American worsted
| clothes made by the American Wooden
| Company exposed to the free compete
istion of European worsted clothes not
lonly driving American working men
from the wooden and worsted mills of
1.-THE United States. but depriving every
| Ohio farmer of an American market for
American wool.
Mr.. Bryan's party would include free
steel rails. free glass. free china and
POTTERY and the exposure of the Ameri-
| car working men as we'll as the Ameri-
lean capitalist to unrestricted compete
| ton with all the nations of the world
even With the competition of he Chinese
llaborer. who makes silks and porcelain
land grows rice and wool to compete with
the products Of American labor.
We are opposed to correcting an evil
Sby theutter destruction of the industry
in which that evil exists. If a drain pipe
lis out Of order ii is very poor economy
to get rid Of the difficulty by burning
down the house. Our method of dealing
with these evils is to correct8tEe corpor-
Iation laws which permit such evils to
exist. Now the national government at
present has no power to deal With the
great corporations. On the first of last
4 June the republicans introduced in con-
gress a bill 10 give the government pow
er to regulate. and II necessary to sup
4 press. any of the big trusts or similar
Corporations. say If necessary to sup
i press for there are both good and evil iii
aall corporations. just as among individu-
ais. We want to cut out the cancer,
A but we do not want to kill the patient.
4 Every republican but two voted for, and
EVERY democrat but four against the
i amendment to the constitution and in
A favor of trusts. and the democratic lead
Ter, Mr.. Richardson, of Tennessee. stated
4 that he voted in favor Of trusts because
4 II was bad policy from democratic
standpoint to take the trust issue out OF
4 the present campaign. In other words,
4 they avowed with singular shameless
mess that they did not wish a remedy
4 for the evils contained with the trusts
but that they wanted TO keep an open
sore that it might benefit this party.
Gentlemen. You can not afford to sup
8lport party that approaches a great
sipublic question in thar spirit
In my own state two years ago ran
IagaInst Mr.. Van Wyck, who vac not
made by Mr.. Croker q speak advisadly.
4 II is strictly a one man power in New
4 York; They denounce trusts on the
5lIstump. would not promise as much
as they did because wac hampered by
the fact that intended to make my
words good. | intended to make my
i performance and my promises square
We put thru in the New York legisia-
|ture the franchise tax bill under which
1.-TWO hundred millions Of corporate prop
fIerty, street railway and similar fran
4 chis'es, were added to the assessment
troll. The result Is that within the past
six years of republican rule In New
York the tax rate has been lower than
for forty years. Now that is perform.
lance On the other hand. we have in
i New York Mr.. Croker. Mr. Croker de.
Il nOunces, trusts and he II one. OF the big