Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-11
MOULD MAKE THE RAGE.
Henry watterson Would Be Can.
didate for Presidency Under
Certain Conditions.
Would Want Assurance OF the
Vote Of Certain Eastern
States.
Delivers Speech Before the
Merchants Club at Boston
..Other News.

Boston, Mass, Dec. 1.-THE Boston
Merchants Association held Its twenty
fifth annual banquet last night, with
Col. Henry Watterson of Kentucky as
| the chief speaker.
| The association was established in
March, 1876, and held its first dinner in
| the Revere House. 1t is the aim of the
club to have at least one man of nation
al prominence as guest and orator.
Colonel Watterson appears to have
come up to the requirements of the oc-
casion.
The Kentucky editor responded to the
toast Massachusetts and Kentucky,
with word or two about reciprocity
and expansion" He said:
"1n the event that am ever candi-
date for president of the United States,
which heaven forbid, shall need the
electoral vote of Massachusetts or,
rather let me say, that 1 never expect
to become candidate for that office I'M
til assured in advance of that vote-and.
this being agreed upon. you will not
think me taking unfair advantage of
your hospitality or making a self-seek-
that love Massachusetts,. love Mas
sachusetts because Massachusetts, loves
liberty. If l am a crank about anything
1t is about my right at all times and un-
der all circumstances to talk out in
meeting. There is but one human being
In this world whom bow down to and
obey, and she is not here this evening
she is at home-I came for pleasure
and. therefore. I am going to proceed
just as tho were in reality julius Gaze
sar.
You have been told, and many of you
doubtless believe, that life is less secure
in Kentucky than in China or even in
Chicago. You have been told that jus
tice can not be had in our courts of law.
None of these things is true. There is
an equal quantum of human nature in
Kentucky and in Massachusetts. The
one community. like the other, may be
trusted to do Its part by humanity and
Its duty to the state; nor can the one |
help the other except by generous al |
lowance for infirmities that under the |
same conditions are common to both
Concentration is becoming the uni |
versal demand the survival OF the fit |
test the prevailing law. The idiosyncra-
sy OF the nineteenth century was liberty. |
The idfosyncrasy of the twentieth CEN
fury is markets. Be 1t ours to look to /
IL that we steer between the two ex- |
tremes Of commercialism and anareh- |
ism, for, IL we have not come to the I
heritage which God and nature and the |
providence Of our fathers stored up for |
us, to employ 1t in good works, we had |
better not come to 1t DIT all.
Thoughtful Americans. carrying in |
their hearts the principles Of that In
spired declaration to which their coun-
try owes its being, can not look without
concern upon the peculiar dangers that /
assail us as we pillow thru the treacher-
Gus waters which threaten to engulf our
ship Of state, and, along with 1t. the old
fashioned lessons OF economy and free
dom.
That which we call expansion-cov-
eted by some. deplored and dreaded by
others-is a fact The newly acquired |
territories are with ue. and they are
with us to stay. A century hence the
flag will be floating where it now floats
unless some power stronger than we are
ourselves turns up to drive US out.
II believe that constitutional freedom,
according to the charter of American
liberty, Is to government what Christi
anity is to religion: and. so believing
would apply the principles and prece-
dents OF that charter to the administers
ton of the affairs OF the outlying re-
sions and peoples, come to us as. a con-
sequence of the war with Spain, pre-
cisely as they Were applied to the terri /
tory purchased of France and acquired
Of Mexico. not merely guaranteeing to
them the same uniformity of laws which
the constitution ordains in the states of |
the union, but rearing among them kin
bred institutions essential not less to
our safety and dignity than to their
and happiness"