Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-03
'DOu|Y[R At atlantis
Delivers His First Speech Of the
Iowa Campaign at That
Place.
Pays Fine Tribute to Mckinley
and Policies for Which He
Stood.
The Tariff Principle to Be Re.
tanned in a Modified
Statutes.

Special to Times Republican.
Atlantic, Oct. 3.-Senator Dolliver ar
rived here last night on a special train
at s o'clock and proceeded at once to the
opera house, where a large audience was
awaiting him. With a few short re-
marks Chairman Shipplett introduced
him to the waiting crowds. It was Dol
liver's opening speech of the campaign.
Senator Dolliver talked principally on
the life work of President Mckinley,
beginning with his enlistment in the
union army, afterwards his noble career
thru life, including his term as presi-
dent. Taking his last Itterances at
buffalo as text, Senator Dolliver went
to some extent into the tariff question.
He said in part:
We meet today under the shadow of
an affection so great that 1t puts to si-
the ordinary issues of partisan char
acter seem insignificant and out Of
place. But the party of which President
Mckinley was the leader, even at this
time of sorrow. and while yet the ma
tional calamity is in all hearts, can not
refuse to go forward in the discharge of
its duties; can not altogether turn aside
from the defense of the political princi-
pies which he represented and of which
for so many years ne was the most con-
spicuous defender. But we must be
more careful now than ever in our deal
ing with the questions to which our
fallen leader in his lifetime was de-
voted, that there are not brought into
them the petty contentious of malice
and prejudice which he always avoided
In his discussions of political issues, and
which are recognized now, when seen in
the light of the tragedy which ended his
career, as a danger no less than a re-
proach to our system of popular govern
ment thru political parties.
THE great doctrine which has been
identified for three generations with ma
tional prosperity, broadened to meet
new commercial conditions. and inter-
rreted in the light of McKinley's fare
well public utterance at Buffalo, is still
the platform OF the republican party.
and has been strengthened by its cham
pion's death in the minds and hearts of
the American people. It was his good
fortune, also, early in his career, to-
grasp the elementary principle of sound
public finance, that the standard of VAL
ue is invfolable and that the creation of
q cheap dollar not only damages the ma
tional credit, but inevitably operates to
deceive and cheat the entire community.
These two doctrines that the American
workman has right to hold his place
against the competition of the alien and
the stranger, and has right to be paid
for his work in money as good as gold
in the market places, of the world-these
are the victorious ideas with which Nc
Kinley so fully connected himself that
they made him easily the dominant fac
tor in the commercial and industrial
of our times. The latter ques-
lions which came upon us he did not
seek, and, If he met them, as all men
now admit. in the spirit of a patriot and
e statesman. they fifty crown career in
some respects unparalleled in our ma
tional life.
II remember well those days of anx-
iety. before the declaration of war with
Spain. / saw the president more than
once pacing up and down at the mid
night hour in the executive office. his
face drawn and haggard under the re-
that were upon him, not
for any fear that the kingdom of Spain
would put us to serious Inconvenience
either on land or sea. but because he had
g. vision Of things which nobody else
seemed to discern-a vision which
brought into clear view national duties
and national responsibilities following
swiftly upon the victory over Spain
which would bring in a new epoch, full
Of sacrifices, perils and difficulties I'M
known before. He rose to the highest
summit of his fame when he turned to
his countrymen, and, with a confidence
born of faith III our institutions and love
for our flag, bade them go forward in
the fear of God and fulfill to the utter
most the larger mission upon which the
American republic had entered.
s"IIe has gone from US in the fullness
Of his honor, after the world had como
10 know the dignity ard moral value of
his leadership in its affairs. And we
who are his followers, his friends, his
associates, in ways however humble, in
he promotion Of the principles of the re-
publican party, are left to take up his .
unfinished work and do what we can to
PERSUADE all our fellow citizens to follow
i guidance not less masterful in death
man when he stood among his fellow
,aen, strong and resolute in the political
faith in which he lived"
Mr.. Dolliver discussed at some length
The question of reciprocity and questions
arising out of the government OF our
new national possessions. He closed |
with tribute to the patriotic purposes
rf President Roosevelt, and with an ex-
preston of confidence i'll the successful
of our state affairs by
Mr.. Cummins.
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