Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-09
BOB COUSINS, SPEECH.

Congressman Robert G. Cousins was
pressed into the service for speech
at the Cedar Rapids convention, and as
usual Won rounds of applause He said:
II congratulate the republicans of the
Fifth district upon being the honored
hosts of this multitude of distinguished
representatives who have come up to
this substantial and progressive city
from al localities of our prosperous
state to deliberate upon the public well
fare and to choose the men who will at
tend officially thereto. Questions Of pol
tiles have been SO largely solved by the
actual performances of the republican
party during the past few years that
questions of personal preferment SEEM
ed only to remain and l have no doubt
that the conclusions of this convention
in that regard Will be triumphantly rati-
| fed.
las for political issues, the rate, OF
mortality has been great among them.
MIR. Towne, the coroner of the lost
! cause, has gravely announced the par
amount issue is dead as door mat
and the bugaboo of imperialism,
thrust thru and thru by the keen lance
of Henry Watterson, is gasping its last,
infectious breath in the anxious lap of
| that solicitous old nurse of Arkansas.
who has been dividing his time, pro-
claiming the rights of colored people in
the Philippines and destroying the
rights of colored people at home Mean
| time, the Ohio democratic convention
stamps its furious feet on the faded
ia Of re l,.l a.
used to worship and worshiping what
| it used to burn.
Verify have these things come to
pass.
Nine years ago, speaking from the
same platf with Governor Mckinley,
| in Mechanics hall, Boston, heard him
say to the thousands there assembled:
| What America needs is a days work
/ for every man who wants to labor and
that too has come to pass, with all the
other good things witnessed by the mil
| ions of our fellow citizens
There have been many years of bril-
| liant and substantial progress in the
/ history of the United States; but the
four years completing the nineteenth
century surpass by far and in all re-
spects any administration of public
affairs. Viewed from any standpoint,
the administration, has brought in-
dustrial activity and confidence, and
then, as a natural elimination of CEN
| fury of barbarism, at our very door,
came war. Out of democratic stagna-
ton and stupidity at home and Spanish
/ barbarism on the seas, this nation has
| emerged in four brief years into the dis
| tinguished stature of the first CONNER
c!al power, a world benefactor, break
/ ing the claims of despotism in the re-
mote Pacific raising the Pearl Of the An
| titles out of the mud of medievalism,
and standing today in the midst VI
/ peace on land and sea, in the dawn OF
the twentieth century, proclaiming and
establishing responsible and respectable
i government for our island wards who
have recognized the banner of the stars
in near and distant seas.
During these four years there have
been many possibilities of disaster and
continued scoldlng All that was left
of the democratic party when those who
had either labor or money or credit OF
business reputation at stake deserted II
on the issue of reputation, have de.
4 voted their time to the negative bust.
ness OF hunting mistakes and bad meat
and then to- the delusive and assinine
assumption and assertion that our pres.
+ ident was planning to become an EN-.
peror: when as matter of fact, 1t de.
j. veioped that the good treatment Of oul
soldiers was limited only by the objec.
tions Of democratic legislators. and the
ambition OF our president, like that oil
il Washington, seeks only to repose in thu