Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-21
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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Many of You like myself have given
to the democratic party. the devotion
and earnest support OF life time.
Without hope of personal reward, we
nave given our time and money to adj
vance its interests and make it's just
principles known to all men.
But we count no hour lost given to
the cause of democracy. There are no
regrets as we look tothe past and meas
ure the results of our labor Whether
successful or defeated the democratic
party and its principles have been an
influential power, in the governme mt of
the state and nation, whether in Office
or out, democrats have left the impress
of their influence on public affairs.
1t has stood a corrective barrier in
the path of misgovernment. to mis- con-
duct in office. to the tendency to corrup-
ton in the republican party. Thru its
influence official larceny has been ex-
posed. 1t has brought bad officials to
punishment. 1t has impressed on public
Office its standard of integrity and eff
cheney and faithfulnes to public
duty, 1t has waged incessant
war against those who have held the.
privileges of government thing to bar
ter for party service ana it has preached
and practiced the gospel Of equal rights
to all and special privileges to none.
The democratic party must not be
a negative party--a party of mere appo-
sltion. 1t can not be a party of calamity
which draws vitality and success from
industrial. or financial depression"
The speaker then entered into an ex-
tensive discussion of national issues. in
Guiding imperialism. expansion, the Boer
war. trusts, tariff, income tax, etc. Or
state issues he said:
STATE ISSUES.
The republican party is the same in
the state as In the nation. Its tenden-
cies are the same whether at Washing
ton or Des Moines. at Havana or Ma
Mia. 1t has been for thirty since
the days when its honest leaders passed
away-a party held together by chron-
ic appetite for the spoils of Office. 1t has
been corrupt In nation and state and our
first experiments as a colonial power
have given to the world the most scan
dalous examples of political debauch-
cry, misconduct in Office. grand larceny
and embezzlement of public moneys.
The first men sent out with the creden-
| tials of republican leaders have been put
| in colonial jails or brought back en-
bezzlers and thieves.
| The democratic legislators have shown
to the people of Iowa the wrong doings
of the state officials and the attorney
general of the state has found the du-
| ties of l,is Office more onerous each year
on account of the peculation of state Of
fcials
| The republican party for years in the
/! face of protests of democrats. in the
face of the reports of investigating COM
| mittee-against the demands of hones
followers of their party, have refused t.
abolish the office of state printer ant
binder. They have allowed the people
thru these offices to be robbed to the ex
4 tent of thousands of dollars annually il
order that the office might be given as {
reward for party service. They have
kept up the exorbitant prices paid fol-
1 work in these offices with the guaranty
| that the same work could be done al
| from rs to 80 per cent less by contract
Recent developments have shown thai
even these prices were not large enough
4 to satisfy the rapacity of republican of
lficials. and the late binder is accused
/ of charging over $1,000 in excess of al
! ready excessive rates.
/ Notwithstanding the Increased as
sessed valuation of private property II
the state, the state levy has been con
\ stantly raised since the days when Hor-
( ace Boies was able to place the affair:
/ CT state upon a business basis, and t.
reduce the state levy to 2 mills on thu
dollar, and still was able to leave at TIL
end of his term a surplus of over $500,
/ 600 in the state treasury.
The republican party boast much be-
cause they have paid off the deficit un-
der the Jackson and Drake administra-
/ tions. and now have million dallal
surplus. They point to it with pride a:
evidence of republican prosperity ana
wise administration of state affairs
/ They do not advertise the fact that thu
state levy has been raised. That Whit
4 the total receipts of the state treasur.
for the four years ending June 30, 1893
We're S6,s56 941.s0. the receipts for thu
four years ending June 30, 1901, wer,
/ $40, 6S7, 9G7.65. an increase of over so pc
4 cent in eight years. We are told tn,
state has grown. OF course it has, bu
our increase in population has been onl!
1877 per cent for ten years.
THE MULCT Law.
The mulct law is another example O
republican hypocrisy. Defeated as tn
party of prohibition in 1889 and 1891, i
decided to take a "step backward" AM
desert its position. The democratic
party offered and still offers for repub
lican statewide ineffective prohibition
4 a license law that would produce larg
revenue and leave it to the cities, town
| and villages of the state to determin
their position in regard to the traffic II
Intoxicating liquors. They proposed
system for the control of the traffic tina
Objectionable parties might be kept on
of the business and the whole traffic b
safeguarded-that while 1t became
legitimate occupation and industry it
abuse by irresponsible parties might b
provided against.
The republicans in order to hold with
in its ranks the liberals and the prohi
bitionists evolved from an ingenious an
4 fertile imagination the hybrid monste
4 of mulct law thru which they were Ell
4 abled to promise the .prohibitionists pro
4 hibition and the liberals the manufac
ture and sale and the saloonkeeper Ii
cense to violate law of the state b.
4 paying a mulct tax.