The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-10-01
IOWA CAMPAIGN OPENS
Hon. A. B. Cummins Arouses
Enthusiasm at Centerville.
DELIVERS KEYNOTE ADDRESS.

Issues of the Campaign %EIoquentIy
Outlined by the Republican Nomi.
nee for Governor-Some Hard Blows
at Kansas City Platform and Its
Heresies.
Des Moines, Sept. 23.-The Repub-
lican campaign in Iowa was formally
and auspiciously opened at Center
vile, Appanoose county, Monday after
noon. Ion. A. B. Cummins of Des
Moines, the Republican nominee for
governor, delivered an address before
a large audience, which was enthusiast
tically received. In it he placed be-
fore the voters of the state frankly,
plainly end in an eloquent manner,
his viaws on the issues now before the
American people, as we'll as on those
which are more specifically before the
people Of Iowa. Mr.. Cunmins' reputa-
ton as an orator is we'll established.
Few men in the nation possess the per-
sonal magnetism, the command of Ian
guage and the large knowledge of pub
liz plODISllS WHICH ulcsNC NIL.
popular as a speaker wherever he ap-
pears. He was at his best at Center
Vile and his audience quickly caught
the spirit of his address and earnest
ly applauded it at every striking point
made. His words at Centerville will
be accepted as the keynote of the Iowa
campaign. He presented in an eX-
1nrtinrnJ1v oh1o rponnnr a~rprrnanfC To
sustain the platform adopted at the
Republican state convention held at
Cedar Rapids, a platform by the way
which puts in clear cut language an
outline of the progressive policy ia
vored by the great leaders of the
party in the nation. On the tariff
question the platform is specific and
agrees in every detail with the policy
outlined by William Mckinley at Buff
falo in his last public utterance.
The Introduction to Mr.. Cummins
address contained much that should
command the unqualified endorsement
CT Democrats as we'll as Republicans.
He said. in part:
Mr.. Cummins' Speech.
l dll mere, lI1u anu StSduldSl III IiC
belief that the Republican party holds
and enforces principles that are nec-
essary to the honor of the nation and
to the welfare of the people; that it
has a past which gives it a clearer
title to your confidence and support,
and a future with a brighter and 4
clearer promise than any other polit-
| ;oo1 o,~o-;ro+:o J-,,oyo 10 tho I;e
tory of your country"
Mr.. Cummins referred briefly but
pointedly to the silver question. He
said, in part:
"The Kansas City platform is a gross
libel, and l did not believe that a con.
vention of Iowa men would eve repub.
lish it. While from a selfish point of
view, it was an advantage to me as a
candidate, | believe that I was patri.
otic enough to hope that its exploded
heresies would again be en-.
dorsed by a responsible convention.
am not thinking alone of the demand
for the free coinage of silver. How.
ever honest it's advocates originally
were. the history of the last five years
LIZ oo"h SfSty ol
raised to sustain it, and those who
really expect or desire to see the doc
trine become a part of our financial
system are hardly more numerous
than the disciples of infant damna,
ton in religion or of unlimited and
redeemable paper money in politics
Respecting the reiterated demand 70.
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer there is a menace in it which
should not reappear in every campaign
and at every election. There will be
in the future, in the very nature O.
things there must be, periods Of indus
trial and commercial depression. Lee
us not %aggravate the situation as it il
now or as it may be next year by the
remotest suspicion that u money
our standard of value-can be jug
gled with. It was the fear hat a dol
lar might become so cents that mad,
the panic of 1893 the most DESTRUCTIVE
that ever ravaged the business o
America. An industrial depression
can be qu%arantined. A financial PAM,
growing out of the fear for tn
standard of value is a plague that will
sweep yer every inch of territor,
within the sovereignty of the Unite
States, and its victims are those VIII
have least to do with it's origin. Fiv
years of experience since the subjec
was opened for debate have annihi
ated every argument, overthrow:
every position, denied every prophec
of Bryan and his followers. Thes
same years have approved every state
. ment, verified every argument an
vindicated every principle asserted b
the Republican party"
On the Philippines.
} AS to the Philippines, Mr.. Cummin
said:
""These islands became ours by tn
fortunes of war. We are treading
new path, but with courage, INTEL
4 gence and conscience. That our dut
Z toward the inhabitants of the Philil
pines may be three, five, ten or twent.
) five years hence, no sane man will a
D tempt to define. OF one thing we ma
be absolutely certain, that SO Ion