Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-15
Ex-Governor Horace Boies Opens
Campaign at Winthrop With
Wonderful Speech.
TARIFF WALL MUST BE LOWERED
Says Trusts are Bred by the Present
Laws Favorins the
Few.

Winthrop, Oct. 9.-(Special) Horace
Boies opened his campaign in this city
last evening to the largest audience
ever gathered in this place. The hall
which was the largest in the town was
crowded to its limit long before the
honored ex-governor entered the hall.
The doors and Railways were crowded
with listeners and many were obliged
to remain outside. Farmers were
present at the meeting who had driven
fifteen and twenty miles during the
afternoon to listen to the man who
made the best governor that Iowa has
ever had.
The immense crowd expected one of
those famous old time straight out and
out talks from the man whom they love
and respect and they got it. In most
splendid address the governor proved
that his brains and voice aud body were
still as active as ever. Never las he
appeared upon the platform in better
physical condition. In a strong voice he
told the people of the weakness OF our
tariff laws and declared that the most
effective way to reach the trusts was
to pull down the walls that shelter
them. The people were enthusiastic
and well pleased with his address and
theories that lie advanced. The fcl-
lowing is his address III part:
Ladies and Gentlemen
1t is familiar assertion of repub-
licans that the democratic party is
without an issue in this campaign.
That would be unfortunate, if true,
for issues make parties just as much
as they make lawsuits. We shall be
without either If the time ever comes
when we are without issues.
1t has been said men do not make
issues; that they grow. If this is true
there must be seed from which they
grow. and there is no one on this earth
but men to plant it. If our republican
friends are correct in their conclusion
that democrats are without an issue
it must be because their party has a
monopoly of the seed from which they
grow.
They are kind enough. however. to
concede to democrats a slightly use
fui purpose in the mechanism OF human
society. They say condescendingly
that democrats answer the same purpose
in checking the vigorous and progress
sive republican party, which the brake
accomplishes in checking the too rapid
speed of railway train.
Well, this is very kind. for there is
no knowing where railway train
would go without brake, and equal
uncertainty of the place where the re-
publican party without brake, would
bring up, unless it be conceded that
its final destination would be the place
that all the rest of us are most anx-
ious to shun.
But let us for moment take the
place SO kindly assigned us and see
if we cannot instance one case at
least in the recent past where the
brake If it had worked would have
been of inestimable value to this ma
ton from every standpoint of obser-
walton.
We started "a train in the right di-.
srectiop when we ae,sss;;oa the cause
Isl suif6Fing Cuba, and broke the chains
Of tyrant which had eeobbed and
scnrsed her for centuries.
JEWEL OF PRICELESS VALUE.
That act is jewel of priceless value
in the crown of our national glory.
There is not manly heart in all
arsn hot ,Ot with,
light at every suggestion of the noble
stand this great republic took in the
outset of that memorable war.
But oh, the horror of the thought
that comes to so many Of us when we
think of what it led to.
The land of another oppressed by the
same tyrant for as many centuries, a
scene of desolation and want that al
ways follows in the footsteps of war.
One day last week there came over
the wires from Manila a tale Of woe
that made the very heart of this great
republic shudder.
Five thousand cases of cholera in a
single province of those war-swept is
lands. Two thousand, nve hundred
deaths. Men and women fleeing to the
mountains, leaving their sick to die
alone, their dead to go unburied
And cholera, everyone knows, al
ways finds the bulk of its victims in
the haunts of the destitute among the
sQualidly poor. Did we prepare its
breeding place in these stricken is
lands?
Assign him whatever place you
choose. and there is not a democrat
in all America who does not lift up
his heart in gratitude to his maker
that the party to which he belongs
is in no sense responsible for the war
in the Philippines. That by every
means within its power it tried to
avert it; that it is still trying to atone