Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-30
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publican convention MAS called To order
Who introduced Congressman Walter l.
smith as temporary chairman of the
oonyention. Mr.. Smith was received
with hearty applause. He Immediately
began his address. He spoke az fol-
|lows:
Gentlemen of the Convention:
THANK the state central committee for
1.-THE unsolicited honor it has conferred
upon me by my selection to preside
Temporarily over this convention, and
u thank the convention for its appar-
entity cheerful acceptance OF the action
OF the committee.
L congratulate YOU upon being chosen
as the representatives of the dominant
political party in this state Al 4 time
when Iowa is more potential in pubic
affairs than at any other time in its
history and when either by reason
thereof, or at least coincident there
with, the nation and the state are en-
ijoying Il higher degree of prosperity
than was ever before enjoyed by amy
state or country since the dawn of
recorded history.
Ever since her admission TO the union
Iowa has held high place IN the
lcouncils of the nation, but never be
fore so high as now. With Leslie NJ.
Shaw at the head of the Treasury, with
iJames Wilson at the head of the de-
partnlent of agriculture, with William
iB. Allison at the head of the appro-
priition committee of the senate. With
Jonathan T. Doiiyer as his colleague
in the senate. with David Is. Hender-
son as speaker of the house, with j. A.
T. Hull as chairman of the committee
on military affairs. with w. p. Hepburn
as chairman of the committee on inter
state and foreign commerce, With John
H. Lacey chairman of the committee on
public lands, and with the positions
held by other Iowa members of the
house it is safe to say that Iowa $
lpositc-. in national affairs is not sur
passed by that of any of the states.
Not long since Il gentleman requested
me to indorse him for appointment
as assistant secretary of the treasury.
/ told him l would gladly do so. but
as Iowa already had the, secretary of
the treasury. the solicitor of the of the
the deputy auditor of the treasury for
the war department. it might be pos
sible that some of the other forty four
states would claim some of the minor
lplaces.
/ The republican party is dedicated
Ito promoting the honor and glory of the
republic and the freedom. prosperity
moral well-being and happiness of all
Its children, whether they dwell at home
or in the islands beyond the sea that
have been added to its territory.
We are proud OF all the great
achievements Of the party in the pas
forty years-of the union saved, of
slaves made free, of free labor better
paid and more constantly employed,
than in other days. of greater pros
perity and of increased wealth. of the
wider diffusion of knowledge and hap
plness among all the people.
In 1860 the total wealth of the nation
was Sl6.159, 616,06S. In 1890 it wa,
/ S630Sl09l, l91, and is now more than
S9b,0o0,600.000. In 1860 the total wealth
4 OF Iowa was S241 SsS,266,- and in 1890
IS22S1.34S,SSSSS, and is now more than
| $3,5uO,oo0,o00. In 1860 the total reven.
ues of the national government We're
1 Sa6,o64.601: and in the past wear they
We're 1858, io5.lS7. In In 1860 the state
revenues We're S276,191: and in 1soo
they We're $2.63S.246 Such is a math
lenatical statement of the financial de-
INelopment in nation and in state dur
ing the years since the republican party
first came into power. And still more
startling would be this arrav of figures
but for that dark four years when the
American people, unmndful of all their
history, stopped all development by en-
trusting the management of public af-
fairs to that political party which with
| the best intentions has always when
! in power so conducted matters as to
lead to tinanciayl disaster If the re-
publican party is proud of its history
1t is no less proud of all its great men
by whom that history has been made.
| ii is proud of all its chief executives
| of the nation from Abraham Lincoln
to Theodore Roosevelt. and proud of all
tits chief executives of the state from
james w. Grimes to Albert B. Cum
Minis.
From 1861 to 1898 the democratic
party was never in any true sense in
power True, it had the presidency
from 1885 to 1889, but during no por-
ton of that time was it in control of
the senate, and so it was unable to
enact any of its favorite doctrines
into law. In the thirty-two years from
the time the democratic party went out
of power in 1851 until it came back to
power in 1893 a new generation of vot-
ers had been born and grown TO man
hood. who knew not the baleful effects
of democratic national administration
In 1892, in the language of Iowa's dis
tinsiushed junior senator, the admins
tration of James Buchanan was as
distinctly a part of ancient history as
the Babylonish captivity. And because
I'VE forget the democratic party was
placed in control of the executive and
legislative departments of the govern
ment. Words of mine cannot depict
the horrors of those year, from 1893 to
1887, the longest and weariest fourf
years with the memory of men now liv-
ing. In 1896 an embarrassed, impoy-
ershed, chastened and repentant peo-
pie turned with supreme confidence to
the republican party for relief, and
knowing the great task before it called
to its leadership that able. honest.
clean, high minded Christian states
man, William Mckinley, of Ohio. He
was elected to the presidency and with
a republican congress set about the re-
demption of the people from that con-
dition into which they had been cast by
four years of democratic statesman