Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-23
|B[V[R|DG[ ON ISSUES
Indiana Senator Addresses d
Monster Political Meeting
at Cincinnati, Ohio
! CONTEST ON DEAD ISSUES
Says Democrats Are Making Present
Campaign on Settled and Abandoned
Issues Young Men Urged Not to
Join Party Composed of kickers-
Hanna and Foraker Also Speak.

Cincinnati Oct. 23.-The first and on
| ly rally that the republicans will have
| in this county this year was addressed
last night by Senators Beveridge For
aker and Hanna. Music hall, with a
seating capacity of over 5000, was
packed.
Senator Foraker presided. In his re-
marks he said the democrats had no is
sues and no leader-unless Tom John
son is their leader. He reviewed the
old issues of free trade, free silver,
IAguinaldo, the George Washington of
| the orient, and other questions that he
said had been found wanting" and
| last of all was the strike which Presi-
dent Roosevelt had removed SO that
now the democrats We're without issue,
leader or hope
Senator Foraker closed with a eulogy
on the junior senator of Indiana, whom
he introduced. Senator Beyeridge was
received with rousing cheers and spoke
as follows:
A campaign of abandoned issues"
was the way Senator Beveridge de-
scribed the present political contest.
In four months said he, Issue after
issue had been raised by. the opposition
and deserted as soon as attacked. They
were deserted because they were UNI
enable-because every issue was not
n in ont 1>,,t
tense based on passion, prejudice and
the unsubstantial foundations upon
which the demagogue always builds
Continuing, Senator Beveridge said:
Let US take them in their order.
Last spring the opposition to the gov
eminent declared that Imperialism was
running the republic: American soldiers
We're dishonoring the American flag
and disgracing the American name
an ocean voyage had changed the ma
ture of American officers; tropic skies
had changed gentlemen into savages;
havoc, pillage, outrages, were American
methods in the republics advance
across the seas. Where now is this
campaign of SANDER? Abandoned be-
fore the charge Of facts led by reason.
Who dare.s now to ask the support
or American voters upon the ground
that their soldiers have shamed thei.
country: And yet, that was the battle
cry OF the opposition to the govern
ment only four months ago. How
many votes would any candidate get
upon the issue that Lawton, MacAr-
thur, Chaf1ee. Wheaton or Bell were
officers of infamy? Yet. that was the
slogan OF the opposition to the govern
ment only four months ago. Who now
denounces Governor Taft as man who
perjured himself to hide his oppres-
sion? And yet that was the charge of
the opposition to the government only
four sponths ago. These were the
weapons with which politicians driven
to desperation. proposed to wage
war of villitication before the Ameri-
can people. These were the charges
with which the opposition newspapers
We're black for weeks and months
what opposition newspaper now so
Marcy as even to repeat them? Why
TINS abandonment OF an issue chosen
by themselves? Merely because the
facts compelled it.
he issue of American Outrage, has
fled before facts. The people know that
moderation and humanity were intro
duced in the Oriental warfare for the
first time III history by American soil
diers.
And just so and for the same reason
the fury of humiliation of organized
industry is preached now with dimin-
ishing fervor. The indefinite issue
which the opposition called the cues
ton of trusts is exhausted, and the op-
position to the government driven to a
"reminiscences of the ancient campaign
against American tariff"
Senator Beveridge then discussed
trusts-their causes, effects, ETC., in the
course of which he said:
Evils of trusts there are; who de.
MES them? Evils Of every human in
stitution there are; who denies them?
Evils in individual character gradually
correct themselves; yet we, by law,
hasten the process. The evils of trusts
Will remedy themselves, but we must
by law hasten the process. And while
the only law ever enacted to restrain
those evils is a republican statute that
law is not enough. And we have in the
present congress passed thru the sem
ate, and will in the next session pass
thru the house, a measure creating the
department of commerce, which begins
national control of every corporation
doing business turnout the republic and
that control will grow as experience
and ceaselessly changing conditions
shall dictate. From the very first, that
department will lay before congress and
the nation, facts and not Imagination,
concerning every trust in the country:
and in the end, it's power will grow into
the sure correction of their evils; not
the correction of destroying develop
ment, not the remedy of reversing ev-
olution, but The correction and remedy
which will repair defects without halt
ing progress. There are barnacles on
the ship? Yes. But the opposition to
the government proposes to scuttle the
ship because of the barnacles. We pro-
pose to remove the barnacles and let
the ship sail on.
The republican party is in favor of
modifying any schedule no longer
needed to protect an American indus
try; but the modification of any sched-
ule gives foreign nations AN advant-
age in our fIarket-that is the reason
they favor tariff reduction. And so
the republican party says that, as al
condition of that reduction, foreign ma
lions, or such of them as we can deal
with, shall first give us equal advant-
age by reducing their tariffs on our
goods. Again, in the words of McKin-
ley: IF, perchance, some ofour tariffs
are no longer needed for revenue, or to