Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-31
Special to Times Republican.

| DeS MONIES, July 3O.-Ihe Iowa re-
publican convention was called to order
at IL o'clock by State Chairman Spence
who introduced Congressman Walter l.
Smith as temporary chairman of the
| convention. Mr. Smith was received
| with hearty applause. He Immediately
began his address. He spoke as fol-
lows:
| Gentlemen of the Conventions:
| thank the state central committee for
the unsolicited honor 1T has conferred
upon me by my selection to preside
temporarily over this convention, and
| thank the convention for it's 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 at time
when Iowa is more potential in public
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-
joying a higher degree of prosperity
state or country since the dawn of
recorded history.
Ever since her admission to the union
Iowa has held a high place in the
councils of the nation, but never be-
fore so high as now. With Leslie M.
Shaw at the head of the Treasury, with
james Wilson at the head of the de-
partment of agriculture, with William
b. Allison at the head of the appro-
priation committee of the senate, with
Jonathan =. Dolliver as his colleague
in the senate. with David d. Hender-
son as speaker of the house, with j. A.
L. 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
+. 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's
positicE in national affairs is not sur
passed by that of any of the states.
Not long since a gentleman requested
me to indorse him for appointment
as assistant secretary of the treasury.
I told him I would gladly do SO, but
as Iowa already had the secretary of
the treasury, the solicitor of the of the
treasury, the director OF the mint and
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
places.
The republican party is dedicated
to 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 past
forty years-of the union saved, of
slaves made free, OF free labor bette,
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
piness among all the people.
In 1860 the total wealth Of the nation
was SIG, 159,616.06S. In 1880 1t wa:.
65.oS7 ,091,l97, and is now more than
$4,000, 100000. In 1860 the total wealth
OF Iowa was s247,33S,265, and in 1890
$2,2S1 34S,333. and is now more than
$500, 100000. In 1860 the total reven
ues OF the national government were
S56,064,6o7; and in the past year they
We're 1853, 405,1 1877. In In 1860 the state
revenues We're S276,197; and in 1900
they We're s2.63s,246. Such is a math-
ematical statement of the financial de-
Velopment in nation and in state dur
ing the years since the republican party
Ilrst came into power. And still more
startling would be this array of figures
but for that dark four years when the
American people, unmindful 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 financiayl 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.
1t is proud of all it's chief executives
of the nation from Abraham Lincoln
to Theodore Roosevelt and proud of all
its chief executives of the state from
James w. Grimes to Albert B. Cum
Minis.
From 1861 to 1893 the democratic
party was never in any true sense in
power True, 1t 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 it's favorite doctrines
into law. In the thirty-two years from
the time the democratic party went out
OF power in 1861 until it came back to
power in 1898 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
tingiushed junior senator. the admins
tration Of james Buchanan was as
distinctly 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
1897, the longest and weariest four
years with the memory of men now liv-
ing. In 1896 an embarrassed, impov-
erished, chastened and repentant peo-
pie turned with supreme confidence to
the republican party for relief, and
knowing the great task before it called
to it's 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-
flitfoo int, ,,,Ji ~, thav ha haap fet Inv