Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-01
jI|NS R[NOh|NA|[D
i District Republicans Name
Their Representative to
Succeed Himself.
ayention Held in the Auditor
ium at Cedar Rapids This
/ Afternoon.
Cousins Makes an Eloquen,
and Forceful Speech...En.
ahusiastic Meeting.

sting congressman N. VI. Sous
succeed himself in congress.
~ county was fully represented
besides the delegates large NUM-
OF visitors were present to hear
j Cousins, who had promised to be.
Ssent and address the convention-J
4le meeting was a sort of love feast
or Fifth district republicans. All the
3ounties having instructed their dele
gates. the preliminaries were quickly
disposed of. Mr.. Cousins name was
plnced before the convention, several
short speeches seconding the nomiha-
zion were made and the nomination
was declared unanimous by accinma
tion. A committee was then appointed
10 escort Mr.. Cousins to the hail. The.
convention was very enthusiastic.
ii Mr.. Cousins speech to the convention
Vwas received with an enthusiastic ap-
preciation It was one OF his typical
efforts and supported his high reputa-
fion as an orator and statesman. He
zxeviewed the past decade and congrat-
gnlated the county upon the beneficient
changes that have taken place under a
wise administration of public affairs.
continuing he SAID in part:
ATo be responsible is never easy, but
TO. share successfully in the response
kitty for progress Is noble. The re-
aims OF the Immortal Lincoln rest in
sace In that vine. clad mausoleum of
Is adopted state, but the galleries of
tnne shall never lose. nor fame forget
NE lines OF character that responsibility
left upon his great and noble face. In
IN humble burying ground of that COM
lhonweafth already famed as the moth
Ter OF presidents. sleeps the body Of
ksyvillfam Mckinley, but the millions who
saw him only yesterday bear witness
Ito the invincible and noble spirit that
shone out SO clearly thru that pallor
skich responsibility and constant care
had marked upon his splendid counte-
names
Progress is always expensive, how
ever profitable, a seeming paradox.
Tiifse hundred thousand graves. known
@and unknown, marked and unmarked,
{ tell the story OF the sixties and their
sacrifices, but In the banner of the
union every star remains and kings and
Snonarcks know today that this repub-
& lie Is nation and that slavery is OBJ
lsolete and criminal. The skeletons OF
an hundred OF the bravest, noblest souls
of earth still cling to the sunken frame
work in that American battleship in the
xnudy harpor Of Havana and hundreds
more are buried in the Philippines, but
the nag for which they died loats over
them and the spirit Of eur Saxon civil
1zation has infused the souls of millions
OF those neighboring islands of the
southern sea and OF the more remote
Pacific and the barbarism of the dark
and middle ages no longer haLnts our
shores or infests the distant seas.
Whether the progress of our world is
worth Its sacrifices is q problem only
for the infinite wisdom which ordains
ii. The human race can no-1nore avoid
i It's inexorable destiny than the magnet
&c needle can depart from its immutable
attraction.
CUBA's FUTURE.
Finally now, as a result of our In
tervention in the sea, we behold that
s>fertile and historic island. just off the
southeastern coast, about to raise her
flag OF independence. Whether she can
maintain 1t with order and tranquility,
Idoubt exceedingly. Eventually she
ytw1li demand the stars and stripes and
notwithstanding the original Teller
resolution. which was populistic pre-
tense forced into a truthful utterance,
she Will ultimately have them. A taste
OF civilization can never be eradicated.
The minute that the people have tried
something better than they ever had,
that minute they are forever discon-
tented with anything inferior. BY the
tntervention OF America, Cuba has
tasted freedom, and prosperity, intelli-
gent and cleanly sanitation, law and or
der, busfnes and prtnciples-progess
BYt she has not yet learned the process
that achieves all this. The very mo-
snent that the banner of the stars
hall sisappea. SHE will long for lis re-
turn. The fate of Porto Rico is already
sealed. She belongs to our republic
and like Hawaii, she is content and
prosperous.
TIE PHILIPPINES.
1.-THE question Of the Philippines Is
yet problem, but if America fails to
work out worthy solution even Of so
great q problem, it will be the first fail
ure OF our brilliant history. None Of US
forget how Bulwer Lytton makes Rich
elieu say: In the lexicon of youth
{ which fate reserves for q bright man.
hood there's no such word as fall
This nation Is the lustiest youth that
Gods great world has ever launched
among the nations Of the earth. We
deny that 1t was born constitutionally
cripple and maintain that it can dis
charge Its obligations to the world and
to itself as freely and completely as
any other power and so long as the re-
publican party is in power, it will new
er put this nation In the attitude OF de-
serting duty and Of leaving an incom-
petent and irrespor sible ward to the
4 fate Of Its own incompetency or to the
rlerciless greed of rival powers Al
most every part and province OF the
Philippine archipelago have already
acknowledged the sovereignty OF the
- States and whereversit is possi-
Assss and seeurit, :. TRUST