Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-01


alton for war with Spain. The history
of 1898 is recent history The action OF
the Fifty fifth congress in the instance
/ recall has no precedent in unity ana
no precedent in confidence reposed in
the chief executive of our country
When the roll was called in the house
of representatives in March, 1898, on
the question of the trust proposed, not
Il vote was recorded in the negative;
and the following day when the roll
was called on the same proposition in
the senate OF the United States every
man answered aye.
Folks proposition was for the eX-
tension of slavery, regardless of hui
manity: Mckinley's proposition was for
the extension of freedom, in the interest
of humanity. BY the measure of the
difference between these two PROPOSE
tons, and the difference between the
reception of one and the other, we have
u better country and better peo
pie.
lie wcr with Mexico came to an end
In May. lSAS, and an immense terri
California, Nevada, Utah. Arizona,
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was ce2ed To the United States.
Apparently G great victory had been
won for the peculiar and most I'M
happy Institution of American slavery.
In 1888, that year wnen men cried
peace, Zachary Taylor, hero of the
Mexican war, Wing candidate, was
elected president OF the United States.
1t was the last victory OF the Wing
party and marked the sure beginning
OF its end.
With the election of General Taylor
came the discovery Of gold in Califor
MIA. The sturdy sons of the free ter
ritory Of the Mississippi valley flocked
to our new possession in great num-
bers. They were intent upon their
pockets, and yet they went as valiant
knights to the defense of liberty.
Thus strangely, providentially, has
this people been led, directed melted,
stimulated, through air the marvellous
history, from jamestown and Plym-
outh Rock until now.
In 1854 the Kansas Nebraska bill
was passed, abrogating the Missouri
compromise OF 1920. If the Wilmot
proviso was the herald OF the Repub-
lican party. the kansas-Nebraska bill
announced its living presence, full
grown and armed with righteousness.
The succeeding congress met with
Democratic minority in the house Of
representatives, and Nathaniel P.
Banks. champion OF free SOIL after
prolonged struggle. was made speaker.
In 1856 the Republican party met in
Philadelphia and nominated Fremont
and Dayton and declared platform.
A giant had been born and reared In
a decade.
l do not need to follow the history.
My only purpose is to remind you that
the Republican party was not born
without travail and that it has not
lived apart from contest. Step by step,
through many doubts, betimes ha-
raised by fesr, it has fought the way
in leadership of the rights of man.
The Republican party was the crea-
ton of men determined to preserve
the free territory of the United States
for free men. In that service long
years were spent, eliminating in the
war for the life of the union, wherein
was washed out with the blood OF
patriots the stain OF human slavery
from our flag.
In all crises this party has been
maligned; and in every crisis it has
won enduring success for the people
of the United States, the people of our
continent. the people.sof the world.
1t is to the glory of the national Re-
history of our country have been
freedom to review the writing the con-
all hoe hot
the writing was to the honor of the ma
ton and to the undying fame Of the
captains of our hosts.
1t is my ardent hope, as 1t is yours,
that the Republican party may always
be loyal to its birthright and faithful
to its traditions.
In the national convention of the
party in Chicago in 1850, at the thresh-
old of its national responsibility and
power. this declaration was made:
THAT. while providing revenue for
the support of the general govern
ment by duties upon imports, sound
policy requires such an adjustment of
these imposts as to encourage the de-.
yelopment of the industrial interests
of the whole country; and we COM
mend that policy of national ex-
changes which secures to the working
men liberal wages, to agriculture re
munerative prices to mechanics and
manufacturers an adequate reward for
their skill, labor and enterprise, and
to the nation commercial prosperity
and independence"
feel free to predict that this con-
vention might easily. without reserva-
ton. reaffirm that plank from the plat
form of 1860.
After four years of industrial war.
blighted hopes and broken promises,
the rule of the Democratic party at
Washington was broken by the return
of the Republican party in 1897 to its
rightful place. In the st. Louis con-
vention of the year before. in the plat
form upon which Mckinley was elect
ed and in the platform upon which
a Republican congress was elected, the
national. Republican party declared:
s'We renew and emphazise our ale
glance to the policy of protection as
the bulwark of American independ
ence and the foundation of American
and prosperity. This
true American policy taxes foreign
products and encourages home indus /
try; it puts the burden of revenue on
foreign goods; 1t secures the Amer !,
lean market for the American pro-
Queer: it uphods the American stand |
ard of wages for the American work
ingman; it puts the factory by the side
of the farm, and makes the American /
farmer less dependent on foreign de-
mand and price; it diffuses general
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