Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-28
Roy Talley Takes First Place
In the intercollegiate Ora
torical Contest
ON "ANeLo.sAxoN SUPREMACY
Cornell College Representative is Sec
ond and GrinnelI Third-Next Years
Contest to be Held at GrinneII =
Large Attendance and Exciting Con-
test at Observation-Disclosures Meeting.

Special to Times Republican.
| oskaloosa, Feb. 2S.-Simpson Col
lege's orator won first place in the in
Intercollegiate contest held here last
night. Her representative was Ray
Talley, and his subject Anglo Saxon
Supremacy"
Cornell's representative was given
second place, Grinnell third. Morning
side fourth, Upper Iowa fifth, Iowa
Wesleyan sixth. Coe seventh, and LenoN
eighth.
The attendance at the contest was
very fattering, nearly 1000 people
crowding into the opera house to hear
the orations. Next years contest goes
to Grinnell.
Besides Simpson College, other col
legeS represented We're:
Upper Iowa University-Miss Grace
Burgess; subject, "Wilberforce.'
Iowa Colleges. Riser; subject,
Hugo Grotius
Cornell--Miss Bell McCord; subject,
Martin Luther
Iowa INSTRUMENTATION A. Piper;
subject. THE Hero of Lost Cause
Morningside College-Davis c. Hall,
subject, The Two Eagles
LenoN-D. c. Miller; subject, "A Typ
ical American Patriot"
The contest judges We're:
On delivery-George e. MacLean of
the State University; Senator j. j.
Crossley of Winterset; Senator Wallace
of Eldora: Rev. A. E. Craig of Ottum
wa, Rev. r. C. Kaye of Oskaloosa. TAX
ing the place of N. L. Kendall. detained
at home by illness.
On thought and compassionate. L..
Kelly of Richmond. Ind: DR.. e. u.
Mitchell of Ohio. j. w. Jarnagin OF
Montezuma, John Cownie of Des
Moines, Mrs N W. Macy of Harlan.
The most interesting feature of the
business meeting was the contest over
the secretaryship of the Interstate
Oratorical Association. The inter-
state association is composed OF ten of
the western states, and the secretary
ship comes to Iowa next year. The
Iowa association is allowed to designate
the party to fill this office. A. b. Tuttle
of Iowa Wesleyan brought up this mat
ter and nominated +. c. Edwards of
that institution. He called attention to
the fact that Iowan Wesleyan had won
the last two state contests and was
therefore entitled to recognition.
George r. Finch of Morning Side Col
lege. Sioux City, was also placed in
nomination. 1t was then suggested that
the office be not given to either of these
gentlemen, but should go to the college
tn f.act La
night After this question was debated
at some length the two nominations
were laid upon the table by a vote of q
to 15. The motion comforting the office
upon the orator winning second place
then prevailed.
Will II. Hunting OF Grinnell was
elected vice president of the state assoc
citation. The loca ton OF the contest AMI
the vice presidency go together. H. w.
Pilot of Penn College was elected pres
ident and Joseph w. Hawley of Coe
College secretary. There was no contest
for any of these offices. as they rotate
among the sixteen colleges of the assoc
citation.
Some few changes in the state consti-
tuition were suggested, and it was de-
cided to name committee to revise the
constitution. This committee will be
composed OF representatives from
Drake, Des Moines and Simpson col
leges. each to name It's own represer-
tative later.
Following is an extrac. from the VIM
ming grafton:
Two thlr1s of the earth's surface is
under his control. America, Africa and
the islands of the seas yield for him
their richest treasures. His situation
in the zone of power had added to his
restless activity. and has ever spurred
him on to invention and discovery. To
satisfy commercial demands individual
Eeffort has broadened into gigantic cor
operations. The short railroad line Of
half century ago has heightened to
transcontinental systems. The track of
the sailing vessel is now strewn with
blackened carbon from flues of the
modern ocean liner. The old wigwam
of the red man has given place to the
farm cottage, and his hunting ground
has become the feeding place for the
herds of the husbandman. Saxon en-
ergy once satiated by plumber and con-
quest, is now being turned to the arts
iof peace Where the battle ragged
! fiercest hundred years ago now great
| educational and humanitarian institu-
| tions stand and churches rear their
lofty spires. From these superior adj
yantages and surroundings should come
| n race stronger, even, than their ia
theirs.
"They tell us that the Slav Is the
| coming race; that the Saxon has
reached his zenith; that in years to
come Slavonic people Will determine the
worlds policy. But the Slav has al
ways been held in oppression and igno-
rance. His civilization embodies the
germs Of anarchy and nihilism. To per-
sonal liberty he is an entire stranger.
His government is Asiatic and sup
1 presses rather than encourages tndi-
yidualism. The Saxon civilization
1 stands for an individual civil liberty, a
pure home and an aggressive, spiritual
Christianity 1t has all the essentia,
factors of greatness. The Saxon econ
omy combines the greatest race with
the greatest civilization: the greatest
numbers with the greatest wealth, and
the greatest physical strength with the
greatest desire for education and adj
jyancement"