Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-05-26
SCORES TARIFF
REv|S|ON|STS
Temporary Chairman Irwin
Delivered an Eloquent
Address.
COMPARISON WITH A JUDAS
Thinks Leaders Should Watch for
Trouble in Own Ranks - Lauds
Theodore Roosevelt and Other
Party Leaders-Also Dingley Tariff


Des Moines, May 19.-Hon. John n
Irwin, Of keokuk, was temporary chair
man Of the state republican convention
which was held in this city yesterday.
After praiSing the Iowa delegation In CON
gress, lowas members Ct the presidents
cabinet and the president himself, he SAID
In part:
II wish l knew what the democratic
party means. l am sure that IL l knew /
would tell you. Lately we have had a
voice from the tomb tomb at Princeton saying
graveyard, says that it does not mean
what Cleveland says it means, Which of
| victed inetiiciency' shall we believe-which
! is the quick and which is the dead?
German went around lately looking for
an issue, and soon found one and as Wat
terson says, walked through the slaugh-
| ter house into an open grave He found,
| say, an issue, and the solid south rose
| in the might of Its great solidity and
| dashed the hope of the Maryland senator
| to the ground. The solid south stood by
the president, in his efforts to dig the
fend his course in that great work of
| wedding the Atlantic to the Pacific, even
to the point of the British general who
| added a part Of India to the British EN-
pire and defended it by saying that 1t was
ity'
|
| hope and the democracy Is standing
| ready to grasp at any issue, good or bad,
| that promises winning career. But the
American people will not forget this gen
! Grafton the four more years OF Grover;
| will not forget In this generation the soup
houses and the Kelley and Coxey armies !;
this psrty.tnis deMCcrate s,I party.whsn
when the negative was In the ascendant,
which has proven to be the greatest
nSsser in the th history tory 9. the %orS
smiles that might as well be tears can
not surely believe that the people will
again entrust 1t with power. II the Ameri-
then certainly it would be as the wilt said
Of second marriages, the triumph OF hope
| over experience
Il. for one hope never to see the de-
| nocracy win again in a national contest
| In the last trial which the nation gave
them they made the entire country poor;
they took away the means of living from
| hundreds OF thousands OF men and they
| Observation-Disclosures, as the historian
says. 1T is a terrible task to govern mil
| lions of men who are destitute OF
| preeches,' and made destitute OF breeches
by the acts of the government itself. and
so Bryan and Cleveland and German will
feel and realize on that cherries ana
| gloomy November day in the cold gray
dawn Of the morning after
"All OF the people cannot be fooled
| vice; we know the democracy and II cam
not disguise itself, no matter how 1t
masks; the people will recognize 1t under
any name or standing upon any platform
"A school teacher found a lad in the
| geography class who was deeply interest
ed In learning the points of the compass
The teacher said: You have in front Of
and on your left. the west. What have
yop behind you? After a few moments
reflection. the boy exclaimed "A patch
on my pants" and to make the inforna-
ton more emphatic, he shamefacedy
said: L knew you'd see it. told
my ma you would And SO all the world
I'm 81 Fla
| democratic rear, but as misery Is said to
desire a catastrophe, we will leave Tie
democracy to its desires
| "A Temporary chairman is not supposed
to make a political speech. The reason
| for his existence is, think, that he stall
sulogize his own side and damn the other
speech nor sounding keynote. That
must be left to other and ADLER men. BuC
there is an issue before the country con-
cerning which l may be pardoned Notd,
though l speak for myself alone, leprs-
Senting no party and no following In a
| party.
1t ever since 1t was beaten on the silver
question several tentative issues B9urke
| Cochran urges his party to make the
| president the issue of the next campaign.
| We will gladly accept his challenge and &C
| before the country with theodore Roose-
vet the issue. His deeds, MS char
| acter. his works, we will cheerfulIy place
against the character. the work and the
standing Of any democrat among them
all. Theodore Roosevelt as the issue !
He'll walk tho link like buck in spring.
The trusts were hailed as heaven
porn issue but the republican party led
~ Theodore Roosevelt has gone into the
publican congress has dealt the trust a
Ilow under which they are now trembling.
although every democratic justice on the
supreme bench OF the United States filed
4 dissenting opinion. The democracy
claims that the tariff is the mother OF
trusts. BY the same token the women
all
Industries OF the land and you will sure
y Kill all the trusts. and abolish all the
mothers of the land and you will just as
surely abolish all the measles.
Il confess with much shame that your
| temporary chairman Is probably the only
nan in the country outside Of congress
.egulate the trusts. But have full faith
hat the party which freed the slaves
which saved the Union, which made the
The gold standard, Will be fully able &c
meet and solve the question of the trusts
COLONIZATION was tri ed az an issue, anC
DOT to embrace colonization, but opposi
ton to colonization was soon dropped
when it was found that nobody was try
ing to COLOMBO anything or anybody any
Imperialism was then nursed as a
dusty infant-having it's home in cultured
mother-fn-aw OF windy Kansas, but TIN
Iity of Boston just beginning to be know
to fame as the Omaha Of the East
| ceased to cry imperialism because 1t wa
!ound that Imperialism was popular will
The American people and for the yer,
rood reason that we are imperial PEG
Die, living in an imperial country, In al
imperial age and looking forward to al
imperial destiny when peacefully but pc
tently we expect to Impress upon tn
world the progressive ideas of this i'm
,eriai republic.
The issue to which ! refer Is the tar
m Like Aaron's rod the tariff has swa
owed all other and minor issues and b.
| his issue the republican party must stan
~ victory or 20 down in defeat.
For nearly seven years now the UNI
ted states has doQe business under tn
Dtngley tariff have no reverence 10
hs schedule ngares on farm a,n bill o.,
. Ssrs Of ana able s0r sna we'll informed me
a | md represents at the time II becomes
aw the rates of duty necessary TO pre-
} vsrvs to this country Its trade, its ma!
ufacturing interests, the economic wei
- Bic, Whether that work is done as IL
{, ,orer, as mechanic in all the trades
"a farmer. as a railroad man. or
business man who is buying from one I
3 IeIl to another.
:. "A tarin itself in Its makeup is ma
er of detail and requires vast knowiedg
= Fhs details OF a tariff, the figures this
4 | minute and scientific treatment ana tn
knowledge and this SCIENCE caiI only
lpplisd to experts, but for these nsure
g Good intentions should never grow
cold, II hell is paved with them.
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