Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-05-20
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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 Dinghy Tariff

Des NIoines, May 1o.--lIon. 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, lowa's members OF the president
cabinet and the president himself, he sale
in part:
Il wish 1 knew what the democratic
party, means. am sure that if knew
would tell you. Lately We have had
voice from the tomb ut Princeton saying
what it means from the viewpoint of
graveyard. But bryan, from another
graveyard, says that it does not meal
what Cleveland says it means. Which o.
! these factions Of tried Inability and con
victed ineniciency' shall we belleve-whict
is the quick and which is the dead?
German went around lately looking fol
nm Issue, and soon found one, and Wat
terson says, walked through the slaugh
ter house into an open grave lie found
l say, an issue, and the solid south rost
In the might of its great solidity anc
to the ground. The solid south stood by
the president in his efforts to dig the
lanama canal and it stood ready to de
f"nd his course in that great work o.
wedding the Atlantic to the Pacific. ever
to the point of the British general who
added part of India to the British en-
pire and defended it by saying that it was
salutary and necessary piece OF rascal
ity.
But desperation is said to be kind o.
hope and so the democracy is standing
ready to grasp at any issue, good or bad
that promises Il 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 souI
houses and the keitey and CoXey armies
this party-this democratic party--whicl
when the negative was in the ascendant
which has proven to be the greatest
knocker' in the history of the world
which stands with open face, forcing
smiles that might as we'll be tears can
not. surely believe that the people viii
again entrust it with power. Ii the Ameri
can people should do this insane thing
then certainly it would be the wit said
OF second marriages, the triumph VI hope
over experience
Il, for one, hope never to see the dc
mocracy 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
d-failed--Decause, as the historian
says, 1T is terrible task to govern Mil.
lions of men who are destitute OF
preeches,' and made destitute of breeches
py the acts of the government itself, and
SO BRYAN and Cleveland and German will
feel and realize on that chcerless and
gloomy November day in the cold gray
dawn of the morning after
"All Of the people cannot be fooled
twice; we know the democracy and 1t can
not disguise itself, no matter how 1t
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
you, the north; on your right, the cast
and on your left, the west. What have
you behind you? After a few moments
reflection. the boy exclaimed: "A patcn
ton more emphatic, he shamefaced!y
said: i knew you'd see i. told
my ma you would And so all the world
will see the sartorial establishment on the
democratic rear, but as misery is SAID tc
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 Snail
eulogize his own side and damn the other
fellows. So l am not making political
speech nor sounding .aa Remote aan That
there is an issue before the country Goa
corning which | may be pardoned a VOID,
though l speak for myself alone. lcpre.
senting no party and no following III
party.
The democratic party has had before
1t ever since it was beaten Oh the SILVER
question several tentative issues. B9urke
president the issue Of the next campaign.
We will gladly accept his challenge and &C
before the country with Theodore Eoose-
welt as the issue. Ills deeds, MS char
against the character, the work and the
standing Of any democrat among them
ALL Theodore Roosevelt as the issue!
Hell walk the link like buck in spring.
born issue, but the republican party led
by Theodore Roosevelt has gone into the
courts and under a law passed by 4 re
publican congress has dealt the trust a
/ ten,, l>I s,,rv
although every democratic justice on the
supreme bench of the United States filed
dissenting opinion: The democracy
claims that the tariff Is the mother Of
are the mother OF measles. Kill all the
industries OF the land and you will sure
ly 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
man in the country outside Of congress
who does not know how to control and
that the party which freed the slaves,
which saved the Union which made the
homestead law, and which gave the country
the gold standard, will be fully able to
COLONIZATION was tried as an issue, and
the democratic party begged the country
not to embrace colonization, but opposi.
ton to colonization was soon dropped
ing to colonize anything or anybody any
where.
imperialism was then nurscd as a
lusty infant-having its home in cultured
Boston-that town in New England-the
mother law Of windy Kansas, but the
City Of Boston just beginning to be known
to fame as the Omaha of the East--has
ceased to cry Imperialism because it was
found that imperialism was popular with
the American people and for the very
good reason that we are an imperial peo
pie, living in an imperial country, in an
Imperial age. and looking forward to an
imperial destiny when peacefully but po
tently we expect to Impress upon the
world the progressive ideas of this i'm
perial republic.
1.-The Issue to which l refer is the tar
Ifr. Like Aarons rod the tariff has swal-
lowed all other and minor issues and by
This issue the republican party must stand
In victory or 60 down in defeat.
For nearly seven years now the Uni
ted States has done business under the
Dingles tariff. / have no reverence for