Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-17

| With Him at Pigrim-coIonel j. M.
Parker Acts as Chairman of the
Meetina-Address is Met With
| Boundless Enthusiasm.
| AS a most fitting opening to the re-
publican campaign in one Of the BAN
ner republican counties in the state or
Iowa, Marshalltown and Marshall
| county had the pleasure this afternoon
| of welcoming Governor Albert Is.
Cummins, who, before an immense au-
dience, that packed the Odeon theatre,
from pit to dome, and filled the stage
and the lobby to the street, eNpoundeo
good. sound republican doctrine. Gov
ernor Cummins, who has not been
city for ten years, was most heartily
received, and was interrupted every
few moments with bursts Of applause
from the assembled gathering.
Governor Cummins arrived in the
city at / o'clock this afternoon, later
than had been intended. He had two
big meetings Friday, having spoken AT
Bedford in the afternoon, with Senas
tor Foraker driven eighteen miles, to
Blockton, for an evening meeting, ana
| then driven fourteen miles to Creston,
to get a train into Des Moines, whers
he arrived at 2:15 this morning. Hc
slept until train time, 10:40, and reach
ed Marshalltown in ample season for
his afternoon address, the opening or
which was postponed barely a hair
hour.
Governor Cummins was met at the
station by Representative B. T.. Cum
mings, County Chairman c. III. Smith
and George r. Estabrook, who escort
ed him to the Pilgrim hotel,
where a few Of his more personal
friends were awaiting him to dine.
The Fifty-third infantry band played
one selection at the theater, before the
meeting opened and then, to the
strains of YHail to the Chief" his ex-
cellency, accompanied by Colonel J. M.
Parker, as chairman of the meeting,
entered the stage. Colonel Parker
made only few remarks by way of
introduction. He spoke of the honor
accorded, the republicans of Marshall
county, in having with them the gov
ernor of the great state of Iowa, and in
a brief summary referred to the fif-
tieth anniversary of the republican
party, spanning it's half century of ex-
istence from the days of Lincoln to
those of Theodore Roosevelt.
Governor Cummins, upon being in
4 1,;e y>1o or ha-
ing able to address his friends in Mar
shall county, before whom he had not
appeared in ten years. Ee referred to
the progress and development of the
republican party; outlined his views on
the tariff question, and told plainly
what he stood for. He spoke, in sub
stance, as follows:
Iowa just now need fear but two
things-frost and democrats. THE
one l play against every night and the
other speak against every day." This
warm and sunny afternoon gives pro-
mise that we will escape the former
and looking over the country it seems
reasonably certain we will avoid the
latter.
All these discussions, now in prog
ress, which make the political round
up thru which we pass every four
years have just one object in view
good government thing desired by
every honest man, no matter to what
party he may belong. Good govern
ment wise government, grows moreim-
portant with each year, because it more
directly touches the business of the
country than ever before. We are not
to expect perfect laws or their perfect
execution, for men make them and
men administer them. 1t is to perceive
many things that are not in harmony
with the highest ideals of social and
Industrial life. 1t is probable, nay,
sure, that we will always fall below
the standard toward which we labor.
Some Of these faults can be overcome
by government some cannot, and no
administration should be Judged by
the evils that human selfishness, greed
Of men, and which will remain SO long
as these characteristics dominate the
lives of members of our society.
What we have a right to demand is
an administration bottomed upon the
true principles Of government, in a
free country, and an administration IN
which these principles are carried in |
to effect as faithfully and fairly as the |
frailties of human nature will permit.
1T is to this I intend to bring the re-
publican administration of forty years
n order to see whether there be good
'eason for transferring to other hands
he government we have so long and,
is | think, so successfully controlled"
Governor Cummins then reviewed the
rital times since 1861, the conduct of
lffairs during the civil war, thru the
period of reconstruction; thru the re-
of specie payments; thru the
of the gold Standard;
hru the Spanish war; thru the en-
argement of our territory and COM
nerce: thru our relations with Cuba;
hru our work in the Philippines; thru
he negotiations which finally made the
sthmian canal an accomplished fact:
hru the legislation for the regulation
f the industrial conditions: and finally.
nd embracing all these periods, the at
itude of the party toward the tariff.
'hese suggestions We're the prelude
o the inquiries:
HAS the republican party acquitted
self with courage in every time of
rouble?"
Has it the true conception of our
lstitutions and the greatness of our
ountry?"
Has it done the things that were
, be done at the times and in the way
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