Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-29
Indiana Campaign Enlivened
by Political Address OF
Great Force
WHY RISK A CHANGE NOW
Refers to Many Trusts in Articles Not
Protected by the Tariff = Recalls
Patriotism of Men in 1896 Campaign
But Where Was Parker Then? Torch
Lights Used.

indianapolis. Ind, Sept. 29.-The first
republican meeting OF the campaign
In indianapolis was held in Tomllnson
hall last night. An Illuminated process
sion escorted Senator Albert ]. Bev-
eridge and Congressman Overstreet to
the hall, which was well filled.
CONGRESSMAN Overstreet presided,
and introduced Senator Beverage VINO
spoke in part as follows:
What is this campaign about? What
business man but wishes that no cleo
ton were necessary this year The ad-
ministration's policies are successful at
home and abroad. The best that the
opposition's ablest man, Grover CleVe-
land, can say for it is that it shows
signs of returning sanity Yet this
political convalescent demands controi
of the government, declaring thae -
could not now undo mucn that tae re-
publican party has done II II "ou.u'
and would not now undo mucn tnal .!le
republican party has done II II couAo.
..The first result Of Parker's electloh
would be tariff agitation without re-
suit, since Mr.. Parker himself tells US
that a republican senate would prevent
legislation. Such agitation spells pusl-
ness uncertainty; ana uncertainty
spells business disaster.
Even il the opposition controlled
house, senate and president, they
themselves could not tell what kind OF
tariff law they would pass. For some
OF them, like Mr.. German. are protec-
,tionists. Think of an engineer trying
to run his engine backward and for
ward at the same time; what would
happe1i to that engine is what would
happen to the country, with the opposi-
ton in power.
Men talk of tariff revision as tho
It were a simple thing-an easy task.
No problem is more intricate. What
lis the tariff? It is not an artificial
structure to be taken apart and to be
put together like the trick box of a
juggler. It is the development OF y
theory of craftsmanship. 1t is a growth
and not q creation. Those who pre-
pared the soil of this nation planted in
that soil the seeds of the American In
dustria1 independence which men call
protection. If here and there branch
now needs pruning, those who planted
the tree and have guarded it's growth
should do it, not those who resisted its
planting in the first place, and who for
a hundred years have sought to lay
the axe to it's roots.
Even the changing of single
schedule is no work for the prejudiced
or ignorant. For other schedules are
related to it; and to all these is adj
3usted the vast business Of the gratest
of business nations. Republican re-
vision Of any schedule means the
thoughtful consideration of any other
schedule.
Neither Prosecuted Nor Favored.
The organizations Of industry should
neither be prosecuted nor favored.
They should have simple justice, like
everybody else. All men, all inter-
ests protected or punished by law ac-
cording as they do right or wrong
this is republicanism in sentence,
Americanism in phrase.
How would the opposition's remedy
of free trade in trust made article hurt
the Standard Oil Company. There Is
Z no tariff on oil. Or the anthracite
coal combination, if there is one:
There is no tariff on anthracite COAL
IT trusts necessarily raise prices,
why has the price of sugar steadily
fallen for more than thirty years? Il
Is said there is sugar trust. And
why has the price of beans gone up.
There is no bean trust. Or the price
/ OF wheat? There is no wheat trust So
free trade will not prevent trusts, ana
prices rise and fall with and without
trusts.
So far as legislation can remedy the
evils Of trusts, republican legislation
the Sherman law, the rebate law, tho
department of commerce and labor
iaw--the only legislation ever enacted
on the subject-will do it, if enforce
ed. And Rooseve1t's election means
enforcement of those laws and all laws
The way to keep the gold standard
put Of danger is to keep It in the hands
OF those who put 1t out Of danger
Eighteen ninety-sfx was no more a
time for silence and hiding than 1861
was time for cowardice and evasion
1t was not only political struggle.
but on both sides it was a moral strug-
gle. On both sides men who had for
years trimmed and compromised threw
aside expediency and spoke and acted
silent then? Did he by his vote con.
done what he declared with his voice
would be a crime? Were Senator Tel
Ter and the band of life long republic
cans who marched out Of the ST. Louis
convention silent then? Did they con.
done, by their votes, what their tom
CUES proclaimed would be crime !.
was John M. Palmer and Gen. Buck
ner and the host of gold democrats
silent then? Thousands Of life long
republicans left their party; thousands
of life long democrats left their par
ty. Among so,00o.o0o of people Tiers
was new alignment, hundreds OF
thousands changing sides: and all be-
cause of petition which they believ-
ed would determine the future OF the
republic: yet at this hour, when men
were destroying their political future
Tor principles sake, when brother
turned against brother rather than
forsake convictions. and even families
were divided at this supreme moral
hour in the history of the American
people, equalled in its fervor and pur-
ity only by that other moral awaken-
ing that ranged brother against bro
Their on battlef1elds forty years ago;
in this hour. made heroic by devotion |
10 beliefs on both sides-Alton B. Par
ker was silent. but he voted for free
silver. Is that the kind of a man In |
whom gold democrats can now find
the leader of cause7 Is that the