Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-07-21
ST|GER ADDRESSES -
iowa DEMOCRATS
Toledo Man Pays High Tribute
to the Party at Iowa
City.
THE TARIFF AND REVISION
He Scored the Republican Party for lis
Policy Towards the Tariff and
Said the Democrats Offered
the Only Solution.

Iowa City, la, July Pill. j. Stiger
of Toledo. who WAS temporary chair
man of the democratic convention is
Il man of fine appearance has
an excellent voice, ana is an orator of
10 mean ability. The latencss of his
selection as chairman however, com
PEELED him to follow his manuscript
closely He said in part:
MIR. Stiser's Address.
zone hundred and four years have
elapsed since the patron saint OF DEM
ocracy was first elected To the prcsi-
dency and | esteem it no small honor
To address a convention of delegates
assembled under the banners of the
historical party of the republic and
pledged to The faith of the immortal
Jefferson.
since the democratic party assumed
the administration of the government
under Jefferson it has been commits
stoned by the people TO administer their
alta irs for longer period than all
other political parties combined Dur
ing these one hundred and four years
the democratic party has administered
the affairs Of the nation fifty-six years,
while during the remaining forty-eight
years that responsibility has been di-
viaed between wings and republicans;
and when the republicans who recently
assembled in Chicago wrote their plat
form, they were so proud of the fact
that they had controlled the admins
tration of our government for n period
shorter by twenty years than the time
which the affairs of the nation have
been In the hands of the democrats,
that they congratulated themselves
forty-nine times in the first person If
self esteem and self congratulaton be
wrote the Chicago platform are III COM
paIions for the saints.
although the fight for freedom is
old-od as the valleys i'm which men
have toied. and as old as the thrones
from which tyrants have ruled--the
cause of democracy is yet young, and
the century that has passed since JEFF
ferson restored to us the right of trial
by jury and the right of free speech
and free press. has been but a re-
spite bet ween the federalism of John
Adams and the republcanism of Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
Progress of Democracy.
In enc century democracy fights for
physical freedom--for trial by jury and
the writ of labeas corpus, and no SOON
er do the people repose i'm the security
oI coiislitu.ioiai iaW IMAM clllZehs are
deprived of life. liberty and the pur-
sni, of happiness under the structures
of martial law. proposed and executed
hy q strenuous plutocracy that sets
at naught the rights of man.
And IN another century it is fight
for political and religious freedon-a
revolt against George III. and an es-
tablished church.
To-day 1t is a battle of Drawn and
hi..Ii 1,r.inQt thp t,i1tnnc nf fo1f AZ
night honest toll in field and shop and
mine. and struggling talent at desk
and bench and bar. unfair from be-
/ hind a corporate law corruptly used
and paseiy administered.
me ola 1ederahst party with its
I'm, us tIaditlons ana ITS notions OF
rentrallzed power made us Il nation,
Nhe republican party of Hanna. Platt
ana quay mas made us a putocracy.
.hd the party of Theodore Roosevelt
IS fapld!N carrying us over the walls
OF militarlsm
F the party of Jefferson with its
French liberalism, its doctrine of
Of the hour REQUIRES that his followers
shall Keep the lamp of Equal rights
70 an, special privileges to none.
burning high in the lighthouse of
ilurla liberty.
Sacred Rights Assaulted.
If ii is necessary for the democratic
party i'm 1909 to reaftirm adherence
TO the doctrines of freedom of the
press. of consclence and of speech.
if it is incumbent u,,on our party to
demand equality before the law. the
right of trial bv iuly and the right to
invoke the writ of habens corpus: if
we are called upon to condemn sump-
tuary legislation the enthronement
of the military over the civil law, and
excessive. unfair and unjust taxation
for private and corrupt ends: and if
we are obliged to apologize to other
nations for infdelity to treaty stip-
ulations and pledges of good faith.
and to our own people for entangling
alliances with otlers-it is all be-
cause the republican party has in
vaded the temple of this republic.
DESTROYED its idols and blasphemed it's
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