Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-27
Secretary of State Condemns
Shifting, Dodging Course
of the Democrats
CARNEGIE HALL WAS CROWDED
He Argues That a National Calamity
Would be Pending if There Was any
Prospect Of Democratic Success and
Reversal of the Policies of the
Present Roosevelt Administration.

New York, Oct. 27.-The crowd at
the republican mass meeting last night
doors were locked at 1880 o'clock. AT
that time all the available space within
the hall was filled and several thousand
people were crowded about the en-
frances seeking admittance. The meet
ing was under the auspices of the
Twenty-ninth district republican or
ganization, and Senator Daniel S. Els
berg presided. John Hay, secretary of
state, who made the first speech was
given an ovation when he appeared
The band played and flags We're waved
in every part of the house while the
audience cheered.
Alexander Il. Mason, republican lead
er of the district, called the meeting
to order and introduced Senator Els
berg, who referred to President Roose-
welt as "the most inspiring leader who
ever led a great party to victory The
audience rose as one man when he
characterized the president as "a man
whom all admire and love-"
Worlds Foremost Diplomat.
Secretary Hay was introduced as
zone of the greatest living Americans
and the foremost diplomat in the world,
a man whose name in every cabinet
in the world is synonymous with hon.
esty and fair dealings" Great cheer
ing greeted the secretary as he arose.
He said in part:
None of us will make the mistake Of
thinking the contest Of this year I'M
important. On the contrary it goes
down to the very foundations of our
national welfare. 1t is not campaign
rhetoric, it is merely the simple fact
to say that nothing but disaster could
follow the reversal Of the policies to
which we are indebted for the prosper
ity Of the past few years. The coun-
try cannot afford to give up the gold
standard and to drift on the shifting
currents of financial experiment AMI
quackery. 1t can not afford to give uI
the principle and practice Of protec-
ton to American industries. ANY
radical meddling with the tariff would
throw thousand industries into con-
fusion and bring many to ruin. Sta
bility, unity of purpose, is absolutely
necessary to the complicated and del
icate machinery of modern business
where the change in the price Of a sim
gle by-product may vitality affect the
prosperity Of q great industry and may
make all the difference between COM
fort and want to thousands Of work
ingmen and their families. Nobody
denies that the tariff must from time
to time be revised. But it is too evil
dent for argument that the revision.
must be intrusted to friendly hands
to those who believe, as a matter OF
business and public morals, in the pol
icy Of cherishing American manufac-
lures and of caring for the well-be-
ing Of millions of American workmea.
It is not matter to be handed over
to those who insist at the start that
American industries have no right TO
protection at all, and that such pro-
lection is 1.-The robbery of the many for
the benefit of the few" 1t was an Old
maxim Of English law that said, "A
child should not be given in charge OF
q nurse that loves it not"
Neither can the country afford to
intrust it's vast domestic interests to
those who denounce as eNtravagant
and unconstitutional all money spent
for the general welfare to promote
which was one of the special objects
for which the constitution was brought
into being. De we want to give our
gallant little army to the care Of those
who think it ought to be dislbanded, or
our navy-which under this admins
tration has carried our flag into so
many distant seas, never on a wanton
errand of hostility, but always as the
friend of American commerce and the
protector Of our citizens-do We want
it handed over to the men who say
it ought to be thrown to the scrap
heap? Do we want the Philippines
abandoned to be the victims of nlsrule
at the hands of their own agitators, or
the prey of any covetous power that
may wish to enslave them for it's own
profit? Do we want. to sneak out OF
the isthmus Of Panama, acknowledge
ing we have no right there, and basely
surrender the hope and the dream Of
centuries? And do we want to for
sake and repudtate the foreign policy
Of Mckinley and Roosevelt, which was
which had Its august origin in the
heart and brain of George Washington,
Of treating all countries as friends, do
ing business with all the peoples of
goodwill, meeting courtesy with cour-
tesy and wrong with flrnnness, being
just to all nations and partial to noneo
"These are not idle questions. Every
one of them is directly involved in the
result OF this election. On every one of
them there is not a man here tonight
but knows how the republican party
stands. In our platform, in our rec
ord, in the words Of our candidates, our
views and our intentions are made
known to the world. Our path is
marked out for us so plainly that even
1t we wanted to we could not deviate
from it. If the people want a contin-
uation of the policies of the last eight