Evening star., 1905-11-05
TALKED PARTY LINES
Secretary Shaw's Address at
Cleveland.
CLOSED OHIO CAMPAIGN
DECLARED THERE ARE THREE
GROUPS OF PEOPLE.
Big Building Filled With an Enthu-
siastic Audience-Talksd on Prin-
ciples Of Republican Party.

republican state campaign was closed here
tonight with a mass meeting in the Cen
trail Armory, at which Secretary Of the
Treasury. Leslie NJ. Shaw, was the princi-
pal speaker. The big building was filled
with an enthusiastic and demonstratfve
audience, and Secretary Shaw was given
a cordial reception Gov. Myron T. Her
rick also delivered and address in defense
of his administration. Representative The
odore e. Burton chairman of the meet
ing. Secretary Shaw spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Secretary Shaw's Address.
Il have not come to teach the people OF
this state good morals or good citizenship
If I should presume to tell the people of
Ohio how to vote at the forthcoming elec-
ton / should expect them to resent 1t.
know that the people of Iowa would think
and can guess how they would rebuke the
advent of a would-be reformer from an ad-
joining state, and l have right to assume
that the people of Ohio would likewise re-
sent the visit of a citizen from Iowa upon
an equally unnecessary mission.
II am republican and l vote the repub-
lcan ticket l an a republican because
believe in certain elementary principles
which the republican party has always
taught, and vote the republican ticket be-
cause the party to which belong practices
what it teaches. Government of a republic
like ours must or necessity De tIdI VI d
party or that of a mob.
Political parties should have, can have
and usually do have principles to which
they adhere with more or less tenacity; but
a mob, however righteous it's purpose or its
aim, Is never controlled by set or prln-
ciples for it never stops to formulate any.
A mob could not formulate principles If 1t
would for it is composed of an aggrega-
ton actuated by every conceivable motive
from the highest and the most lofty to the
baseSt and most Venai.
Party Lines Paramount.
eff any of you young gentlemen live to
see the day when party lines are wholly
obliterated you will witness the government
of the United States in the hands Of dis
organized body of people, possessing every
shade of political belief, actuated by every
possible motive, seeking every possible END.
but ending In chaos and disaster.
There are and should be in this country
three groups Of people-one believing In and
teaching one set of political principles,
which Its adherents believe are essential
not only to the perpetuity but also to the
prosperity of the nation. Another group
believing in another set of fundamental
principles which it's adherents teach with
equal earnestness because they are equally
sincere. Then there must needs be a third
group, who advocate no national policies,
who teach no principles of statecraft, and
who have no plans Of government.
"IheSc style themselves Independents, ana
some of them are proud to be so classed.
/ have met them who even boasted that
they possessed no political principles, no
political beliefs, owed no political allegiance
and seldom helped elect the man they help
ed nominate. They are necessary as the
birch-rod is necessary to the school room.
They administer punishment, sometimes
,weN deserved, sometimes reckless and
sometimes ill-considered.
Independent Voter Necessary.
'.The birch-rod has become unpopular in
the school room, and conditions have i'm
proved with its abandonment 1 hope we
may all live to see the day when abuse,
vituperation and calumny shall become un-
popular in politics, for while the indepen-
dent voter is necessary. 1 have not always
found him a happy creature, nor his mission
necessarily helpful.
But we must not confound the gold DEM
ocrat, who for principles sake and not for
want of political principle. voted for sound
money in 90, with the Independent voter,
who would throw all political principles to
|, the winds and vote against man not al
ways for the sake of electihg better one,
but sometimes with the alleged interest of
administering punishment or maintaining
discipline. The gold democrats of 1896, like
the war democrats of 60, We're men of the
most profound political convictions. and by
the party that expressed their conviction
did they stand. May the country never
need such men In vain"
The Secretary then entered upon a dis
cusson of the principles OF the two great
parties. He spoke OF the protective tariff,
and illustrated its operation. In conclusion
Mr.. Shaw said:
THE democratic party promises the best
market in the world in which to buy: while
the republican party promises the best mar
ket In the world in which to sell. And we