The Oskaloosa herald., 1906-05-03

OF the central west and the example
OF all the people. So let 1t remain.
Oh! my friends, 1t would be re-
proach upon Iowa, IL after all these
yePrs, 1t should "go populist." (Tre-
menduous applause.)
The Important Thing.
1t matters little whether Jones,
Brown or Smith Ia governor of this
state; :. but it matters very much
whether the life OF the republican
party, its welfare and its interests,
shall be considered. Above the gov
ernorship; more, more far reaching
than that is the election this year Of
republican House of Representa-
tives. 1t would be calamitous, to my
mind, If We should this year, repeat
the example OF 1890, when, In tae
midst Of Harrison's administration, we
elected a democratic House of 2epre-
sentatiyes and tied up the admins
tratlon for the remainder of his time
and prepared the way for the cleo
tion of democratic president in
1892. Shall we do it now? And we
were reasonably prosperous then. is
it as dangerous to be prosperous as
it is to he poor? Sometimes / think
1t more so. don't know but what
people are well off If they have
to attend pretty closely to their own
business in order to get living.
Every republican who is sincerely de-
sirous of holding up the hands of
Theodore Roosevelt Is anxious that
his administration shall be successful
and it cannot be successful If it is
m ha hrolya1- Il M In tho rnidCf
of the term which generous and
confiding people gave him two years
ago in his own right, that out of mis-
success he may achieve that distinc-
tion for this administration and win
more laurels and have more inspira-
ton for more years of this kind of
republican rule. But If we turn down
the administration in the middle of
the term then it will be regarded that
Roosevelt has proved a failure; taat
his administration has come to
naught; that he has divided his party;
tnat he has left it without strength
for the future. And instead of honor.
ing him we shall have disgraced him.
Should be Shoulder to Shoulder.
So 1t becomes us as republicans TO
OF together and govern ourselves ac-
cordingly. What a shame it Is that
the republicans of this great state we
so much boast of, so much to be
proud of in the relationship to the
history of the past, should be in
state of mind of hatred and Of a
frenzy more intense between republl-
cans than between republicans and
democrats. 1t ought not to be so.
xtyhi houn nynrpiCnn
every ounce of my strength to avoid
such things. l did not favor the
nomination of Albert Il. Cummins in
1901, but upon the adjournment OF the
Cedar Rapids convention l dropped
al that difference. l became sup
porter of the platform upon which he
was nominated. I became an auvo-
cafe in 1902 for the reafirmation OF
that platform in the interest of party
harmony. l desired that the ad-
ministration of Mr.. Cummins should
be successful. 1 never was, for a day
nor an hour, bolter against the
peace nor welfare. l contributed in
every way possible to make his ad-
ministration successful. / won some
favor from the governor and in 1903
he desired harmony and a unanimous
denomination and I was for him. Ar
ter visit to Chicago where he had
taken the matter up with ]. W. Blythe
he came to me to go into conference
for the purpose of agreeing upon
platform and securing his renomina-
ton in the convention. He found
Blythe, as he reported to me, as
anxious for harmony as he was him.
self. At the suggestion of the COVER
nor I became interested. l went to
Dubuque and conferred with the senior
senator. I went to Chicago and there
one day, in company with him how
ever-so that l was comparatively
safe-I met J. w. Blythe, and that
is the only political conference l
ever had with that man in my life
and if any great harm was done the
good governor is responsible. | met
time and again with the senator and
with the governor and finally a plat
form was agreed upon. 1t was sub
mitted to the convention. The goVeI-
nor was unanimously renominated,
and in that platform there was one
thing else besides Cummins and that
was the heartiest endorsement that
we could frame of Theodore Roosevelt.
Was First For Roosevelt.
I had heard the suggestion Of q COM
bine against him for the following
year. This was before Hanna died.
1t occurred to at least a few OF us
and it occurred also to Senator ALI
son and myself that it would be ex-
pedient, with the state Of Iowa, occu-
pying its chief position in the central
west, to make the proposition early
that the republicans Of Iowa were
| for Roosevelt, in order that there
could be no hope of division through
Iowa. If we had had this discord or
quarrel in our convention it would
be interpreted as involving the presi-
dental campaign. We gained that
much at least. If we didn't gain har-
mony for our state we at least gained
harmony for the Roosevelt conven'
ton where he was unanimously nomi.
mated the following year, and here is
the mystery that was not in the plat
form of 1908. Bat as my friend,
Laf,s Young, there, happened to be
chairman of the committee on reso-
lutions in 1904, and l was a humble
member of the committee trying to
keep pace with the governor on the
platform of 1903, got turned
Al. a