Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-07
Temporary Chairman of the
Democratic Convention De
livers Long Address
CRITICISM OF OPPONENTS
Democratic Principles Are Ignored in
Effort to Find Fault With What Has
Been Done by Republican Admins
.trations-More Interested in Votes
Than Primary Law.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
| Waterloo, Aug. 1.-THE speech Of d.
| w. Hamilton, temporary chairman Of
the democratic state convention, today,
was very lengthy, and was devoted
largely to attacks on the republican
party, rather than to 4 discussion of
principles. He said in part
Mr.. Chairman, Fellow Democrats
Ladies and Gentlemen: Gentlemen of
the Convention highly appreciate
the honor conferred upon me in being
selected as your temporary chairman,
and while feeling my inability to prop
| erly perform its functions. heartily
thank you for the honor thus confer
| red.
while it is true that we have met
in this convention to nominate state
ticket, yet national affairs, because of
| the congressional election, almost ov-
ershadow all else tho in passing l de-
sire to call your attention to some of
the things in our state that could per-
NIT of change, and justice and right
more nearly prevail"
| The Judiciary.
| The speaker then took up the ques-
ton of the judiciary and advocated
election of judges from different par
| ties in all districts where there are
more than one judge, saying:
| ut cannot be said that men when
| selected in hot political contests as
candidates and elected by partisan
votes will be able to cast aside those
influences and weigh with judicial
mind the many questions of law and
! fact that arise for determination. The
election of man to the judiciary does
not remove his humanity, or make him
immune to the influences of the willy
politician, or the man with a pull"
Primary Law.
The primary law was favored by the
| speaker, with "a good many reserva-
| tons and the remark that the demo-
| cratic party was more in need Of vot-
ers than law regulating their meth
| Cd of voting.
He charged the republicans with
passing the anti fusion law not in the
interest of the people but solely in the
interest of the republican party.
Railroad influence.
During the campaign just closed by
| heard a great deal about railroad DOM
nation Of the republican party, and
| that our legislature was dominated by
| corporate influence. have lived in
Iowa about thirty years, part of
which time I have taken considerable
interest in politics and political af-
fairs. The democratic party has always
insisted that these accusations now
made by our republican friends were
true. The man who has observed can
easily see that in state and national
politics the man with the railroad pull
or corporation influence has been able
| in this state to generally get the cher
ries from the top of the tree. Demo-
cracy has always battled against these
| influences, and while acknowledging
| that the railroads and all corporations
have rights that must and ought to be
| protected yet the railroad lobbyists
that infest our legislative halls are a
menace to just and wholesome legis-
| lation."
"If the governor is sincere let him
| announce publicly to the world that
| he will fight the monster he complains
Of in his party at the polls. or where
| ever and whenever it arrives, and not
| that he will only fight it in party
| caucuses and If he cannot there defeat it
| the people must put up with it because
| it is the will Of the republican party.
There il an army of sturdy honest
men who have under adverse condi-
tions and by self sacrificing been war
| ring for years against this same evil
and with that mighty army he can
| join without fear Of molestations from
foes within, but he must not expect
that army to follow him blindly and be
delivered over to the republican party,
controlled and dominated by tariff
barons and trust magnates in order
faction Of the republican party in
Iowa.
1--WE have heard a good deal from
both factions of the republican party
about fair deal during the last six
months, whatever they may mean by
this. What the state of Iowa needs
most at this time is new deal. Can 1t
be said by any thinking and intelligent
man that II one third of the accusa
tons made by either half of the re-
publican party against the other half
are true that they have not become so
corrupt in their manfpulations of po-
litical affairs that they are unfit to be
longer entrusted with the important
duties of providing for the future des-
tiny of this great commonwealth? Are
these accusations not an abundance of
evidence to convince the citizen who is
honestly in search of the means to eS-
tablish in the the capitol public SER
wants and not political masters, that
now Is the time to act, and forever
place their disapproval upon the dis
gushing scenes enacted by both the So
called progressives and standpatters?
Let them know that the decent people
of Iowa will not entrust it's affairs in
the hands of any party, or either fac
ton, thereof, that will resort to as dis
graceful methods as we have been
subjected to during the pre- convention
campaign of the warning factions of the
republican party.
1.-The democratic party of Iowa is in
favor of an honest deal, removing every
barrier that will prevent the voter
from casting an honest ballot. and
throw out every inducement for him to
cast personal ballot and one that
shall be counted as the voter intended,
and will not be surrounded with tech
nicalities such that the best informed
are apt to make a mistake.
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