Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-02
REVIEWS
HIS PAR1YS WORK
SenatorDeliyers Campaign Adj
dress Before an Audience
of 1000 People
GREAT is ROOSEVELT REGIME
Accomplishments of the Party Under
Presidents Guidance of Lasting Ben
eft to PeopIe-Senator Refrains from
Criticism of Democracy Rebates
and the Trusts.

OFl1lCISm OF OomoCIdSy- noodleS
and tho Trusts.
Those among the 1000 people who
went to the Odeon Thursday night
with the expectation that Senator Dol
liver would lambast the democracy
were disappointed. The senator Gid
nothing of the kind, probably for the
reason that, as he declared in his
speech, he does net expect to convert
any of the opposition party members
and only hopes to retain the many who
We're previously converted.
Senator Delivers speech was
splendid review of the accomplish
ments of the republican party under
the matchless leadership Of President
Theodore Roosevelt While the add
dress was punctuated with Dolliverian
witticisms, it was a departure from
the Dolliver style Of political argu-
ment. 1t was appropriate to the pres
ent quiet campaign-quiet because the
evidence and the facts are all on the
side OF the republican party and Its
| legislative plishments. The au-
dience of 1000 people was representa-
tive OF the business, the professional
and the laboring classes of citizenship.
Senator Dolliver arrived from the
east at $50 and was met by represent
tatives of the county central commits
tee. He was escorted to the Pilgrim,
where he was entertained at dinner.
AT the table with the senator We're
County Chairman c. H. Smith, Secre-
tary w. M. Clark, of the central COM
Senator j. b. Classen, Ex-Governor S.
B. Packard, Mr.. Merritt Greene and
Mr.. w. H. Anney. The speakers party
arrived at the odeon shortly before s
o'clock, and Mr. Dolliver was greet,
ed with liberal applause Elk Senator
Classen presided at the meeting, and
introduced the speaker, referring to
the fact that he was member of the
legislature that elevated Dolliver to the
senatorship, and that he was sure the
people felt he had made no mistake in
casting his vote for him.
Senator Delivers Address.
Senator Dolliver began his address
with happy reference to his last visit
to this county, when he was a guest of
Mr.. Classen at the Marshall county
veterans reunion. He declared that
the great question now before the peo-
pie was how best to support and sus-
tain the president in the middle Of his
executive term and in the midst of
his activities in behalf of the people.
He argued at length in support of his
oft-made contention that there has
been no moral decline in this nation,
and that the lobbyist Is no new
tangled thing. In support of his dec
larations he reviewed the legislative
conditions of fifty years ago, when
President Buchanan attended the fun
eral Of the king of Washington gam
blers and lobbyists, and the members
Of his cabinet acted as pail bearers.
The present high moral tone and the
tendency to better things In politics
and right living he attributed to the
individuality and the personality of
Theodore Roosevelt. He said If a man
hasn't individuality, you will gener-
ally find he has a string attached to
AlIH luiC Is Ny liz IitbiSA
of some one who has. He declared
that this man Roosevelt seems to have
the faculty Of thinking Of everything
at once.
Mr.. Dolliver believes that the para
mount issue Of this campaign Is for us
and for everybody to hold up as long
as we can the prosperous business con-
ditions which today surround the mar
ket places of the United States, and
which are. largely the result of the
Roosevelt administration. II started
out in this campaign with all the sta
tistics at my fingers ends, but / had
MT proceeded very far when an
old farmer friend said to me: Look
here, senator, I. wouldn't talk so long
about the prosperity of the country.
I asked him why not, Well my old
friend replied, the facts are that your
audience knows more about it than You
do And when / came to mediate up
on it made up my mind that my old
friend was right. 1t is a waste of
time to exhibit American prosperity.
Indeed, 1 am not certain that it is an
asset. l am not certain that it is not a
liability. I am not certain that we
when hard times push to the wall and
poverty grinds us down. I have about
made up my mind that the American
people are likely to think more clear
ly and act more wisely under adversely
than under the exultation of prosper
Gus conditions. This is an old trait of
human nature that is first admitted in
the scriptures. 1t is written in the
biography Of Jeshurun. The words
are simple. Jeshurun waxed fat That
is to say, he was enjoying prosperity.
uninterruptedly, probably in the tenth
year. 'Jerushun waxed fat and the
remainder of the biography is in two
words, and Kicked"
Therefore Senator Dolliver did not
talk of our prosperity, further than to
attribute. it to the unexcelled states
manship of President Roosevelt. He
referred at length to some of the prob
lens of life that had been solved thru
legislation only because the president
understood the needs Of the times and
demanded remedial legislation. Among
these questions were the necessity Of
national quarantine laws in the south
in place of the only effective method
adopted by the states-the shotgun
quarantine He said the president re-
CARDS as one of the most important
questions the prevention Of child lab
or in the United States. There are a
million and half of children working
in the factories and the shops who