Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-10
URGES IMPORTANCE OF VICTORY
Warns Voters That Remaining at
Home May Be Means Of Discreditins
and Blocking the National Admin
istration-Praises Governor Cum.
minis and His Work for the State.
Special to Times-Republican.

at this place. Judge Birdsal
spoke to an interested crowd at length
upon national and state issues. urging
that the republicans of Iowa remem-
4 Der that the present campaign is but
| preliminary to the national contest Of
two years hence. He urged support OF
the state and local tickets and warned
| republicans against remaining at home
on election day. Among other things he
said
We enter the campaign in Iowa this
year as prelude to the national cam
paign of 1908. AS state we have been
signally fortunate in the administra-
! tons with which we have been blessed,
irrespective of party, from the dates
| Of Governor Grimes down to and in
Guiding the administrations of Gov
| ernor Cummins. No other common
wealth has in sixty years of history
| been so free from scandal in its public
| life, no other commonwealth in an
! equal period of history has builded
more wisely or better the foundations
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/ Efficient laws wisely administered Sc
| curity Is afforded to life and property,
the chief purposes for which govern
| ments are instituted among men. 1t
should be source OF pride to every
citizen of the state that the republican
party can and does present SO clean
and faithful record of it's stewardship
and that under the leadership of our
able governor, the laws have been adj
ministered for the common good Of. all
the people.
ALBERT B. Cummins has met the ex
pectation of his friends and of the
people in his administration of state
affairs and has grown in their. conf
dence and esteem. He has brought to
the consideration of public questions a
mind rich in resources and a heart
that is in touch with all that is best,
purest and noblest in public life.
ITO doubt his recollection is to ques-
ton the good judgment and sound
common sense Of the people of Iowa.
No such hope is seriously entertained
by the democracy of Iowa and the
earnest battle they are now waging is
only for the purpose of impugning
ifspossible the republican administra-
4ions and thereby influencing the com-
ing national campaign.
"The republicans of Iowa will look
beyond men to principle and no appeal
to passion or prejudice, no domestic
difficulties will blind them to the vital
issues involved in this campaign. The
questions involved are the mainten-
ance Of the protective principle and
the support of President Roosevelt and
a decreased republican majority in
Iowa this year will be heralded abroad
as reflection upon both. Men may
become the incarnation of principle as
Lincoln of peace and gentleness, as
Napoleon of war and destruction.
The Square Deal"
president Roosevelt is the incarna-
ton of the principle of a square deal,
which means nothing more than an
equality for all an equal chance in
the race Of life, the same measure Of
Justice for the rich and for the POOR,
the same obedience to the law by the
powerful and by the weak. His con-
slant advocacy of this principle has
made him the greatest representative
of American citizenship, the brightest
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if we are to escape the rocks upon
which other republics have foundered
it will be by strict adherence to these
principles OF which he is now the
greatest living exponent. He is labor
ing to bring us back to old fashioned,
plain common honesty in our social,
political and industrial life.
1--WE are a patriotic people we are
liberty loving people, and we are also
money getting, money loving people.
We have as a nation grown rich be-
yond the dreams of avarice, our indus
trial development is the marvel of the
age. We have outstripped all COM
petitors in the race for commercial SUI
premacy, but with it have come
changes In our social and industrial
life which afford food for serious refiec-
ton and for vigilant action. Wealth Is
the source of power, and it's equal dis
tribution the security for individual
liberty. The battle Of the future will
be to maintain the individual as the
unit of our Industrial life. In the de-
velopment of our great economical
forces we must not lose sight of the |
for the man remains unit |
of our social and political life, and the
entire structure will be no stronger !
and will be no different than the units
which compose it, Senator Dolliyer |
said in the United States senate in |
1902:
1.-The longer live the more perfect |
becomes my conviction that there is
in this world but one question of poll
tics and that is the question of equal
chances for men to win in the race for
chances for men to win the race OF
life.'
People Must Act.
Whether Roosevelt got his square
deal from Dolliver or not. we do know
tirat to maintain the right of the indi-
to give all an equal chance in
the commercial world, in the field OF
labor and in every avenue of business
has been his constant policy. That he
has been thus far victorious in this
great struggle is due largely to the
people whose honest convictions and
great common sense. were quick to
and faithful TO uphold the
And when the history OF the past two
years shall be impartially written, it
viii record that in this great contest
the people and organized
greed. the wisdom. the sagacity am
splendid craftsmanship OF Allison. Dol
liver and Hepburn, constantly. faith