Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-18
Attorney General Makes Strong
Speech as Temporary Chair
man OF State Convention
loWA's PART IN LEGISLATION
Ranks High as instrumental in Snap
ing Destnies of the Nation = Fac
tonaI Politics Avoided in Address
Taft's Name Was Vigorously APP
pIauded.
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Des Moines, March 1S-When the re-
publican state convention convened al
II o'clock this morning, Attorney Cen
eral H. w. L GERS was introduced as
temporary chairman. The reception ac-
corded him was indicative of good feel
ing on the part of the delegates and
during the course of his brief address
there was little evidence of factional
Secretary Taft was enthusiastically
applauded. Mr.. Byers' address fol-
lows:
In all the political past there has
been no campaign which began I'M
der circumstances more favorable
conditions more inspiring and with
victory more certain than the one
upon which we are now entering.
During the last four years under
republican leadership in state and ma
zion, more legislation in the interest
of the morals. the health and wealth
of the. people. has been enacted than
WAS ever written upon the statute
books in the same period before in the
history of our nation, and | congrat-
til1te you upon your membership in a
party aAa; has accomplished more for
nun s-ity All god government than
-, EYER wrought out before since
r ''ant7t was instituted among
= =.
y this great work Iowa is well in
- lsaa. No other state can surpass
re.sord of the last general assem-
by in the legislature in the interest
IF clean politics, pure elections, for
eai- transpe, tation charges. for pure
food, for the projections of labor.
a.. inst the free pass against graft
and greed in every form a record of
which every loyal Iowan should be
proud
congratulate YOU because you live
in Il state so firm in it's loyalty to
the great principles of republicanism
tina. it never yet has been carried by a
democratic candidate for president,
and it never will be so long as the
as it puts virtue and Justice above
commerce and finance: so long as 1t
stands for law and order as against
anarchy and disorder; so long as it
stands for the prompt and impartial
enforcement Of all the laws against
rich and poor alike, and for the
speedy and certain punishment of the
law breaker, big and little.
The partys chief claim to the con-
fidence and support of the voter, young
and old, is that while it advocates gov
ernmental policies that make for the
comfort, the wealth and the power of
the nation and its people, above 1T all
and over it all, it stands for the rights
of man. for the protection of the hum
blest citizen of the land wherever he
may be under the flag.
For equal and Exact Justice"
The party was born in 1854, born
not to create property but to estab-
fish equal and exact justice" Its
mission was then, Is now, and ever
shall be to promote the welfare and
happiness of all the people, rich and
poor, white and black. to the end that
Gods plan of the world, the universal
brotherhood of man, might have its
full fruition on this continent. 1t be-
gan its march for good government
and the worlds peace under the lead
ership of the immortal Lincoln, the
purest and noblest man since the trag-
edy of the cross on calvary. Under
his leadership the great war of the re-
bellion was fought to successful fin
ish and with the victory came the
adjustment Of slavery and the estab-
lishment of human liberty in this land
for all time, Then when the party was
Just ready to begin the work of re-
building at time when it most need
ed the wise counsel and calm judg-
ment of its great leader, this man who
represented the conservative force of
the nation between go and '65, and
stood as the impartial Judge and de-
fender of both north and south, and
with prophetic vision saw that the ma
ton could not long endure half slave
and half free, Abraham Lincoln was
cruelty assassinated. His spirit went
home but his work and teachings lived
on and they are today the inspiration
and hone of mankind