Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-29
Junior Senator Makes Senti'
mental Plea For Retention
Of His Colleague
LARGE CROWD HEARS ADDRESS
Deliver Declare. Allison is Not
Observation-Disclosures the Age Arsu-
ment and Says the Conditions in
Iowa Have Not changed-Quotes
Henry Watterson.
Special to Times-Republican.

Dolliver meeting at the auditorium last
night was failure. In spite Of the
fact that the meeting was advertised
with big posters on the bill boards
about town and excursions advertised
from nearby towns the auditorium,
with a seating capacity of 2,40O, was
not filled. There We're none in the
gallery. The first three or four rows
Of seats only in the balcony were oc-
cupied. The parquet was nearly filled
and less than 100 sat on the stage.
The audience was about as large as
that at Fosters opera house to hear
Prouty at the opening Of the campaign,
when not one-fourth the amount OF
advertising was done that was done for
the Dolliver meeting. All of the first
half of Delivers address was devoted
to trying to make out that congress
with the lead of Senator Allison was
doing everything the president wants
done. Many of the audience had just
finished reading in the papers Of the
day the presidents third special mes
sage, in which he said: 1T is idle to
expect permanently to thWart the de-
termination Of great body Of our Cit
izens," and Delivers arguments there
fore fell short Of the conviction they
were intended to carry. Preceding the
address stereopticons were thrown
upon a screen quoting senator's, many
Of them democrats, to the effect that
Allison should be renominated.
Dolliver arrived in the city at Gas
o'clock and was taken at once to the
Slavery. He will make four other
speeches in Iowa before returning to
Washington, and after congress adj
.jourhed will return to Iowa to make
other. speeches for his colleague.
In part Senator Dolliver said:
) There is one thing about the ca
reer of Senator Allison which makes
his name valuable asset to the re-
publican party in Iowa at this time.
Never in all his long career has he
been a fomenter of strife or the bene-
ficiary of divided party counsels His
influence has been to unite conflicting
elements, to conciliate minor differ
ences, to reduce the friction of per-
sonal contention, and to lead his asso-
ciates in the paths Of peace. There
is no republican among us who has not
during the last few years seen with
regret the intrusion into our party
leadership of the elements of discord.
deliberately brought about, to forward
personal ambition: the lines of faction
have been distinctly drawn, and the
people notified to get on one side or the
other and spend their lives in a quar-
rel that seems to have no end. There
was time in Iowa-and there are
signs that it is coming back-when
men were content to be called republic
cans, to share the traditions of their
party on equal terms, and to rejoice
in it's victories without the bitterness
of personal disappointment. 1t is the
mischief Of factional politics that both
sides are prone to fall to the miserable
level which it imposes upon all it's
victims. What we have seen in Iowa
Is only the natural outcome of the sit
.uation which we have so long toler-
sated; neighbor arrayed against neigh
Dor; old friends parted in angry dis
5cussion; wholesale defamation Of char
acter; universal Impeachment of mo-
Ftives; plausible lies substituted for the
truth; suspicion poisoning every mans
cup; the whole wretched comedy end
ing at last in party humiliation little
short Of disaster.
5. Not a Factionist.
h In the midst of all this strife, we
have had one man too great and too
wise to descend into our petty squab-
rbles; one man whose influence has
been used to compose our difficulties
and to promote the success of our can
didates. He has never spoken an evil
word of his fellow republicans, nor
placed thorn in any mans pillow.
He has never sacrificed his party to
win any regard for himself, but thru
sout his public life has made himself
the obedient servant of the whole par
lty and the whole community. From
this man, now busy with the great at
fairs of the government at our capt.
tai, 7 bring this message to the re-
publicans of Iowa: He seeks the
good will of all; he asks the support
of all From the least to the greatest
among us there is q place in the kind
ly heart of our old leader for every
Iowa republican. When he hears men
standing up before the people, saying
that the time for harmony is long past,
he knows that there must be some
mistake about that, for the governor
seeking his second nomination, called
upon him to sit down with one OF
the most ominous creations of the pro.
gressive imagination. and write Z
platform broad enough to accommo-
date the whole party, in order that the
candidate might escape the discom-
forts of Improbable strife. 1t is said
that conditions have changed since that
famous peace conference. and that
afterwards it became necessary to Ia
bel republicans, calling some "corpor.
alton tools'' and others friends of the
| people describing one man as {
"-tantipatter' and another as pro-
gressive" There are a good many evil
aences that these popular definitions
| have been used not so much to pro.
mote the general welfare as to for
ward the political interests of individ-
ual leaders.
| There are some undoubtedly sincere
persons who think that hostility. OF
even Indifference. to the program which
the governor has arranged for his
own advancement. is conclusive evil
denca that the demon of corporation
| rule has not been thoroughly cast out