The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-05-07

Making Speeches in Iowa in Behalf
of Senator Allison.
We had only to follow the leadership
OF Theodore Roosevelt to have escaped
most of our troubles. Fortunately fol
the party at large, his leadership was
accepted, and we approach the election
of new president with few traces OF
dissension in our ranks. But even YET
in Iowa it is thought wise, in order
to give the governor of the state a
certain individuality and to hold the
allegiance of followers who have been
led to think that they are the guard
ians of progressive republicanism, to
perpetuate the nation that the friends
of Senator Allison are not in sympathy
with the progress which is so much
sought after. Such are the exigencies
of Office seeking, where speech is free
and where printing is free.
A large part OF the Senator's life.
work has been the revision of tariffs
and the study OF their administration.
So true is this that it will be i'm.
possible for the student of our indus,
trial life to separate his name from the
progress which the nation has made.
Whenever you hear men who have
never spent a week in bona fide study
of the tariff system seeking to dis,
credit men like Senator Allison, who
have been dealing with the subject
all their lives, you can easily under.
stand the disgust which Noah is saiu
to have expressed for a newcomer
within the Gates of Pearl-a laxative
survivor of the Johnstown flood, who
insisted on occupying the time by re
lating his own experience with the
high water ...... .-....... .
But it is said that there is great
crisis upon US which can only be met
by organizing the progressive forces
around the leader who has suffered so
much in the cause of the people.
deny that there is any such division
in Iowa. 1t is a threadbare invention.
of political promoters, intended Tor
use in capturing nominations; dan
gerous invention. we'll adapted to de-
stroy the value of nominations. ere
are good many ways of proving the
truth of what | say, but probably the
shortest cut, is to call to the w-.ness
stand the man who knows all about
the invention, who made it, patented
it, and has had it in continual use for
nearly ten years. Il don't like to near
a man talk of progressive republi-
cans" said the governor of Iowa, on
September IA, 1906, before a vast muE
titude at Harris Grove in Webster
county, in a speech opening his cam.
paign for the ONCE which he now
holds Il don't like to hear a man
talk of progressive republicans and
standpatterS. There is no such thing
because every republican is progress
sive, and the history of the party Is
the history of progression. | am an
old-fashioned republican" continued
the governor, IAN Abraham Lincoln
Grant Mckinley republican without
any embellishments whatever. | was
born a republican and know that the
republican party is now and always
has been progressive party, and
know that there are no laggards in our
ranks. We are holding up the old
flag of the union, just as our fathers
did years ago and | cant be tempted
to divide this old party into any such
factions and fanciuul names as these
We are striving for the same thing
the same ends
Whatever crisis there is In Iowa
now was here summer before last, and
unless we are content to feed the
people of Iowa on a steady uiet o.
humbug and discrimination, we ought
10 see TO !, that this unseemly dls
paragement of one another, SO profit
able in securing nominations and SC
embarrassing on election days, is ef
fectually done away. Unless such tao
tics as these come to an end, the ap
peal OF editors for the united support
Of our nominations viii be in vain
You cannot defame the character O
one-half the membership OF your party
representing whole communities, al
under The corrupt influence of cor
porations. without inviting a retalia
ton as deserved as it Is inevitable
There has been no crisis in our nation
al life in which the representatives o
Iowa, following the counsel and lead
ership OF William B. Allison. have no
borne manly and honorable part
There are scores of men in Iowa VIII,
have heard from the lips OF Presiden
Roosevelt his hearty and sincere tri
butte to the fidelity with which ever.
man from Iowa has stood by him sine,
the day poor Mckinley laid down thu
presidency WITH his life II the low,
delegation In congress stood In noe,
Of any words Of commentator from
me, the words OF Governor Cummins