Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-26
THE DEs MONIES MEETING.
Capital City Throneed With People to
Hear and See Candidate.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 26.-The Taft
meeting at the Auditorium yesterday
afternoon, arranged to entertain out
of town republicans who came in early
for the Taft night celebration, was at
tended by about as many as the DEM
ocratic state convention and rally of
the night before.
Senator C. c. Dowell of Des Moines,
presided. Speeches were made by
James W. Good, candidate for congress
in the Fifth district; Charles E. Pick
etr:., candidate for congress in the Third
district; O. B4 Courtright, formerly
senator from Black Hawk county, and
H r. Wright, a colored Iowan, who Is
consul at Honduras.
With Congressman J. A. T. Hull pre-
siding, a large crowd filled Fosters op-
era house last evening ito hear the re-
publican presidential candidate and
the speakers of note. Aside from the
brief address given by Judge Taft, Hon.
IT, p. Dolliver, UAited States senator
frcm Iowa, gave the chief address
Senator Dolliver said in closing
''The republican party, under the
leadership of Judge Taft, is pledged to
carry out THE policies outlined in the
administration of Mr.. Roosevelt, to the
end that whatever is vicious in the or
ganization and lawless in the admin
istration of corporations engaged in the
interstate commerce, may be elinan-
aute,d. 1t will be the policy of the next
administration, should it be republic
can, to provide a workable scheme tor
the supervision, thru the INTERSTATE
commerce commission in the case OF
our common carriers and thru the de-
partment of commerce and labor, IN
the case of other corporations engaged
in Interstate commerce, of the issue of
stocks and bonds, SO that reasonable
rates and just prices may be enjoyed by
the. people without prejudice to those
who hold their securities
.sThe republican party looks forward,
not to the destruction of business and
the loss and bankruptcy of investors,
but to the preservation of legitimate
enterprises thru their willing and
ready obedience to the laws of the
land.
.Mr. Bryan says that President
Roosevelt has appointed Judge Taft as
his successor. If by that he means that
the president favored Mr.. Taft's nomi-
nation, and that he leans strongly IN
favor of his election, there is no dis
pute whatever about it. There certainly
has been no secret about it,
"The years since the death of NC
Kinley have been fruitful of encour-
aging, results in the work which has
~ oil n! G
of the government to bring the great
corporations within the control of the
law. We owe much of the progress we
have made to the wisdom and courage
of Theodore Roosevelt.
"But it is an interesting fact that
Judge Taft was in the mind of Pres1-
dent Mckinley as his probable sue
cessor when he gave him the commits
sion as governor general of the Phil
ipnine Islands. the most rugged duty
which has fallen to the lot of an Amer
ican statesman since the civil war. !
heard Mckinley say to Judge Taft al
ter he had consented to lay down the
ambitions of lifetime and go to the
Philippines, that if he succeeded in his
work it would make him president OF
the United States, and he added that
the man who successfully organized
the Philippine government; and built
s1pon solid foundations the social order
of those far off millions would be men
toned in history, not on account OF his
labors as president but as the founder
of the Philippine commonwealth.
"Rut William III. Taft's claim upon
the confidence of the American people
does not arise from the Endorsement OF
one president or another, or both OF
them together. It rests upon an un-
naralleled record ;of heavy burdens
carried upon broad shoulders of fine
achievements in the accomplishment
of which difficulty has. been an in
snination, rather than an obstacle, up
on a long list of good works well done
with an eye single to the service OF the
American people"
Hon. E. E. Clark, of Cedar Rapids
and Captain Hull, also spoke before
Judge Taft arrived. The presidential
candidate was received with cheers, as
was his address.
To an audience composed of labor
ing rnan at Waterloo. Taft paid his
condiments to Samuel Gompers IN
Vigorous language. He said that he,
Taft, would yield to no man In sym :
pathy with labor as a class, IN aIs 81
forts to organize and ITO make ITSELF
properly powerful in the community
to maintain tits. quality and level in the
str, ggle for life and in dealing with
capital on these issues where its IN
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