Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-05-14

Ladies and gentlemen" Senator Dol
liver began, "it is very great pleasure
to me to stand on this platform to dis
cuss with you certain questions which l
believe are important to the welfare of
the commonwealth. / thank my long
time friend, Governor Jackson, for his
kind words of commentator, yet | fear,
from the trend of affairs in Iowa, that
such a record as he sets out will prove
an advertisement which will do me more
harm than good. / make no pretense of
being a statesman or an orator; | am a
plain country politician. A politician is
a statesman brought back to earth; a
statesman is transported politician. In
other words, a statesman before the
American public is a politician after he
is dead.
while have lived in Iowa have had
so many friends in Des Moines that
always arrive in this city with pleasure,
but never before, / am free to admit,
have l reached the capital of this great
state with more pleasure, with more
satisfaction than this evening, when l
have something to say and a cause to
plead of which / or no man should or
can be ashamed
Il have been satisfied with the growth
material, moral and political-in the
affairs of Des Moines. | have noticed
the growth, have viewed the satisfac-
tion with which questions have been
solved; but l am here not to remind you
Of those things. l am here for a dual
purpose. First, l have been charged
with being afraid to come back and plead
the cause of the grandest man Iowa has
ever produced. l deny the charge with
my presence here this evening. l am
here to enjoy that tidal wave of popu-
larity toward that grand man, William
Boyd Allison. When they said | was
afraid to come, / said to myself, if
get few days off l will go back, not
only to help Senator Allison, but to vim
dicate my own reputation, sulIied by
false charges in a press dominated by
wilypoliticians in the interests of sordid
political ambition"
Tribute to Taft.
Senator Dolliver here gave expression
to his regard for William H. Taft, the
PiopaoiS VI Illc hepuDIlCdH party
as its nominee to the presidency of the
United States. He declared that he liked
Taft because he had done more, perhaps,
imam any man In constructing statesman
ship in America. "When poor Mckinley
sent for Judge Taft and offered him the
governor generalship of the Philippines
was present, and [ smile when / recall
how Taft said, How far are the Philip
nlnpl from ohipotnno IL
president thrust this upon him as his
duty. He protested that his family and
private affairs represented his duty, but
he was convinced and made the Philip
pine government.
Let me tell you right here, country
men, neither honor or pay, neither money
or fame, is equal to the satisfaction Of
doing good to the thousands of human
ity, and after Taft had made the feat
possible and laid the cornerstones and
foundations OF the Philippine govern
ment. After he is elected president of
the United States he will not be known
as the president of the greatest nation,
but rather as the founder of the Pbilip.
pine government
The Moral Regeneration.
There are some good people even here
n Iowa who think they have produced a
moral revolution in this world" con-
lnued the senator along the main line of
us address. But wait; have they? Let
IS study the origin of the new moral at
!tude OF the world. 1t does not date
ack only to the activity of certain
ialmed reformers, but back to the time
t the Spanish war. There may have
cen no material advantages But it had
n enlightening effect.
I'VE called for a small army when the
"ar with Spain was thrust upon lis.
Hhen the government issued a call for
troops two million young men put their
ames down. 1t was welcome sight tn
ne Old gray haired veterans who offered
themselves as sacrifice thirty-seyen
years before. Yet it was a fearful ex-
pefience Here We're young men willing
TO put aside the possibilities of useful
me- possession of all faculties and sac
rihce life and strength in the cause of a
threatened government.
lhe moral regeneration dates from
that time We turned away from our
bonds and investments and looked to.
ward patriotism and national love. II
You want to get the truth of the mat
ter and get down to bedrock history
look through the biographies of the
great men of the nation and there find
the movements of the nations of the
world.
Not One Mans Work.
NO one man did it. wonder when
We will get weary of seeing these re.
form candidates spring up for office
rising up and claiming to be responsible
for this great moral influence 1 shall
be glad some time to see stalwart true
reformer spring up who is not a candi.
date for an office.
Here We have been told that Gov.
enor Cummins passed the anti -pass law
that he has stood between the thievinp
corporations and the common people
why, Congress passed the same law
twenty years ago II any body in this
state deserved the credit for the Iowa
law Il is old John Hughes of Iowa City
He struggled for years to get that meas
use through the legislature, struggled
against the influence of the man who
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