The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-08-03
Ills Address Before the Iowa Republican
Convention Is in Condemnation Of Many
Of the Legislative Acts Of the Last
Congress=-=No Harmony in Iowa

lay accident. bat substantially all OF
You are here by design 4 conscious
purpose Is behind you and clear OBJ
legation is before YOU
Every man VINO believes in free
government must believe In the rule
on the majority. but that implies no
inorc than peaceful submission 10
thc VIII of the majority, and does not
Imply the surrender of the high priv
lleGe of recording a sincere belief
1t was a vain and idle thing TO
rass through the fight OF the primary
and The county conventions unless .
grave and important issue was in
YolVcd; and il would be the climax Of
FOLLY for this body of men. after the
republican voters had determined the
+ issue, TO fail in recording the verdict
and In publishing to the world. in
iltOng terms the decision which the
republican electorate has rendered
IL Is not my purpose to define at
this point just wnat The issue be-
tween republicans has been. and is,
not only in Iowa but throughout the
lergth and breadth OF the country. /.
Is sufficient for the present TO say
t'dt 1t relates wholly to those ques-
ons which concern the control. regu-
lation and restriction of the powers
and practices Of combined or concen-
t:ated wealth, Or. to phrase it again
Ito the undue and diSpVopoctionate
share which corporate capital is abe
- wiring from the profits OF indus
try, and the injustice ii is able to in.
ilict upon helpless individuals and
,lTsnnCn1gcr
In dealing wiki these problems
The members OF our party have rang
ed themselves along the whole
stretch of economic thought and gov.
c'nmental action-from the hopeless
and rctreatiug reactionary 10 the eX-
IRENE and Visionary radical. The
rear division of this long line with
all its varying shades OF political
doctrine, has come TO be known as
the standpatters; While the other.
with some diversity of opinion UPON
specific questions, marches forward
under the namo Of the progTessiveS
1t IL probably true thai some OF
the progressives want 90 go TOO fast
ard do too much 1T is certainly true
taat there are many of the stand
patters who want either to 30 back
or TO do nothing at all Assuming
hat the divisions of the party are
equally honest it IS obvious that the
contest between them is no. trivial
although II is To be hoped that il
il but temporary.
II recur In this unparalleled Situa-
tion 10 the calm and optimistic phil
osophy OF Abraham Lincoln who. N
the epochal debate OF 1858. after
quoting the maxim a house divided
against itself cannot stand said:
"l believe this government cannot
endure permanently half slave ana
half free. / do not expect the union
To be dissolved | do not expect the
house 10 fall, but l do expect it VIII
cease 10 be divided 1t will become
all one thing or all the other.
TT is even 50 with the republican
party II cannot endure permanently
half progressive and half standpat !
90 not expect 10 see it either defeat
eu or dissolved. but ii must speedily
become all progressive or all stand
pat.
VIII Be Progressive
10 not pretend TO he able TO look
far through the mists and uncertain
ties OF the future and mark with pre-
Cislon the path in which the party
VIII walk; but remembering that IT
came into existence as protest
against the inaction OF the wings and
tho medieval tendencies OF the demo
Gratis. and remembering too, chat fog
more than a half century it has been
the progressive party OF the union /
cannot permit myself to doubt tha.
b., n tngn1n nf nt
Blaine. OF Garfield, OF Mckinley and
above the clouds OF It's civil war and
the past. the best hone of mankind,
the progressive party. not only OF
the nation. but of the world.
Il understand perfectly that there
are some short-vi-ioned mon amongst
rs who will continue either to bewall
OF denounce individual independence,
and who Will deplorc free criticism
Of party leaders and party acts, be-
lieving that 10 be independent Of an
assumed leadership and 10 give eX-
preston to honest censure OF a parry
measme IS TO destroy party unit,
and to invite democratic victory Such
men disparagc both the intelligence
and the patriotism OF the people. The
voters OF the country know that there
is infinitely moro hope of making
the republican party elfectually pro T,
gressivc than there is Of efficient and |
comprehensive legislation from the
democrats.
There are many democrats who
are distinguished for their wise and |
broad views upon public affairs. but !
the large majority OF the leaders OF |
the democratic party are Incapable OF
uaHing or administering laws for a
country like ours, for they invariably
find In the con Institution an insuperable |
oostacic in the way of doihG the
things which are impcratively de-
i1andcd. and which II done at MI |
must be done by the general govern. !
ment
81 have been accused oitentimes oy |
some OF my blind and passionate op-
moments OF having democratic lean |
inCs. and ] have many warm person
al friends In that organization. but |
there never was a time in my whole |
lie when | would have been williuS l
to commit the dcsti8y OF the country /
10 the democratic party. and there !