Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1910-05-19
SENATOR DoLLIvER
ON The TARIFF
VIGOROUS DISCUSSION OF LIVE
QUESTIONS In BIG DIES
MONIES RALLY.
MEANING OF new MOVEMENT
Explains Why 1t Is Necessary for
Iowa to Stand Firm for
Great Principles.

SENATOR j. L. DOlllVer, ADDRESSING
10000 Iowa republicans in the great
Coliseum meeting in Des Moines May
10th, speaking from the same plat
form with Senator A. B. Cummins,
drew forth hearty and long continued
applause for his mastery discussion
of the tariff issue and his eloquent
portrayal of the plans and purposes
of progressive republicans. He de-
Tended the republican doctrine or pro-
lection and showed how the pledge
Of the party had been wholly ignored.
In his remarks he gave earnest in
dorsement to the candidacy of Gov
ernor Garst and expressed a hope
that all his friends would vote for
his nomination, he said:
Ladies and Gentlemen: 1t is very
great pleasure to me to have the oppor-
tunity of participating with you In this
extraordinary Iowa mass meeting.
find very special pleasure in speaking
In the home city and from the same plat
form for Nv with my colleague in the Senate of
share the responsibility of representing
this great commonwealth and whose la
bors are associated with mine in the
work which we are trying to do for the
people of Iowa. 1 am specially glad that
has never happened before. lApplause.)
for a good many years in Iowa poll poll.
ties to be fighting for persons. it is my
fortune here tonight to be fighting for
ment of the United States. And I am
not in the least embarrassed as one moss
covered Iowa editor said I would be by
the fact that the Governor and have not
always stood on the same platform. I
will say to these good brethren of fifty
years ago daughter and applause) that
if they will try to forget the eulogies
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the harsh things that have come into 1t
on me will try to get out of my head
IN the midst OF the bitterness of the cam
iowa iowa "i'i'A We i'''' le'eA'ts i'ao M
Now, do not desire that my position
here should be in the least misunderstood.
sons. Yet there is sense in which this
fight is in part for people who have come
forward to carry the standard Of Iowa
see fh Of the are tn fight
the work which l am trying to do at the
Capitol of the United States. (Applause.)
or+ do not mind nar telling you why sup
commonwealth of Iowa. (Applause.) I
have been drawn to his support from the
fact that from the beginning I have had
tenance and his good will in the fight
have. been trying to make and in the
sacrifices have been called on to make
the G ne os States Hppagss and
stand for all these iowa republicans
who have interpreted Alright the spirit of
way for a larger outlook for free institu-
tons here on this continent, these candi-
dates representing common cause and
fighting in the open for principles and
MED. There are some things that I have
not come here to do. I have not com
to pnd into into minds minds nand
siderate word in relation to the President
of the United States. (Applause.)
Tribute to the President.
He has great duties and great respon-
abilities, every one Of them defined by
law, but he is not alone in the govern
ment Of the United States with definite
Election upon him that as a representa-
tive of the people, under solemn obliga-
ton to observe the public welfare. that
with him and to disagree with the lead
ership which he supports. (Applause.)
Yet I speak no unlSind word for there
are few men that have followed his
the late President MCKINLEY gSeI persuaded mdet
Judge Taft to take great responsibilities
and from the time he took up the burden
in the Philippine Islands until his in
a atl .dr as President Of the United
been attached to few men since that long
rainy night when / stood with thousands
OF others in the public street before the
James G. Blaine lay in the shadow of
death. have had no experience more
bitter than the experience of finding poll
teal associates, friends, neighbors, con
stituents. putting me in an attitude of
waging an unrepublican warfare upon the
leadership of the republican party. The
President of the United States has made
leadership which seems to be favorite
with him. He describes himself as the
titular leader of the. republican party
leader is good man entirely surrounded
by people who have the advantage of
knowing moving exactly what they want.
any. quarrel, any complaint, it is the fact
that men have crowded to the front in
his counsels who have not had at heart
the welfare either OF our party or Of our
Now l do not intend, in speaking here
tonight, to make defense of my own re-
publicanism. know there is likely to
keep inside the breastworks of the old
republican party Gaughter), but have
had j. y, good deal of experience in that
| trines OF the republican party are. Cap
plause) have defended them before
| the American people from one ocean to
do not intend to retire from that goodly
fellowship (Applause.) 1 have been
invited to do so, and have been somewhat
l VioIeilly uISeu from the other direction
to do SO. I have declined both the In
vitation and the threat I do not rec
ognize the authority of the Attorney Cen
eral, New York lawyer who was never
In his lifetime identified with the repub-
lican party either publicly or privately.
do not relish the brief authority that
brings him here to the west for the pur-
pose of reading people out of the party
who We're serving it faithfully before
his name was ever known. (Great APP
plause.)
And besides that many of the things
to which we have been invited are not
| In the nature of fight at all They are
IN the nature of a mess, and it is the
business of man who comes upon a
| situation like that not to depart, but to
stay and help the American people to
clean it up and dispose of it. applause )
| And that is a part of the business that
have in hand here tonight.
/ was born in the republican party ana
i know SON ething about it's traditions
about its history, about it's great names
its great victories. and l say to Won in
| all conscience that the future of the re-
publican party lies in the success of fine
4 movement now nationwide to dsoyyn
put aside leadership which has BETRAYED
| the welfare of the party and of the COIN
try. (Great applause.) And have been
accused at the bar of public opinion
| in the United States because have re-
fused to be a party to it. I think / nm
derstand the doctrine of majority rules
hath nr tpxry, tt,,.v,