Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1912-10-24
The Democratic Speech Saturday.

Mr. E. G.. Dunn, Democratic candi.
date for Governor of Iowa, spoke at
Extra Saturday morning and in Audu-
bon in the afternoon A fair sized
crowd met him at Extra where the
gentleman spoke for about an hour.
He is pleasing speaker, but somehow
failed to create any enthusiasm. He
failed to elicit any applause when he
said, with great emphasis, that He
wanted to have the honor to sign the
commission that would entitle the Hon.
d. w, Hamilton, to sit in the next
United States Senate The speaker
looked for long and continued applause,
but a deathly silence prevailed. He
repeated the same sentence at the Court
House, in the afternoon, but his audi
tors failed to come across with the much
looked for applause.
But Mr.. Dunn made nice talk. He
told the people about the rich republi-
cans who had become rich from secur-
ing dividends on watered stock. He
couldn't think of anybody but republi-
cans so he said nothing about the
Democrats in New York whom Mr.
Bryan threatened to throw out of the
convention at Baltimore. No, Mr..
Dunn didn't know anything about those
rich Democrats.
He claimed Woodrow Wilson was the
only safe man to elect as president of
the United States, even though he runs
on free trade" platform. Mr.. Will
son may be elected president of the
United States on Nov 5th, but we hope
if he is elected that he will not bring
about conditions such as existed previous
to 1897 of which he writes in his His
tory of The American People, Here
is what Woodrow Wilson wrote:
"A great poverty and depression had
come upon the Western mining regions
and upon the agricultural regions of
the west and south. Prices had fallen.
Men of the poorer sort were idle every.
where, and filed with a sort of despair.
All of the larger cities and manufacture
ing towns teemed with unemployed
workingmen, who were with the ut
most difficulty kept from starvation by
the systematic efforts of organized
charity. Not until the year 1897,
when the republican administration
came in, did the crisis seem past"
Mr.. Wilson admits that prosperity did
not exist until VIM. Mckinley went into
Office. Now then, Mr.. Wilson is asking
the people to make him president of
the United States on platform almost
identical to the one that brought on
this poverty and depression"
We do not believe that the people
of this countrylare anxious to go back
to the scenes of 1898 to 1897. A good
old Audubon county democrat said to
us the other day: I'VE don't want no
professor Wilson torun this government,
he may be able TO run school, but he
can't get us as good prices for our pro-
ducts as we are getting today. Times
are good enough as they are"
There is great deal of truth in that
remark and we believe the voters of this
County will do some hard thinking be-
fore they cast their ballot on Nov. 5th.
Mr.. Dunn talked to a good sized crowd
in Audubon and with his gentlemanly
manners, made good impression on
his admirers. Our democratic friends
were feeling pretty good, and they are to
be congratulated for having such good
timber on their ticket as Mr.. Dunn.
He is noble little fellow, but he'll
never be elected Governor of Iowa in
the year 1912.
He will be kept busy squeezing water
out of Carnege, Schwab s. Co. stock
until the campaign closes when he viii
return to his home in Mason City to
help boost for bigger and better town.