Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-08
FoiJa DELEGATES At LARGE TOLD
70 VOTE FOR HIM UNTIL
LAST BALLOT.
GOVERNOR sTuBss LAUDs
Ex.PREslpENT AS LEADER
Roosevelt Loads in Texas But unin-
struetsd Delegates Will Hold Balance
Of powsr-Taft Fears For Homo
state and psoidss to Spend Ten Days
More Campaigning Thsrs.

called to order at noon today to name
four administrations to the national
convention, endorsed the candidacy Of
Colonel Roosevelt for the presidential
nomination and instructed the "big
four to vote for him from the first
ballot to the last. William Allen
White, Of Emporia. was endorsed for
national committeeman.
Prosrsssivsnsss Not New.
Frederick Stanley Of Wichita, tenn
porary chairman. in his speech said in
part:
I'VE recognize the existence of great
progressive issues. Progressiveness fs
not new issue. There are new issues
in the old progressive policy Of this ma
ton, and when speak Of the pro-
gressive policy OF the nation I mean
the policy Of the republican party for
the onward growth of the nation since
the days Of lincoln has been guided
by republican hands: the great laws
that have done 50 much for the devel-
opment Of the nation have been writ
ten by and thru the wisdom Of repub-
lican statesmen and progress thru the
hands Of Abraham Lincoln; Of Ulysses
Grant, Of William Mckinley. and
Theodore Roosevelt.
'"The moment Is for action. 1t is the
time for strong time-an even heart
and unflinching courage and a patriotic
devotion.
ut Is our duty to put forward lead
ers for the present-not to bewail the
past-to live for the day-not yester-
day. Today we are met to endorse for
supreme leadership Of our party and
for the nation q pre- eminent American.
Theodore Roosevelt"
Republic For Masses or classss.
"The increasing legions Of reform
from Maine to California have risen up
ike q giant coming out of a sleep and
at the opening Of another great bat
tie for the rights Of man have demand
ed the leadership Of Americas greatest
popular champion-Theodore Roose-
velt."
The above declaration was made
here today by Governor walter r..
Stubbs, permanent chairman. in con-
Guiding his speech to the state repub-
lican convention.
1--WE are now facing" said the gov
ernor "a political battle royal. the like
OF which this country has not witnessed
in fifty years. Problems Of greater i'm
port than any we have had to deal with
since the civil war are involved in the
present campaign.
"Are we to have republic for the
classes or for the masses? In this
question Is involved one Of the greatest
issues Of the campaign.
"In the nation wide struggle now
nending there rs no place for strad-
dler. He who is not for government
by the people and for the people is for
government by the political bosses and
the corporations: for this is a hand
to hand battle and there is no middle
ground for. political towards to occupy
Roosevelt Stands For the People.
$50 far as the people of this state are
concerned we must say for them here
today that Kansas stands for the prin-
ciple that the men and women who
produced the wealth of this country are
not only entitled to but must have their
full share OF it.
"The great leader whose triumphant
banners have come here today from
nearly 1O0scounties in Kansas not only
stands for these principles but insists
that now and henceforth the political
power which our federal constitution
declares to be inherent in the people
mist be exercised by them as directly
as possible.
"Under his masterful leadership. a
leadership founded upon experience and
bnttressed by the faith and confidence
OF the masses he will not yield an inch
until the deliberate voice Of the Amer
lean people becomes the supreme law
Of the land; until the Guggenheims
Lorimers, Penroses, Cranes and every
other type of political bosses have been
banished from the public service.
az shall leave the committee on reso-
lutions to say more. All desire to add
is that thu nation trusts this leader as
no man has been trusted since the
days Of Abraham Lincoln"