The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-07-30

J in practice has addressed himself to
the redemption Of party pledges, who
upon trial, has thrown his soul and
heart and mind unreservedly into the
battle for the protection of the peo-
pies rights. There is kindness in
his smile; there is sympathy in his
eye; there is deep concern over the
responsibility of his high Office. There
is firmness in the jaw that has car
ried the country through the most
critical and delicate situations to
! which the democratic party fell heir.
No personal ambition; no spirit of
bombast; no self-exploitatiOn; no
weakness for publicity or public
clamor has affected his earnest, SER
ious purpose to do for the great
American people that which God has
given him the light to do. And what
a trial! Almost insuperable objects
placed in his path, ambushed by spec
ial interests, waylaid by the repre-
sentatives of protected monopoly,
threatened by the desperadoes of
plumber who felt that under his
guidance the agencies of government
might be wrested from their control
and get back to the people who Great
ed them. Woodrow Wilson, the man
of heart and iron The heart that
beats in sympathy with equality of
Justice to mankind. The iron resOlu-
ton that has turned from the easiest
way to the stony, stubborn, jagged
pat! of plain duty.
In turning from the principal &C
| hS NScy<vr
tiolr let US turn to the policies which
they assisted in guiding and promul-
eating. 1t will be for others who are
| here to take up and discuss in detail
some of the state issues. Suffice it is
to state that I sincerely hope the peo-
pie of Iowa will take advantage of
this opportunity to elect as governor,
one who is especially fitted and quail
| fled to curtain extravagances, bring
about substantial and sensible econ
omics, and give to Iowa the high
class business administration that is
particularly needed at this time and
| trust the results of this fall will
show the election of that distinguish
ed democrat, Hon. John T. Hamilton,
and every other man on our ticket.
Now as to the national policies and
the keeping of our party pledges. The
average voter in the campaign OF
1912 felt that there were three fun
damental questions that should have
been handled in the past, that surely
must be handled at this time, and
they were the questions that involved
| a sincere revision downward OF the
tariff, the enactment of new cur
rency system to replace the antiquat-
ed and Inadequate mechanism of the
past, and thirdly, legislation looking
to the elimination of private monop-
olies and the regulation of the trusts.
AS to the tariff; our party kept its
prediction pledges of a genuine re-
vision downward. The man at the
helm of democracy felt the obliga-
tons upon this matter of tariff legis-
lation and there imposed upon the
party as result of the campaign OF
|1912, but, if as to our contract with
the people on the tariff, from a stand
point of expedience question wheth-
err any party could gain any Roadway
with the American people by attempt
ing another adjustment of the tar
if such as the Payne-Aldrich bill,
the net result of which revision and
the average Of which revision would
be up instead of down, and some OF
the schedules of which have been de-
scribed by an Iowa senator as repre-
senting graft-''greater than that OF
all the life insurance companies
through all the ages 1t may be
that in the new bill containing 4,0OO
or more items that there should creep
in some error and some inequalities,
but the fredericksburg bill was
written with view of taking care
of the interests of the great masses
of the people and giving some relief
to the great consuming public and
taking from privileges and special in
terests the fortress from which, like
the barons of old, they exacted toll
and tribute from the wage Garner,
the farmer, the merchant, and the
manufacturer. The schedules of this
bill were not written by any repre-
sentatives of entrenched privileges or
private monopoly. 1t was new SEN
sation to have the house of congress
enacting tariff bill by the represen-
tatives of the people, instead OF at
the dictation, the suggestion, and the
plan of the paid experts of big monop-
olistic business.
| And who, among the progressive
citizens of Iowa, would wish to re-
turn to the old principles OF the
Payne-Aldrich bill. to the old prin-
ciples of a protective tariff law that
would continue tribute, compare
lively little of which ever reached
the treasury of the United States, but
which through artificial advantages
would continue the domination OF
the great financial and industrial
trusts that have had their influence
upon the credit, commerce, industry,
and the transportation of this coun-
try.
If after this tariff law has had a
fair trial and a square deal before
the American people, and it develops
that in some of it's provisions it works
hardship and does injustice and dis
eliminates against any legitimate in
dustry, you will find the democratic
party willing to correct such con-
dition, but the bill should be given a
fair trial and a square deal. If the
democracy is defeated the pendulum