Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-18

licitations and good wishes were read
from Congressman Clyde II. Taven-
ner and Justice George \ Cooke OF
the Illinois supreme court.
Crisis Coming.
Hon. f. c. Dunn. Mason CITY. candi.
date two years ago for governor of
Iowa on the democratic ticket and de-
feated by only 1000 plurality in an
overwhelmingly republican state. was
the first speaker called on. Although
last on the program arranged. he was
made the initial orator because OF a
train connection he had TO make.
Mr. Dunn made a fine address. say
ing among other things:
The future is fraught with grave
responsibilities, not only to thel dem
ocratic party, but TO the American
people. to the nation and its future.
For twenty years the political atmos-
phere Of this country has been sur
charged with a current of public
thought demanding some rift in the
clouds of industrial oppression that
would let in ray of hope for the fu-
ture. Slowly but steadily the storm
has gathered. breaking for a moment
in 1896. again at Kansas City in 1900.
at Denver in 1905, and reaching the
fullness OF its fury at Baltimore in
1912.
But this storm center was not with
out its sattali;es furnished with pow
er by the same storage batteries OF
political thought. We had the Wiscon-
sin idea. the Iowa idea and the Oyster
Bay idea which demanded the same
reforms that the democratic party has
so long contended for. The Iowa idea
thrived and grew until just when it
appeared that il must accomplish
something. There appeared to the dis
tinguished senator from Iowa a dream
OF the blue room in the White house !
and he saw the way guarded by the |
marshaled host of standpatism. and I
listened to- the siren voice of power. J
The once mighty champion of popular |
rights became the cringing aspirant /
for political preferment and public |
power. Today We see him working 1
in the same phalanx with Cannon and /
Dallzell and Mckinley, Oliver and /
Penrose. and il is only occasionally ]
out in some sheltered nook in an Iowa
valley surrounded by hills and fields
and clouds. far from the newspaper
reporters and the telegraph wire that
we ever hear of the Iowa idea
Opposes Intervention.
In speaking of the Mexican situa-
ton. Mr.. Dunn declared he was OPP
posed TO sending our troops across the
border line. Personally 1 am not
willing TO shed a single drop of Ameri-
IAN blood to bring sorrow into 2 sin
gle American home; to put a grave,
however humble. in any cemetery in
Ill the length and breadth of this land
If ours" he declared, to protect the
IoIlars of some so-called American
who couldn't find a place to invest
lis money in America and who now
lsks you and l or your boys and mine
o become targets for Mexican bullets
o protect property he wouldn't invest
n the United States
Needs of Future. D..
In closing he said:
What we need is sane leadership.
\ leadership alive TO every interest of
his great nation with all its complex
a leadership that knows
10 north or south, east or west, or
Inference between producer and con-
umer. capital and labor. that stands
or every right of honest effort and
or every hope of honest toll. Such a
the people of this country
low have and to me the question OF
Lbsorbing interest is will they follow
lin to victory in the future, or will
hey be misled and beguiled by the
losing of mills in an hour when for
he first time in all their history they
ave no foreign competition; by the
aging off of railroad employees with the
biggest crops and the highest prices in
he history of the nation; the hordinS
4 money in banks at a time when
very path and every avenue of COM
lerce is begging for money to en-
BILE il to live and thrive and grow.
Is one interested in human emotions
nd the working of the human mind.
-iII watch the next two years with
ocular interest. and l believe that
m not overdrawing the situation when
state that a defeat of the present ad-
and turning down by the
american people of the man and men
Tho have fought so long and consist
ntly for the best interests OF our
will set back the cause
Z human progress, at least, a quarter
( a century"
Sunshine Apostle Speaks.
W. b. Mcintyre, apostle of the Cos
81 of sunshine, when called on made
ne of his characteristic talks in which
@ called the democratic party the
reat political policeman of the ma :
or. He declared the party was born u