The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-07-22
PAUL STILLMAN
SOUNDS KEYNOTE
Temporary Chairman Of the RepubIi-
can State Convention Foretells
Return Of Party to Power.
IT'S TIME TO MOVE FORWARD
criticises the Democratic Administers
ton and Calls Wilson Peda-.
gogue, Not Statesman.

8oauOS wv q SANNVo"oss
Faul Stillman, of Jefferson, tenn
porary chairman of the republican
state convention, fOretOld the return
OF the republican party to power
chastened after its defeat, in the key
note speech of the convention last
Wednesday.
Only the return of the republican
party to power, he said, could restore
prosperity to the country.
Stillman criticised the democratic
administration In the warmest terms.
calling Wilson q pedagogue. not
statesman. and contrasting the accom-
plishments of the democratic party
with those of the republican.
Stillman's speech in full follows:
Through the workings of an All-wise
and kindly disposed Providence. we are
permitetd t. assemble today for an
other grand reunion of the republican
family OF Iowa We have heard some
where some suggestions to the enect
that the health Of the republican party
IL not good that it is suffering from
nervous prostratiOn and aenema: that
it is not only i'll, hut moribund: but IT
what we can see about us at this time
is a fair reflection of the republican
party in condition of languOr anu
weakness, then shudder to c"ntom-
plate the awesome effect which the full
tide OF it's strength and vieo" might
produce. In fact, as we view the hope
full and enthusiastic activity OF repu"-
leans TODAY. touching the shoulders IN
a spirit of harmony such as has not
prevailed for manv years: radlatlng
smiles where frowns were wont to en-
list, and waving olive branches In hands
formerly familiar with far less pence
ov,A. han coo q
in the light of critical events of the not
too distant mast. we NAV well feel like
crying out with the psalmist: GOD moves
in a mysterious way his wonders to pc.
form"
This dav Ia a dav for republican re-
inictng. 1t Is dav for republican on
timsm and good cheer. For that e"'"
II of fealty and of comradship within
the partv.. which was lost: has been
found again. ] have heard of a GER
tain school Of philosophers. known as
evolutionists, who undertake to tell Nc
Just WHARF, we all come from: there
IS another school of teachers known as
theoloRians who attempt to tell us
Just. where. wesarA. all going, to:e some
there be swhs, "hesftate 10 accept ms nh
so,ute and final the conclusions Of either
Of these distinguished leaders of
thought. sbut, there Is one broad rror".
sttton upon which know we will all
agree without CONTROVERSY :. and that
is the fact that we are here. And the
republican party is here-here chaaten-
ed nv misfortune and refined as ny a
refiner's fire. Int here in the very hour
of its new and wonderfullv brnadened
opportunity. II has heen said fr"""ent-
Nv during the last few months that the
tive has COME for the reorganization
end rehabilitation of the republican
party.
TINE TO KcvE FORWARD
Those are large words and cnn'hle
~ diverse and sundrv Interpretation.
What l prefer to hear. and what IRE
fer to believe. resting as l do under full
conviction that ii is true. is that the
time has come for the republican party
to grid IN it's loins and move forward.
even as 1t has always moved forward
in the past. am IMPRESSED by the
fact that this time Of family re-
is not the time for postmorten, or
nnstfacto examinations: SO far as am
informed, the party has commissioned no
one to hold court of inquiry into the
individual conduct of it's members dur
ing the troublnus times of the last year
hr two: let us all remember that the
father OF the PrOdigal. when he found
that his elder son was angry and would
not enter the house where the Younger
ron. the Prndiral, was being joyonsly
received, said to that elder son: INV
son, thou art ever with me. and all that
] have is thine: II is meet that we should
he glad and make merry today. for this,
thy brother was dead. and is alive
again: was lost and is found The les
son for the republican nartv today is
that we must not stop by the way to
quarrel about these things: the lesson
for today is that one republican party
can accomplish vastly more than two
r"n,hiran parties: the lesson for today
is that there Is n real and ur"nnt call
for service--sarvice TO the American
people. and the republican partv has
never vet failed. from I.inc0lns day to
this. 10 respond with whoebearted and
patriotic devotion to such call as that
TO UNN01SE DEMOCRACY
To speak with q frankness and a can
DOR which can not be misunderstood,
the particular sort and kind of service
for which the republican party couches
It's lance at this time is the unhorsing
OF the democratic government. This
state and local campaigns this fall. but
the real shock of hattie will OCCUR in
1916 There sits TODAY in the White
house a splendid but utterly Impractical
man: and with him a congress which.
however much it may !grumble and
chafe under. dictation. will yet do his
autocratic bidding. That magnificent
blight which has for the last year been
slowly. yet surely. spreading its sable
pail over the centers Of ind"strr In Nv"
countryside characteriZes that rapidly
deVeIOplnS CaIaHltS az IL pSSCnpipEiC-
nj depression" is quite possible that
his definition is absolutely accurate and
true: but I call your attention to the
fact thatteyen such a beautifully phras-
ed epigram descriptive of the results OF
democratic policieS does not satisfy the
longings of the lahorer who has lost his
job bv reason of those policies. The de-
preston may be psychological: f""n m>v
think work away, but the wor ker can
not think his appetite away; business
conditions may be of the mind, but star
walton concerns the stomach: the will
and factory wheels may cease to turn
for psychological reasons. but the re-
sultant cries for bread will he for physi-
cal reasons. Neither psychology nor
Christian Science have ever yet sue
ceeded In filling that clamorous void
that lies beneath the belt of him who
labOrs 1t takes food to do that, and
food has always been commodity
strangely hard for the workers of this
country to secure during those intervals
when. as now. democratic psychology
has prevailed in the councils of the ma
ton.
r1ENENDoUs BUSINESS LOSS.
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