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ous achievements and humane pro-
cedure. (Applause.) Seeking to mar the
glory of our nation's triumph and suc-
cess by the imputation of intentional
cruelty they hope to steal their way in-
to the national councils to carry out
their pernicious purpose of inflation
and repudiation. Such is their un-
worthy scheme uncovered.
Sympathy is a most noble virtue, one
of the sweetest flowers that blossoms
in the garden of the human heart.
But contrived, concocted, advertised
condolence, professed for evil purpose,
is an execreable weed of wickedness.
Genuine sympathy does not seek the
advertising medium of political plat-
forms any more than :true penitence
l)u'blishes its prayers. ,Somebody said
that Abraham Lincoln flid acts of char-
ity as stealthily as some men com-
mit crime, and yet Abraham Lincoln
dlid not esca~ the same kind of wicked
censure that is being made against
the administration of President Mc-
Kinley. (Applause.)
Performance and Pretension.
These accusers of the administration
occupy a peculiar position. Having
voted in congress against the neces-
sary revenue to feed and clothe and
care for soldiers, they feed them gen-
erously now on political platforms and
manufactured sympathy overdue. Hav-
~ing voted in congress against giving
the citizen soldier the privilege of vot-
ing in, the field or camp, they now ap-
peal to the suffrage of their .relatives
and friends Driven to the wall,~his m~-
cellaneous political outfit ~hich la now
aeeuslng the administration of mis-
management and cruelty, is compelIed
to say, "Oh, yes; we voted against the
war revenue measure which provides
food and clothes and medicines and
hospitals for the soldiers, ,but look at
the sy~npathy we have expended in our
platforms!" They voted against per-
mitring the soldiers to cast.their hal-
los in southern camps, but behold the
.political tears they are shed.d~lng now!
To be sure, they dragged this nation
to %he lowest ditch of panic and dis-
aster during the four long and weary
year~ .of their blighting power and
when the distresse~ and famished pen-
pie had lashed them out af the temple,
leaving but a lame minority, they as-
sumed their usual avocation as ab-
stractionists, flllbu~tering anal retard-
ins legislation that was proposed to
improve the army service, and now,
with their belate@ lamentation, their
eleventh hour condolence, their plat-
form syml)athy, they expect to be re-
warded in the full measur~ and, ac~
cor~ing to the political
they,
this:
agalm~t
the army. The army is afflicted with
sickness. Therefore restore the popo-
~atl~ t~art :to t~W~r aol~ can cheapen
Lhe dollar
for the army.
Where to Find the Facts
Let ~it be remembered when you read
their plaintive paragraphs, that every
ration, every dose of medicine, every
blanket bought by the government for
the volunteer who left his home at the
country's call, was protested against
by t'he negative v~tes of popocra~s in
the congress of the United States, and
let it be remembered that not a single
republican voted against any mbasure
providting fox the needs and com~ort
of the soldiers. (Applause.) Look
at the Congressional Record for
April 29th and you will find
that every negative vote ea~t .
against the war revenue measure was
cas~ hy a popocrat, including Mr. Bai-
ley, their leader. Look at the Congres-
sional ~cord for June 10~h mad you
will find that @very negative vote cast
e~tinst Major Lacey's measure to per-
re, it sol~ers voting In the field was
cast by a popocrat, inclu, ding their
leader, Mr. Bailey. Look at the Con- "
gressional Record for May 12, May 24,
June 1, June 16, June 20, June 23 and
for the closing days of the session and
you will find that every" objection that
was made to the consideration of
measures reported from the ,m~lltary
committee requiring unanimous con-
sent and providing for the betterment
of ~the army and navy and for relief
~hat wa~ deemed necessary, was made
~)y" a popocrat and many measures were
t'hereby thwarted.
No Wars of Conquest
War and its attending calamities is
never to be sought, The president and
congress, rc4nd~ul of the woes of war
both to the vanquished and victorious,
exhausted every peaee~uI .means, .be-
fore resorting to arms. The United
States has never waged a war of
conquest nor entertained a thought of
Interfering with the sovereignty of
other gover~ment~ while our own
rights and interes,ts were unmolested.
Although syml)athizing with every
struggle that ,ha~ 'been made for the
achievement of liberty and self-gov-
ernment, It has never beech the policy
or practice of this nation to meddle
WRh the management of other powers
or to menace their 'authority as exer-
elsed among thelr own dependencles.
The United Srcates would~ not have
thought of interfering with the Span-
is~ government except for the inJuYies
we h~td sustained and the serious and
continuous detrimentwhieh.~ve suffered
bF reas~m of their unei~tHzed, inhuman
and unlawf~rl acts. ~It is the right of
every nation to d~fend ~ltself and to
protect its own. More ~:han that, it
Is morally rbound tO do so.
Causes of Recent War
The causes of the interference (~f this
nation with the barbarous practices ~)f
Spain involves the history of continu-
ous crime which that power had been
committing ~in our immediate vicinity
contrary to and in violation of the law
of nations and of ,civilization and
which finally ,brought about and cul-
minated in the horrible disaster which
took the lives of t~vo hundred and six-
ty of our ~eamen, for which the king-
dom of Spain should have at once real-
ized and recognize(l its responsibil-
ity and accountability if it were not
utterly incapa)ble of such realization
by reason of its long continued, igno-
minious and criminal career, present-
ing at last to the eyes of the world
the spectacle of its bankrupt and cred-
itiess condition, not only financially,
but morally. That history of contin-
uous c~iminal oppression and the
threatening situation then existing in
the island of Cuba and its material and
disastrous effects upon our people and
their interests had 'been clearly set
forth in the message of our president
and in those of his predecessors.
Spain's Barbarous Record
Washington, D. C. The number of
deaths, including thoso killed in bat-
fie and those who haw died of wounds
and sickness, is about the same as the
number who have died in the city of
Washington from natural causes in
the same period .of time. The nation
mourns their loss as it mourned the
gallant crew who manned the
Maine. If recompence is possible,
it shall be witnessed lathe vindication
o~ our nation's honor and fidelity to
its citizens and in the march of civili-
zation and its commerce. (Yhe stars
and stripes are shining over Puerto
Rico and Manila Bay. (Applause.t
The Antilles and the Philippines have
learned the names of Dewey and Mc-
Kinley and while Cuba has lost tl~c
asides of Columbus, it has fallen hen
to the fadeless names of John Brown
and Abraham Lincoln. (Great ap-
plause.)
Liberty is infusive.
Civilization s~ops not with the seas.
Commerce is the ally of civilization.
The Almighty puzzles man with the
barriers of mountains an~l the billows
of the sea, just m ~ind out who is
worthy of permanent fooJ~h.qlds in the
world. (ApplaUse.)
Moral Fitness of the War
No power or ci il organization upon
the earth Wh~ieh recogmzed our right
and duty - to defend' and pro-
tect our citizens and their
interests could fail to see the
propriety and Justness of war interven-
tion. A quarter of a century of most
l~tient endurance . had born witness
to our unparalleled forbearance and
with the declarations of the resolu-
tions of the house of repesentatives,
shown beyond all question the high
and worthy motive which actuated our
nation's course. The tribute of blood
and treasure which had alreaanner of their country is
the sure .protection of its brave de-
fenders, must not be made to %lush by
the mocke]:y of ~hameful and dishon-
orable peace. If ever the h~man rac~
should reach t~at state of unbelievable
degeneracy where the average n~an
will peacefully asse~at to the assassi-
nation of 'his brother under ~helr com-
mon country's flag, then will the Su-
9reme~Ruler view the ~hameful spec-
tacle but ~or a moment and adjourn
the universe sine, dle. (Applause.)
The preslde~t of the U~ited States
asked for power to intervene. With-
out delay the congress granted It, He
asked for force on land and sea to ex-
ecute that interventlon and seventy
million people answered "Aye" to the
Just and, patrlotlc call. The ea~le fin-
ally discerned the truth and drove the
vulture from its prey. (Great ap-
plause)
Marvel of the Centuries
The marvel of all the een'turles is
the aehlevement of American arms in
that war. Never was,~ nation sub-
dued so quickly as was Spain and
never was such a com~rehenslve vic-"
tory won with so little los~ of life to
the conquering ,power. To be s~re there
,has been death and, slckness. At the
outbreak of the ~ar we had a standing
army of something over twenty-five
thousand men. W~Ith~n one hundred
days we had over two 'hundred thous-
and volunteers eq~pped and In the
field---men who were not used to war
and many of whom had. nevm- seen
a southern clime. The num )er enroll-
ed In that victorious army was about
the same as the number of
inhabitants of the city o[
oceffpieS the sea. The
longer
~nd.night. They
of Father
no
[u-
d~ice, thus fulfill in-
ties for trade a~nd i
course for commerce, l
f~r products, for
all hap-
l~ie~ world.
A Righteous
,'My fellow citizens, in of
tile ~Ict~ries of Americam arms and
'patriotism, we are prolmsing to in-
augurate an enthusiastic endor~ement
of an American has
proved, himself as
at the ,helm of the ~ of
gta.te u~ did the
bridge of the ause.I
We are about
al of a patriotib ion of
public affairs by whose
majority has given I t~
a righteous
The republican in
'the greatest crisis in
the history of any reached
its greatest aires time to
.be ready ~0r the and
there was not a man, ~0~lan or child
from M~ttne t~ Califormta~ w~no did not
inwardly rejoice "t]~a~ the lmrty of Kb-
r~ham IAneoIn and of Ul ~es S. Grant
was in ~m, mand when the cloud of
war bur~t upon, land an~ sea in 1898.
(Applause.) Not tha~. republicans
are braver than are other par,
tisan~, hut beeause they have
always been capable of originat-
ing and carrying out ideas. ~here are
two kinds of people in this world.
those who criticlse and those who ac-
complish, those who talk about what
augh~ to be done a~d ~hose who do it.
If they had not, we ~houId l~robably
still be talking ~bout what ought to
be done in Cuba~ ~Ynder the direction
era rewublican comm~mder-ln-chief,
the army of ~he United States has
carried the victorious flag of the union
into two hemispheres since corn-
planting time, and her .matchless sol-
diers ~rom.north and south, east and
we~t have defeated one of the oldest
kingdoms of the earth in time for
some of them to Set back for the fall
l
plowing (applause), while the Ameri-
can navy has achieved the most bril-
liant victories of all time and ~i,~h
such celerity that the barnacle~ hardly
had time to settle on their bottom~
/ A pplause. )
The Party of Progress
The republican party is the progres*
sire element in American life and his-
tory--the liberator~ of slaves, the fos-
terers of industry, the builders of con-
tinental railways, the promoters of
commerce, the upholders of an hon-
est medium o[ exchange, the protect-
ors of national and individual rights.
the punishers of wrong the
hearers o~ the starry banner of the un-
ion wherever commerce leads ou
land and sea. (Applause.) Tw.)
years ago it took the industries of our
country, languishing in the helpless
hands of failure and disasler, and set
their wheels to turning and their axles
whirling and their looms to spinning
until today there is hardly an idle man
all America who wants to work It
took the credit of our coun-
try threatened by the elond of
doubt, staggering with uncertainty by
reason of the proposition of repudia-
tion, and has pl~tced it so high in the
estimation of tho p(rblic that one in
every two hundred and fifty of our
citizens have become voluntary bond-
hol.ders and the balance clamoring for
a chanee to buy. (Applause.)
The republican party invites every
man who beHoves in patriotism, hon-
esty and prosperity, to join the proces-
sion of human progress as it marches
out of the nineteenth century into the
twentieth bearing the banner of un-
rivalled success and a reunited country.
(Continued Applause.)
STATE TICKET,
Secretary of State
(ieorge L. Dobson, Polk County
.Treasurer of State
John Herriott, Outhrie County
Auditor of State
F. F. /~lerrmm, Delaware County
Judgeof Supreme Court s
H. E. Deemer, Montgomery Co
Clerk of Supreme Court
C.~T. Jones, Washington County
Reporter Supreme Court
B. I. SaUnger, Carroll County
Attorney -(ieneral
Milton Remley, Johnson County
ailr.oad Commissioner
Welcome/'lowry, Tama County
Railroad Commissioner, to fill
VaCaUCy,
D. J, Palmer Washingto~a County
CKET,
of and regard the
measures and policies thereof as a
concrete expression o~ republican
statesmanship. Especially do we com-
mend his course during the present
war with Spain, his wisdom and fore-
bearance in seeking a peaceable solu-
tlo of the Cuban question before re-
sorting to at.me, wnlie at the same
time prudently preparing- for war. and
when circumstances finally made arm-
ed intervention necessary his vigor
and energy in the proseeution of the
war.
~"The experience of the past two
years has fully approved th0 gold
standard policy of the renubiiea~a par-
ty declared by the natlonal conven-
tion in 1896. We recognize the notes.
sity of comprehensive enlightened
Inonetary legislation The monetary
standard of this country and the com-
mercial world is gold. The perma-
nence of this s~mdarfl must be as-
sured by congressional legislation, giv-
ing to it the validity and vitality of'
public law. All money must be kept
at a parity with gold. Our money,
like our institutions, should he main-
tained equal to the bast in the world.
On this plank we invite the support of
all voters who desire honesty and sta-
bility in business affairs, and the im-
mediate and permanent settlement of
the question of the standard of value,
"V~re reaffirm our belief in recipro-
city and protection. We congratulate
the people on the fact that a republic-
an congress enacted a protective tariff
which as brought prosperity to the
country, and we pledge ourselves to
favor such changes in the present re-
publican revenue law as experience
may dictate or changed conditions
may demand.
"That we favor the upbuildlng of
the American merchant marine, the
speedy construction of the Nicaragua
canal, the-securing of naval and co~l-
ing stations and the protection of
American rights in every quarter of
the world with an adequate navy.
'That the republican party, under
whose policies and administration
prosperity" has been restored and a
foreign war successfully conducted,
has ear,led the right to be,further en-
trusted with the task of solving the
territorial, colonial, and commercial
problems that have resulted from the
war.
"That it is due to the cause of hu-
manity and civilization, for which the
war with buain wa~ fought, that no
people wm,~ ]mv in consequence
thereof been freed from oppression.
shall, with the consent or through the
i~difference of the United States. be
returned to such oppresslon or per-
mltted to tanse into barbarism.
"That the soldiers, sailors, and ma-
rines, both regulars and volunteers, of
the army and navy have in the war
with Spain exemplified bravery and
self--sacrifice, like unto that displayed
by previous defenders of the re0ublie,
not only have they earned the most
profound gratitude of the nation, but
they have "given the United States a
new dignity and rank among the
greatest and most powerful nations of
the ~arth.
'That the Iowa volunteers who this
year~ so promptly responded to the
president's call for enlistments have
won the proud appreciation of the
state, though they did not reach the
front of battle, they have paid and are
yet paying in hardship, self-sacrifice.
sickness and even death, the price of
soldierly duty. Their needs should
have the promptest consideration a~d
attention which the sta~e or nation
can give.
"We heartily endorse the able and
business-like administration of Gov-
ernor Shaw, as displayed by his pru-
dent and conscientious discharge
public duties, and especially .do we
commend him for his constan~ and un-
tiring efforts made on behalf of the
Iowa soldiers, whethe, in camp or
sick in the hospital.
"That we tender grateful acknowl-
edgementt to all who have l~elped the,
party ~o the opportunity to do the
gre~ good i~ lm~ do~e, and especially
do we appreciate the servieea of inde-
pendent v@wrs o~ 1896 and 1897,
pl~tced the honor of the coun.try
party. We invite for the party's
en finaz~cAal and o~.her policies t~e co-
opera~ton and sUppO~, of all."
"Poor Richard'M' Maxims.
Take this remark from
shame.
No
Where there's
there
Do good to thy friend
to thy enemy-to gain him.
Davenport Times: Orey Fuller,
lad from Cedar Rapids, who was
ployed as a bell boy a't the
house, was arrested this morning
Detective McManus for the theft of
nickel plated watch trom another
boy of the same hotel. Mine Ho~t
Sommers refused to prosecute the lad
and he was accordingly, turned loose
with a warning to leave town.
The Santa Fe has ordered thirty new
locomotives. They are ~o be delivered
at the rate of two or three a month
c,mmencing with December. It ts
stated that 'the new equipment will be
necessary when the Santa Fe has se-
cured ,lireet entrance to San Francisco
end has s,tarted upon a propo~d cam-
paign against the Southern Pacifc
California monopoly.
A convention of Christian Scientists
will be held at Clin,ton, commencing
Nov. 5.
Waterloo will send a strong delega-
tion to the winter, meeting of the
Iowa State Firemen s association, to
,be held here Nov. 15 and 16, and ex-
tend an tnvitatio~ to the association
to ,hold their annu~tl tournament in
that city next June. (~edar Rapids
should have the tournament next
year, and it is understood can have it
.by simply asking for it.
The country roads are said to be in
bad condition as a result of the recent
rains a~d anew,
T~he Cedar Valley Poultry associa-
non will hold its second annual exhi-
/litton at Cedar Falls on December 13
to 17,
It is believed .that the recent snow
storm will result in great damage to
the corn crop. It will require much
dry weather to pu,t the corn in good
cribbing condRlon. It is said there
has not been such a fall of snow in
Iowa before for twenty yeara
'The telegraph and, telephone onl-
ponies are Just beginning to get their
systems in som thing like working
order for the first time since the d~-
moralizing snow storm of the first of
the week.