Show OWA IDEA BOBS OP Comes to Surface at Meeting Meet-Ing in Chicago DOLLIVER INTRODUCES IT Senator in Addressing a Great Crowd at Mass Meeting Under Auspices Aus-pices of National League of Republican Repub-lican Clubs Presents the Subject League Holds First Session With Four Hundred Delegates Present Message From President Boosovelt Expressing Hearty Greetings Chicago Oct 2The Iowa Idea came to the surface tonight In a mass meeting under the auspices of the National Na-tional League of Republican Clubs which met In a convention here today United States Senator Dolllvcr of Iowa who Introduced the subject Bald In an address Let ua look at the Iowa Idea for a mln uto and I select thru only brcaiiHO I am more familiar with It and because circumstances cir-cumstances have arisen to give It unlvcr sal advertisement It has been presented to the country an the sudden Impulse of dissatisfied mischiefmakers within the Republican party On the other hand II Is the miituro Judgment of a man whose wisdom his never fulled the party In the forty years of his uninterrupted public ocrvfce HAVE U S STAND BETWEEN Our people recognize the value of a large capital for th transaction of a great bunlncjw and espccliill for the commercial commer-cial conquests upon which we are now cn frlng Hut they recognize the danger of tibjscy both in the organization und man ngenient of Industrial enterprises and would Jmv the Government of the Unjlcd States stund between the community and the reckless1 perversion of the bcncflcnt law of corporate property It Is evident that If It wore desirable to kill the trust It could not be done by merely remitting the duties which their foreign competitors pny nt our custom hotiaea BRYANS ADMISSION Even Mr Bryan who talks of putting the captains of Industry Into a chain gang md sending J P Morgan first to the poorhouho and then to the penitentiary peniten-tiary admits publicly that tho free rude rfmcdy falls very far short of the object ho has In view Nearly every sober student stu-dent of the mibjert admits that ILw us the lireraurc of coniDoLltlon which lisa drawn sonic of our tndintrUg first into croupn and then Into Klgunllc combinations under un-der a nhiRlo corporate agreement I ilsn TCSH hut I Jis > i hfelonc friend of the pro LCillvc syrlem I tukv a very profound Interest In-terest nl tin quostlon QUOTES FROM BLAINE Protection In thin perfection of Its design de-sign us described bv Mr Hamilton docs not Invite competition from abroad siy5 Mr Bliilnr in his famous chapter on the lirlff question In Itsroliitlon to tlie j Jo lltf < al revision of IFIC In twenty yenrs of Cnninvrs bill Is bused upon Ito con Uylllmrprlnclpli Umtcomputlllon it home with silwnvs prevent monopoly on the halt Of HpltUllHlp UNPIire good WUgeM lo lllO laborer and defend the customer against the evils of extortion S PASSING THROUGH ORDEAL That prlnriplc which never fnlljQd i Justify tho doctrlno of protection In any pnrlcKl of tie past Is today passing through nn orikal hardly iven anticipated when tho tariff law of 181T was placed upon the jUilute books If one Held of production after another parses under the control of SDculntors In lie Int < jrci > t of notorious HIhomes to eneross tho whole iniirkt the protection literature of a hun died years beomrs obsolete DAJiHLW SPECULATIVE h WORLD 1iittlnc nil tho consolldatlonH which htvo beau effected In tho luat twelvemonths twelve-months together four and a his If billions of del Iii r may be scL down is their t true I mi iKKreKio I ci idta I Lzat iou Including their t bondH Thci curJoraI lotus hiixn inlarRed air prospfcllve capacity by the iddi lou of now bona Ado inpltal In a decree ha nil v lint icemible They hivo merely un ilortnkiii iu i d iz7lo tlir speculative I world by playIng upon the popular fancy for full page Jidvortlsfinents And In licarly every omit of them tho molhe of he or gin izi t ion him hein mainly to shlpld ciiiil tnl nlread Invested from flm oneration of material forces always present In the commercial I sorld If l they have failed In thai they have failed In everything and tho IIOWIT whIch some have bion afraid would be ustd to wrong und bur den tht community has not even proved equal to the tuak of taking euro of liself WOUND UP I5V COURTS Before anybody mukcn up Ida mind that the socalled American trust la jt permanent InstUution let him eonnldcr the long list of ambitious combinations which have already hind their affairs wound up by iho courts the alcohol trust thin lln sccd oil trust the alkali trust tho iiintiiilt t trust the bicycle trust nnd scores of otli en whose very names arc now even forgotten for-gotten AVhat was Iho mattel with theo astonishing creations of tim promoters Nino or ton of them won liogus nnd without stretching lie law verv niurli could have been denied Iho I ue of tin 1 malls In an ordinary fraud order Only yeoiorduy ono of the innminoUt cntnbllRh rnonis thn National Salt company had a lit tie luminous lu > fore a court of equity In New Jersey Tho organization of that trust In jgi way looked upon nn n step In tho I illrectlon of monopolizing the nc cesaarleJ of life DOOM Of TRUSTS The more I examine the old law of com petition the better It looks to me Jf tho day of settlement has already como to so many of thw once formidable hibll tullono how has It fared with those who have HO far survived the test Already the evidence Is accumulating from which the doom of trust can be foretold oven tho moat colvcat and best managed of them all Thorn Is no room In this discussion for vain exclamations of alarm anil despair Up to this time tim tariff policy to which we owo the nrosycrous conditions which now Kurround ua n has Wen tho ally of Independent capital In Us Rrapplo vrHh lie modern trust system but If the dav should over come when thu productive i > n orgies of tho American people urn fm IHJlent In lie jrcsencc of monopoly tile protection which for more than a ecu era lion our laws have wlvin to all our In dustries alike la not likely to remain to enrich such n conspiracy of avarice and creed MEETING OP THE LEAGUE The annual convention of the Na tional Republican league vus called to order in lie First Regiment armory here today with about 100 delegates present rcprcKeiilliiK the auxiliary leagues of the various States Thla number la less than half the attendance which had been expected before the illness Ill-ness of President Roosevelt whose presence had been assured WILL INDORSE ROOSEVELT l > fon > thf convention opnied It Avas commonly admitted hot the nomination nomina-tion of President Itoopevult lu JUOI would be Indorsed The itiiilure ut the morning session after tin luhlivftt if welcoin > Ijy Roy O Westof the State central coininltto wan the tidilr < > HH of Presldijiit IliinilliOn I He said In part < ifAMILTON SVDDHiSS Our orjpmlxallon Ix entirely out of debt mil ill Ihtr close of time pro fH roiiMiiiion There will rcmiln in the hands jf lie treasurer a substantial nest ORC for ths oming Hdmlnlfiti lon Thpc results tate not been accompllched without great effort and your officers have received re-ceived efUclcnt asKtotance In this behalf from many of our moat oftlclcnt nnrly workers and particularly from oxPrwl dcnl Gcorco Stone of California from the national Roiubllean committee ami the Coiigrezhouiitl Ropubllcan committee SHOULD NOT RECEIVE SALARY My experience leads mo to believe that our sjccrotiirv should not be n salaried officer of-ficer that ho should be a man selected because of his abllllj and jlaudliiK rather than one who Is ambitious to rocelv oomponHitlon for his services I thInk ti > executive committee should empower our president to appoint such assisfint secretaries secre-taries as In his Judgment aro noccssWy and that tho t osocutlvo committee should authorize the opening of pcrniunjnLhcnd ouarlers il the home of the prcdlOcn of th organization MISSION OP THE lEAGUE There arc many men wllllntr and anlni3 lo bn Idcntlllcd with tim best IntnjiU of the Republican party mon who irc > vIIJIn my iinxlous to keep lonily In touch with the teachings of our party TMuny of thorn havo no present desire to hold of lIce but they like to attend tIme meotln s of our committees our State and national conventions to become personally acquainted ac-quainted with our public men the m < m who are responsible for forming the policies poli-cies of our party and Government nnd to take homo to tholr respective localities the enthusiasm and knowledge which they acquire ac-quire by attending these various meetings meet-ings Tho league mission Is Juet begIn situ In thin respect to bo thoroughly understood un-derstood and appreciated and I predict that Its Influence from this time forth wIll greatly and constantly enhance Mr Hamiltons address was applauded applaud-ed and he was given a vote of thanks for his administration of the leagues affairs S MESSAGE FROM ROOSEVELT The following message received from President Roosevelt was read by Secretary Sec-retary Weeks White house Washington Oct 2aao Miller Hamilton President National Republican Re-publican LeaKUo Chicago At the openIng open-Ing of the national convention plpaso pro sent to those present my cordial Rroet lags und laarty best wishes for a successful suc-cessful session THEODORE ROOSEVELT The Presidents name wag cheered heartily Tlv following was sent by President Hamilton In response RESPONSE OF THE LEAGUE Chicago Oct 2Hon Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt Washington By Instruction ol the National Republican league assembled Its thirteenth convention I thank vou profoundly for your greetings nndbxlsnd to you the most cordial assurances of loyal support and hcnrtjont wlsh s for your early return to your accustomed strength und activity ISAAC MILLER HAMILTON President COMMITTEES NAMED A committee on credentials headed by F TV Flcitz was then appointed A resolution providing that resolutions be referred to the rcsolutlonfi committee commit-tee without reading was passed Among the committee on resolutions are W S Sanders of Montana and JL II DC Young of California After deciding that the various committees should meet during the afternoon recess until tomorrow morning was taken BOOM FOR MOORE The delegates however did not disperse dis-perse Immediately but waited to listen to a song booming Mr Moore for the presidency of the league No other candidate was mentioned during the session Oi enthusiastic Pcnnsyl vanlan at uie conclusion of lie ong arose and remarked We all seem to be Oliver TwlMtx here every ono yelling for Moorer Thla sally wan greetedwith roars of laughter and criea C et t we arc t VICEPRESIDENTS SELECTED The vicepresidents of thclcaguc selected se-lected by several State organizations are as followa Lee Mantle Montana Al Corrlngton New Moxlco H L Mingle College League M H De Young California Among the members of the executive execu-tive committee named are the following follow-ing J K Colby New Mexico TV7 F Saunders Montana F K 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