Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-24
BRYAN PLANKS.
The Silver Leader Writes His
Faith for Nebraskans.
OLD PLATFORM UPHELD.
Great Stress, Though, Is Laid Upon Op.
position to the Administrators
Philippine Policy = The
Platform In Full.

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Omaha, Aug. g2.-(By Associated
Press.) Three conventions, the dem.
ocratic. populist and free silver repub-
lican, met this afternoon in separate
halls. w. II. Tompson, national com
inittesman of Nebraska, was temporal
ry chairman of the democrats, and
spoke as follows:
Chairman Tompson's speech.
In the coming battle of 1900 we will
reatfirm the platform OF 1896 and re-
nominate the same leader of democ-
racN. We will be true to the pledge OF
our fathers. We will, as loyal sons
reared to reverence their teachings
swear anew eternal allegiance and fl
deity to the Declaration of Independ-
ence, worship its every line and main.
tain its every precept, sacred as the
memories of our heroes dead, and loyal
as the patriots living. 10 tear there.
from one of its sacred principles, is to
invite the beginning of an endless ruin
and decay.
Party, party, what sins have been
committed for the perpetuity thereof
in tine. years gone by, but it was left to
the nineteenth century republicans to
announce from the rostrum and
through the press, that this nation
has outgrown the principles enun-
clated in this sacred declaration. Yet
the distance is only from martyred
Lincoln to the webbing policy of the
present administration. who will, pull
down the flagp No man or nation.
But every patriot. every believer in the
Declaration of Independence, should
join in lifting it up to the sunlight
OF its own beauty, and let every star
and every stripe glitter with truth re-
splendant. Peace upon earth and good
will unto men. If to be son OF Amer
lea is to be nobler than to have been a
son of Rome, then Americas sons must
be kept out of the Roman business. II
by greed and conquest Rome fell, then
we should heed that lesson.
I'VE should treat the Filipino with
the frankness that becometh u great
nation, and with the charity inspired
by victorious army, as if sitting in
the presidents mansion, and not as q
member of board of trade. Do you
say l am wrong? Then let the re.
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the lips of the living and the writings
of the dead, who knew and know
If''no man is good enough to govern
another without his consent by and
with what authority is our president
acting? If the reason for not, announc.
ing policy is because congress is MOI
in session, why, does not the presi.
dent make more calls for congress, as
provided in the constitution, and less
calls FOR arms and soldiers, not strictly
In accordance with the constitution!
Are we to decry Russian car and
welcome an American usurper? Or
is he. too.afraid of having congress OF
his hands, and thereby to ignore the
constitution and deprive the people
Through their agents, the members oil
congress), a right to order what shall
and what shall not be done. Does the
president fear what all know--that i'm.
perialism and militarism are Siamese
twins and that each is, and must be
a stranger to republican form Of
government
However much we may feel for the
oppressed elsewhere, we today plead
for our own institutions. for the home
and the fireside. Tear down the flag!
No. but let it not be the emblem Of
oppression.
what Cleveland tried to do by run.
ming, or rather running, the finance oil
the country, Mckinley is trying by
way of war and colonization to ruin
and undermine the established policy
of our government; each attempted moi
to advise congress, but to run congress
orl>s% o,.s1 IL, a 4
caused the wreck OF the democratic
party. the other is causing, and will
cause, the wreck and ruin of the re.
publican party. Each has polluted onl
politics with officials and appointees
"The commission of one wrong, like
the obtaining of one luxury demands
another. Once imperialism is adopted
this demands and must have as its
support militarism; and those once
obtained must have confederates, and
in order to have them we must have
an alliance with some other nation,
and our most natural alliance is with
England. So here we have the annual
American alliance. And again we turn
away from the teachings of all our
history from Washington to Mckinley
Democracy ever true to the teachings
of its founders answers no.
",The trust under Mckinley has out
stripped all rivals and today stands
with gun in hand, the drum-maior oil
his prosperity. The gun is to ward of
the laborer seeking the employment
he lost by the absorpment of the es-
Enlistment of his employer, and to
amuse the travelling man while he
reads his mo longer wanted
"We hear the question asked as to
what you are going to do about trusts.
/ would remove from them first the
fostering care of the government.
They are to a great extent in this
country at least, the direct offspring
of a protective tariff and the gold
standard. The protective tariff makes
the way easy and the gold standard
makes it, in numbers of cases, bust.
ness necessity. L would first remove
the protection on every article, and
when a trust without competition was
formed on any article of necessity, ]
would make such organization crime,
with imprisonment, and not small
crime, and provide for the gov.
eminent taking charge of the trust
and winding up it's affairs.
With plenty OF money in the hands OF
the people enterprises will spring
|up instantly and business will move as
it should move.
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