Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-03

quent, persistent and successful caller
In the interests of the people of his
state, and you will hear the name OF
an untiring republican of Iowa.
You will there also be informed that
the two most polished and accomplish
ed orators, whose utterances are lis
tened to with greatest delight, are rep
resentatives of Iowa.
Ask for the man who is foremost in
debate, whose lance is most quickly
drawn and most justly feared and
who in a running catch-as-catch-can
contention is without an equal, and
you will again be told that this man
| is from Iowa.
Then ask for the man renowned for
his fve-minute speeches. each to the
point, who, with unpretentious, but
unanswerable logis, and who with
quick, incisive statement and few
words, brings safest counsel, and there
learn that he also is republican rep
resentative of Iowa.
Ask on the street cars, ask in the
galleries, ask on the streets, ask any
where in the District of Columbia, what
state has the most influential delega>
ton, the delegation that never quar-
rels, the delegation in which there is
no semblance of faction or strife, the
delegation that always agreesas touch
ing one thing and that one thing the
greatest good to this common country,
and without exception those you meet
will answer-Iowa.
Go north, go south, go east, go west,
go anywhere, make diligent inquiry,
and you will be told that the most
prosperous state of the forty-five is
Iowa; that Iowa people enjoy more
,comforts;a that Iowa wealth is more
equally distributed; that poverty is a
greater stranger in Iowa, and that the
semblance OF cast is unknown in Iowa
You will also be told that politics is
cleaner and less subject to those infiu-
ences which are commonly called bad
and less likely to be controlled by the
spirit of bossism; that the standards
of craftsmanship are higher and more
generally emulated than in most of
the states of this nation.
/ repeat, gentlemen of this conven-
ton, that to be twice selected as the
chief executive of such state, and of
bsuch people, and by such party,
places me under obi cations far ex-
ceeding my poor power to discharge.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank yon
for the kindly demonstrations you
have given me. Gentlemen of this
convention, thank you most sincere
! ly for the honor you have so gener-
ously and unanimously conferred.
| Fellow citizens, it shall be my sn-
preme erdeayor TO prove that the re-
sponsibilities which are thus imposed
have not been altogether unworthily
bestowed.
The state Central Committee.
| The friends of Senator Gear retain
control OF the republican state commit
tee. There is no dispute about that,
for six or seven of the eleven members
are pronounced Gear men. The con,-
mittee is as follows: First district, II.
o. Weaver. Wapello; Second district,
iC. w. Phillips, Maquoketa (holdover);
Third district. G T. Hancock. Dubuque
| (holdoNer); Fourth district, W. L. Tur-
ner, New Hampton (holdover); Fifth
district. l.. NJ. Sargent. Grundy Center;
Sixth district. II. w. Clayton, Oskaloo-
sa; Seventh district, S. NJ. Leach. .Adel;
Eighth district. Robert Spence, Mt.
Aye (holdover); Ninth district, j. s..
Dewell. Missouri Valley (holdover);
Tenth district. John T. Drug, Webster
City; Eleventh district, E. H. Me-
Cuicheon, Ida Grove (holdover).