Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-28
ROOSEVELT
IS HEARD.
Governor of New York Deliv-
ers a Strong Speech at
Akron, Ohio.
TALKS OF THE ISSUES
There 10 but Ono Thing to no In the
Philippine Trouble, He Thinks,
and That 10 TO Put Down
the Rebellion.

Akron, Ohio, Sept. es.-(By Associat-
ed Press. 1.-The republican state cam
paign was opened here today with one
of the largest crowds known in the
history OF politics in Ohio. Special
trains bearing crowds from Cleveland,
Toledo, Columbus, Youngstown and
Canton added 10000 to those already
here. It is thought that there are 5o,-
600 visitors in Akron. Among the dis
tinguished persons present are Govern
or Roosevelt, of New York, and Sena-
tor Hanna, who were greeted by an
immense crowd On their arrival this
afternoon. The parade moved at Q
o'clock in six divisions, $4,000 men be-
ing in line. The most conspicuous fea-
lures were the escortsof Colonel Roose-
velt and Judge Nash, the former COM
posed of veterans of the Spanish
American war, the latter of veterans Of
the civil war. The meeting was held
at Grace Park where $4,000 people
gathered only a small portion Of whom
could get within the range of the
voices of the speakers. Judge Nash
was the first speaker. Roosevelt fol-
lowed Nash.
Governor Roosevelt spoke in part as
follows:
II come to speak to you because we
recognize throughout the nation, that
the contest this year in Ohio is not,
and cannot be anything but nation-
n contest. 1t is idle to say 1t is local,
yes, and worse than idle-it is dis
honest to make such an assertion
where the democratic platform lays its
especial stress upon national issues. If
a party raises an issue which it knows
is false Issue, merely for the hope
of carrying an electioh, then that par
ny shows in the most striking way
that it is the enemy of the country and
unfit to be entrusted with it's govern
ment. If the spokesman Of party do
not and cannot believe what they say,
whetherin the way of denunciation or
s:nremise, and especially if they promise
what they know they cannot perform,
and what is palpably intended not to
result in performance, but in yote-get-
ting at the moment, then they insult
the conscience and the intelligence of
every free man fit to exercise free
mans privilege.
This is just what the democratic
party in Ohio have done at this time,
and just what its leaders, national and
local. from the top down, are doing
when they speak of expansion, on
trusts and on free silver. It is the sin
cere belief of all right-minded men
who have the welfare of the nation
close at heart, that the position taken
by the Ohio democracy, speaking in
reality for the national democracy in
TINS campaign, IS one destructive OF
nataonal prosperity az nome ana OF ma
uonat honor ABROAD.
"Our opponents denounce trusts. But
they propose not one remedy that
would not make the situation ten times
worse then at its worst it now is.
have read through carefully the
speeches of Mr.. Bryan and of his fell
lows to find out what they propose to
do. / have found plenty of vague de-
nunciation. l have not found so much
as an attempt to formulate national
policy of relief. They pretend that
istne tarlI IaVOrS VTuStS. luey know
that the greatest trusts in this coun-
try, the Standard Oil and the Sugar
trusts, are utterly unaffected by the
tariff. They know well that the trust
with which there is the most wide
spread and deepest dissatisfaction, the
beef trust, is utterly unaffected by the
Z tariff; and in my own state, one Of the
largest trusts, the ice trust; (Which Is
said to have as its most prominent
{ member and promoter that ardent an
ti-trust champion and advocate of Mr..
Bryan, Mr.. Richard Croker) is also
wholly unaffected by the tariff.
aopr onnonents tbrouob tba ro,;o,
and in nartic,,lar here in Ohio nrnnnsa
as . method Of attacls;ng }r r ~
snssda,a WITH ne tar;tf Wb;al ST.,
,,,ean sconnmic d;saster No ~ 1907.
I'D To debs 90 tba coinage wh;o,, ;n =
J;t;a, ~ avon =, ave fr;shtf,,i go, - ~
disaster wouid mean nat;anal dio,c