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

! standard, and in its faithful support of
the administration of President Nc
Kinley in his policy in peace and
war.
5th. We rejoice in the prospective
election of David B. Henderson to be
speaker of the house of representa-
tiyes. and endorse him as wholly
worthy Of that honor.
9th. We re-adopt the following dec
laration from the Iowa republican
platform of 1898:
The monetary standard of this
country and the commercial world is
gold. The permanence of this standard
must be assured by congressional Leg
islation, giving to it the validity and
vitanuy of public law. All other
money must be kept at parity with
gold"
And we urgently call upon our sem
ators and representatives in congress
to lend their best endeavors to enact
these propositions into law.
18th. We denolmce the Chicago plat
| form and its declaration in favor of
free trade and free, silver coinage at
the ratio of sixteen to one, and its at
tack upon the courts, as threatening
the American people with a departure
of the policies of the government that
would prove fraught with evil to the
American people. The enormities of
that platform call for me resistance of
all good citizens.
sth. As republicans we make recog-
milton of the loyalty and exalted pa
| triotism of the sound money democrats
and men OF all parties who put aside
partisanship in order to maintain the
/ of ,S.f
/ ence to the Chicago platform and its
candidate.
9th. To maintain the welfare of the
people is the object and end of all gov
ernment. Industry and commerce
should be left free to pursue their
method according to the natural laws
of the world, but when the business
aggregation known as trusts prove
| hurtful to the people, then they must
be restrained by adequate latv, and if
need be, abolished.
| 10th. We believe in the wisdom and
high purpose of the president of the
| United States. We admire the skill
and courage of our officers in the con-
f1ict with the misguided FiIipinos. We
glory in the valor, the constancy, the
heredity heroism of our soldier boys
of the army and navy. Not...ng of sup
! port. of sympathy, OF moral and ma
! terial aid and comfort, will we ever
4 withhold from them. There shall be
no division among as until all in arms
against the flag shall confess its SUI
| preme right and power and shall know
that even in the farthest east it is a
lsign and promise of equal law, of JUS
tice and liberty throughout the land
and to all the inhabitants thereof.
11th. That for the national defense,
4 for the reinforcement of the navy, for
the enlargements of .sur foreign mar
4 lsets. for the employment of American
/ working men, in the mines, forests,
| farms. mills, factories and shipyards,
we favor the enactment OF legislation
which will retain for American ships
the carrying of our foreign commerce
Governor shaw Accepts.
After the rising vote by which Gov
ernor l.. NJ. Shaw was unanimously
4 renominated there were loud calls for
the governor. The chair appointed
/ Messrs. Mcpherson. Dolliver and Hal-
gen to bring him before the conven-
ton and at the end of the first ballot
for supreme judge he spoke as follows,
being received with the greatest en-
thusiasm:
4 Gentlemen of the convention and fell
low citizens: To be the nominee OF
any political party for the office OF
\ governor of any state of this nation
may well be considered a great honor,
but to be twice called by the republi-
can party to occupy the chair of the
chief executive of Iowa, makes me
debtor to my state in a need of graft
| tude which shall keep me bankrupt
| forever.
What is this party that thus invites
4 to the head of the ticket and in the en-
| suing campaign promises undivided
| support and glorious victory? Is it
| twelve hundred chosen men gathered
in this hall today to formulate a plat
form and make nominations? Or is it
the two hundred and fifty thousand
| intelligent electors who will endorse
/ these principles and support that
4 ticket at the polls in November next
Is it that body of men who met in st.
Louis in June of 1896 and there fear
| lessly and wisely declared for a pro-
tective tariff. reciprocity, a single gold
standard of value, and all things sta
bic, and who there placed in nomina-
ton that leader of leaders, that prince
of statesmen, whose name has been
upon the kindly lips of more people,
and who has been reverently mention
ed at more family altars during the
last eighteen months the world around
than any other American, living or
dead-William Mckinley? Oris it the
seven million men who secured IA VIC
tory for those principles and that man,
more overwhelming than any that has
marked the record of any party in this
country for the third of century ?
No, republicanism does not consist oi
men alone. The republican party is
more than a name, and more than the
names of all the men who have ever
vowed it glad allegiance. Republican,
ism is history, is prophecy. is fulfill
ment; and it holds upon its roll oil
honor the name of every American
who, in the field of craftsmanship, for
the last forty years, has accomplished
|anything that has survived the quad
renninm of its performance.
And what is Iowa republicanism
4 Go with me to the seat of national
government and there ask to he
shown where sits the most influential
| the most widely known, and the mos
universally respected and beloved