Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-16
Iowa Folloz ers Of Bryan in Session at
edar Rapids Today.
NOMINEES FOR STATE OFFICES SELECTED
Convention Comes Order This Morning Hears Speech
Of Temporary Chairman-Resut of the Sixth
District Caucus -Mackey Endorsed
FOR Elector at Large

Cedar Rapids, Aug. 16.-(Special.)-
Last nights trains brought in many
delegates and this morning when the
convention was called to order there
were probably 500 delegates seated.
The galleries were deserted, not over
10U spectators being present.
The day dawned with rain and the
elements have taken turn about with
old Sol in giving the visitors taste
of Cedar Rapids weather. The con-
vention hall is gayly decorated with
of the stage are draped portraits of
Bryan and Stevenson. Several large
jardineers of flowers made the front
Of the platform attractive. Myers
military band, seated in the balcony,
rendered several selections while the
delegates were arriving.
Convention Called to Order.
Chairman Huffman called the con-
vention to order at II o'clock and read
the call Prayer was offered by Rev.
j. H. Palmer, of Cedar Rapids, after
which Hon. John t. Hamilton, of Ce-
dar Rapids, was introduced and deliv-
cred short address of welcome. Hon.
John B. Dennison, of Wright county,
temporary chairman, was next intro
duced and began his speech. Mr..
no,p;eoy 10 a hoord1occ yo,,po man
who does not look over "a years of
age. His speech was flowery in the
extreme and its rhetoric could hardly
be improved upon. 1t was delivered
in dramatic manner without ges-
lures, but with a voice that rose and
fell into every corner of the hall. Only
once or twice, however, did the speech
bring more than light hand clap
from the delegates. He concluded it
with a glowing eulogy of Bryan, which
took the convention off it's feet for
few minutes.
Temporary chairnnan's Speech.
Mr.. Dennison spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Gentlemen of the Convention, La
dies and Gentlemen: l am deeply
sensible of the high honor accorded
me in being invited to preside over
the deliberations of this magnificent
body of the uncomfortable democ-
racy of Iowa. The fervor, faith and
fidelity of the democrats of the Hawk
eye state, their devotion to those un.
<1rys. y,,,sy nt,,1 sn1,
government as enunciated by the fath.
ers of this republic, ere the strongest
evidence that they are animated by
sentiments higher and holier than the
mere partisanship which induces the
quest for the spoils OF Office.
Inspired and sustained by the unfal
tering spirit of human liberty, The IA
theirs of this republic laid broad and
deep the foundations of the American
system of government-the first ir
the history of the world based upor
the eternal principles of the rights o.
man as contradistinguished from tie
infamous theory of the divine righ1
of kings.
Menace to Republican institutions
Today the fundamental principles 0
hat government are jeopardizsd b.
combination Of greed, selfishnes,
and corruption, startling in its mag
nitude and organization, and damnabl,
in the admitted object of it's unhoi,
ambition.
Intoxicated by the temporary sue
cess of 1896, a success achieved b,
organized coercion and misrepresel
tation, aided by a hypocritical declal
alton of ultra-patri otism; deliriou
from the effects of three years dc
bauch in public plunder, in which tn
peoples constitution has been tran
pied under foot, it now throws o.
even the semblance Of disguise an
boldly and openly Droclaims it's cor
tempt for constitutional limitation
and time -honored policies, assertin
the sovereignty of the Individual t
be political and economic fallac.
and the sovereignty CT the dollar t
be supreme.
Recognizing no constitutional n
striction upon it's power to leglslate
deriding the Declaration of Indepen,
ence, wherein the noblest sentiment
of humanity have been enshrined IL
century and quarter; stigmatizin
the lessons taught by Washington
Jefferson and Lincoln as the politics
superstitions of an age of ignorani
and popular presumption, it jugglt
with the name and sentiments of n
tional patriotism to Eerpetuate Its
spotic control of government and
fortify it's possession of usucpe
power.
Surrendering every sentiment al
every generous impulse of that prot
manhood of American citizenship i
herited from the glorious sires 4