Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-25
THECAMP AlCN.
First Republican Meeting in
Wapello County.
ADDRESSBY JUDGESMITH
Council Bluffs Candidate for Congress
From the Ninth District Heard by
a Large Number of voters-synop.
sis Of His Speech.

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From Thursdays Daily.
Judge Walter |. Smith, of Council
Bluffs, opened in Eddyville last even.
ing, the republican campaign for Wa.
z pello county. The meeting. was high
ly successful, being well attended and
bringing forth much enthusiasm.
4 Judge Smith is a forcible and original
( talker, he has arguments to meet
every statement the opposition can
make, and presents those arguments
in such convincing manner that his
hearers can not help but see their
congress in the Ninth district to fill
the place made vacant by the election
of Smith Mcpherson to- the federal
judgeship. In speaking of the pros
poets for the campaign Judge Smith
said that he has had good crowds
wherever he has talked, and expects
one of the greatest republican maj
critics for Mckinley and the whole
ticket this fall that has ever been
given at any time, the only thing nee
essary being the polling of all the rep
ublican votes. He has no fears that
Iowa's close districts, the second and
sixth, will fail to roll up good mai
critics and elect republican congress
men,
The meeting last evening was held
in the Leggett opera house, and was
called to order at eight o'clock by
township committman, F. M. Epper-
son, who selected as chairman for the
evening, w. R. Nelson. Mr.. Nelson,
in a brief speech introduced Judge
Smith, who spoke on the several
qpestions of the campaign for about
one and one-half hours, making a
comprehensive talk which was we'll
appreciated by the audience. Judge
Smith said in part:
Mr.. Chairman Ladies and Gentle
men; A distinguished republican
chief executive once said, He best
serves his country who serves his
party best Every mans ALLEGIANCE
is due his country. and he ows none
to his party except as his services
to the party benefit the country. The
two interests, then should be the
same. With this fact in mind, there.
fore it becomes our duty, as we ap-
proach the twenty-ninth presidential
election, to re-exanmine our political
beliefs and faiths, and determine the
most advantageous course to pursue.
1.-THE republican party is confront
ed this year by a conglomeration of
parties, including democrats, populists
and so-called silver republicans, with
William Jennings Bryan at their head.
They have variety of issues and
confusion of ideas. In the early days
Of the government, there We're but two
parties and practically but one issue.
The party of Washington and Hamil-
ton were in favor of a government
wherein the country, as whole, had
the controlling voice. In other words
strong central government. Oppos-
ed to this party was the one which
advocated no less sincerely a govern
ment wherein the states should have
the most power, and the central gov
eminent would be rather a secondary
affair. The result of this early con-
troversy is found in the constitution,
which is series of compromises and
concessions, first one side being vest
ed with power, and then the other
given a counteracting Office. Even to-
day we feel the effects of this early
controversy, for the struggle did not
cease with the adoption of the con-
stitution. Some construed the meas
ures literally and some strictly. Ths
question of states rights was the par
amount issue for years.
This old controversy has a direct
bearing upon the issues of this cam
paign. There are countless thous.
ands tied to the democratic party of
Jefferson and his co-workers, but if
convinced that they are mistaken
they would cease to have anything to
do with the party. 1t still bears the
same name, still has the same demo.
cratic tiger with the same stripes, but
the issue for which Jefferson worked
has been lost sight of IN direct way
and replaced first by one issue, then
by another, each of which they have
declared to be the right one, and each
of which has signally failed.
Free Trade.
I'm 1892 the democrats assured the
country that the great issue was tar.