Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-03
Dolliver Addresses Chicago
Hamilton Club Last Night.
SPEAKS. ON THE ISSUES.
Anticipates Arguments of Democrats
to BE Embodied In Their Platform
and Answers Them With wit,
Sarcasm, and LogIce


liver, the representative of the republic
can enthusiasm which nominated The
odore Roosevelt, at Philadelphia, spoke
before the ratification meeting last
night in Steinway Hall, in which the
Hamilton club Endorsed the choice of
the national convention.
The Iowan sustained a reputation
for eloquence, sarcasm and wit. His
argument for the republican principles
and leaders were made in detail. He
considered the position of the party on
trusts, on the relation of the nation
to its island possessions, on its finances
on industrial conditions, and on the
tariff. The irony and humor with
which he dealt with questions expect
ed to be raised by the Kansas City
convention held the crowd within the
hall in laughter. 1t was the, opening
of the republican campaign in the
west.
Mr.. Dolliver was preceded by Comp
troller Charles G. Dawes, who spoke of
the craftsmanship of the president in
handling questions veXing the nation,
of his timely, forbearance and wise con-
servatism. The speakers were present.
ed by Frank 0. Lowden, vice president
of the Hamilton club.
NIiiftarism Not a Menace.
The Iowa orator took. up for discus
sion in turn each of the principles over
which there is political debate. With
reference to the reputed menace of
military power in the republic, he not
ed that the army, proportionately to
population, is smaller today than it
was twenty years ago.
The American soldier,' he said, sis
the American school boy with a gun.
He is less to be, feared than boy ora
tor armed only with an unabridged
dictionary.
II have been told by friend who
spoke with Mr.. Bryan, and who, there
fore, himself speaks by the book, that
the political campaign will be made
| against the party which has brought
the country into the disgrace into
which it has fallen in refusing to help
a nation struggling for liberty. Such
a policy is infamous. No president of
the United States ever has or ever will
imperil the lives and happiness of the
citizens of this land by intervening in
a foreign quarrel
| Fakes Up Subject OF Trusts.
Proceeding to consideration Of cor
porations and consultations of capital
he said:
"The republican party has no quar-
rel with capital. am not SO thoroly
| frightened on the subject of trusts as
l was two years ago. should not at
tempt to state how large corpora
ton should grow before it becomes a
menace to the nations welfare.
"a mans business should not be
made the subject for political abuse
| just because it has grown from small
things to great things. Institutions
which have sought to monopolize in
dustries,such as those in iron and steel
it may be admitted, are not planned for
the general happiness.
"There are ways of combating them,
as has been indicated recently. When
the directors of the American Steel and
| Wire company ordered eighteen mills
closed down they found that there
| were OlHSIS Oh Tile OUTSIDE VINO con-
tinued the production. They ordered
40 per cent cut in prices, and they
found that it was met. The men
whom they had bought out had taken
the purchase money and had establish-
ed other mills.
american brains and American
nerve will meet these corporations in
competition. The conflict will be like
that of the swordfish against the whale
The swordfish always wins.
Bryan AID the souphouses.
"However, do not propose that the
republican party shall be charged with
fostering trusts. Mr.. Bryan has said
that he knew the republican party IA
vored them, because they grew so rap
idly. BY the same logic Mr.. Bryan
must have fostered souphouses.''
| The Indian Famine
London, June 27.-The yiceroy of In
dia, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, cables
that the Monsoon has considerably inn
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