Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-11
the contrary believe with Grover
Cleveland that a public Office is a

IuC contrary DelleVe WIN GTOVSr
Cleveland that a public Office is a
public trust"
I'VE arraign the party for the infa-
nous ship subsidy bill, fathered by
Mark Hanna, which is nothing but a
steal from the treasury.
I'VE arraign the party for the pas
sage of the Dingley tariff bill.
We arraign them on the trust
question. They are insincere in their
protestations of enmity to trusts be-
cause they have at no time made an
effort to enforce laws against them or
create new ones to stamp out the evil.
I'VE accuse the republican party of
insincerity on the money question. In
1896 it declared in favor of bimetallism
but instead it has saddled upon us the
single standard.
eve accuse the administration with
having secretly urged Great Britain to
wage war upon the South African re-
public. If they deny this show them
their platform and ask them il it con-
tains single sentence calculated to
encourage the Boer. Silence must be
taken as a confession of guilt
May the brave Boer fight, on, may
he keep the banner flying and on the
4th of next March we will inaugurate
man who will proclaim from Pre-
toria to Manila that he is the presI-
dent of republic and not tool in the
hands of a few"
Mr.. Lewis took occasion at this time
to relate a story about the Irishman's
mule and to accuse Judge Mitchell of
as much ignorance of the principles of
the republican party as possible.
Continuing, Mr.. Lewis said: My
friends we are going to make a patriot
ic campaign; we are going to sing eve
ry day, My Country 'Tis of Thee and
The Star Spangled Banner Why ev-
en- the flag would look out of place at
a republican meeting this fall. Oh,
I'll tell you my friends, anybody can
make democratic speech this year,
all he has to do is to get down the con-
stitution and read it,"
A. c. Steck.
Pat Riordan made motion to pro-
coed with the business of the conven-
ton as he did not want to stay all day.
The chair, however, had another
program in his vest pocket and an
nounced that A. G. Steck would speak.
Mr.. Steck said that the convention
had an important duty to perform and
he wanted them to be careful how they
did it. He feelingly referred to the
presence of the gray boards. Said it
was the most encouraging thing of all
to him. Mr.. Steck said: Il want you
to know that Steck never went to bee
with malice in his heart against any
man. If am elected l will do my du-
ty as | see it and when 1 come back
will not be ashamed to take any OF
you by the hand. hope to meet you
later in your school houses and until
then will bid you good day."
SAINT Kirkpatrick.
The chair introduced SAINT Kirkpat-
rick, who said:
about five weeks ago / was in
doubt as to whether l would be with
you because you remember at that
time was called upon to preach my
own congressional political funeral, but
Mr.. Chairman / do not look like
corpse do l?
81 travel over this country and find
that dreadful disease is prevalent.
1t is called apathy, but have failed to
find any democrats afflicted with it,
Here he related dream of his in
which he dreamed that he went to
heaven and to test his fitness had to
go up long ladder and write on each
round his political sins. Near the top
he found Jno. F. Lacey coming down
for more chalk.
County Central Committee.
The county central committee for
the ensuing year was chosen as fol-
lows:
Adams, John Heckart; Agency,
j. F. Dodd; Cass, G. M. Biggs; Cen
ter 1, James Conway; Center 2, Theo
Stoessel; Center 3, Claude Myers;
Center 4, Jas. Gee; Center 5, Eugene
Riggs; Center 6, Nv. A. Stevens, Cen
ter Z, Geo. +. Heindel; Center g.,
Michael Garvin; Center 9, Frank
Whitcomb; Columbia /. o. H. Seibert,
Columbia 2, Pat. Cogley; Competine,
NJ. e. Silvers; Dahlonega, Guy Kit
terman; Green, G. w. Shields; High
land J. w. Mccormick; Keokuk, John
Emery; Pleasant, R. M. Williams,
Polk, Vardeman Ross; Richland l.,
John Carson; Richland 2, W. A. G..
Brown; Washington, E. j. Bradley
From Mondays Daily.
Auditor-E. S. Parker of Pleasant
township.
Clerk of the district court-c. B..
koett, of the second ward.
County Recorder-H. e. Allen, of
the fourth ward.
County Attorney. c. Hendershott,
of the third ward.
Member of the board of supervisors
William Wilson, of the ninth pre-
cinct.
The democratic county convention
Saturday afternoon in this city was
as mild as day in early June and a
beautiful example of brotherly love.
Usually when democrats get together
and some man wants an Office and does
not get it there is war, but Saturday
candidates who saw defeat, cheerfully
accepted the inevitable and in some
cases aid not even wait for the first
formal ballot, but moved that it be
made formal and the nomination of the
strong candidate be made unanimous.
1t was as surprising as it was pretty,
all of which leads up to the fact that
democracy has an inspiration. They
are optimistic. They claim to be unit