Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-16

American liberty. it barters the ma
tons honor and the peoples hope to
the Infamous dictates and the brutal |
demands of a Mark Hanna, while, |
With all the cringing subserviency of
a moral and physical coward, and all
the fragrant sacrilege of wan,oa
apostate, it libels the manhood of our
race and the cherished memory OF our
honored dead by claiming political
kinship with the immortal Lincoln,
the Great Emancipator.
Rannaism. Not the Party of Lincoln.
But this claim to honorable paterni-
ty for the ill-born Offspring of its DO
litical principles is base and palpa
Bile falsehood. Abraham lincoln abel
lshed subject class in this republic
upon the broad principle that all men
are created free and equal, the funda-
mental doctrine of democracy, penned
in the Declaration of Independence
by the hand OF Thomas jefferson and
Imprinted upon the palpitating heart
or humanity by the omnipotent God OF
the Universe. But the party of Hanna
naism and McKinleyism would re-
establish subject class under the
American flag, and thus would auench
the lustre of every star that Love and
Liberty have fixed upon it's field of
blue.
Abraham Lincoln represented in his
person and in his political tenets the
great masses of the people, whose ag-
gregate voice shaped and formed the
nations policy in the promotion and
advancement of human liberty; the
sole duty of the party of Hanna Is to
register and execute the irresponsible
dictates of one man in the interests
of the unholy combinations Of which
he is the official moutnpiece, and to
| perpetuate in power an administration
that has not only dis.egarded the in
terests of the masses, but is pledged
to the overthrow of every cherished
principle that has made our govern
ment the glory of the world.
The policy of Abraham Lincoln IN
relation to foreign alliances and Ell
tanglements was founded upon the
teachings and counsels and warming;
of George Washington. The rcpu Nj,
can party of to-day, while it endorses
with hypocritical eulogy this doctrine
of the fathers, has already, thru
it's executive and state departments
entered into secret and covert al
lance with the arch-enemy Of our
republic and it's free institutions--an
enemy who is at this moment carrying
out it's hereditary work of stranglina
human liberty in our sister republic:
| of South Afica, a most damnabic
work, in which it has the moral aid
and support of an American adminis
, tration that is now asking reflector
to power at the hands Of peanit
{ who proudly boast a citizenship borr
' of the blood of our Revolutionary.
, forefathers.
Peoples Constitutional Rights Denied
The principles of Lincoln wee
based upon the principles of TIL.
, Declaration of Independence, wherein
, it is lecreed that the right to COVER,
!, involves the consent of the governed
!, that all men are endowed with tM'
Z inalienable rights to life, liberty an,
a the pursuit of happiness, and that til,
I primary object and the ulterior lie
sign of our federal government wer,
to secure these rights to all person
;. within it's jurisdiction. The part.
# which styles itself the party of Lin
, coin today sneers at tie ancient prir
= ciples of that great document of til
= fathers as out Of date and too ant
q quated for our modern tendencies,
v and for use only in front porch plal
tudes hypocritically mouthed by it
candidate for the presidency; cand
:. date who denies the power of tn
, peoples constitution by denying il
! privileges to ten millions of peopl
:. within it's exclusive jurisdiction-dt
= nying to them the inalienable rigk.
:" avowed by the fathers, and assertia
y by three years of administrative abuG
=. ae of power that the theory of the rigt
!, to govern being derived from the col
~ sent of the governed is lie again:
u the divine right of the governor;
- candidate who declares by his offici;
y acts that taxation without represent
W tion is the ideal condition if the inte
y, ests of the trust may be thereby SUI
W served, condition created by I'll
levy of an unconstitutional tariff Ia
O. upon the unfortunate people OF Por
3; Rico. whom McKinleyism and tn
d. trusts, by false pretenses, brou2l
rs within the sphere of their 'sexcl
Or siye jurisdiction" the most blasphel
lg Gus usurpation of power this count
n, has ever known.
"a "a Slavery and Polysamy Re-EstabIishe
es Abraham Lincoln declared THAI
ID was the right and imperative duty
y congress to prohibit in this count
70 and under our flag those twin reli
ed Of barbarism, polygamy and SLAYER
President Mckinley, greater than CO
nd gress, above the constitution, and il
I'd bued, no doubt, with the imperial th
IN ory of divine right, has graciously i
OF cognized those twins, and under