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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.

Senator Waterman, of Ottumwa,
promptly nailed the senseless lie sent
out from Des Moines to the Chicago
Chronicle, that he and other prominent
republicans of the Sixth district were
opposing the reelection of Major
Lacey. Senator Waterman presents
the paramount issue of this campaign
in no uncertain manner. He goes right
to the point, as follows:
The paramount issue of this cam
paign is, shall the policies which have
produced such universally prosperous
conditions. affecting every class of our
people, be maintained In order to ac-
complish this it is absolutely necessary
to elect William Mckinley and repub-
lican congress.
The statement so far as it refers
to me. is a barefaced lie. / have not
since Major Lacey's nomination utter
ed word either publicly or privately,
or had thought in opposition to his
election, but have been and am now I'M
qualifiedly in favor of his election"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
THE COUNTY TICKET.

The ticket presented to the voters
OF Wapello county by the republican
party is one of the best and strongest
that could have been named. Every
nominee is worthy the support of all
the people. They are well known citi-
zens, men of character and ability and
are without exception capable of fill.
ing the Offices to which they aspire,
The republican administration of coun-
.ty affairs during the past six years
has been economical, business like,
and thoroly efficient. This condition
of affairs will be continued and en-
HANGED by the election of the entire
republican county ticket. Every tax
payer is interested in this and should
see to it that his vote is cast right on
county affairs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
1HE oTTUMwA ooURIER: THURSDAY. OCTOBER IS, 1900.

Eikstein-the plain people" are ask
ing who are the few and where are the
few men who hold all the gold and
dole those out?" Every bank in 1900
offers it's customers gold instead of pa
per currency. And Colonel Bryan has
nothing to say in extenuation of the gil
gantic untruthfulness of his money
trust prophecies in 1896. Neverthe-
less he comes into Nebraska City in
phecies and asks to be believed The
latter predictions are no more ,sensi-
Bile or credible than the former. Pat
ent finance instead of prophecy is Bry-
ans forte. The money trust to elect
a ticket against money, in Industrial
plants; and favorable to money Gin
stead of honor" in Office should shell
out for Bryanarchy. Bryan is a trust
candidate. He is the nominee of three
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. demented
democrats and silver-plated republi-
cans-in one combine.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
IOWA DEMOCRATS WHO ARE oP.
POSED TO FREE SILVER,

E. G. Graham, mayor of Stuart, To-
wa, and one of the leading democrats
of western Iowa, who supported Bry-
an in 1896, has announced that he will
support Mckinley and the republican
ticket this year and will take the
stump to advocate the election of Nc
Kinley. He stated that he diu so be-
cause he was opposed to fusion could
not bear to be called Populist, and
that he had discovered that the pro-
phecies of Bryan had come to naught.
On the other hand, he said, every
Republican promise had been full
filled and the gold standard and pro-
tective tariff had changed the nation
from borrowing to loaning nation.
He said he regarded imperialism and
militarism as cloak to cover free sill
yer.
Capt. w. A. Duc!lworth, for years
a leading Democratic worker of Keo-
sauqua, Iowa. Because expansion is
the true democratic doctrine, and that
Bryan is no democrat.
w. w. Wilmer, Des Moines, Iowa.
Against free silver.
l.. M. Martin, Des Moins, Iowa.
Against free silver.
B. F. Tillinghast, Davenport, Iowa.
Against free silver.
M. Kicker, Waterloo, Iowa. Against
free silver.
j. P. Kieffer, Waterloo, Iowa.
Against free silver.
". j. Knight, Dubuque, Iowa.
Against free silver.
w. J. Cantillon, Dubuque, Iowa.
Against free silver.
Sam G. Sloane, Charles City, Iowa.
Against free silver.
E. Duke Maven La Porte, Iowa. On
poseu to free silver.
Hon. G. S. Ranck, Iowa City Op-
posed to free silver.
Hon. John Overall, Elkader, Iowa.
Opposed to free silver.
Judge ]. c. Mitchell, Ottumwa,
Iowa. Opposed to free silver.
F. M. Hubbell, Des Moines, Iowa.
Opposed to free silver.
George H. Otis, Monona, Iowa. OPP
posed to free silver.
T. j. Sullivan, Elkader, Iowa. Or
posed to free silver
Hon. G.. L. Gilbert. Monona, Iowa,
Opposed to free silver.
Hon. George Scofield, Strawberry
Point, Iowa. Opposed to free silver.
e. Hagenan, Burlington, Iowa. OPP
posed to free silver. 80
Jacob Epstein, Burlington, Iowa.
Opposed to free silver.
H. A. Mathes, Burlington, Iowa. OPP
posed to free s.-ver.
G. H. Premier, Burlington, Iowa.
Opposed to free silver
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
IN 1896 AND NOW.

Hon. j. Sterling Morton: In Sep
TENDER, 1896, a prophet was touring
the United States and delivering fore
casts of the economic conditions which
We're to environ the American people
in case they failed to establish the
free coinage of silver in unlimited
quantities at the ratio of 16 to j, and
to elect as their pre"ident, one Bryan,
The impassioned and earnest sophisms
ami famboyant vagaries uttered in
melliliuent verbiage, by the warm
prophet afore-referred to, caught the
ignorant and disconnected and the vi
cious vote as cheese roasted catches
rats. But in no one inspiration and
eXhortation was Mr.. Bryan more brill
liant and dazzingly conspicuous than
when he remarked with uplifted hand
and fiercely corrugated brow:
Talk about monopolies! Talk about
trusts! My friends, they propose to
establish the most gigantic of all
trusts-a money trust-and let the
few men who hold the gold dole it out
at such price as they will to all the
other seventy millions American peo-
pie. | denounce the policy as more
cruel and heartless than the political
domination of foreign power"
And now, only four years after that
tremendous deliverance, Colonel Bry-
an makes speech on starch trusts,
instead of specie trusts, and fails to
even mention "the most gigantic of all
trusts-a money trust"
And "the few men who hold the gold
dole it out" And in the language of
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
REV. HOOPER HoNoREp.


Has Been rendered the Financial Sec.
retaryship of Graham Hospital.
Rev. ]. M. Hoober of Mt. Pleasant,
has been rendered the financial Sec
retaryship of the G. G. Graham Prot
estaont hospital at Keokuk, and while
he has not formally accepted the
same is considering the offer very fa-
vorably it is said. Rev. Hoober was
in Ottumwa last evening and attend
ed the services at the new Willard
street M. e. church. He was enroute
home from Keokuk, where he preach
Gu Sunday. Last year Rev. Hoober
was pastor of the Methodist Episco-
pal church at Pulaski and prior to
that was at Chillicothe. Ill health
has compelled him 20 give up the act
i've work of the ministry, temporarily,
and the past year he has been enjoy
ing brief respite from the arduous
duties connected with regular pas
torate. He is much improved in
health, however, and expects soon to
be able to resume his former work.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
HOW VOTE?
Suppose | am a laborer.

SuppoSS tLl u ldDOIGr.
What was / doing as late as the
summer of 1896? Oh. / remember, l
was looking for job. Had been out
of steady work for nearly three years
partly on account of strikes, and
then was sick, off and on, for months,
because l had to eat poor food q had
mighty little money saved up for "a
rainy day. and the doctor said l
couldn't work without proper nourish-
ment.
And the wife had to take in washing
to keep her body and soul together.
And the children had to give up going
to the public school because their
clothes were too ragged.
But the clouds rolled by when Nc
Kinley was made president. People
who had money began to put it where
1t would do the most good. They in
vested it in mills and machinery, in
railroad construction, in houses and
Office buildings, in every sort of way
that would furnish work to the me-
chanic and the laborer; and where are
we now? God knows that in all this
broad land any man who wants work
with his two hands can get work, and
at good wages.
And it costs less for bread and meat
and clothes, and for some of the lux
uries Of life than it did curing the hard
times under democratic president
when there was no money or job to be
had.
And whether l am democrat or re-
publican, / know now on which side
my bread is buttered, and here goes
my vote for four years more of the
full dinner pail" brought to me by
President Mckinley. God bless him
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
MAY BE MUSTERED OUT.
Company H, Fifty-First Iowa Falls Be-
low Standard.

low Standard.
Des Moines, Oct. 16.-The fate of
Company H, of the Fifty-first regi-
ment, l. N. G., hangs in the balance.
So deep in the dust are the banners of
this once proud and historic military
organization trailing that it's muster
ing out of service is most seriously
threatened as the result of it's failure
to come up to the standard required
on the recent inspection.
Col. J. A. Olmstead, inspector gene
raj of the National Guard, with Maj.
Rule, assistant inspector general,
made the regular inspection of Com
pany H Thursday evening, this being
the first company of the Fifty-first to
undergo the ordeal. Col. Olmstead
did not find the company satisfactory,
the men showing up poorly at drill,
in the setting up exercises and in
other respects.
Saturday Col. Olmstead wrote for
NAL communication to Adjt. Gen. By
ers, in which he set forth the results
of the inspection. He said briefly that
the company had not come up to the
standard and he recommended that it
be mustered out of service. His letter
was accompanied by the rating Of the
company, showing it had percentage
of 65.6 per cent. 1t was the opinion
of other officers who attended the in
spection that this rating was liberal.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
INsIpuous POLITICAL EVILS.

There are some political evils which
are seen as soon as they are danger
Gus and which alarm at once as well
the people as the government. Wars
and invasions, therefore. are not al
ways the most certain destroyers of
national prosperity. They come in no
questionable shape. They announce
their own approach, and the general
security is preserved by the general
alarm. Not so with the evils of a de-
based coin, deprecated paper cur
rency or depressed and falling public
craft. These insinuate themselves
in the shape of fallacies, accommodate
ton and relief. They hold out the
most fallacious hope of easy payment
of debts and a lighter burden of tax
ation.-Daniel Webster.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
POLITICAL TRIcKsTERs.
1t seems They Are the Kind of PEG.
pie That Bryan Prefers to
Side With.

In recent struggles within local
sections of the democratic party be-
tween the "better clement and the
disreputable element, Bryan has
chosen every time to side with the
disreputable element.
Bryan personally took the stump
for Goebel in Kentucky, despite the
advice and warnings of the best
democrats of the state, who had put
up Brown for governor, as protest.
against the crimes against free gov-
eminent and political decency that
Goebelism VIGOROUSLY meant
Bryan has given official recognition
to the Doodle Clark wing of the de-
mocraey in Montana. An "entang-
ling alliance" with the man who cor
rupted the Maatana legislature and
some state judges in order to get a
seat in the senate, does not seem to
worry his conscience one whit, so
long as the alliance means 100000
contribution to his own campaign
fund.
In New York the official recogni-
ton given by Bryan to Croker, as
against Hill, was the chief means
whereby that notorious TammanN
Hall boss, who lives in England on
New York political plumber, defeated
Coler for the nomination for gov
. ernor-though Coler was the man
whom the best democrats of New
York wanted nominated Croker op.
posed Coler because he opposed Tam.
many's attempts to secure plundeH
and relf from taxpayers. This vic-
tory for Croker, won by brutal im-
perialism, aided by the recognition
from Bryan, the New York Even-
ing Post (Ind.) has described az
the victory of cash over principles,
of matter over mind" The decent
democratic press of New York has
since been bitterly complaining OF
the fact that Bryan is the first dem-
ocratic presidential candidate who
has ever so personally Inundated
himself as to give recognition to
Croker
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
BRYAN,s GREENBAcK IDEA.
II Ii Similar to the National Dsbs
Paying scheme Away Back
In 1868.

The Bryan financial scheme is appar.
entity the grand old idea that carried
the democracy of Ohio off their feet in
1868, and that was simply to print
enough greenbacks to pay of the nas
tional debt and have done with it.
This beautiful thought had majority
in the convention that nominated Sey&
mour and Blair. The actual CONVERSE
ton referred to was this:
Energetic Greenbacker opened the
talk by saying: Hello, you, here; don't
you think you want some more money?
Don't you think we all ought to have
some more money!"
Second Citizen speaking mildly
Well, yes, think I'd like to have sons
more money, and
Energetic Citizen and Leading Dem>
ocrat-Well, then, why don't you help
us have it? What are you standing
around for? Why don't you come and
go with US? You want more money.
and want more money If we all say
SO we can have it, can't we? Amt the
people going to rule this country any
more? If we say print the money
they'll print it, won't they? You bes
long right with us. !.
Second Citizen-But how about res
deemingit? How about paying itup? ,
stalward Democrat again -Redeem
It'll! What the devil do you want to res
deem it for? Let it wear out, and print
more of It'll!
Now, that was the grand old way of
paying, the national debt in '5s. tt
doesn't look unlikely that Mr.. Bryan
will have to make that the paramount
issue in this campaign after all, for
there will be wildfire in the woods
about the protectorate in the Philip,
pines and the Monroe doctrine in Asias
-Murat Halstead.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18

A San Francisco dispatch says
there will be no doubt this year as to
the political sympathies of the people
of California, and the nine electoral
votes of the state may confidently be
placed in the republican column The
size of the plurality is immaterial, but
it is variously estimated at between
5000 and $4,000. Four years ago it
was only 1000 and one of the demo
cratic electors squeezed in by only
14S The reason for the existing
change of sentiment throughout Cali
fornia is that the present policy of the
republican administration has brought
new life and renewed prosperity to
the Pacific coast.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
! The Last Survivor.

The daily papers are announcing
again that the last member of the ia
nous charge of Balaklava is dead.
This time the old warrior of the fam
Gus six hundred is said to be James
A. White, of Sandusky, Ohio. To this
statement the Centerville Iowegian
takes exception and claims Center
vile has a citizen by the name of
Ashton who was a part and parcel
of that memorable charge. Mr. Ash
ton says he ran away from home and
Joined the British army in the Crimea
and was assigned to what was known
as the Light Brigade" Notwith-
standing the fact that Ashton "charg-
ed into the jaws of death, into the
mouth of hell" he is still one of the
survivors of that famous battle.--Mt.
Ayr Record.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
THE SILVER TRUST.

Hon. ]. Sterling Morton, in the
Conservative: If Mr.. Bryan intends
to punish all corporations that en-.
gage in politics, why has he neglect
ed to order his attorney general to
proceed against the silver smelter
trust at Omaha, that has been I'M
usually active in politics, that has
openly sought to influence legislation,
that has contributed generously to the
campaign funds of the silver propa-
ganda?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
dollar they take two dollars OF the

dollar they take two dollars of the
workers wages.
A majority of the people of this
country don't want to ruin the indus
tries of the country nor do they want
an aristocracy of class. They want
government by and for the peo-
pie, such as we have had for the past
four years, and will have for the next
four, labor voting-selfishly, perhaps
for its own prosperity.
When the workingman is prosper
GUS, the whole nation is prosperous.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
"B. CT

Hon. ]. Sterling Morton, in the Con-
servative: These letters, thus used,
do not mean Before Christ. They
merely mean Bryan and Croker. Blus-
ter and bribery form the political
trust which proposes to monopolize
all offices in New York, both federal
and state. Every vote for Bryan is a
vote for Tammany Hall, for bribery,
for reeking rottenness in Office and
for the exaltation of vice and UNI
speakable crimes in the city of New
York
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
A Compliment to Lacey.

~ COMPARTMENTS 70 GdCSys
Governor Shaw paid Major Lacey
a handsome compliment in the course
of his address at Muchakinock. He
said that while at Washington last
winter he found greater orators and
men who talked more than Mr.. Lacey
but when it came down to the influ-
entail men in congress he was the peer
of any. No man in Washington
worked more hours or harder for his
constituency, and it would be loss
to Iowa and shame to his district
not to return him this year with an
increased majority. -Oskaloosa Her.
aid.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18

Harry Lesan, Of the Mahin Advertis-
ing Agency, whose business is largely
with big wholesalers and manufacture
ers of st. Louis, declares that the talk
of Missouri going republican this year
is founded upon indications that make
this result a very strong probability.
Mr.. Lesan states that in st. Louis it
is almost impossible to find among
business men single supporter of Mr..
Bryan. In fact to the outsider the bust
ness men Of ST. Louis appear to be
unanimous for Mckinley.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18

The letter of Judge Trimble, of
Keokuk, has fallen like bomb into
the Bryanistic ranks. The reason for
this is the more evident when it is re-
membered that Judge Thimble has
been the candidate of Iowa democra-
cy for both governor and congress.
man. When democrats of this stamp
come out squarely against the candi-
date and the platform of the party, it
hurts and hurts very badly.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
Farmers! Look Out!

New Sharon Star: During the pros
perity reign that set in with the cleo
ton of President Mckinley, thous-
ands of farmers all over the country
have not only succeeded in wiping out
the heavy debts they were forced to
contract by the disastrous democrat
ic administration, but. encouraged by
the good times of the past three
years, have purchased additional
land, going in debt for part of the
purchase price thereof and securing
the same by giving mortgage on the
farm, counting on continued prosper
ity, which is all well enough provided
it continues. The trouble that now
confronts them lies in the threatened
danger of a change from republican
good times to democratic hard times,
and it is as plain as the nose on your
face that if such change comes
thousands of farmers, now prosper
ing in splendid way, will fail, will
be forced to submit to foreclosure,
will lose their farms. They have
made their purchases on the McKin-
ley prosperity basis, and if that ba-
sis remains, all will be well, but if
payments are to be made on demo-
cratic basis. free trade and Ascent
dollar basis, financial ruin is as Ger.
tain as the rising of the sun in the
east.
Now is the time to avoid such ca
lamity by seeing to it that the policy
which brought prosperity is retain
ed. If Mckinley is defeated, if a
democratic congress is elected and
democratic policy is Reconstructed, the
country will again be grooming in fl
no inl lSctr IL,
stead of eating square meal at their
own tables,will be tramping in search
of government soup house, the
All Good Men.-Notice the list of
names on the republican county tick
et-Harry Hammond for auditor, H.
w. Michaels for clerk, Geo. H. Smith
for recorder, D. H. Emery for attor-
ney, and John M. McElroy for super
visor-a list of clean, honorable,
straightforward men, the election of
which ticket will insure a strict bust
ness-like and honest county admins
tration.-Eldon Forum.
About Major Lacey-One of the
Globe concern happened to drop into
a car seat Tuesday just ahead of a
gentleman of wide repute politically.
Were his name mentioned he would
be conceded as eminent authority. In
speaking of Major Lacey he said, he
is an architect. He can plan and lay
the frame work of noble building.
This completed, others may be his
equal or better in finishing the work.
They may be able to better bring out
the fine grain of the wood, to draw
the effects, but as the architect, as to
his ability in laying the original plan
there are none his superior-Oska-
loosa Globe.
Lacey's Majority.-Lacey should
have 1000 majority, and will
have more than that if every voter in
the district goes to the polls.-New
Sharon Star.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18

Statistics show that under the Nc
Kinley law more than SAL 100000 were
paid out in wages every Saturday af-
ternoon to the laboring people of the
United States. Under the operations
of the Wilson law, a democratic meas
ure, the total amount thus paid out
fell to less than $19,O00000 per week,
or shrinkage of S22,000,000 per week.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18

"If there is any one who believes
the gold standard is good thing, or
that 1t must be maintained, ] warn
him not to cast his vote for me be-
cause promise him 1t will not be
maintained In this country longer than
am able to get rid Of it."-Hon. Wi.
liam Jennings Bryan, Knoxville, Tenn,
Sept. 16, 1896.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18

1t is of most vital Importance that
every republican and every voter who
desires to continue prosperity, who
believes in maintaining good govern
ment and who does not want to see
the next house of representatives con-
trolled by the democrats, should go
to the poles on election day and vote
for Lacey and the entire republican
ticket
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
Result of Economy.

The democratic campaign manag.
ers show grain of good. sense now
and then. They are not spending
mucn money in trying to carry iowa
for Bryan. Their economies in that
state have gone to such an extreme
that they have allowed their organ at
the state capital the Des Moines Dai.
ly Democrat, to flicker out" month
before the close of the campaign
st. Paul Pioneer Press.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18

Company Building at an End.
During the month of August new
companies We're organized in New Jer.
sey with aggregate capital stocks Of
$4,000, 600. This is the lowest for any
month for years, and indicates plainly
that the era of consolidation Of manu-
featuring interests is practically atan
end.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-18
Hon L. NJ. Martin. chairmen

Hon L. M Martin, chairmen of the
gold democratic organization of the
United States issued an address to
sound money democrats in which the
declaration is made that the necessity
for the defeat of Mr.. Bryan is the para
mount issue in this campaign All
sound nancy advocates who opposed
the election of Bryan in 1895 are urg-
ed to avert disaster to the country by
assisting in the election of Mckinley.