Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-01
Abba Lawyer in South Ottumwa
Tuesday Evening.
HE DELIVERS ELOQUENT ADDRESS.
Attendance Very Large and Much In
terest Misunderstanding. kendall's
Views on eriaIism-Synopsis of
Address in Fry's Hall,
From Wednesdays Daily.

tic meetings of the present campaign
in Wapello county are summed up, the
one held in South Ottumwa last even
ing will be accorded prominent place.
Fry's hall, where the meeting was
held, is the largest room on the South
Side, and it was entirely inadequate to
accommodate the audience that listened
to the eloquent discussion of the is
sues of the day by Hon. N. e. Kendall
Monroe county's able representative in
the state legislature. Mr.. Kendall is
recognized as one of the most gifted
takers in the state, and last evening
he proved himself fully worthy of that
distinction. The residents of South
Ottumwa, nor indeed any part of the
district have never listened to a better
argument, a more eloquent discourse,
nor more able Interpretation of the
political affairs of the country
The meeting was called to order by
w. F. Cole, and DR.. G. G. Powell was
selected as chairman for the evening
Music was furnished by the drum
corps, and the Ottumwa Glee club. The
latter organization executed several
vocal selections, which were heartily
applauded by those present. One thing
in this connection was particularly
which a declaration was made for Nc
Kirley, they substituted the name
Major Lacey for that of Major Nc
Kinley, and the applause shook the
house.
Mr.. Kendall was introduced and
spoke in part as follows:-I am pro-
foundly grateful for the opportunity
afforded me tonight to speak to such
q c,,1apdi1 op6ionca ON, o1 10
know that you have carefully consider
last decided to send out of Wapello
county majority of five hundred for
Major Lacey and for Major Mckinley
a can talk to you on republican
doctrines as l understand them, but
l do not desire to wound the feelings
of the most sensitive among my hear.
ers who disagree with my opinions.
believe in politics. In my estimation
the very next best thing after red
ho1 republican is a red hot democrat.
believe in being sincere and outspok-
en- in ones beliefs. l think it right
tha5 there should be two distinct par.
ties in politics. We have fourteen
which, in my estimation, is an even
| dozen too many. l believe that there
should be one party to administer the
affairs of the government and one to
stand on guard and see things per-
formed From reading the history of
the democratic and republican parties
| have come to the conclusion that the
republican party is best fitted to ad-
minister the government, while the
other party is admirably adapted to
the task of standing on guard
81 am a republican because the re-
publican party is willing to look into
the future, and can look at the past
without misgivings; am republican
because that party will look back, but
that under no circumstances can be
Influenced in that direction; l am a
republican because that party has
never had occasion to look upon the
flag and blush; because it has never
been in conflict with the army of the
United States; because it has never
learned the dismal and doleful Ian
guage of retreat
"Never since the civil war ended al
Appomattox in blaze of glory, has il
ever seemed more sensible to be re
publican, never has it seemed more
, unreasonable to be a democrat, never
has it seemed more pitiable to be
, populist. A Kansas poet has summed
, up in four lines the situation in this
country at the present time, as fol
lows:
| Splendid rains.
Good crops,
Happy homes,
No pops.
Democracy has been banished tc
the outer darkness, and so far as we
have ascertained to the present, NJ
relief party has been sent to it's rescue
Understand that when / speak to yor
OF the democratic party l do not refer
to the party of Jefferson, of Douglass
/ and of Tilden, but to the conglomera
/ ton of parties which means Crokerisn
: in New York, Tillmanism in North Car
t DINA, Pettigrewism in South Dakota
Apuinaldoism in the Orient and Bryan
ism everywhere.
Y do you remember the prophetic!
t made by the democratic speakers dur
: ing the memorable campaign foul
t years ago? | have with me bool
: which includes some of these prophe
l cies-Bryans First Battle The
speaker then read few choice selec
lions from Mr.. Bryan's famous work
y which asserted that the country would
20 to ruin if the republican party wa'
|. put into power. These prophecies arr
. so familiar to the people that repeti
!, ton of them is unnecessary. Continu
g ing he said:
. Now the democrats have put int
= cold storage the issues with whicl
a they confronted us four years ago, ant
:, have found new ones. These new is
i sues, in my estimation, are manufac
tured by lawyers without clients, doc
q tors without patients, financiers with
d out money, and statesmen out of
r. job. One of their principal issues, tn
s one they call paramount is base
upon the results of war into whic,
this nation entered with Spain. Tw
years ago the fact was impressed upo
v the heads of this government that tn
4 inhabitants of Cuba were being unjust
v ly treated by Spain. Mckinley, know
h ing the inevitable horrors of war, di
-e LIS best to keep out of the difficult.
is We forbore until forbearance cease
r to be virtue, we delayed until della.
10 ing came to be crime. We petition