Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-17
LACEY RE-NoMlNATED.
Judge J. C. Mitchell Delivers Eloquent
Speech in Nomination.


Speech in Nomination.
The one important matter of bust
ness before the republican convention
was the nomination of a congressional
candidate for the sixth district of
Iowa. In accordance with the general
wishes of the people of this district all
eyes were turned to the man who for
years has SO ably represented the peo-
pie of this part of Iowa in the house
of representatives of the national con-
gress, Hon. John F. Lacey.
Judge J. C. Mitchell Of Otumwa hav-
ing been selected by the congressional
committee to make the nominating
speech, in presenting the name of this
honored legislator and statesman to
the convention for it's consideration,
said:
Matters of great moment are before
the country-the preservation of civil
government lately established in the
Philippine Islands and its future modi-
fication along the lines of American
self government, from time to time, as
rapidly as may be consistent with or
der and the security of person and
property, until the people of those is
lands shall be as fully self-governed as
are the people of Iowa; an efficient,
yet just, control of monopolies and ag-
gregations of capital; diplomacy by
which enlarged foreign markets may
be secured for our increased and ever
increasing factory and agricultural
| products; the dealing with our tariff
laws in such manner that may be just
to our consumers and at the same
time without gripping our present or
discouraging the establishment among
us of new industries; the perfecting of
monetary sysytem, that recurrence
Of monetary panics may be forestalled,
or, at least, minimiZed the construc-
| ton of an inter-oceanic ship canal, and
the formulation of a permanent policy
as to other nations on which it shall
be maintained and operated; and as
important to us, and more important
than all, to humanity at large, the in
ternational policy, that shall guide us
in the relations suddenly thrust upon
us in the late universal recognition Civ,
en- us as one of the worlds greatest
powers.
Need Men of Precedence.
"These matters demand that our
governmental affairs should be in the
hands of men of prescience. of cool
head, of firm resolve, of patient persist
ence and of broad experience, impell.
ed by an enlightened patriotism, pro-
| gressive not reactionary, keenly dis.
corning the future, not blanllly gazing
into the dead past; whose work of love
will be to construct, not to tear down,
and destroy. And even such men can
accomplish but little, unless backed
and supported by great, united, we'll
organized and patriotic party.
Dangers Seen.
"Calamitous, inconceivable in the
magnitude and variety of it's conse
| quent disasters, would be the event
should the administration of our ma
tional affairs, even for a brief period
be turned over to the present so-called
democratic party, controlled as it is by
pepulists, revolutionists, crack-brained
economic theorists, insists and degen
erates-all masquerading under the
/, name of democracy and blasphemously
invoking the shades of Jefferson Jack
son and Douglass.
/ Has No LineaI Claim.
SIN mitigation of my own record, lei
me say, any colored field-hand from {
South Carolina rice plantation, if nam
ed George Washington, has as much
claim to lineal descent from the faith
er of our country, as the present SO
called democratic party has to the
principles Of democracy as taught ant
practiced by Jefferson, Jackson, Doug
lass or Tilden.
4 Progress the Watchword.
"The republican party was born o.
i weightiest principles opposition tt
the extension of slavery and not only
the preservation but the cementing fol-
all time of our national solidarity. AND
whatever one may think OF some of the