Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-08-19

say thew are with us on this question.
The Kansas City platform declared
for an amendment to the federal con-
stitution providing for the election Of
United States senators by direct vote
OF the people, and the so-cail4d reor-
ganiz IS say they are with us on this
question.
The Kansas ity platform declare!
its OPPOSITE oA to government by njunc-
ton, denounced the black list and fav-
ored arbitration as means of settling
disputes between corporations and
their employees, and the so-cal.ed recr-
ganizers say they are with us on this
question.
The Kansas platform declared Yer
statehood for the territories of Ari-
IONA, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and
the so'called reorganizers say they are
with us on this question.
The Kansas City platform declared
for an Intelligent system of irrigation
of western lands and the holding of
such lads fDr actual settlers, and he
so-called reorganizers say they are
with us on this question.
The Kansas City platform declare q
for the continuance and strict enforce
ment of the Chinese exclusion act, and
the so-called reorganizers say they
are with us on this question.
The Kant as Gu. platform denounces
the lavish appropriations made by the
recent republican congresses and the
squandering of the taxpayers funds
upon such barefaced frauds as the ship
subsidy BILL and the so-called reorgan
izers say they are with us on this
question.
The Kansas City platform declared
against any kind of entangling foreign
alliances, and the so-called reorganiz
ers say they are with us on this ques
ton.
Disagree on One Point.
| Now what nonsense, when in the
Kansas City platform all democrats
have platform broad enough, strong
| enough and by the eternal Gods righ
enough for any democrat to stand OF
and on every plank of which, save {
small portion Of one plank, every dem
ocrat stands or processes to stand
/ what nonsense, I say to repudiate the
Kansas City platform.
| The gentlemen who are seeking tc
have no expression whatever as to ma
tional principles at the next Des
| Moines convention are either not witt
us on any of these questions, as they
pretend to be, or they have become sc
crazed in their opposition to a single
plank which has not been the para
mount issue since 1896 that they are
willing to convince the country tha
the party is so insincere, so shifty, sc
evasive that it never can deserve o.
regain the confidence of the people.
Little Hope for Iowa.
The democrats of Iowa cannot hope
to carry the state this year, nor il
/ all probability can they hope to give
the electoral vote to a democratic can
1 didate for president in 1904. TIL,
great democratic states which yea
after year cast their votes for demo
cratic candidates are not afraid of tn,
Kansas City platform. They indors
it. They recognize that it only i'm
pairs their own strength to show
fear of their declared principles. LIE
: the democrats of Iowa join hands will
those great democratic states whicl
elect democratic presidents. Let then
stand firmly by their declared princi
pies. Send the waverer and time-sery
err to the rear. and if they cannot vii
victory in Iowa they can preserv
their own honesty and win the respec
of their opponents. Very sincerel.
yours. G. A. Walsh.