Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-02
HARMONIOUS MEETIN G
Capt. Harper Delivers Ringing
Address.
lie PROMULCATES SOUND DOCTRINE
Three Men Are Named on the Ticket
by Acclamation-SI Slight Contest De.
veops on Fourth-Two Ballots
Necessary for Choice.

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For county AUDITOR. H, Ham
mond.
For clerk district court-H. w.
Michael.
For recorder-George II. Smith.
For county attorney-D. H. Emery.
For member of the board of super
yisors-J. H. R. Spilman.
This is the ticket nominated today
by the republicans of Wapello county
in convention assembled at the new
Market street theater this afternoon.
There was harmony in big chunks.
which made it apparent that good
feeling prevailed the convention.
There was contest for the office of
county attorney and for member of the
board of supervisors but it terminated
on the first ballot in the former case
when D. H. Emery was renominated,
and in the second case when j. II. Il.
Spilman was named again.
Endorse Lacey.
The convention in its resolutions en-
dorsed the course of Hon. John +. La
cey and recommended that he be re-
turned to congress. The administra-
ton of county affairs was also COM
mended and both the republican state
and national platforms We're endorsed.
The Wapello county republican con-
vention, called for the purpose of plac-
ing in nomination the candidates for
county offices to be voted upon next
November, was largely attended, al
most the entire delegations from every
precinct being present. County Chair
man o. i. Campbell called the gather.
ing together at the new Market street
theater, and named the following tenn
porary organization:
Chairman, Hon. S. H. Harper.
Secretary, Charles Fahrney.
Reading clerk, G. w. Hatch
Senator Harper's Address.
Senator Harper said in part:
Fellow republicans thank you
for the honor thus conferred upon me.
Thirty-six years ago made my debut
into a republican convention. l see
some of the people which have stood
by the party all those years. believe
they are ready to fight its battles this
fall and carry its flag to victory.
For five years we have enjoyed I'M
precedented prosperity. Labor is well
employed. Good prices are being paid.
The farmer is in better condition than
ever before. He enjoys Eore Injuries
than ever before.
We have carried to a successful
completion two wars without creating
a financial or commercial panic. We
have not only done this but you have
seen bonds to pay the expenses of
these wars selling at more than par.
nr1r frin y,
want control of this country Do you
believe that had Bryan been elected
this government would have had the
standing it has? If there Is any man
within the sound of my voice that be-
go back with me to 1857 Then gov
eminent bonds bearing six per cent
were issued and they sold at below
par. Soup houses We're opened to pre-
vent the people from starving. l re-
member it distinctly. Dressed hogs
sold here at $1.50 hundred, such was
the condition during the administra-
ton of James Buchanan. Many of you
young men know nothing of that. but
you do remember the administration
of Grover Cleveland. much duplica.
ton of Buchanan's administration
soup houses We're again opened to
keep the poor from starving and we
saw millions of starving men.
But our democratic, friends say
trusts are.throttling the people, They
say, Put us in power and we will wipe
out the trusts l believe they will
but in so doing they will ruin the
country The republican party is
against trusts. President Roosevelt
has expressed himself in favor of a
constitutional amendment against
trusts. That reminds me of the mea-
sure introduced by republicans to give
power to the government to control
trusts. The democrats would not vote
for it any appreciate number and it
was lost I believe we need consti-
tutional amendment to kill the trusts
"The democrats were once in favor of
one of the greatest trusts the country
ever knew, the slave buying trust
Constitutional amendments killed thai
trust. While the colored mans vote
is not counted in some of the southern
states, it is counted in the other thir
ty-fve.
I'VE cannot risk giving the demo
Gratis the control of the country 70,
heard them in 1892 when they said
they would kill the tariff barons. TIL,
people listened to them, gave them The
president and congress and although
they destroyed the tariff barons, the,
ruined the country financially The,
burned the barn to kill the rats. The,
do not use discretion. We canno
trust them.
elm Iowa we have to make a figh