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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
The Main Issue.

Editor Courier:-The congressional
campaign is drawing to a close, the
newspapers and speakers have had
their say, and it is now up to the
voter Is he satisfied with present
conditions, with millions of men en-
ployed and the wheels of industry
turning in every state of the union?
Or does he want change, or a return
to the conditions which existed DUR
ing the reign of James Buchanan and
money and free trade, idleness and
poverty, for the wage-earners. and
disaster and bankruptcy for the bust
ness man. All other questions are of
little consequence. The main issue is
prosperity or hard times. A congress
sional candidate may be honest, a
good fellow, and all that, but what
sort of legislation will he favor, if he
is sent to Washington, and what eff
feet will such legislation have upon
the interests of the people? Will it
bring prosperity or disaster and ruin?
Let us remember the past. We have
had but two democratic administra-
tons since the year 1856. Under both
the conditions We're the same. AS a
result of democratic legislation, mil
lions OF men We're idle, the factories
were closed, the business of the country
was at standstill, and the farmers re-
ceiveG little for the product
of the farm. Thus is his
tory, and no well informed
person will contradict it. AT the end
of both periods the people voted the
party out of power. But. notwith-
standing, the lessons of the past, the
democratic party is today advocating
the same legislation-free trade and
a deprecated currency. 1t is part
of the creed, and always has been. So
that before casting his ballot, next
Tuesday, the voter in the interest of
himself and his family, should care.
fully consider these facts. If he
desires continuance of the present
prosperous conditions he should vote
for the republican candidate for con.
gress, who fayors honest money and
protection to American industries and
American labor Voter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
OUR HONORABLE OPPONENTS.

Long have we waited but to hear
Some logic based on reason.
Our democratic friends appear
To change to suit the season.
Last year they wore a silver skin,
This year a suit of gray.
BY looks alone they cannot win
The fight election Gay.
Like little school boys playing show
They blow their trumpet loud,
And hope to win by strut and show,
The plaudits of the crowd.
A moment friends, lend me your ears
Do not be led astray;
Slight not the friends of other years
For braggarts of day.
The democrats have promised much
And take delight in storming:
The republicans despise all such,
But rather like performing.
Go search the records of the past
Some people are too lazy
And choose the best, to that hold fast;
Let all the rest go crazy.
The democrats elect to howl
About the trusts; ah, truly
An evil that makes all men scowl--
But trust them not unduly,
They tinkered with the tariff, then
A panic quickly followed.
Shall we play Jonah yet again,
By the trust whale be swallowed?
Let me appeal to one and all
AS men who love to reason,
For there is dug the sly pitfall
For those who stray this season.
We make no boast of what we'll do,
But ask you to remember.
Slight not the old friend for the new
On poll day next November.
Christian Goodheart, an Ottumw;
Poet
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to office with a good majority next

to office with good majority next
Tuesday
Mr.. Blount comes before the people
as candidate fol, constable for the first
time. Mr.. Blount is a resident of the
fifth ward He has for years been a
consistent republican and has always
taken an important part in the affairs
of his party in that ward. AS to his
ability to rightly perform the duties
OIL the Office there can be no question
Mr.. Blount has had experience on the
Ottumwa police force and has always
proved an efficient and valuable Of
ficer.
c. Fl. Prosser, the candidate on the
republican ticket for township trustee
| is a resident of the eighth precinct. He
is an old resident of this county and
has for years been identified with the
Republican party in this locality and
has assisted materially in carrying on
| its campaigns successfully. In select
| ing man for the Office of trustee the
voters will make no mistake in voting
for Mr.. Prosser and they should see
to it that he is elected by good ma
jority.
M. G. Gilmore has been placed in
nomination by the republicans as the
candidate for township clerk and by
this nomination all the requirements
necessary for the successful admins
tration of i.ie affairs Of the
o.uce are provided. Mr.. Gil
more is a young man of sterling
worth, is practicing lawyer and is
ably fitted TO properly care for the in
terests of the people in the capacity
Of township clerk. He is loyal anG
enthusiastic republican and the voters
of this township should see to it thai
Mr.. Gilmore is placed in Office on cleo
ton day.
When it came to the naming of g
candidate for the Office of TOWNSHIP
assessor the delegates to the republi
can convention made wise choice
in the selection of Adolph Roemer. Mr.
Roemer has for many years been {
staunch republican and is known as {
fair and impartial man, thus display
ing the two most necessary character
istics for the successful administra
ton of the affairs of this office. Mr.
Roemer is deserving of a good ma
jority at the hands of the voters Of the
township next Tuesday.
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POLITICAL cHlcANERI AND
FRAUD.
(Oskaloosa Herald.)

In order to trump up some sort of a
charge against Major Lacey the Chi
cago American sent the following in
sinuating telegram to its Oskaloosa
correspondent under date of October
II:
please send by mail Monday 1900
words on dissatisfaction of the people
of the Sixth district with Congressman
Lacey, showing flaws in his congress
sional record
On Monday morning, October 10. the
Americans Oskaloosa correspondent
mailed the following answer as re.
quested:
Your telegram regarding Congress-
man Lacey's record at hand. | am
not aware of any, and am unable to
find any dissatisfaction. The district
has been close one but he has been
returned for six times by a steadily
increasing majority. showing the gen
eral approval of his official conduct.
Being much gratified at being able to
give you this information, | trust
that it may meet with your approval.
as no doubt you will always desire to
endorse public servant who has been
faithful
On October 16, the day set apart for
the publication Of the screed against
the Iowa congressman, the American
fixed up the following dispatch out of
whele cloth and gave it to its readers
as a bona fide message from oska.
loosa:
Men generally direct their votes the
same way they send their money Last
Saturday was payday in the mines
around here, and on that day collec.
tion was taken up among the miners
to aid the cause of John P. Reese dem.
ocratic candidate for congress. Mr..
Reese has been a miner himself and
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
Observation-Disclosures
PEOPLES PULPIT.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Editor Courier:-Can anyone give
a sane reason why we should have a
change, at the present time, of condi-
ton in the business world?
This is a personal matter; every
man, before he goes to the polls,
should think back over the past few
years and compare his present condi-
ton with that of few years ago, say
during the years between 1893 and
1897. Let him think of his own par
ticular case. If he is business man
he should turn to his books and see
what business he was doing, what his
profits were, what kind of showing
he could make at the end of the year.
If a professional man, what was his
income during each of the four years
referred to; how much business did
he do that he failed to get paid for,
because his clients were unable to
pay their bills. If laboring man,
what pay did he get, and how many
days work did he get a month; how
mucn did he have to spend on any
thing but the absolute necessaries of
life. This is the time, if ever there
was one, when We should all vote for
our own individual benefit. One may
not be willing to give the republican
party credit for being responsible for
the Improvement in his affairs, but if
he is better off financially now than
he was under democratic administra.
ton, is 1t not a simple matter of COM
mon sense to vote to continue the
party in power so long as this condi-
ton lasts? If a time comes that DEM
onstrates that the policies advocated
| by the republican party are wrong,
then it will be time to advocate a
change.
Two years ago our able congress
man, Hon. John F. Lacey, used as his
campaign slogan, Let well enough
alone" The people did let well enough
alone; as a result We have had two
years more of unexcelled prosperity.
| What more do you want?" Is it
not better to be satisfied with good
times than to try to have better times
| by experimenting with new and I'M
tried officials?
I have a very vivid recollection of
the four years of democratic times
under the administration of Cleve-
land; if | could cast one vote for
every dollar that | lost during those
dark years, Major Lacey's majority
would be increased by just 1000
votes.
| Again | say, vote the way that will
| be to your own personal benefit and
you will benefit not only yourself, but
your loved ones.
Business Man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
is EMlNENTLY A PERSONAL AT
FAIR.

Republican voters in, Ottt1mwa and
Wapello county are being urged to
give their votes this fall to certain of
the candidates of the opposition on
the ground that they are good fellows
and because it would be compliment
to these men. This course is being
pressed upon members of the republi-
can party as a personal matter 1t is
a personal affair. More than this it is
far too personal and bears too close a
relation to the welfare of the people
Tor any republican to use his ballot in
any such trifling manner. 1t is such
. personal affair that no republican
can afford to run the risk of defeating
a single republican candidate by
scratching his ticket. 1t is a personal
affair, because, if the policies for
which the democratic nominees on
the state, congressional, county and
township tickets stand, are put into
force by being made laws for this
government, or even if such threat
should be made by a democratic vic
tory, business will be curtailed and
{ various prospective Industrial enter
prises will stagnate for lack of conf
dence in the permanency of the af
fairs of the nation.
If a person should ask you to give
them share in your business would
You do it just to make him think that
you are a good fellow Most certainly
no. There is not citizen of Wapello
county or the sixth district who would
countenance such thought for mo-
ment. Why then should man vote
to contract his business or lower in
income or wages or to place limit
upon prosperity just to show some one
that he is u good fellow?
No, the republicans cannot afford tc
impair the certainty of the election OF
the entire republican ticket, for every
vote cast by republican for candi.
date of the opposition is equal to two
democratic votes in the final result
The republican voter cannot afford to
dent Roosevelt, the faithful service
and efficiency of Congressman John F
Lacey, nor the loyal republicans who
are candidates for the county and
township Offices, just to be good fel-
low.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
STRAIGHTFORWARD STRAIGHT
NESS.

President Roosevelt thinks straight,
he talks straight, he acts straight, he
shoots straight, and he is straight
United States Senator Spooner.
1t is this straightforward man and
this straightforward policy that has
championed the cause of every Ameri-
can citizen in the administration of
the national affairs. This man and this
policy has a representative in the
Sixth congressional district in the per-
son of Major John +. Lacey, republi-
can candidate for congressman Can
the voters of this district afford to re-
pudiate this straightforward man or
his straightforward policy by failing
to cast their vote next Tuesday for
Major Lacey?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
GOES TO HIGHLAND CENTER.
Rev. D. c. Smith to Fill Pulpit in q
Neishboring Town.
IFrcm Fridays Daily.3

NSiSupoTiH9 Town.
IFrcm Fridays Daily.}
Rev. d. G. Smith has accepted the
pastorate of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Highland Center in answer
to the petition which was presented
by the citizens OF that place, and will
enter upon his duties Sunday He
still retains the position of conference
evangelist to which, he was appointed
at the recent meeting of the Iowa con-
ference. Rev. Smith has had long SER
vice in the ministry and has filed
several important charges. He was
presiding elder of the Ottun1wa dis
trict for six years, and later for two
years was pastor of the Willard Street
Methodist Episcopal church. After
the new church was built. however,
he decided that he needed rest and
asked the conference to place him on
the supernumerary list, re-entering
active service at the recent confer
ence, when he was appointed confer,
ence evangelist. He will preach in
Highland Center each Sunday and
will conduct prayer meeting Wednes-
day evening whenever his engage
ments will permit.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
CENTER TOWNSHIP CANDIDATES.

AS in doing we'll the little duties
of everyday life the individual pre-
pares himself to meet crisis; SO in
the affairs of the general public the
stability of the state and national gov
ernments are measured by the efficien-
cy with which the affairs of the county
and township are administered. 1t is
therefore imperative, while We recog-
nize that there are grave questions
of national Importance which demand
that the voters make a right selec-
ton of state and congressional officers
this fall, that the voters Of Center
township shall be equally as careful
in their selection of the men who are
to have charge of their affairs in this
locality for the next two years.
The Courier takes pleasure in pre-
senting to the voters of this township
the names of the candidates which ap.
pear on the republican ticket and asks
that they receive the consideration to
which they are entitled from the re-
publicans Of the township, knowing
that the confidence imposed in them if
elected will not be misplaced.
j. A. Ballard and o. L. Campbell,
candidates for justices of the peace
are too we'll known to the people OF
this township to need an introduction
and their impartial and fair admins
traticn of the law in the cases that
have come before them during the
past two years has been eminently
satisfactory and has met with appro.
baton. In placing these men in nom
jnation for office the delegates to the
township convention gave a recon-
mendation which now only remains
for the voters of Center to endorse al
the coming election and return these
two men to office.
The republicans of this township
have placed in nomination q. M.Camp
bell and George Blount for the office
of constable. In supporting these mer
at the coming election the voters OF
the township can be assured that il
elected they will use their best efforts
in preserving and bringing to justice
the law breakers Mr. Campbell has
during the years he has held this OF
flee performed the duties that have
come to him in a universally satisfac
tory manner, and that the appreciation
of the people may be shown for Ilil
failhhllness they should return hfy
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administration have nothing to do with

these conditions he continues:
But prosperity is not eternal and
I it is possible to go backward. We
were not invading foreign markets to
any extent. from 1893 to 1897 We
were too hungry to go very far from
home. Some of our population were
confined to soup house diet. Then
vacancy, bankruptcy, and dull despair
looked out of broken factory windows
at men out of work and women in
want, and the whole nation yellow
eyed, jaundiced, and stagnant, stumb-
led on, a prey to political quacks and
soothsayers, until a voice from a vine
clad porch in Canton, Ohio-the voice
of William Mckinley, now forever
silent-began to proclaim the doctrine
OF commercial salvation. and men
forgot their dream of wealth without
work, OF transferring 40 cents worth
of silver into dollar by the touch
of the government stamp, and wheels
began to turn again, and money be-
gan to flow back into the withered
arteries of trade"
Prosperity is reality not theory.
1t is the outgrowth of the administra-
ton of the sound and business like
policies of the republican party. To
undermine it's foundation as was done
in 1892 when Grover Cleveland was
elected to the presidency of the United
States can mean nothing else than a
return to the. conditions-mea
closed factories and soup houses, that
existed from 1893. to 1896. 1t is, now
the question-what do the people
want? What will they vote to have?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
NEW RURAL FREE DELIVERIES.
Large Number of New Routes Ordered
by Department.

Washington, Oct. 31.-R,ual free de-
livery routes will be established on
December / as follows:
Hedrick, Keokuk county, (additionaD,
two carriers; length of routes, 46$4
miles; area covered, 80 square miles;
population served. 1.04O.
Delta, Keokuk county, two carhers;
length of route, 4S1s miles, area COW
cred. 35 square miles; population serv-
ed, Lis.
Drakesville. Davis county, one car
rier: length of route, 23A miles; area
covered, Is square miles; population
served 535.
Monroe, Jasper county, (additional),
two carriers; length of routes, 47A
miles; area covered, 43 square miles;
population served, 1.065.
Rosehill, Mahaska county, addition
all, one carrier; length of route, 23Hs
miles; area covered, IL square miles:
population served. 400.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

Since 1898 the United States has
taken a prominent stand in the mar
kets of Europe and also of the east.
1t may be possible that a protective
tariff is menace and an injury to the
country, but it must have. had some
influence in making possible the above
fact, and that certainly is reason
enough to have it wiped out by an I'M
friendly hand.
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Then and Now.

The Onawa Gazette recalls that
when Monona county had democrat.
ic county government, in the days gone
by, "a man could hardly sell a farm
at sheriff's sale, while today. with
the republicans in authority every.
where, "a man who owns a Monona
county farm has to hide in the hay
every time he sees a buggy coming
down the road to keep from finding
himself homeless with his pockets full
of money that someone has paid him
for his own worthless acres
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

Everybody appears to be in bouyant
spirits and the reason is that the times
are prosperous. Don't you want to keep
them SO? Then be sure that your vote
is cast for Major Lacey.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

has been working to the end in view,
to say the least" comments the Cres--
ton Gazette, against what Mr.. Bry--
an has always declared to be impos--
sible. He has never yet chosen the
democratic party to be the agent of
prosperity"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
Boies Politically and Personally.

Whatever may be the fact as to
Horace Boies' health, the Des Moines
Capital feels sure that 'the voters of
the third district have made up their
minds in regard to Horace's welfare,
and will leave him to care for his
Grundy county farms, wishing him
well personally"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
Lacey's Gallant FIGHT.

Major Lacey is making a gallant
fight in the sixth district. Latest ad-
vices are to the effect that his victory
now seems sure, says the Upton AID,
vertiser. 1T would be a fearful blum.
der for the people of the. sixth to
choose Reese to represent them in
congress in preference to Major La.
ceY."
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04
Nothing should be taken for granted

Nothing should be taken for granted
this year 1t is your duty, if you
think well of the proposition to con-
tinue prosperity to come out and vote
early on November 4 Bring a neigh
Dor along, too. Every vote cast for
Major John F. Lacey is an endorse
ment of the splendid methods of Presi-
dent Mckinley.
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six sFIREMEN ARE INJURED.
Midnight Blaze at Minneapolis Causes
LOSS of $25o,ooo.

Minneapolis, MINI, Oct, Sl.-.-Six
firemen We're injured at midnight in
fire which entailed a damage esti--
mated at $250,000. The six story build
ing occupied by the Minneapolis Pa
per company and owned by j. G. o.
valid & Co.. was destroyed.
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getting at him. But he happens to re-
member that he has just sold 357
bushels of corn the same as he did in
1896 for 1855, which is $145.27 more
than it brought him six years ago.
The dealer learning that he intends to
buy considerable machinery begins to
show him what he can get for the
$195.25. There is wagon, .$55; ten
foot harrow, Sill; seventeen inch
breaking pillow, SIT; a riding cultivat-
or, $25; a buggy, $50. These he buys
and he finds he still has $27.25 left. He
then buys himself a new suit of
clothes and still has $40 with which he
gets new dress for his wife. Pretty
good, isn't it. All these, things for the
same amount of corn which it took to
buy the wagon in 1896, and somehow
the thought flashes thra ugh his mind,
if the trusts are robbinly me of S. ON
the wagon proposition, I wonder who
I am robbing on the corn DEAL"
Trusts.
Mr.. Reece treated the trust ques-
ton from historical standpoint,
showing what both parties had &C.
complished in the way of adoption of
| legislative measures fer the control
of the trusts, making it clear that the
democratic party had done absolutely
nothing toward assisting such legisla-
ton, but had in every instance OPP
posed the passage of laws offered by
republican Legislators. He pointed to
the fact that when a constitutional
amendment was thought to be neces-
sary to give congress the necessary
power to control the trusts, the demo-
Gratis actually voted against the meas
ure, it being confessed by their lead
ers that such course would elimin-
ate the trust question from politics
and they would be without an issue
| for the campaign.
E. A. Work Speaks.
Mr.. Work discussed the tariff and
Philippine questions in most pleas
| ing and comprehensive manner and
exhorted the voters to be guided by
those things which would be to their
material advantage in choosing the
next congressman from the sixth dis
trict. He stated that he had nothing
| against John P. Reese because he was
a young man, for he was young man
himself, but that the policies for
which Mr.. Reese stood had been prov
ed to be detriment to the best inter-
ests of the American people. On the
other hand the principles for which
Hon. John F. Lacey stands have PROV
en- to be the means Of bringing about
an era OF the greatest prosperity thai
this nation has ever experienced.
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Just Business.

ut is not matter Of politics, but
of plain business, the Primghar Bell
insists, for every republican to record
his vote against a change of present
conditions.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-04

: Would it not seem ungrateful to re.
fuse to uphold the administra ton of
President Roosevelt after his great
work in settling the coal strike?
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Lacey's Victory Easy.

John F. Lacey will carry the sixth
district with ease and big surplus of
votes,' says the Burlington Hawk-Eye
HE has done something practical for
the miners, through legislation-and
that is what counts His political op-
ponent has only promises to offer"