Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-10-24

/ the lamented Benjamin Harrison was
in the presidential chair and shiploads
oil gold We're going across the seas. Two
months after Mr.. Cleveland was elect
ed. however. and before he had warmed
the presidential chair. he was calling
for an issue of bonds. That was a
time of suffering for all of us. Here
! IN Iowa thousands upon thousands of
men We're walking the streets. out of
| employment and out of money. 1t
was then that we saw the spectacle
OF l>eliE's army troubling the waters
of tGe l)es Muines. while Goxey's army
marched across country 10 the nations
capital. Democrats will be with me
| in hoping sincerely that such time
will never come 10 this country again.
Praises President Roosevelt.
THE colored people have not had
Il better friend in the executive chair
| since the days of Lincoln than Theo-.
! dore Roosevelt. and the American peo-
4 pie in general have never had a man
Who stood more for the rights of the
4 pfople. President Roosevelt never
shirks Il responsibility. He is a friend
/ of humanity and am advocate of the
rights of men.
J The Protective Tariff.
/ "Along the battle line in this state
We find two men-Nlr. Sullivan, the
democratic candidate, and orr own
/ Governor Cummins. Mi. sullivan
stands for the doctrine of free trade.
1 Now i'll past years the principal excuse
/ for the doctrine of free trade mas been
/ that the United Kingdom was a great
4 country and that free trade was the
/ policy there. But that old talk does not
/ hold now. Free trade today in Eng
I land is in its death struggle and they
1 are advocating protective tariff. The
| doctrine of democracy that a protec-
/ tive tariff harms labor canaot he ar
gtled now. You remember the old
argument that it only protects the
! rich men and the mine owners, vet you
remember 1892 and the few years that
/ followed.
In tho Panicky Years.
! You remember that then we did not
4 have free trade, only the promise of
il, yet the mills of New England clos
&C, down. In Keb and in Muchaknocl1.
/ where ] live in Evans. Colon, where
noW the mines cannot run long enough
! to supply the demand and enough men
cannot be found then they We're run
ming two or three days out of the
week. The republican party believes
| that we should dig coal from our min
es and that when there is work to
/ do to have American labor do it. The
democratic party believes in hiring for
eign labor il they can get 1t cheaper
Should Support Roosevelt,
Now if any of you colored people
! want to show our good feeling for
] Roosevelt. support the county ticket.
! The republican party is the only one
4 that has ever done anything for the
colored man or ever will do anything
for them. Why? Simply because the
democratic party cannot take a stand
for the colored people Nearly an the
great men of the party live in the
south. If the democratic party should
get in power for any length of time
you you ai ,,i mouiu ~ II, 9 nair WY ~
ern state has nu1lifiea The Fourteenth
land fifteenth amendments You cam
NOT thir,k of the privileges YOU enjoy
TODAY Without paving a tribute to the
a repllllican PARTY and the Immortal
Lincoln. For my part i say that if I
should knife the republican party i
a World deserve the name of traitor and
lwotlid deserve a place beside the
4 grave of Benedict Arnold.
p.ila.4 80 49,,
o''' io"a.
Il do not think that you will turn
down the party that has always stood
UP fer Nour rights; the party that is
always on tae side OF the weak against
the strong. the grave danger this
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