Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-23
Declares 0dium Of Second Administration
Prime Cause of Defeat
PICNICKERS TAKE SLAP AT EX-PRESIDENT
NEBRAs<AN RETURNING TO coNDl.
1sse-cARTER DOOMED
FOR PRESIDENT


cleveland brought on the democratic
Harty did more to defeat it than any
one plank of the Chicago platform" de-
clared William Jennings Bryan at the
picnic OF the Chicago Democratic club
at Brands park Saturday after
noon. But for the Reputation of the
administration he continued, 1T would
have been impossible to have made
any campaign at all and even repu-
diaton, as thorough as it was, could
not totally disinfect the party and the
greatest menace to the party at the
presen time IS the danger of the return
TO the conditions that existed from 1892
to 1885,"
Mr. Cleveland seemed to be with
ont friends at the picnic, which was
supposed to be gathering of the lead
ers of the states in the middle west.
The men from Missouri, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Michigan did not have a good
word for the Princeton citizen. d. R.
Lawler OF Minnesota stated that Mr..
Cleveland had many friends in that
state but this was the limit of friendli-
ness to him. 1t was decidedly an anti
Cleveland gathering and vigorous eff
fort was made to squelch the Cleve-
land boom.
Harrison Doomed for President.
A boom for Mayor Carter H. Harri-
son was started by D. R. Lawler of
Minnesota, who referred to Mr.. Har-
rison as presidential timber and in an
interview said that he was for Harri-
son for the nomination. Secretary C.
"A. Walsh Of Ottumwa. Of the national
committee, sent a speech in which he
came out squarely for Mr.. Harrison in
the original draft but in the article as
amended by the mayors request there
was only an unavoidable inference that
the Iowa man would like to support
Chicago's mayor for the presidency. Il
Bryan on Party Ideals.
Mr.. Bryan was greeted by hearty
cheers when he appeared on the plat
form and after brief introduction by
. Mayor Harrison spoke in part as fol.
z lows:
The ideal controls the life and gives
it NOT only direction but form and
consistency. An ideal permanently pur
sued crystallizes into character and
becomes the vital part of the individ
ual. II you know a mans ideal, you
know the man, and can judge with
reasonable accuracy what he will do
in a given case. No one can overesti.
mate the value of an ideal because it
measures the difference between sue
cess and failure.
An ideal is as important to party as
to an individual, and must in the end
determine not only the partys charac.
ter but the party's destiny. The par
ty ideal is the ideal of those who dom
mate its. counsels and control its ac.
ton; and in any party worthy to be
called democratic the controlling force
should be a majority offthe votes of
the party.
"As in the case of the individual SO
with the party-the character is form
ed not by few decisions but by a
multitude of acts, all in harmony with
a general purpose and all influenced
by the ideal. AS in the case of the in
dividual, it is impossible to follow one
ideal a part of the time and an oppo-
site ideal the rest of the time. so
with the party there must be constant
effort to apply the same principles and
the same methods to all questions and
issues.
Equal Rights is Democratic Ideal.
The distinguishing feature of any
party that deserves to be known as a
democratic party is its faith in the
people, and its willingness to have the
people control their own affairs. A
democratic party seeks to administer
the government according to democrat
ic principles, and it's ideal of free
government, legislative, executive,
and judicial, is administered accord
ing to the doctrine of equal rights to
all and special privileges to none.
"A party with such an ideal is more
closely scrutinized and more quickly
criticised than party which makes
no such pretension, because the world
is inclined to measure a party by the
standard it sets up for itself. A party
really democratic cannot do what an.
other party might do with impunity,
because its own teachings will be
turned upon its conduct and hypocrisy
a0Aed to it's other sins.
Never before in the history of the
country has there been greater need
for a democratic party with truly
democratic ideal. The aristocraey
which Hamilton led against the de-
mocracy of Jefferson's day, and the
plutocracy which Nick Biddle led
against the democracy of Jackson's
day, has combined to assault the de-
niocracy of the present day, and these
assaults are supported by metropoli-
tan press more subservient to capital,
more widely read, than the papers of
1900 or 1882.
Mammon Enthroned in 1896.
"In 1896 the republican party under
the leadership of Mark Hanna became
the open ally of organized wealth, and
a victory was secured by the use of
means which, when known, must be
repugnant to every believer in the doc
trine Of free government. The pur-
chase of votes and the coercion of en-
ployes-all these things were resorted
to with an audacity never known in
this country before.
AS result Of that election, Mann
mon was enthroned, the nanufactur.
ers were permitted to write the tariff
schedules without regard to the inter-
ests Of the consumers, the financiers
were ALLOWED to dictate the policy of
4 the Treasury without regard to the in
terestb of the country at large, and
the trust magnates were permitted to
B bankfslpt rivals, stifie competition, and