Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-24
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN IN OHIO
OPENS WITH ,RousINe
RALLY.
FORAKER S P ETA K S
Big Parade is Witnessed in Chilli
Gothic and Rousins Speeches are
Made by Many of the Leading Re-
pubIicans.

Chillicothe. Ohio. Sept. 21.-The re-
glblican campaign in Ohio opened
here Saturday with :, large pa
rade followed by meeting in Yocata
park at which Governor Nash presid-
ed. Speeches We're made by Sena-
tors Foraker and Hanna, Myron T..
Herrick, candidate for governor, War
rem G. Harding. candidate for lieuten-
ant governor and others. The demon
stration was the biggest in the history
of the party in Ohio.
Foraker's Speech.
Senator Foraker, in his address,
spoke in part as follows:
TT would be enough to make the
election in November important if
nothing more were involved than
merely a choice of men for the re-
sponsible posts to be filled. More
important by far than the question
of what man shall hold any one of the
places, is the great broad question of
b choice between political parties. Is
Ohio to go democratic or republican?
is what everybody wants to know, not
only here but all over the country.
What we do this year will indicate
what we are likely to do next year
"A vote for Herrick now, means
D vote for Roosevelt then. Her
yick's election will mean that
this great central commonwealth
with its vast influence upon the poll
GIGS Of the country, approves and sup
ports the policies of the republican
marty now, in the election of gov
EFnor and intends to do the same
thing next year in the election of
president.
All must concede that under repub-
ican policies we are enjoying the
tnost satisfactory results. We are hay
fng upexampled prosperity. We have
never before experienced such uniyer-
eal business activity. 1t extends to
all occupations. 1t pervades all sec
lions, and dispenses it's rich rewards
to all classes of people. Our revenues
were never SO ample, nor ever SO lit
tie burdensome. The American name
Mas never SO honored throughout the
world.
''It is not only our privilege, but our
duty, to continue all this. And the
first step in the discharge of this duty
is to keep the democratic party out
of power. AS at present organized and
inspired, it is not fit to be in
power.
ITO be fit agency for the execu-
tion of the peoples will a party must
have not only acceptable principles,
but also common belief and com
mon purpose among its members.
There never was time when our
democratic friends had accepted prin-
ciples, but there was time when
they had these other attributes, but
that time was long ago.
To-day they have no common agree
ment on any proposition except only
that they are democrats. They cannot
tell why, nor can they even agree
what the term democrat implies. On
all important subjects and policies,
they have the sharpest and most ire
conciliable differences. They are more
hostile toward each other than they
are toward the republicans. There is
no hatred In the politics of our coun-
try like that which fills the hearts OF
the free silver and gold democrats to-
ward each other. The free silver men
charge that they were buncoed out
of a victory in 1896 by the detection
of the gold democrats, and the gold
democrats charge that their party
was discredited and disgraced by the
free silver men, who gained control of
1t in that year.
"The mutual fault findings of our
democratic friends have grown more
prominent and more bitter as time
passed, until the chasm that separates
them has become SO wide and deep
that cooperation is impossible for
years to come, whether they are in
power or out.
Would be Disastrous.
$50 long as they are out Of power
no harm is done. but if they should be
restored to power. such dissensions
would of themselves paralyze all theil
efforts and visit upon the country
again the disastrous experiences tc
which we were subjected in 1893.
1T would be much worse now than
it was then. In the first place oul
prosperity is greater and we have
more to lose. But then, there was
only the one question of the tariff
about which they were deadlocked
while now they disagree upon every
important subject.
consequent train of disasters, great as
they would be, would yet be far less
Injurious to the country than an appli
cation of such principles as are an
nounced in the platform recently
adopted by the democrats of Ohio.
Unwise Doctrines.
'In that document they denounct
almost everything connected with the
administration of our public affairs
but especially the tariff, what the.
term colonialism and government by
Injunction.
"All these propositions are unwise
and some of them are unpatriotic ant
even worse The best discussion o
Che tariff is our practical experience
''The phrase of government by in
junction expresses very dangerou.
thought All the judicial power o
our government is vesterd by the con
stiturion in one supreme court ant
such inferior courts as congress shall
from time to time ordain and establish
The constitution thus imposes upoI
congress the duty of providing for the
l.-. H.