Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-14
oTTuMWA MAN ATTACKED BY
SILVER ToNGUED ORATOR OF
k5 THE PLATTE.
low ANS CRITICISED
William Jennings in This Weeks Com
moner, Issued Yesterday, Berates the
Hawkeye Democrats For Their An
ti-SiIver Complexion.

ti-SiIver Complexion.
Hon. w. A. McIntire, ex-state SEN
ator from Wapello county. the man who
though an anti-reafHrmationist, was
elected to the state democratic conven-
tons resolutions committee and in
structed to work for the silver forces
is the object of a direct attack by Will
liam Jennings Bryan in this weeks
Commoner. The fiery boy orator not
only attacks Mr.. ,McIntire with a pen
cross that stalked hand in hand with
campaign of 1896, but he accuses 9th
er democrats in Iowa of dishonesty in
caucuses and s'bushwhacker" methods
of politics.
Hits Sixth District.
All this, it is supposed, is because
lhe reorganizers rather won out in the
big fight which characterized the DEM
pcratic state convention held in Des
Moines few weeks ago, when MI.
Bryan's Kansas City platform was ov-
erlooked when the Iowa platform for
the coming campaign was made up.
Mr.. McIntire was a member of the
committee on resolutions and he is
therefore held directly responsible for
the work of that body inasmuch as he
was elected as a re-aftirmatlon1st
though his mind didn't run that way.
It will be remembered that the reor-
ganizers scored against their rivals
when they sent to Ottumwa for Mr..
McIntire to be member of this COM
mittee, having decided upon him the
night before the caucus, representing
him as the best man in the district
in the interests of harmony.
Mr.. Bryan says:
GIN the recent Iowa convention the
delegates from Wapello county were
chosen by convention which endors-
ed the Kansas City platform. but the
reorganizers, chosen by courtesy, We're
on hand, in the absence of some OF the
Kansas City platform democrats. cast
j majority of the votes of the county
against the platform. Mills county en-
lorsed the Kansas City platform, but
vas misrepresented in the state con-
vention How can an honest platform
I be expected from men who deal dis
) honestly with their constituents?
.sThe Iowa platform contains many
good planks, but without improving
upon the last national platform in any
respect, it shows weakness where it
departs from that document. The
plank aginst imperialism is not clear,
the coupling of Porto Rico with the
Philippine Islands leaves it in doubt
whether the government mention
ed is self-government in an indepen-
dent republic, as demanded by the
Kansas City platform, or self-govern-
ment as part of our nation, as few
republicans favor.
Nothing is said in the platform
about arbitration, Notwithstanding the
increasing necessity for some just and
peaceable settlement of differences be-
tween labor and capital.
Takes Up Money Plank.
"The money plank was written to
deceive. 1t has the flavor of the plat.
forms written by Wall street represen-
tatives for both the leading parties be-
fore 1896 and for the republican party
since.
!" We insist that the integrity of the
money of the nation be guarded with
jealous care That looks reasonable
enough, but it will be found on inyesti
mean the gold standard although moi
one of them would dare endorse the
gold standard openly in a democratic
platform Do they think the voters
fools and unable to understand the
purpose of the financiers? OF course
the oddities will concede few words
about wanting a sufficient volume O.
money but they construe that to NEAR
that we already have too much.
"The convention deserves credit fol
denouncing an asset currency and thu
Aldirch bill, but such condemnation
would have no influence on an officia
who showed as much contempt TO
his platform as some of the delegate!
showed for resolutions adopted b.
their counties. A man who is afrait
to indorse bimetallism lest he may OF
fend the financiers can not be depend
ed upon in any contest in which organ
lied wealth is arrayed against the PEG
pie.
"The republicans are now contem
plating the passage of bill making
some $6000O0,0 600 of silver redeemabl
in gold, a more dangerous proposition
even than the Aldrich bin or the asse
currency, and yet the Iowa reorgan
izers did not have the courage to men
ton it.
Calls Antitrust Plank Weak.
1.-THE antitrust plank is not nearl
SO strong or explicit as the Kansa
City platform on this subject. Her
is question of vital Importance,
question which involves the rights an
interests of the people of the Who'll
country and the reorganizers are impc
10 l,1,ty,o m roll los I,
same financiers who threatened a paI
ic If silver was restored are no,
threatening panic if the trusts ar
interfered with.
mo wonder the reorganizers wer
unwilling to risk one of their own me
on such platform. If they had nom