Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-10
A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE.

a VOTE OF CONFIDENCE,
The great American nation has
again spoken In no unmistakable
terms. At the polls yesterday the
electors of the United States voiced
their endorsement of the Roosevelt
administration by giving the republi-
can ticket an overwhelming majority
The vote of yesterday is vote of con-
f1dence. 1t voices the feeling of sat
isfaction which pervades the country,
a contentment because times are good,
because work is plentiful, because
wages are high, because the Roosevelt
administration has been fair one to
all the people.
President Roosevelt is truly the
President Of all the people. Upon his
shoulders in 1901, fell the mantle Of
the immortal Mckinley. The Ameri-
can nation looked askance upon the
young man who so calmly took up the
reins of government that had reposed
so we'll in the hands of Mckinley, but
the feeling of doubt soon changed to
one of confidence. Though the opposi-
ton made capital of that early doubt
and tried to win the election this year
upon it, the effort resulted in failure,
utter and complete.
This year as in 1896 and again in
1900, the American nation declares
again for protection. The tariff that
protects and makes possible the very
existence of American industries is a
republican measure. 1t has been sup
ported by the republican party and
that party, lead in latter years by
such men as Mckinley, Allison, Ding
ley, Roosevelt. Hay, Fairbanks and
Root, has proven to the nation and to
the whole world of nations that the
protective system is the right. one.
The history of the republican party
Isl the history of the country, for when
the republican party has been in power
!, and its policies have been in force, the
4 nation has advanced
The people, in the campaign which
has just closed, were for Roosevelt.
Though little interest, apparently, was
taken in the preparations for the cleo
ton, the quiet that settled over the ma
ton was, as the republicans claimed
simply the silence of complete salts
faction. Even inexcusable attempts to
poison the minds of the people against
the President and against Geo. B. Cor
telyou, the national republican chair
man, were Intellectual and the only no.
tice they evoked was denoted by a
frown of scorn from the fair minded
public. 49,
The doubtful states, or rather, those
which were claimed to be SO by the
democratic managers, have gone for
Of yesterday may we'll be called re-
publican landslide. But it was not an
action taken without due and mature
judgment. The people have had three
years in which to see Roosevelt as
President. They have been well
pleased with the showing he has made.
They have admired him for his strenu-
Gus ways, they have respected him for
his unfaltering fairness in dealing
with all the people, regardless
Of class and regardless Of the effect it
might have upon him politically, they
love him for his true Americanism in
all things
Then let the nation, as a whole, re-
joice today over the election of Roose-
welt and Fairbanks and the victory of
the republican ticket in every state
where there was the least opportunity
for such result. Protection
to American labor, fairness but firm
ness in dealing with the great finan-
cial combinations that have sprung up
in the country as the natural out
growth of national progress, absolute
impartiality in everything, and that
everybody, whether corporation or in
dividual, must obey the law-these are
the policies of the Roosevelt admins
tration. They mean to Americans con
tinued prosperity and happiness They
mean advancement they mean SUI
premacy among the nations of the
world. They mean that Roosevelt,
typical American and President of all
the people, will lead the nation to tri-
umphs and retain it's stand at the head
OF the worlds governments.
A POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY.
Though rejoicing in the hour of vic
tory the republican party must now