Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-19

believe that our Iowa republicans will
object to our having taken this little
mental walk in our beautiful flower
garden, if only as an object lesson to
all warning factions in other states,
how brothers should dwell together in
peace and unity and harmony. as Iowa
republicans have always dwelt, and do
now dwell and as we always will.
Changes in Four Years.
Four years ago the republicans of
Iowa met in state convention to choose
delegates to national convention to
be held in Philadelphia, to ratify the
nomination already made by the peo-
pie of William Mckinley for the high
est place in the power of man to be-
stow 1t was just after the Spanish
war, when the stars and stripes had
been made by our soldiers and our
sailors to float over otherwise alien
lands. Up to that time there had
seemed to be geographical divisions in
our country-sectional divisions--that
were not pleasant and certainly not
patriotic. The Spanish war changed
all that: the men of the south. with
out protest, but with zeal and enthus-
iasm, enlisted under the old flag and
stood shoulder to shoulder, touching
elbows with the men of the north. Old
Joe Wheeler felt at home once more
and he donned the familiar blue and
rode with Young and Chaffee and with
Lawton. Fitzhugh Lee was ready to
salute, as a soldier serving under its
folds, the old flag of his heroic and
historic ancestry Since then Long
street, the right arm of Lee, and Cor
don. the gallant Georgian. have gone
down to their graves, and nowhere i'll
all our land have they been more la
mented and regretted than in the
north.
At the siege of Sebastopol, when
the British army was serving in the
trenches before that doomed city. In
the rifle pits and behind the grim cam
non lay the soldiers of the kingdom of
Great Britain and 1reland-English,
Irish, Scotch.
Brave hearts from Severn and from
Clyde
And from the banks of shannon
There was a pause in the lombard
ment and soldier began song, and
in a moment all joined who, were
within hearing. Bayard Taylor tells
us:
"They sang of love and not of fame,
| Forgat was Britains glory,
Each heart recalled different
name,
But all sang Annie Laurie.
IAN Irish Norah's eyes are dim,
For a singer dumb and CORY:
And English Mary mourns for him
(. Who sang of Annie Laurie
4 So after the Spanish war, there
was in this land of peace, brotherly
love, disappearance of sectonaisn, a
brotherhood of US all, for us all, that
this land had never known before. Ane
that war, and William Mckinley, typi.
! cal American, product of himself, the
gentest spirit and the sweetest sou
/ that has come upon this earth for tive
thousand years, brought this splendid
thing to pass.
Here let the republicans of Iowa in
convention assembled stop in passing
and lay flowers upon the grave OF
Mark Hanna, the trusted friend and
adviser of William Mckinley, who now
i lies, after his stormy life, upon the
| banks. of Lake Erie, whose waters as
1 they lap it's shore sob out a requiem
echoed by the nation-for the mobiles,
Roman of them all.
i To Make Platform.
We are met here again today to Sc
4 lect delegates to a national conven.
ton of the republican party. The hon.
or given to the men who will choose i:
4 no idle honor, for with the honor goe:
a heavy responsibility. Not only ar,
candidates for the presidency and vic
4 presidency of the United States to b.
chosen, but a platform is to be bull
upon which all men can stand from
ocean to ocean, and from the north
ern lakes to the southern gulf. Gu
candidate for the presidency is alread.
chosen. Mems minds are made up
and have been since they witnesses
the splendid poise, the patriotic bear
ing, the magnificent manhood o
: Theodore Roosevelt, when he succeed
ed to. his great office after the blood
tragedy at Buffalo. There will not b
in the convention at Chicago in june
, one dissenting voice. Theodore Roose
:, Welt will be and ought to be the unani
: nous and happy, choice of the grea
: republican party. And he deserves tn
honor. William Mckinley was as pur
as mortal can be pure. SO Is Theo
dore Roosevelt. In all that has bee
said about him; in all the abuse tina
has been poured upon him by par
\ tisan press, l challenge the world t
find spot or stain upon his persona
character. Our splendid democratl
friends, as good Americans as W
claim to be ourselves. are as proud q
| his high character and his spotles
personal record as his most enthusiasts
n the republican following. And man
. democrats next November will cas-
=, their ballots for Roosevelt becaus
they believe him to be honest an
e square and pure and Intellectually f
o FOR the place. In TACT, as our Ifieli
Bede, of Minnesota. said not long ag
S in congress: There is nobody oppos
r ing him but bunch of popnlists dow
in Wall street" and we may add
conundrum from New York. Scan hin
as you will. Young, only in his earl
prime strong, ardent, impetuous,
c you choose, but it is an intellectu;
c impetuousty which always someho
1 or other lands him in the right and L
c which we Americans love him. II
= has climbed the ladder with no al
from those below and with less tina
that from those above him. Membt
9 of the state legislature. chief of tt
c civil service commission, police con
c missioner in New York, and while |
c held the place no policeman dared
c sleep upon his post; assistant secr'
,c tary of the navy, furnishing, as sue
~ Admiral Dewey with the powder al
~ shot with which he annihilated an ell
&c pire in the orient; colonel of caVall
&c in the war; fearless, calm and COM
)c dent upon the field of battle; govern
)c of the great state of New York; ow,
SC ed there by no man and cringlng TO
,c boss; vice president and president
H. the United States.
mi RooseveIt-an Ideal American.
81 If we wanted to find man up'
- whom a father's ewes could rest WI