Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-25

OF 1880 and I ask, What Is there In
the democratic platform OF 1904 that
bids you hope? What is there for you
In that platform? What DO YOU get oct
ct 1t? 10 what extent does Parker rep
resent ypu2 What is it that he pro-
poses to do for your Il You believe
IN republican doctrines why veto for
Parker? Why not go the whole hog
or none and vote for Eooseve1t2 BY
what right do the Democratic lenders
undertake to preach and expouDd to-
the American psraple amy euDnl1mkc
questions? How do we know that they
have studied and mustered any OF
those questions?"
Boiled down to It's real essence,
sffted to its real meaning, the demo
CRATIC cann1atsn OF 1904 rs nero urn-
Scrmpu1uns hunt Inn Office. They have
no fixed and certain creed. They have
no articles of faith by which demo
cratic loyalty can be tested. n party
like am Individual, should ssak to build
UP c1rara ctsH And without cnnyicttons
there can be no character"
With these endorsements OF the re
publican purity it Is hard to figure out
what MIR. WatzDn w1uM say that could
be construed as fawurfng the demo-
cratic party. OF course, he does not
Indicate that the lines OF the poun
list parity and Of the rwpu blican pHrIty
are approaching, but rthnt the popnlists
are drawdnsg fnuthHr and farther AWAY
from the democratic party as the re
suit ct the action Of the ST. Louis nun-
vention The republican party hns
stood for the same things for which id
NOW Btands through ca1nTnign nftRr
campa1gl. ThB puEuIists md the dem
ocrats and the prUhi hiTtiiontsts and CIV
cry other party al KNOW where ITO find
the republican party. This Is net the
ce7M, however, with the democrats
Changing ever. according EB the man
agemeu4 of TshD party changes, the
&em,c1a1ii@ parity haB been leaping
from Gne stand to another, until tt has
represented nearly every fallary IN
the political history OF the nation Now
even the popuists are getting tired oil
this, and Mr. Watsunas stern arraign
ment of the democracy indicates that
before voting for PARKER he would ad.
wise casting a ballot for Roosevelt in
stead This is a strong statement fol
1lan who represents what has al
wayE been considered simply am off
shoot Of the democracy but 1t is nc
more than WAS to be expected wher
the party went out Of the control Oh
Bryan AMID of the si1Ter element fntn
the hands Of Hill, Belmont and the
others who are known to represent CIV:
e1Ything that Bryan and his followers
oppose
Charles a Walsh Of Ottumwa, turn
ed down by the democratic party after
serving tt fer eight years as national
secretary wam the first man to point
out this fact to the new leaders of the
recognized Parker democracy But
his advice, apparently, was disregard
ed
That 1t was not prompted by sore
ness over his ovn defeat Is shown by
the Fact Tint he Is still In the party
and has announced his Intention to dc
his best 10 have Pazker elected By
working here In Iowa In his capacity
as member OF the national committees
from this state The east and the
west are widely different In po1itlca.
sentiment and Mr. Walsh knows thu
west That Belmont and his gang
know the east there Is no doubt, bul
that the east is not the only part 81
the nation that votes for president l.
something the fasteners seem to have
overlooked Here they erred. Waist
knows 1t, Watson knows it and Ii
building upon 1t. Others know 1t and
more VIII realize It before the time 70,
election comes.