Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-30
SPEAKER OF THE NATIONAL
HOUSE NOTIFIES PRESIDENT
OF HIS NOMINATION.
THE CANDIDATE TALKS

Both Addresses TEEN With Truths and
Are Indicative Of the Campaign
That Is to Be Waged by the Repub.
iieans During the Coming Months.
Oyster Bay. N. Y, July 27.-The ad-
dresses delivered today by President
Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon on the
occasion Of the formal notification,
were Indicative of the campaign to be
made this fall by the republicans.
Both speakers reviewed the successes
Of the nation under republican admin.
istration during the past seven years
and spoke of the policies of the re-
publican party, which have not
changed since its organization but
have always operated for the success
Of the country. Speaker Cannon, as
chairman Of the notification commit.
tee appointed by the national republi.
can convention held In Chicago last
month, spoke as follows:
Mr.. President: The people Of the
! United States, by blood, heredity, ed
ucation and practice, are self-gov-
erning people. We have sometimes
been subject to prejudice and embar-
rassment from harmful conditions, but
1--WE have outgrown prejudice and over
come conditions as rapidly as possible
having due regard to law and the
rights Of individuals. We have some
times made mistakes from a false
sense Of security or from desire to
change policies instead of letting we'll
enough alone merely to see what would
happen, but we have always paid the
penalty of unwise action at the bal
lot box and endured the suffering I'M
til under the law, through the ballot
box, we have returned to correct poll
cfes. Tested by experience no nation
has so successfully solved all prob
lens and chosen proper policies as
our nation. Under the lead of the
republican party for over forty years
the United States, from being third
class power among the nations, has
become In every respect first. The
people rule. The people ruling, it is
necessary that they should be compe-
tent to rule. Competency requires not
only patriotism but material well-be-
ing. education and statecraft.
THE people. under the lead of the
republican party, wrote upon the stat
ute books revenue laws, levying taxes
upon the products Of foreign coun-
tries seeking our markets which re-
plentshed our treasury but were so
adjusted as to encourage our people
in developing, diversifying and main
tanning our industries at the same time
protecting our citizens laboring in pro-
duction against the competition of for
eign labor Under this policy our man
ufactured product today is third of
the product OF the civilized world and
our people receive almost double the
pay for their labor that similar labor
receives elsewhere in the world, there
by enabling us to bear the burdens Of
citizenship.
Labor and Prosperity.
Liberal compensation for labor,
makes liberal customers for our pro.
ducts. Under this policy of protec-
ton, our home market affords all our
people better market than has any
other people on earth and this, toe, ev-
en- If we did not sell any of our pro-
ducts abroad. In addition to this, we
have come to be the greatest export
ing nation in the world For the year
ending the S0th of June, 1904, our ex-
ports to foreign countries were valued
at $1,460,000,000 of which $3.50, OOO,-
600 were products of the factory. The
world fell in our debt last year s47O,-
100000 an increase Of $75,OOO,OO0 over
the preceding year.
This policy of protection has al
ways been opposed by the opponents of
the republican party and is opposed by
them today. Inatheir last national plat
form, adopted at st. Louis, they de-
nounce protection as robbery. They
never have been given power but they
proceeded by word and act to destroy
the policy of protection. Their platform
is as silent as the grave touching the
gold standard and our currency system.
Their chosen leader, after his nomina.
ton, having been as silent as the
sphynx up to that time, sent his tele-
gram saying in substance that the
gold standard is established and that
he will govern him self accordingly if
he should be elected.
congratuIates Parker.
i congratulate him: 1t is better to
NC iiSilL loIc Illdu never. IL Is DSLC6T
to be right in one thing than wrong in
all things. l wonder if it ever occur.
red to him that if his vote and support
for his party's candidate in 1896 and
1900 had been decisive. we would now
have the silver standard l wonder
what made him send that telegram
after he was nominated, and why he
he did not send 1t before! When did he
have change of heart and judgment?
And does he at heart believe in the
gold standard and our currency system,
or does he try now to reap where he
has not sown? If, perchance, he should
be elected by forcing together discord-
ant clements, submit that, with
democratic house of representatives or
house and senate, there would be no
harmonious action in legislation or adj
ministration that would benefit the peo-
pie, but that doubt and discomfort
would everywhere distress production
and tabor Consumption would be cur
tailed. In short, we would have an ex-
perience similar to that from 1898 to
1897. If this chosen leader and his
friends are converts to republican