Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05
BOTH MAKE
SPEECHES
PARKER AND DAVIS MAKE SAME
OLD UNFoUNpED CHARGES
TO-DAY.
PARKER ON TARIFF
Presidential Candidate Makes Ram
bling Address at Bridgeport, Conn,
Talking Against "stand Pat' Policy
Davis Attacks Roosevelt.

New York, N Y, Nov. 3.-Judge
Parker left for Connecticut this morn
ing on a special train He will deliver
three formal speeches in Connecticut
and it is expected that several plat
form speeches will be made at inter.
mediary stops.
Arrival at Bridgeport.
Bridgeport, Conn, Nov. 3.-When
Judge Parker's special train reached
here from New York today thej Judge
was received with hearty applause by
the people who thronged the platform.
Parker was Immediately welcomed in
a formal way b. General Bishop, can
didate for lieutenant governor on the
democratic ticket, whose guest he was
during his stay in the city
Afterward Parker was driven to the
Third regiment armory, where he de-
llvered an address to a large audience.
At the towns through which the spe-
clal passed crowds gathered at the sta
lions and greeted the candidate with
cheers.
Makes Rambling Talk.
In his speech Parker combated the
stand pat'' theory saying in part:
"The whole of modern progress has
come largely from the refusal of the
world to stand pat Each successive
generation has recognized the virtues
and accepted the labors of it's prede-
cessors, but in doing SO none has
ever declined or refused to recognize
new demands or correct old abuses.
There is no more reason why we
should resolve not to revise our ma
tional revenue laws, then there would
Il hnn ut 1t1 -
tory. to stop all progress. This is es-
pecially true of abuses which become
rooted in our human life 1t is easy
enough for a favorite, who in this case
is the predominant partner with the
government. to resist any suggestion
of change. But far more the laboring
man or woman of fixed income, the
student struggling for an education,
the poor girl supporting her mothers
family. these are entitled to inquire
whether this policy of using the law
to give favors to the few, while the
many are left to nurse a sense of in
justice, should become permanently
fixed merely because power or cor
ruption or shortsighted economic pol
icy has brought it to us as heritage.
Henry Gassoway Davis Talks.
| Cumberland, Nd, Nov. 3.-Henry G.
Davis, democratic vice presidential
candidate, is making a trip over West
Virginia, travelling in his private car,
''Graceland." In speech at Ridgeley,
Davis said that Roosevelt came into
power when the times were prosperous
but that ever since then times have
been growing very much worse. Under
Mckinley, he said, there was sur
plus in the treasury of $44,00O,0O0, but
now there is a deficit of SAL 100000,
which is still growing.
Uses Big Figures.
He said that there are over 100000
federal Office holders in Office today,
one-half of whom are going ever the
country, while under governm ent pay,
urging the people to keep them in
power by making political speeches.
Tariff and Trusts.
Davis expressed the opinion that the
tariff on special things that foster
I trusts should be reduced, and that.
/ 200 or 300 trusts in the country are re-
publican. He charged that all trusts
are giving money freely for the cleo.
/ ton Of Roosevelt