Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-19
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or larger band of able and eloquent
men to choose from Virginia, New
York, Ohio and Kentucky can no long
er claim pre- eminence in great speak
ers; for, had the committee chosen,
you might have had from within our
own borders many a man who could
draw an audience still as night or
summers noon-tide air"
Iowans in Public Life.
A Lacey, alert, quick, studious, who
has grown and is growing in mental
stature until he stands even with the
talleSt
A Hepburn, whose words leap like
fire from the voice of his convictions;
fearless. strong. avery American "Ru-
pert of debate" whose eloquence con-
vinces and burns and points the way
as plainly as did in olden times the
fiery cross of his Scotch ancestry.
Cousins, ever faithful, ever true;
great of BODY and of mind; blue eyed,
kindly, but with tongue of fire;
whose eloquence has enchanted a ma
ton, and whose lips are the honeyed
lips of Hylas stung by the bees OF
Mount Hymettus.,
Or, coming within the state and ex-
Guiding for the moment those sons Oh
Iowa who are engaged in the service
of the nation. you might have mad pc
lore you lOQdy LIie ~SplSIlulu presence
the active mind. the terse and lumin-
Gus power Of statement, the brilliant
and glowing periods, the strong per-
sonality and clear brain of man now
in state official life. who has lew
equals on the platform and before the
people. Had the committee chosen as
your temporary presiding ofhcer tne
able, clean and eloquent gentleman 10
whom 1 refer then YOU would nave
L., oh, hat
long in your memories and new poli-
teal epoch would have marked this
day in the history of our state, ana
the name of Cummins would nave
made the welllin ring.
To go back again to those eminent
gentlemen serving the people in ma
tional capacity, where can be found
more magnetic voice, more studl-
Gus mind, a more convincing loglclan,
a more engaging and charming indivi-
duality than Dolliver, over whose era
die in the mountains of West Virginia
the very hand-maids of oratory scat
tered in reckless profusion their gol-
den gifts.
Or, you might have listened today,
as I trust the nation viii listen TOT
years to come, to the sage of the sen.
ate; to the man whose words couh.
for more in the senate of the United
states than any other mans. Whose
service has exceeded the historic thlr-
ty years of Benton; and who will stay
in his great place, which he has made
greater, as long as God gives MN HE
and .tiedlxepublicaGs rule in Iowa;
who, If Iowa had been douptfu
state, like Indiana, or New York
would long, since have sat in the chair
of washington and of Lincoln. You do
not need to be told that / mean loWa's
greatest and most revered son, Will
liam B. Allison.
Nor has Iowa placed all it's brains In
Office. state or national. In private
fife in Iowa are many Millions, mute
hut not inglorious. / have in mind a
man of superb intellect, of scholarly
and brilliant mind. A reader but not
dreamer;~ a thinker, but also man
of affairs broad and ever widening;
who has hewn his way to his great
place in state and nation without adj
yentitious help; whose intellectual
poise has made his advice sought by
the greatest of our statesmen and bust
ness men; who is without concealmen,
and without guile. An ardent frien6
and a generous foe; whose word Is
truth; who fights his battles without
envy or ranchor or malice; equally
ready to help d friend and to give the
quick hand of relief to an honorable
foe. If your committee had chosen
from private station this magnificen
type of Iowa manhood. then this da,
would have gone ringing down tn
corridors of the years to come. ant
you and I. and all of us. would hav
remembered, as a representative of tn
best manhood of our great state, tn
name of Blythe.
After witnessing the domestic dis
turbances and broils of our republica
brethren in New York, in Delaware. i
Ohio, Wisconsin and Illinois, | do nc