Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-03
ELOQUENT ORATOR
SPEAKS IN 0TTUMWA

tribute was handsome one and shows
the high esteem and regard which ex.
lists between Iowa's fifth and sixth dis
trict congressman.
F. w. Simmons acted as chairman
of the meeting and introduced the
speakers of the evening, prefacing the
introduction with short talk eulogis'
tic of the two congressman and of
President Roosevelt. Two campaign
songs arranged as duets and sung by
Will Lowry and Grant Keyhoe fur
nished the musical numbers of the
evening.
Address of the Evening.
Mr. Cousins address was in part as
follows:
II think Major Lacey has properly
diagnosed this campaign. Except for
the official notices few people would
know that there is an election coming.
In fact it seems that people are so sat
isfied that the holding of an election is
simply the observance of law and Gus.
tom.
Eight years ago it was different.
We had little else to do except to cam
paign. We were then at the supreme
height of what the democratic party
could do when it had good chance.
Then it had the president, the national
house and the senate. We were rev.
cling in idleness, therefore we cam.
paigned doctors, teachers, workmen,
lawyers, all.
A Glorious Sight.
ut was a glorious sight to see the
great American nation all engaged in
political contention. 1t was a great
education: Saddling responsibility
upon the shoulders of every American
citizen constitutes the supreme test of
cur system of government. This has
happened several times in The history
of our party and each time. nutwith-
standing all prophecies, the issue mas
been successful and we still stand in
industrial supremacy-the mightiest Of
nations.
Crown of Gold About Its Neck.
"As for the issues of the campaign
they seem to rest largely with the OPP
position. The recent ST. Louis con-
vention brought forth child with a
crown of gold hure about its neck but
yet not crucified by it and we learn by
wire from Esopus that the father has
hopes of surviving.
Where Find Them?
People are enquiring what has be.
come of the fascination which con.
tended that cheaper dollar was the
| panacea of all our ills. Can we not
picture the scene when Uncle Sam
calls up Dayie B and Attic B and
vainly asks what reason have you got
for having led me into all that financial
folly? Where were you in the days
from November, 1896, to July 8, 1904,
and where under heaven may we rea-
sonably expect to find you at any time
in the future? Where eyre they while
the nation was striving to establish
the gold standard? Where are they
now? Are they running on the Bryan
majority rule in the convention or on
the Esopus telegram?
A War of determination.
"W. ]. Bryan in one of his cam
paigns declared during the past two
years we have waged in war of exter.
mination on the gold standard We
ask no quarter and wewill give no quar-
ter Never having withdrawn that
statement / submit that the slightest
ascendancy of that party into power
is menace to the money standard of
the United States Notwithstanding the
fact that Parker pleads that it is i'm
possible to do any damage because the
house and the senate is republican.
New Party Out Of An Old One.
This return to sanity of which SO
much has been made is vain attempt
to make new party out of an old one
1t reminds me Of the difficulties of the
board of supervisors that wanted to
/ build new Jail out of the old one,
using the material in the old one for
4 the new one and still using the old
Jail while the new one was being built.
With Strict Neutrality.
! eve want to treat both elements of
! the democratic party with strict neu.
! trality. We deal with the dissensions
of the democrats as with those of the
car and the mikado. We want to be
fair with Bryan and with Parker and
Hill.
A Happy Country.
"Our country is free, is solvent, its
commercial supremacy is growing
from day to day, it is getting on we'll
in its relations with contiguous
lands. Cuba is fire and happy under
its own flag, Porto Rico is happy and
prosperous, Hawaii is prosperous as
never before. The Filipinos are get
| ting on finely, roads are being built,
schools built and a thousand Ameri.
can teachers are instructing their chill
dren.
AstheticalIy Objects.
cat home we are happy, prosperous
and contented. True occasionally some
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