Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-30
JUNIOR SENATOR MAKES CHAR
AcTERIsTlc REPUBLICAN
ADDRESS IN DAVIS co.
MAKES ISSUES PLAIN
Pays Tributs to Major Lacey-Makes
Special Mention Of Some Of the
Valuable Services to Nation by
Sixth District Congressman.

Bloomfield. Oct. 2s.-(special.)- )-N
large number of Davis county voters
heard Senator Dolliver discuss the is-
sues Of this political campaign hero
Saturday afternoon, after which he
went to Fairfield for the evening ad-
dress.
After discussing at length the work
accomplished by congress under the
leadership of President Roosevelt,
Senator Dolliver devoted few min.
utes to the discussion of political AZ
fairs in Iowa. He pointed out that
the republican party throughout the
United States Is approaching con-
test in which American institutions
will be put to test to which they
have not been exposed during the
present generation. "The question
will be-" said the senator whether
the people are able through their gov.
ernment to preserve the integrity Of
the American market-place, against
the lawlessness and greed OF those
who control our great corporations;
or whether the shall give UP the fight.
abandon the old regime of individual
freedom upon which the present day
civilization of the world is founded,
confess their helplessness and des-
peration In the struggle, and push the
government to the front stripped Of
Its sovereignty and of It's power to be-
come traffic manager and ultimately
wholesale dealer in goods, wares
and merchandise.
Duty In Emergency.
"The republican party understands
perfectly well its duty In such an
emergency. 1t proposes to make the
law, that Is to say, the supreme power
of the state. effective in commanding
what is right and prohibiting what Is
wrong in the business world. It re-
fuses to confess the failure of our in.
stitutions and the inability of these
| eighty millions who live in the United
States to deal with the problems
which have grown up .out Of the In.
dustrial and commercial progress OF
our lines. In broad view the re-
| publican party stands for the law of
i property which we have inherited
from our ancestors, and to be perfect
ly plain about it, the republican party
proposes by the enactment Of just
statutes to separate the legitimate
proper interests of the United States
from those abuses arising from avar-
Ice and greed which have attempted
to defy not only the law Of the land,
but those ancient precepts Of honesty
and fair dealing which constitute the
motive of civilized society.
Il 'It is because foresee this coming
conflict that am exhorting republi-
cans everywhere to put aside personal
contentious and those differences Of
I opinion which grow out Of the rival
ries Of party leadership and stand to-
gether for the election of the ticket
nominated at Des Moines, including
your own honored fellow citizen B. r.
Carroll, auditor Of state. do not
!. want to see the party disparaged
everywhere throughout the United
States, by division in Iowa which puts
in jeopardy, not only the usefulness,
but the very life of the party, l am not
one of those who counseled the-renom-
ination Of Governor Cummins, though
I have never cherished any opinion
about him which has deprecated the
value Of his public services or the sim
cerity of his convictions as citizen
and as man. felt 1t to be my duty
to support another in the preliminary
contest for the nomination of repub.
lican candidate. And that fact makes
1t all the more appropriate for me to
exhort my party associates every
where to put aside personal feeling
and even the bitterness engendered by
factional strife in order that the old
republican party, which for half CEN
tury has guided the growth and de-
: velopment Of Iowa, may not at the
very moment of it's largest RESPONSE
bility to the country be shorn of Its
power to accomplish the work. which
in the providence Of God has been
given it to do"
Tribute to Lacey.
Senator Dolliver spoke also Of the
importance Of supporting the admins
tration of President Roosevelt by the
election of republican congress, say
!. ing: Without house of representa-
tives in sympathy with his admins
: tration, the last half of President
Roosevelt's administration would be
reduced to mere wrangle with un-
friendly politicians, and the President
, himself left deserted, and disarmed In
the midst Of his splendid activities for
the welfare of the American people.
"In Major Lacey the Sixth congress.
!. sional district has had for many years
a commanding influence in the cOun.
ellis of the nation.
Few men have made SO distinct an
impression upon the legislation of the
i; last twenty years.
: ,"As chairman of the committee on
Public Lands he has written the
. statutes which have reformed the
laws Of the United States relating tc