Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-11

ignored, but | stand here tonight to
speak in behalf of every candidate on
the ticket. l am just as deeply in.
terested in the election of all of them
as am in my own election. In every
republic the laws must be made and
administered through the medium of
political parties. This has always been
80 and so it always must be. | am not
here to invite any young man into
the party on the plea that the republi-
can party has fulfilled the highest
ideals of citizenship, but 1 am here to
invite any young man who may be
about to form an alliance with one OF
the two great parties upon the asser-
ton that the republican party for the
last fifty years, has done more for the
cause Of good government, more for
the manhood and womanhood OF our
country, more to ennoble you and me,
| more to- repair wrong, more to redress
injury, more to lift humanity up to
higher and better claim than any other
political organization ever known in
the history Of the civilized world
Il am therefore, in asking you to
make choice in these instruments of
government, wholly sincere and earn
est when ask you to vote for every
republican candidate, because the
party, If 1t succeeds at all, must sue
coed as a whole and not by disintegra-
ton. Now l am not afraid to mention
names-I know there are some occa-
sions in this state when it is thought
best not to mention mine-while there
are some things in which that good
and faithful servant of the sixth dis
trict does not agree with me, however,
If have any influence with any man
in this district, | appeal to him to
stand by John F. Lacey in the election
OF next November For he viii, help to
work out the policies of the republican
party and believe that those policies
! are necessary for our countrys pros
I perity and development
:. For the Whole Ticket.
Il say likewise of your candidates
for the general assembly. 1t is so easy
to believe within the limits of any par
ticular county that we may crafty our
personal feeling, not remembering that
there are ninety-nine other counties in
7. the state and that there may be feeling
In all. When the next assemblage
meets, one of it's duties will be to elect
a United States senator. 1t makes nc
difference what you rlay personally
think of your candiGates-althoug
mind you, | know them to be men OF
the highest character and loyalty tc
the republican party-the pivotal
thought that should actuate every re
publican is that your senator and re
preventative should go there to Des
MONIES inspired with desire to vote
for republican for the next United
States senator If may be permitted
to mention names again, would sug
gest that you send them to vote fol
one Of the most magnificent leaders il
all the state of Iowa, for one upoI
whose shoulders your President leaned
most heavily during the struggle O
last winter. While 1t is not within my
province to suggest whom they shall
, elect, feel assured that if they give
their support to Jonathan P. Dolliver
the honor Of the state of Iowa will be
} most highly served. (Applause)
80 l hope you will put away any
thought of the pre-convention cam
) paign, and that you will look upo1
this struggle as republican struggle
without regard to the views Of the var
ious candidates relating to the recen
controversy, and that you will stant
steady for the republican party. Fo
, the welfare of the republican party il
/, Of Infinitely more concern than Is tn,
welfare of any one man, care not WHIT
he may be. (Applause.)
Speaks for Himself.
: "And now, a word with regard tt
: myself know, as your chairman ha
said, that the campaign preceding thu
, convention was a severe one. In ;
) great many parts Of the state it wa
) intense. in some parts-and | regret
f very much-the campaign was an acri
: monious one. know there are thous
= ands of good, loyal, honest republican
: in this state who preferred someon
3 else other than myself for their candi
4 date. Their preference was not con
3 cealed In fact, it was most emphatic
= ally expressed, and. therefore, 1t is a
: natural as the rising of the sun tina
!, they should feel disappointed in tn
s selection made at Des Moines. Al
) that have to say to them in SO far a
l am individually concerned in this
e was nominated for governor by a re
t publican convention after a fair, har
D fight and | am entitled to the supper
i of every republican in Iowa who be
/, lieves republican supremacy to b
o necessary to the welfare of the cour
: try.
= Railroad Opposition.
81 am opposed now, as | was in tn
preliminary campaign not only by tn
= democratic candidate for governor, bu
e by every political railroad in the stat
of Iowa | make no statement that
: cannot confirm That opposition is no
e conducting bureau in Des Moines i
n aid of the democratic campaign. | d
l. not say that this aid is sought by tn
e democratic candidate for governor.
If have known Mr.. Porter for many year
e and have always believed him to b
" q Sincara and unrioht man And I VI