Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-13
THEY LIKE lOWANS
BALTIMORE PEOPLE SAY DOLL.
YER AND SHAW ARE GOOD
PUBLIC SPEAKERS

The Junior Hawkeye Senator Has Re-
Gently Scored a Success At BaltI-
more and shaw's Ability Has Been
Well Known for Some Time.
Washington. D. c.. Feb. 12.-(Spe-
cial Baltimore people have come to
entertain very cordial regard for
everything that bears the label Iowa"
and particularly if the thing" hap
pens Ito be a public speaker. Senator
Dolliver is the latest Iowan to capture
the "Oriole" city and now the cry
there is: Iowa next to Maryland"
Senator Dolliver made a speech in
Baltimore few nights ago and re-
ports have been drifting to Washing
ton ever since which indicate that
told them few stories that simply
some things to think about that have
| since.
Among other things the senator
told. them. the story that while on the
stump in a town in the west, during
/ a campaign in the nineties, he had
an odd experience: when arrived
at the town." said Senator Dolliver,
1T found the proprietor of the hotel
where / was billed to stop, was in jail,
having violated city ordinance by
keeping honey bees in the city. He
wrote letter to the mayor OF the
town, when he heard was to speak.
asking If he could not be released two
hours to enable him to hear my
speech. The mayor endorsed the ap.
plication as follows: Release the
prisoner to hear Dolliver' sNspeech; the
remainder OF his punishment is here
by remitted.'"
OF course this story, which is not
entirely new in Iowa, although it is SO
good that 1t stands repeating, was
merely incidental. The senator spoke
on the theme Of the self-made man,
and Baltimore is still talking about
some of the points the senator made,
He said:
I'm this country, during your life.
time and mine, there has grown up
4 an organized criticism Of government
and society. / am not speaking OF
anarchy; that is a negligible quantity
and, in my Judgment, lies entirely
within the jurisdiction of the board OF
health. The life of William McKin'
ley makes all the necessary answer to
this philosophy. He was born on that
average level of life which has given
4 the world every important parsonage
j in her history. Napoleon was mon
strosity; Lincoln a sublime automa
4 tom in the hands Of an Infinite power
and used for the blessing Of the world
but Mckinley was the average man
4 and the more contemplate his biog
/. raphy the less sympathy I have fol
n the children of the poor. am say
4 ing what little sympathy I have fol
the children of the rich. The poo
boy is the only boy who has a chance
This world Is 80 constructed that NJ
one amounts to anything in 1t but the
man who does things, and few d.
things except those who have to-"
Secretary Shaw is another distin
guished Iowan who draws big house
!, in Baltimore. He captured the city
and incidentally made some votes there
two years ago next fall. during thu
, presidential campaign. In the course
of his speech he was interrupted b!
man who asked the secretary If b,
would answer question, and thu
speaker said he would be pleased tt
providing he had the ability. Then tn,
! interrupter put the question, which
had to do with the tariff; that bein,
the theme under discussion, and de
manded of Mr. Shaw an answer in on
: word, yes" or mo"
Secretary Shaw declared that b.
would answer the query but that h
could not do 30 in q single word Eye
), A you can" bawled out the smart ques
toner. anybody who has conviction
and we'll defined ideas can state then
in a single word"
A sprinkling OF applause followe
this. Secretary Shaw waited until quie
had been restored and then said
Does the gentleman who has JUS
spoken believe that any question ma
!, be replied to categonc ally, by the us
i. of the words, yes or nor
t 81 do" spoke up the man, with
f great deal of pomposity.
d will the gentleman answer me
Z question yes or MOI?
s II will" answered the smart maj
e although not quite so pompously
r very WELL" remarked Secretar
e. Shaw. 81 will ask him, then, If he ha
y given up the practice Of beating hi
) wife,"
k Washingtonians who were preser
e say the roof did not come of, but th
e windows ratified and the building v
0 brated with the roar that followed
+. The smart questioner chad his" a
s right and shrunk several sizes. 1t
). now q proyerb in Baltimore among th
democrats, Never interrupt Shaw"
al The late Jerry Simpson, know
It throughout the country as "Sockles
t. Jerry" was not the only man who rod
q into public life on the threadba1
! clothes issue. Simpsons slogan wa
q that he wore. no socks and he won
couple of elections only to be defeate
finally by the man he had beaten, Che