Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-06
LACEY TALKS
AT KIRKVILLE
ENTHUSIASTIC REPUBLICAN,
MEETING is HELD IN RICH.
LAND TOWNSHIP
LISTENERS PACK HALL
Numerous Other Republican Candle
dates are Present-c Congressman
Discusses Issues of campalsn-Ap+
..peaIs for Support of Roosevelt


..peaIs for Support of Roosevelt.
From Fridays Daily.
under the most auspicious circum-,
stances the campaign opened In Rich
land township last evening with a.
great republican meeting at Kirkvillai
addressed by Major John f. Lacey
candidate to succeed himself as repreI
sentative from the Sixth congression.j
al district
The town hall in which the meet
Ing was held was jammed and packed
70 the limit of its capacity Many were
turned away from the doors. while
more We're compelled to stand during
the entire evening. Besides Major
Lacey's address, Senator S. IA. Harper
spoke briefly and number of the
county candidates made few re-j
marks.
Quite large delegation went to
kirkville from Ottumwa including the
following: Senator Harper; w. w.
Epps, candidate for county attorney:
J. r. Griley, candidate for auditor; j.
U. Stephens, candidate for sheriff;
Edwin DUNCAN, candidate for clerk; l..
L. Swenson, candidate for recorder; w,
B. Moore, candidate for treasurer; e.
]. Moore, candidate for representative;
d. L. Scott, candidate for coroner;
Geo. Hatch, candidate for supervisor,
and I. HI. Hammond
Committeeman r. A. Waddell an.
nounced DR.. William Abegg as chair
man of the evening. After few brief
Introductory remarks Chairman Abegg
introduced Major Lacey as the princi.
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Major Lacey's Address.
1T has been many years since have
had the pleasure Of speaking at Kirk
vile and 1t Is with a great deal of
pleasure that return to your city
4 where we have held number of most;
| pleasant, and. trust profitable, repub-
lican meetings.
We are now in the earlier part OF
4 the campaign of 1906, which lis the
initial movement of the campaign OF
. 1908. We have had long and stren-
GUS pre-conyention campaign but now
that is settled and we have come down.
to the work of settling the issues be-j
tween the two great political parties.
On Ruin Of Whig Party. I
u "Let us go back to the beginning or
the republican party, to the time when
i 1t was founded on the ruins OF the old
! Whig party. In 1852 both the democra.,
tic party and the Wing party declared
in favor of the fugitive slave law and
/ it was high time for the organization;
of a party which should take for its
!, basic principle, opposition to the ex-
| tension of the slave trade into the ter
} ritories. On this principle and on the
principle of protection, though at that
time in less degree, was the republic
can party founded
"The years between 1855 and 1865
were fertile times in the history OF the
United States. During these years.
many names previously wholly un-
known, came forward to be added to
: the roll of fame.
: There are fertile places in ma.
> tion's history and sterile ones just as
: there are fertile and sterile spots in the
: heavens: here portion of the sky
: where the stars are thickly clustered.
! there one where but few of the lumin-
e aries may be seen. Now and then In
s the life of nation there comes fer
+ tile period like the one Of which we
q speak. 1t was at this time that the re-
o publican party was born.
f ''The republican party was aided in
J. the struggle Of this time by the war
S democrats. Nobly they did their duty
and without them Linsoln must nave
f failed.
j. Burden OF Reconstruction.
il after the struggle of the civil war
!. was over the party had to bear the bur-
d den of the government and the recon
s struction period. The next question
d that confronted the party after the re-
n construction period, was the mainten-
+ ance Of the country's credit by the re-
4 sumption of specie payment. This
4 was fought out and the payment OF
n specie was resumed.
"Tne next question with which the
party had to deal was that Of pro-
tective tariff. Always it had been in
Q favor of such a tariff, but the
u high duties on imports made neces
u sary by the expenses of the war had
u served the purpose of protecting Am
q erican industries and the protective
IS tariff had not been vital issue.
u Famous Message.
From the time when Presiden
n Cleveland sent his famous message Il
a. congress until this time, this has beef
p the great question that has aligned tn,
L two parties. Recently mp opponen
:. stated that the cause OF this country
prosperity was not the policies tina
have been followed by the governmen
:, but the soil and climate.
- Did we not have the same soil, tn
same climate in Cleveland's time?
$. am under the impression that we did.
U Those Dark Days.
s. The speaker then dwelt upon tn
u dark times that followed Cleveland
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