Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-11
GOVERNOR acuMMlNs MAKES
PLAIN POSITION HE HOLDS AS
5. TO REVISION
ANSWERS oPPoNENT
y ottumwa Speech the Governor APP
peaIs for Election Of Whole Ticket
and Replies to Charge Made by C..
r. Porter, Democratic Candidate.
From Tuesdays Daily

From Tuesdays Daily.
we are all republicans and we
stand together upon the doctrine of the
protection OF the American markets for
the American laboring man. In these
words, Governor A. B. Cummins last
night summed up lengthy resume of
the tariff question in it's present
phase, having stated concisely his in
diyldual stand for a reduction of some
schedules of the Dingley tariff law,
which he regards as too high In his
speech in this city last evening he de-
voted much of his time to answering
the charges made against him by his
democratic opponent, Hon Claude R.
Porter sand declared, among other
things his answering loyalty to the re-
publican principle of protection.
Governor Cummins was we'll receiv-
ed in Ottumwa. He. arrived from Des
Moines in the afternoon and was met
at the station and escorted to the Bal
lingall hotel, where he was entertained
at dinner. In the evening he was SER
enaded by the Fifty-fourth regiment
band at the hotel and until the hour
set for the meeting he held an i'm
promptu reception in the lobby
and met several hundred Ottumwa and
Wapello county citizens. The Grand
opera house. where the meeting was
held was we'll filled with an attentive
and interested audience and the gov
ernor was frequently interrupted by
applause during the course of his
speech.
The meeting was called to order by
p. e. Dougherty, chairman of the re-
publican county central committee.
He introduced Hon Calvin Manning as
the chairman Of the evening and Mr..
Manning addressed the meeting brief
ly as follows:
Calvin Manning Chairman.
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies', and Gentle
men: 1t gives me great pleasure to
greet 80 many OF you tonight and to
think that we are gathered together
In the interests of the cause Of repub-
licanism. Wendell Phillips once wrote
In an autograph album something of
the following sentiment: There are
two classes of people; one which goes
ahead and does something; the other,
which stands back and watches and
wonders why 1t wasn't done another
way This, to my mind, illustrates
the difference between the two great
parties. The republican party on the
one hand, has. s.nce its Inception
steadily gone ahead and done things
the democratic party has done little
but obstruct
"The principle of protection is and
always has been the basis Of the pol
Icy Of the republican party. remem
Der that several years ago, at Oska,
loosa, I heard James g. Blaine in a
political speech. Among other things
he said there was something like the
following: 'Stanu upon the doctrine OF
protection. and as to the schedules
let congress work them out as they
come up Now, we have had siren
Gus campaign here in Iowa, but We
must remember that it has not been q
campaign on big issues, but upon the
ninutiae. The republicans of the state
of Iowa. by the expression of major
ity of their delegates in convention
have declared for Albert B. Cummins
for governor, and it is our duty as re
publicans TO stand pat And by 'stand
pat mean that we should vote the
whole republican ticket, straight
through from governor to township
constable right here in Center town
ship. And now, ladies and gentlemen
take great pleasure IN introducing tt
you Governor Albert B. Cummins, gov
ernor of Iowa and candidate of the re
publican party to succeed himself"
Introduces the Governor.
Prolonged applause greeted Cover
nor Cumnins as he arose to speak. HI
said:
hoS
men: Not very long ago had tn
pleasure of speaking in this room il
my own Behalf. 1t now gives me III
1nitely more pleasure to stand her
ard speak for a little while in behal
( of the republican party. That Their
has been personal feeling cannot b