Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-09

GUS campaign .IOr MS renOmlndllOn as
governor, proelaimfng from the stump
and through his political organs that
the state of Iowa is controlled by cor
: porations, that the legislature of this
state, that we want to call the great
est commonwealth of the nation, Is
dominated by corporate Influences and
corporation greed. That brilliant
young senator from Wisconsin has
4 heralded 1t over the nation that these
II corporations have stolen the legislative
branches of the government, both state
and nation. President Roosevelt him
self while not in exact terms, but in
4 substance. accused the Judiciary of be-
Ing under corporate influence. Indeed
J that which when said by democrats in
1896 and called anarchy, has been
) heralded as great feat of statesman
ship when spoken by President Roose-
! welt. 1t now being conceded that these
j conditions exist by no less eminent
i men than President Roosevelt. Sena-
tor LaFollette and Governor Cummins,
and if they had said nothing the intel
i ligent people of this country would
know it just the same.
4 Death Struggle.
lie Jllllt Has COlllS When UIleTS Is 10 De
a death struggle between the people
upon the one hand and the Rockefel-
lers, Morgans, and their fellow asso-
ciates upon the other, as to the control
of the affairs of this nation. We who
have met together today representing
the democratic party of the state Of
Iowa, say to the people of this state
that the redemption lies in the sup
port of the democratic party. 1t oc-
ours to me that the problem Is easy Of
solution were 1t is possible to remove
from the investigation all elements of
prejudice and partisanship and settle
the question as we would any OF the
affairs of life. The republican party
has been in power the last ten years.
1t has control of every branch of the
government with an overwhelming
majority of the Judiciary scattered all
over the nation. Having conceded that
, this condition exists, having conceded
the desire to rid themselves of it hay
; ing agreed that the time is now and
that the fight must be made, and re-
membering that back yonder in 1896
when the democratic party, with can
didate clean and honest. sincere of
, principle, with determination only
equalled by his honesty of purpose, and
1t became necessary in order that he
be defeated that there be instituted a
fat-frying process by which the very
, system of which you people are now
complaining and that stands with giant
strength at the throat of your legisla.
!, tive bodies and that stands at the
back of your executive chair, with an
unseen and invisible but nevertheless
powerful influence, upon the bench,
!, contributed it's thousands of dollars
that practically bought the election of
1896. I say bought I do not want to
be misunderstood. | say that the man
, who will be elected president of the
United States in 1908, except for the
corrupt and illegal use of money re.
ceiyed from the Rockefellers. Morgans
insurance companies, etc, would have
been elected president in 1896. 1t is
true that some were scared into sup
= porting the system. / know that oul
! republican friends rolled silver dollars
as big as wagon wheels at some of oui
> democrats and frightened them almost
! to death. but thank God, they can not
, do 1t again. Then why was 1t that the
, system so magnanimously contributed
? to the campaign of 1896, 1900 and 1904
,, If they did not know that their con.
!, tributions would rebound to their bene
fit. These men have no politics. They
would as leave contribute to the demo-
cratic as the republican campaign
fund, to be determined only as to
where their interests lie
Not only this but you find that the
system is entrenched in the republican
!, party in the halls of Legislation. and in
, all the departments Of the government
: It's influential friends control and ma
, nipulate all of the affairs of the party
so far as national politics are con
cerned and largely so far as state poll
. tics is concerned, and why should we
expect any relief from the party whose
, very existence and whose success al
the polls was accomplished by the in
, fluence furnished by the system you
, now seek to destroy Let me say TIC
, you that when considering the destruc
ton of discriminating combinations
and trust the greatest combination
the greatest system that today threat
, ems the interest Of the people of this
nation is the system and combination
known as the republican machine. Dc
!, not understand me to say that a vast
majority of the republican party are
not sincere and honest in their endea
vors In behalf Of the welfare of the
: people and of the country, but they
have nothing to say. They have NJ
: power. The republican party is sc
built, 1t is SO interviewer with the in
: fuences of the so-called captains of in
dustry and manipulators of discrim
, mating corporations and soulless
: trusts and combinations that they arc
absolutely inseparable and one insti
tuition. You may hurl denunciation al
, Rockefeller, you may make wry faces
= at j. Pierpont Morgan, you may curse
the steel trust, you may abuse the
. meat packers, but they have a system
by which they have more power ant
influence indirectly in the city Of
Washington than all the people com
= bined. The President may rant, he
may threaten. he may trim off the rag
ged edges which looked wicked, he
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