Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-02


can state convention, Judge H. M
Towner of Corning, the temporary
chairman, delivered the following ad
dress:
Towner's Speech.
desire to congratulate the republi.
cans of Iowa, in this most prosperous
year of this most marvelously prosper.
GUS era that we see in this swelling
flood of prosperity the consummate
triumph and vindication of republican
principles and politics. We live under
a republican administration, with re.
publican President, republican house
and republican senate-in a republi
can nation from ocean to ocean, and a
republican state from river to river
with republican national sentiment
SO strong that even democratic state
conventions endorse the administra-
ton, and republican state sentiment
SO strong that not single county of
the ninety-nine can be longer classed
as democratic.
These two words, republican" and
prosperity" seem formed for union.
They are the harmonious complement
i one OF the other, SO that with the sue
5cess OF one comes the triumph of the
other, and with the failure of either
the downfall and disaster of the other.
Happy the nation that can harness
such steeds to its car Of progress! It
is like the yoking of Phoebus and Aur-
ora to the chariot of the sun. Happy
the party whose very name is synony.
nous with Joy!
1t is said that when the emperor
ChrIyN hot nj
of the Austrian Tyrol, the inhabitants
built bonfires which when lighted
spelled his name in colossal letters Of
crimson flame against the dark back.
ground Of the mountain pines. Over
the whole superb landscape for miles
extended that vast illumination until
the whole heavens were aglow with it's
glory. The republican party has spell
ed the word Prosperity" so large that
the whole world sees it on the western
sky, and the aspiring and the Cypress
ed Of every land at the rate of over a
million year leave their own father.
lands to change their shadows for its
light, their sorrows for it's joys, their
limitations for it's boundless opportuni.
ties.
Prosperity" sing the factories;
prosperity" shout the mines; pros
perity," whistle the thousand locomo
tives on their myriad tracks; prosper
ity," Shrek the innumerable vessels on
river and lake; prosperity" proudly
cries the farmer as he looks out over
us broad acres on which are feeding
sorses, cattle and sheep. Of purest
strains. all of whic.l have doubled in
value in a single decade; prosperity"
exclaims the merchant as he watches
the rise of the net profits on his bal.
ance sheets; prosperity" echoes the
laboring man as he hands the teller his
savings from his weekly wage; "pros.
perity," whispers his VIE as she soft
ly sings her babe to sleep in a cottage
all her own. Prosperity will be sung
80 loud and long in this campaign that
even democrats who share it's blessings
will be compelled to join in the song
for very joy of the thought
When the Dlngley bill was pending,
Mr.. Bailey of Texas, now senator, then
the democratic leader of the house,
said: There is just one question in
the minds of the American people, and
that one question is prosperity. That
Is the supreme test, prosperity. If you
bring 1t, the country will credit you
with your good service. If you fail to
bring it, the country will dismiss you
from its service" We have met that
challenge. We have brought prosper.
ity; not in barely appreciable degree,
but in largest measure; not to sec.
tons, but to all the land; not to
class, but to everybody; not for brief,
glad hour, but for years. Ever since
the revered Mckinley set his sigma
ture to that charter Of American pro-
gress, the Dingley tariff bill, the ma
TONS prosperity has risen like
mighty tidal wave, gathering strength
with years, until it has reached it's Gull
minating height in this year of grace,
the golden year of all our history. New
er before to any people in any other
land since the morning stars sang to-
gether, were blessings SO multiplied as
to our people in this golden year.
The Golden Year.
James Bryce, the distinguished En-
glish statesman and pub>icist, CON
cludes his great commentary on Amer
lean institutions by saying: america
marks the highest level, not only Of
material we'll being. but of Intelligence
and happiness which the race has yet
attained" This was written more
than decade ago. If he were to visit
us now, and were to write with full
knowledge of our progress since then.
what words would he use to fittingly
characterize this land this day? And
this is our republican day This is the
celebration of our glorious victory.
We have not come to cry a halt or
sound retreat, but to proclaim a
triumph. We have not come here to
sew shrouds, but to unfurl banners
We have not come here to sing dirges
but to strike paean. This is our
golden year.
Corporate Control.
The President in his message to con-
gress last December put first In i'm
portance the question of government
control of the great corporations doing
an interstate business. For many
years this has been most important
and difficult question not only In this
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