Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-02
SETS FORTH CLAIMS
OF NATIVE SON
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Of our people, follower of all the
leaders Of the republican party and d
personal friend of Mckinley, the Sc
curtty Of the government and the vel.
fare of the people can be safely trust.
ed to Charles w. Fairbanks as presi.
dent Of the United States.
Senator Reveridge Talks.
Senator Albert ], Beveridge was
one of the convention speakers He
made plea for the convention to go
on record favoring tariff revision i'm
mediately after the next presidential
election. Senator Beveridgo said:
The world moves and the republi.
can party IS abreast of the times.
The world moves said Calico three
centuries ago, and the narrow minds
who ruled that day forced him to re-
cant. But the republican party never
has yielded and never will yield to
those who ask it to about-face. The
republican party is always on the
march toward better things. Every re-
publican watchword is a battle cry OF
progress. Every republican leader has
been captain Of advance.
"The first republican candidate for
president was called the Great Path
finder. It's second candidate for presi-
dent was called the Great Liberator.
It's last candidate for president. and
the nations chief magistrate today is
called the Great Reformer These men
did things for the people-that is what
made them republican leaders.
"A republican leader is not q ma
ninulator He is an apostle of ideals,
a writer of laws, doer of deeds The
republican party does not exist to get
Offices for the ambitious: it exists
only to worl, out the welfare of the
nation. to right the wrongs that curse
the people. to secure the government
of law nv making law secure the de-
mands of justice. The republican par
ty should preserve the rights of prop
ertv by making property observe the
RIGHTS of man. To make conditions
better, human life happier. liberty
broader and stronger-this is the
meaning Of our organization.
"And it has been this undying pur-
pose Of human betterment that has
written every reform of the last eight
historic years and placed beside the
name of Washington, Jackson and Lin.
coin as leader of the people toward
lihertv and lieht, the name Of Theo.
dore Roosevelt.
Tariff Must be Revised"
"The tariff must be revised imme.
diately after the presidential election
To revise it now would lock up bust.
ness for months of disaster and
doubt. He who would refuse to revise
the tariff Immediately after the presi.
Dental election is too ancient to ba
trusted: he who would revise the tar
iff on the eve of the presidential cleo
ton Is too hypocritical to be tolerated.
But the earliest possible revision of
the tariff is the will of the people be-
cause it is the demand Of conditions,
and to the peoples will and changing
conditions Bourbon obstruction must
yield.
1.-TWO years ago some Of us began
this fight. We were met with AFRO
gance from those who think that the
world does not move; from interests
whom the tariff properly protected
when it was made but whom changed
conditions now enable to act like
highwaymen to other honest inter
ests; from purchased press owned
by gluttonous corporations and by
men whose wealth flowed from obso
lete schedules. But success is now in
sight, and, as Indiana led the first
charge in this battle. SO let Indiana
lead the last charge that crowns it
with victory"