Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-03

pdiiy. Ol.uHlwa, Iowa.
Entered as second class matter
!, october II. 1868. at the postoffice. OF
3t 5tumWa, Iowa, under the Act of Congress
of March 5. 1879
& GROVER cLEVELAND'S LETTER.
: The first of three articles which
former President Grover Cleveland
planned to write on the presidential
campaign of 1908, was published 81
simultaneously yesterday in the New
IS York Times and Chicago Tribune.
The article is general discussion OF
the political field, the issues and the
men. The other two articles, one to
z deal with the issues developed by the
conflict of the two parties, to be pub
lished in September, and the third to
= deal with the doubtful states, and to
be published just before the election,
were unfinished when death brought
\ the life labors OF the distinguished
E Cleveland to a close.
The first article is of interest be-
cause in it former Democratic pres
people to vote for the Re-
IS publican nominee in this pres
9 fdential campaign This is not because
t1i. SlCNSlctlu ueiu lOl ocLhC1I IiiS Peei ~
z which twice honored him with the
highest office in it's gift, but because
4 that party had forsaken the principles
which it was founded. The part
sEof his article in which he insisted
7tfthere was no sentiment of disloyalty
Ito Democracy in his protest against
1.-The party of today follows:
There is no suggestion of senti-
Sftn1pnt HiS1nU91fV mart tn the
Vi elder principles of Democracy under
4 which I have striven to do my public
- duty in matters large and small,
1g when say that there is large indi-
S. cation that the coming year will bring
forth new ascendancy of those same
principles. perhaps under a different
panoply, and perhaps with a reincor-
poration of the decayed fragments of
an organization that failed to serve
= It's purpose. No political party in any
country has ever been wrecked by
IS. continued consistency with the prin-
Sciples that originally made it pow
er, the rocks on which it fell invaria-
bly, being the errors Of opportunist.
The present campaign as side fea-
ture will have long step in the pro
gress to the readjustment to first
principles, and it is propitious indeed
that there is no issue of such gravity
that those principles are needed to
determine it. Never has there been a
safer time for the rehabilitation to
proceed"
Turning his attention to the Repub-
lican party, Cleveland's article says
that with the several other parties
disorganizing, redeveloping and pro-
creating, the Republican party is GER
tain, though with considerably les
sened strength, to "move on to a safe
victory, sustained by the popular sup
port of reforms which should not re-
dound on it's glory, solely, those re
forms having been the work of decent
men in ali parties"
Mr.. Cleveland's reasons for advo-
eating the election of Judge Taft are
given at length in the article, as fol
lows:
There is no fear on my part of
being misunderstood in what I am
about to say, but surely the fair mind
ed man must realize when he consid-
srs my attitude toward my own party,
all now matter of immutable record,
that it is prompted by sense of sim
pie fairness. Personally and officially
/ have had the opportunity of know
| ing many things concerning Mr.. Taft
that were not matter of general
i knowledge, and with keen interest
4 Il have watched his large share in thu
conduct of our national affairs in very
! recent years. His excellence as fed
eral Judge in Cincinnati is something
not to be underestimated or overem-
4 phasized, for should he come to the
4 presidential chair the qualities which
made him judge of high ability
which / know him to have been, will
/ be the most needful to him as presi,
dent of the United States. His high
ideals of honesty and of relative jus.
tice, his great capacity for severe la,
Dor, and his humorous wisdom in the
lace of serious problems are attributes
equally valuable and commendatory
10 a people seeking him in whom
they may repose the trust of their
collective interests while they turn
their increased attention to their pres.
sing individual demands.
Whatever may be said as to the
I events of the last ten years which are
alleged to have made us world pow.
ar, there remains small opportunity
for controversy over the essential fea-
lures of our conduct in the face of the
I problems brought to face us by those
4 happenings Now, being seIf-contain.
A ed and compact in our political geog.
4 raphy and federated to our common
interests wherever our dominion was
4 AT the first symptom OF Head h
q "A ache, Heartburn, Endiges- B
n lion, C0StiVeness or Malarial I;
n Fever is the time to take the b