Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-05-05
JUNIOR UNITED STATES sENA.
TOR SAYS COLLEAGUE Is GAIN.
ING STRENGTH WITH PEoPLs
EVERY DAY
OTTUMWA SPEECH
WAS LAST IN STATE
SENATOR DoLLIvER HEARD w
LARGE AUDIENCE SATURDAY
NIGHT, WITH HEARERS FROM
POINTS ABOUT THE STATE

Senator Dolliver Saturday nighk
finished his campaign trip through
Iowa in behalf of Senator Allison With
speech at the Grand opera house
where he was greeted with an irn-
mense audience.
During the afternoon friends Of thu
senator and of Senator Allison viaital
Mr.. Dolliver at his suit at the BAI.
lingall hotel where hundreds shook his
hand and promised their support for
his next friend and colleague Senator
Allison
During the afternoon the town was
alive with people. The Fifty-fourth
| Reg1mental band played on the streets.
Hundreds congregated around the Bal
lingall when the band brought up there
IN honor Of Senator Dolliver.
Off for Washington
Senator Dolliver left on the BurlirlS.
ton following the speech for Washing
ton. He was accompanied by Nation.
al Delegate Frank Simmons. Dolliyer
must be in Washington today where
| ne mas important committee work to
perform.
Hundreds of men from out Of the
city were in attendance to hear and
see the junior senator from Iowa
Among those from out of the city
We're, Hon. John f. Lacey OF OskA.
loosa, Ellsworth Rominger, of Bloom.
field, candidate for the Republican
nomination for congress from the sixth
district. p e. Grimes and G. w.
Ramseyer, also came from Bloomfield.
Abba Delegation.
/ Abba sent a large delegation. among
1t representatives being, Alva Romp,
Ether Roberts, John Forster, e. q.
Sloan, G. l.. Robb, R. e. Lee. H. IN.
Duncan and w. E. Giltner. and g. r.
Foster. From Buxton came C.. M.
Paris, 0. U. Conell and Jacob Wilson =
James Wilcox and Harry Clutch, Lo-
villa; John w. Rowley, Keosauqua:l =
James Mcmillan, Keokuk; G. M. Jun.
kin, Fairfield and Frank Hardy Of
Blakesburg.
The speaker was introduced By
H. L. Waterman who told Of the
great appreciation he had for the
wonderful Allison and his remarkable
career.
Senator DolIlver's Speech. !, Il
Following is Senator Dolliver'a
| speech:
4. Ladies and gentlemen and fellow
citizens: 1t Is very great pleasure
to me to have the opportunity Of par
ticipating with you in the political
business incident to our approaching
Republican campaign. | have spoken
a good many times in Ottumwa but
never to a greater audience than this
and never with a more set purpose OF
heart and mind to tell the absolute
truth as God gives me to see It. An
effort has been made by enterprising
peddlers OF political wares in Ottumwa
to embarrass me at the outset Of my
discourse by reprinting some kind
words that said some years ago
about the governor Of this state.
| thank them for the opportunity
the have given me to present my.
self here tonight in an attitude which
II 1t does anything at all, gives me q
better right to speak to my fellow Re-
publicans than / would have had had /
been the least Indifferent to the gov
ernor's welfare and success and Ii.
different to the harmony and good will
that ought to prevail in the Republican
party. My friends who did me the
kindness to circulate the little, handhill
could have come nearer home than
1 Des Moines, for that same year on this
very platform rendered similar
service, as | thought, to the Repub-
licans of Iowa.
have not been in times past An
enemy to the governor Of Iowa but q
friend and in order to make my a.
titude perfectly plain and to save my.
self from the trouble of defending
what say against the charge that my
conduct is inspired by hatred and
malice and hostility, begin this dis.
course by reading letter which last
summer / wrote to the governor Of
this state in reply to one from him ask.
Ing my support.
The governor has said to ME that |
had always been hostile while he had
always been friendly to me. He said
also that he had heard reports that /
was saying, in western Iowa. when
talking in private conversation about
the senatorial question, that the gov
ernor would not be q candidate against
Senator Allison and his letter waa
written me to admonish me that hs
was a candidate and he desired either
my help or nv silence a fpyorftA