Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-13

| troIled by majority of the peoples
representatives, and not by the speak
err" and is pledged to adopt such |
rules and regulations to govern the
| house of representatives as will en-
able a majority of its members to d.
rect its deliberations and control leg
| islation."
Shall the people ruler" They can |
not do SO unless they can control the
house of representatives, and through |
their representatives in the house, give
expression to their purposes and their
desires. The Republican party Is COM
mitted to the methods now in vogue
in the house of representatives; the
Democratic party is pledged to such a
revision Of the rules as will bring the
popular branch of the federal govern
ment into harmony with the ideas o1
those who framed our constitution and
| founded our government.
Other Issues WIFI be Discussed Later.
Shall the people ruler / repeat,
is declared by our platform to be the
/ oyershadowing question, and as the
campaign progresses I shall take oc-
casion to discuss this question as IT
manifests itself in other issues; for
| whether we consider the tariff ques-
i ton the trust question, the railroad
lquestion, the banking question. the la
! Dor question, the question of Imperial
4 ism, the development of our water
ways or any other of the numerous
problems which press for solution, we
4 shall find that the real question in
volved in each is, whether the govern
ment shall remain a mere business as
set of favor seeking corporations or be
an instrument in the hands of the
people for the advancement of the
common veal
Democratic Party Has Earned Conf
dence.
If the voters are satisfied with the
record of the republican party and
! with its management of public affaira
we can not reasonably ask for d
change in administration; il, how
ever the voters feel that the people
as whole, have too little influence IN
shaping the policies of the govern
ment if they feel that great combi-
! nations of capital have cncroached
upon the rights of the masses. and
Il employed the instrumentalities OF
government to secure an unfair share
of the total wealth produced, then
4 we have right to expect a verdict
: against the republican party and in
+ favor of the democratic party; for
our party has risked defeat-aye, suf.
: fercd defeat in it's effort to arouse
the conscience of the public and to
. | VI lllS tDoul lildt NtiS dWdhtHiiiS ~
which Mr.. Taft has referred.
!, Only those are worthy to be en-
trusted with leadership in a great
4 cause who are willing to die for it,
, and the democratic party has proven
' its worthincss by it's refusal to pur-
, chase victory by delivering the people
, into the hands of those who have
despoiled them. In this contest be-.
tween democracy on the one side and
plutocracy on the other, tho demo-
! cratic party has taken it's position on
: the side of equal rights, and invites
. the opposition of those who use poll
, tics to secure special privileges and
governmental favoritism. Guaging
the progress of the nation not by the
happiness of wealth or refinement of a
2 few, but "by the prosperity and adj
? vancement of the average man." the
: democratic party charges the republic
+ can party with being the promoter of
) present abuses, the opponent of nee
! essary remedies and the only bulwark
! of private monopoly. The democratic
5 party affirms that in this campaign
4 it is the only party, having a pros
pect of success, which stands for JUS
tice in government and for equity IL
y the division of the fruits of industry.
Democratic Party Defender of Honest
Wealth.
We may expect those who have
committed larceny by law and pur-
3 chased immunity with their political
e influence, to attempt to raise false is
+ sues, and to employ "the livery of
y Heaven to conceal their evil purposes,
:, but they can no longer deceive. The
democratic party Is not the enemy OF
) any legitimate industry or of homes:
9 accumulations. 1t is, on the contrary,
J friend of industry and the steadfast
S protector Of that wealth which
s represents a service to society The
!. democratic party does not seek to an
:. initiate all corporations: it simply as
serts that as the government crea,es
5 corporations. it must retain the power
S to regulate and to control them, and
4? that it should not permit any corpor-
i alton to convert itself into monopoly
, Surely we should have the co-opera-
;, ton of all legitimate corporations in
: our effort to protect business and in
> dustry from the odium which lawless
= combinations of capital will, if UNI
t checked, cast upon them. Only by the
!; separation of the good from the bad
4 can the good be made secure.
! Not Revolution but Reformation.
= The democratic party seeks not re-
y volution but reformation and / nee
u hardly remind the student of history
l, that cures are mldest when applied al
l. once; that remedies increase in sever
|. ity as their application is postponed
r Blood poisoning may be stopped by
+. the loss of finger today; it may cost
an arm tomorrow or life next day
So poison in the body polite can no
be removed too soon, for the evils pro-
duced by it increase with the lapse OF
d time. That there are abuses which
IS need to be remedied, even the republi.
!. can candidate admits; that his party
- is unable to remedy Them has beer
- fully demonstrated during the last Ter
IS years I have such confidence in tn,
i intelligence as well as the patriotism
u of the people, that I can not doub
10 their readiness to accept the reason
able reforms which our party proposes
&c rather than permit the continued
y growth of existing abuses to hurry tn
= country on to remedies more radica
= and more drastic.
u Our Party's Ideal.
= The platform of our party close
" with brief statement of the party
10 ideal 1t favors such an administra
S, ton of the government as will in
sure, as far as human wisdom can
e. that each citizen shall draw from soc