Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-06

ana Hldde mckinley president. Tney
gave him a Republican congress in
harmony with himself What hap
pened?
Country Comes to Life.
This is not history, friends, this is
memory. The sky was the same as it
had been for four year-just as blue.
The sun shone just as brightly no
brighter. The soil was the same soil.
Smoke rolled UP to the skies again.
The bum of industry broke the oppres-
s1Ve commercial silence and drowned
the wall of hungry voices. Capital
came out of hiding. Fires were lighted
in the factories and under the FORCES.
Men We're employed at remunerative
wages. Farm produce advanced in
prlce-until the American people at
this hour enjoy more prosperity and
happiness greater than before.
I'm amused by Democratic orators
these days talking of pessimism. Why.
in 1906 there was more money spent
for the relief of the sick and ailing
than has ever been spent by any peo-
pie in the history of the world in an
equal period. In contrast to that-dur
ing 1907 there were more hospitals,
sanitariums and buildings for the re-
lief Of the sick in the United States
erected than has ever been built In
any decade previously anywhere in
the world
Il remember a funeral I saw up In
my county during Cleveland's admin
istration. Every vehicle in the pro-
cession was farm wagon, not car
riaee or buggy in the line. Just last
week l was home to attend the
funeral of an old neighbor. counted
168 rigs in the llne--and there was
not farm wagon in the procession
They were all buggies, carriages and
the like. Some had rubber tires and
there was one automobile. That was
in the country, not in the city. Yet
the Democrats are asking you to re-
turn to old times because the farmers
are bad off. We wink the other eye
Bryan or Roosevelt Policies?
"Now, do you people want four
years more of Theodore's policies or
do you want Bryan in the White
house? Do YOU want the policies of
Roosevelt carried out by Republican
president or do you want them jeopar-
died by a Democratic administra-
tion?"
Mr.. Kendall then gave short
history of Roosevelt's policies, telling
of the principles on which they were
constructed. He said:
Roosevelt built his policies on one
principle-that every man, hieh or
low, rich or obscure, was entitled to
the SQUARE deal. He then went ahead
and did things with that thought ever
uppermost in his mind. He stuck to
that principle. backed by the Hepub.
licans, opposed by the Democrats, I'M
til now, this wear, look at the condi-
lions every where.
I'm regard to mon opolies Roosevelt
believes in controlling and regulating
the trusts so as to make them assist
and help the people instead of harm
ing the people.
Bryan is wonderful proenosti-
cator-but his predictions never come
true. II the people want a beautiful
voice, a magnetic presence. musical
phonograph in the presidential chair,
let them go to Lincoln, Neb., and
they'll find it. But they don't. They
things and has done things
They want man that will
carry out the Roosevelt no!icies.
| believe right now that Theodore
Roosevelt is the most effective force
for righteousness and morality In
the world
Goes After Foraker.
"You have all heard of ]. B. For
aker. So have l. Perhaps I have q
more Intimate knowledge of his case
than you. Well, Foraker was a promi-
nent man in CONGRESS. One day he
got a letter signed by one of the
many tools Of the Standard oil trust.
stating that s14.500 bod been placed
to his (Foraker's) credit in certain
bank and requesting him TO disfavor
a certain bill then under consideration
in the house. "A little later he re-
ceived second letter. 1t contained
g. check for $4,000 and another re-
minder about that bill. Again For
aker hears from the fictitious name
and gets a check for $4,000 request
ing him to openly denounce a certain
hill. by that time before congress. 'ac
cording to our previous arrange
ments.'
well, a man named Hearst
William Randolph Hearst, once the
choice for president of Iowa
Democracy, really did do the country
a service the time he began reading
these letters and read them so that
they were heard all over the United
States.
What did Roosevelt do? He
grasped the pen that writes so that all
can read it and they usually do
read it. too-and scoureed Foraker
forever from the Republican party.
And he didn't mince his words either.
Rakes Haskell Over.
"Now wen look into a more recent
case, that Of Haskell. c. N Haskell
governor Of Oklahoma and until recent
ly treasurer of the Democratic ma
tional committee. He is the gentle
man selected by the Democrats to
write up their platform and read it
at Denver an intimate and close
friend of Bryan's. Hearst began TIC
dig in Haskells past life.
"He told of Haskell as a seller of
blue sky and promoter Of deals
handling unadulterated atmosphere.
Hearst showed the people Haskelrs