Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-13
GOV. CUMMiNS TELLS
VOTERS TO CHOOSE
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shooting off sky rockets and roman
candles until the skies are so full of
pyrotechnics that plain words from
a plain governor like myself will come
with little weight. This is cam
paign OF ginger bread and delicacies
and all | have to offer is plain bread.
have something to say, however, and
| will be through with it as speedily
as can.
Il take great pleasure on this oc-
casion to voice my hearty endorse
ment of your Republican candidate
for representative in the national
house. have known him great
many years, have watched his work
in the state house with increased con-
tidence and pride. I have observed
the gradual development of one of the
best minds provided human beings,
and it is noble, honest, with lofty
ideals. His work in the general AS
sembly of Iowa for the enactment Of
efficient laws for good government,
and the amendment of laws whereby
they were bettered has been as eff
fective as any other man who has sat
there, in my estimation. 1t gives me
more pleasure in saying that than
anything else during this visit, and
I hope the Republicans Of Ottumwa
and the Sixth district will give Nate
Kendall the biggest majority that
congressman has ever had.
Should Bury Differences.
II am no less enthusiastic of the
other Republican candidates, but l
earnestly hope and especially appeal
to you to give the Republican candi-
date for house of representative in
Iowa your hearty and general sup
port. No matter who may be chosen
to represent Iowa in the United
States Senate, he must be a Republi-
| can, and he will not be unless you
have a Republican legislature. Mr..
Moore is entirely worthy of your con-
| fidence, and I sincerely hope that
upon November he will be declared
the choice of the people. I hope also
| that all the state and county candi
dates will be supported unitedly and
enthusiastically. And there is rea-
son why we should be united What
ever is done is done through the in
strumentality of each other. If
there is difference of opinion upon
certain candidates or certain princi
pies, these differences should end
when the Republican party has chosen
| Its representatives. This is no time
| for war in our state. II we are
united to provide the next president CT
the United States with Instruments
in sympathy with his policies, we
must Loyalty and firmly put our shout
ders to shoulders in behalf Of the Re-
publican candidates and in all that
they do. There will always be diff
ferences, but we must bury them while
engaged in this political conflict, the
success of which will come only with
unity of Republican voters. l want
to say something about this conflict
| that we are engaged in. In many re-
spects it is remarkable 1t is fought
on moral grounds and the standards
have been lifted high up. am not
/ going to say that all Democrats are
i bad and all. Republicans ares good.
i There are a great many Democrats
that | like better than do Repubu-
cans. | am not going to insist that
the Republican platform is all that
could be desired. Every political plat
/ form is compound formed in the
crucible and heat of convention. There
are some things in the Democratic
platform that like letter than in the
| Republican, just as there are some
! things in the writing of Confucius that
IL like better than in the Bible, but
would you want me to replace the
Christian Bible of this grand country
of ours with the heather teachings of
Confucius? Just so with the Demo
cratic and Republican platforms, and
it behooves us all to take these home
with us, and after careful study,
choose the one that will provide the
most good. I love to think we'll If
my fellow men. To me they are all
honest. A majority of them have a
noble conception of our government
and the workings of it.
Bryan's seIf-Importance.
Zone of my complaints against
Bryan is that re does not give the PEG.
pie of this great country sufficient rec.
ognition. know Bryan we'll, have
been with him many times, and con.
slider him most eloquent He is capa
BILE of charming his hearers with ease
by the sweet tones that flow from his
lips, but he Is beginning to recognize
his attainments and they are making
him assume colossal vanity and
i SSoIlolh IiuI ullll Lllluh IS pOb
sesses the whole world When he
called at my Office the other day, ap
pedring as the only original package
of everything that is good. said tc
him, Bryan, the trouble with you is
that your sweet voice and unexcelled
ability to handle the mother tongue
has deluded the people so long thai
1t is beginning to deceive yourself &
such an extent that you really believe
you compiled the ten commandments
| And l sincerely believe that four years
hence Bryan will still be running anG
his self-importance will then have in
creased to such an extent that he will
believe he preachet, the sermon or
the Mount. 1t remains yet for Mi
Bryan to grant that there are few
people in this country who have al
, honest intent to do right and better