Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-08
NEW YORK EXECUTIVE TELLS
DAKOTA AUDIENCE THAT SAFE
TY OF COUNTRY DEMANDS Me-
1RAskAN's REPUTATION.
SAYS HIS BEST WORK
HAS BEEN HIS LOSING
IN SPEECH AT ST. PAUL LAST
NIGHT NEW YORKER LlkENS
BRYAN TO A BUSINESS MAN
cHARY OF HIS RECORD.

watertown, S. D., Oct. 6. - Swing
ing across the Dakotas, Governor
Hughes of New York in a speech here
this morning declared the business OF
electing president is not mere
matter Of fanciful choice.
81 perceive" he said, that many
of you are agriculturists. Your inter
ests and the interests Of the mer-
chant and manufacturer are hound Tip
in this campaign. You cannot divide
the people off into sections and say
YOU will do this for agriculture, this
for labor and that for the banker. we
have all got to get up together or we
shall all 90 down together. What we
want is a wider opportunity for hon.
est enterprise and relentless prose
cution Of dishonest enterprises"
The Governor Tells Story.
twelve years ago we had httle
controversy The question was Wheth-
er we should enact laws that would
dishonor US. Bryan told us then ne
was essential to the safety OF the
country. We found out later the safe-
ty Of the country demanded his repu-
diation When | think Of it | am re-
minded of the bishop who was 'des-
cending in a bucket down into mine
with the workmen. When they had
gone long way down a workman
asked jokingly: Bishop, how far is it
to help Said the bishop, If that rope
breaks you would be there in less
than minute
cit does not take much to destroy
business confidence and close UP fac
tories W. cannot afford to commit
ourselves to vagaries and visionary
schemes That is not a line OF pro-
gress. It's line Of disaster"
Hughes Speech Last Night.
ST. Paul, Mimi, Oct. 6.-"Mr. Bryan
did the country great service by
being twice defeated. Had he been
elected twelve years ago he would
not be candidate now, but would
have gone down in the disaster Of his
own fallacies."
In speech here last night Gov.
Hughes of New ork thus summed up
why he was working for the defeat OF
the Democratic candidate for presi-
dent. MI. Bran's proposed remedies
for the correction Of national evils,
said Gov. Hughes, were impossible
panaceas and cure alls."
The governor, after speaking at
fourteen towns on the tour which in
the next FIVE days is to take him
through the middle west states, APP
peared to be almost free Of the throat
trouble which threatened his voice.
Large crowds, composed in some
instances mostly of farmers, greeted
him at La Crosse, Wis, and in Min
nesota at Winona, st. Charles, Dodge
Center, Mankato, and other stops.
Gov. Hughes said he once came near
not being governor Of New York, be-
cause in his youth he had seriously
contemplated becoming Minnesotan.
Some Of Hughes Points.
In the course Of his speech last
night, Governor Hughes said:
"Mr. Bryan proposes, for one thing,
that corporations shall be restricted to
the manufacture of only SO per cent
OF the demand of any particular ar
ticle. What would become Of inven-
tions under this system? 1t would
cripple the patent laws, 1t would re-
strict inventive genius.
Il asked Mr.. Bryan some questions
about this some time ago, but he has
not seen fit to answer yet.
I'VE have in the Democratic candi-
date man whose sincerity l do not
question. But the trouble with him
that won't work.
This campaign is a critical one in
our history. Why do stand for Mr.
Taft? Because, without pyrotechnics
or sensationalism, he has done hon.
estly and sincerely the hard tasks
confronting him, because he is cool
headed, warm hearted man of achieve
ment.
THE justice with which he admin
istered his duties as judge, as COVER
nor Of the PHILIPPINES, and as a mem
Der Of the cabinet, has proven him a
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friend to everything that pertains to
the welfare of theh country
He Hammers 5ryan's Record.
con the other hand, Mr.. Bryan re-
minds me very much of man at
tempting to start in new line of
: business. He goes to a banker who
says: Well, Mr.. Bryan. where were
you in business before?' and MI.
Bryan says: i do not want to talk
about that
"In New York we have many diff.
Gculties. When l Yves elected Cover.
nor | had no idea OF using the Office
for any personal purpose or for any
other object than to correct abuses
and secure an administration in the
interests of honest people. There ap
peared to be much surprise when &
few fundamental principles were in
troduced, and today we have in New