Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-31

tons OF Mckinley and Roosevelt. =
sometimes think" he explained, thai
we fail to appreciate what governing
means. It does not mean oratory. II
does not mean the power Of debate.
| 1t does not mean the advancement o!
plausible theories, but 1t means thf
power of efficient performance.
| when you have popular govern
ment, the only method by which il
can be carried on is by system OF
parties in which the members Of the
parties sacrifice many of their nones
sential views and agree on few great
principles.
| comparing the two parties, first
| what experience has each had in gov
erning; second, what is 1t that united
them together? Is it force that Is
likely to keep them together in such
way as to give them full sense OF
responsibility to the people at large
in carrying on the government? Arc
the men whom they select for theil
leaders statesmen. men with fine
government pofiseayf?p nronrielf-
Compares Records of Parties.
Having made that comparison
without regard to the particular prin-
ciples which they uphold in the pres
ent issue you can usually make up
your minds which party you ought TO
take, because between each presiden-
tial election many issues are likely to
arise that cannot be submitted to
party, crises are likely to come that
cannot be submitted to the rank and
file of the people, and you have got to
take party and trust it to work those
problems out.
THAT was exhibited in the record Of
the Republican party with reference
to the Spanish war. We determined
to end the international scandal at our
doors. We went into the war in Cuba
and we came out in the Philippines
10000 miles away, and we had to de-
eide the issues which were there rails
ed and which were difficult to meet.
"They presented new phases of gov
eminent that we had never before, but
with VIM. Mckinley at the head, with
your own Elihu Root to aid him as one
Of the greatest jurists and statesmen
this world has ever seen, with the Re.
publican party behind him, with its
solidarity of discipline, with its intel
llSSlCe dhu VIII us LUOSS
policies were carried through and they
brought credit and glory to the nation.
although they were not anticipated,
they we're not asked in national con
ventions and they were not considered
in national elections before they had
to be decided
Democracy United on Nothing.
Now. what Of the Democrats? They
had power for four years, but the
minute they got into power they be-
gan to quarrel over what they should
do. They passed q free trade bill
through one house, and in the next
house they made it a kind of section
al protective bill, and. before they got
through it assumed such a phase that
Mr.. Cleveland. the leader Of the party,
for whom we all have the highest re-
spect, pronounced that bill an act of
pertidy and dishonor, and that broke
up the party and they had to divide
between free silver and the gold stand
ard.
I'm other words, they showed then,
as they would show now if you gave
them power, that tle only cohesive
ness that they have is cohesiveness
of opposition to the Republican party.
They lack efficiency, they lack respon-
sibility to the people for carrying on
the government as it should be carried
on, and this, my dear friends, without
any reference to their principles, and
when you get to their principles, their
acts are even worse"
At Geneva, where Mr. Taft had all
audience composed largely of those in
terested in labor, he talked half hour
longer than his hours schedule permit
ted. He had this to say Of the atti-
tude Of the two parties and of Mr.
Bryan in the matter:
"rhe Republican recognizes that in
functions that are too broad have
sometimes been issued in labor dis
putes. That puts labor at disad-
1t has often been said that you can
not get something for nothing, but
this rule was proven by the exception
yesterday, when several hundred peo