Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-16
WILLIAM j. BRYAN
ONE OF THE SPEAKERS
BANQUET THIS EVENING OF NON
PARTISAN CHARACTER AT
WHICH NEBRASkAN WILL TALK
WILL CONCLUDE PROGRAM.
Des Moines Bureau Of
The Ottumwa Courier.


The legislature gave over the day to
do honor to Gen. James B. Weaver.
The program was arranged by joint
committee of the legislature and the
state library board The great por-
the state and into the custody Of the
historical department on behalf of the
committee which raised the funds for
the same. General Weaver was pres
ent and also W. j. Bryan The por
trait is a beautiful one, showing Cen
eral Weaver standing and about two
thirds Of his body. 1t shows him just
as he Is now and not as in his earlier
and more active days. The portrait
is the work of Prof Charles A. Cum
mings Of this city, who already has a
number of oil portraits in the Iowa
gallery and whose work ranks we'll
with more famous painters. This even
ing there will be banquet in honor
of General Weaver, at which Mr.. Bry
All and others will speak. 1t will. be
a strictly dry" banquet In tribute
to the fact that all his life General
Weaver has been a ccnspicuoussadve-
cate of abstinence from all liquors.
Veterans to Attend.
many of the veterans of the Second
Iowa regiment, among whom General
Weaver served as colonel during the
var Today is the anniversary of the
attack on Fort Donnelson, in which
! the Second Iowa won fame, and the
date is always celebrated by the old
warriors with General Weaver in their
midst. Their plans for banquet for
fOo io1,f rr,ith NP fhI,
legislators, and the Donelson heroes
will be among the most interested lis
teners when General Weaver talks.
Governor Carroll will be among the
guests, as will other prominent Repub-
licans. Nonpartisanism stands forth
in every event of the. day and evening
Members of both parties will respond
to toasts and the two principal after
dinner speeches will be made by the
guests Of honor, General Weaver and
Mr.. Bryan. The speakers who pre-
cede them will be expected to limit
their remarks to seven minutes eacn.
The program will be as follows:
Toastmaster, Senator w. D. jamie
son.
Invocation, Rev. J. F. Nugent.
why This Banquet" Jerry B. Sulll-
why I Seldom Miss Banquet y
Warren Garst.
politics is Great Game" Lafe
Young
What Constitutes a Great Came"
H. w. Byers.
The Senate" Senator J. A. Dear
mand
THE House," Representative w. L.
Harding.
THE Profits Of Politics." M. J.
Wade
"The ladies' G. F. Rinehart
brotherhood" James B. Weaver
America by the assemblage.
Retrospect and Prospect" William
Jennings Bryan.
Sweeping Antitrust Law.
The most sweeping antitrust Law
ever drafted In Iowa will be intro
duced in the house tomorrow by Rep
resentative c. w. Miller.
1t will be to stamp out the grocers
trust, the coal dealers trust, the les
trust and even the doctors trust. The
latter is charged with fixing excessiv,
prices. The bill has the support q
Attorney General Byers.
Quo warranto proceedings to dis
solve any trust or monopoly are to bt
begun by the attorney general on hi
own motion. Foreign corporation!
violating the law are to be prohibited
from doing business by injunction pro
ceedings.
Every person, firm or corporatio,
violating the law must pay $50 fin:
for each day the violation continues
This fine may be recovered in an,
county where the offense is commit
ted.
Imprisonment in the penitentiar
for not less shan one nor more thai
ten years ais esis provided for person
convicted of @iolating the laws.