Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-16
The REPUBLIC
RATIFY CHOICE
IN CONVENTION THIS MORNING
STRONG RESOLUTIONS ARE
UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED.
GILMORE ON GOATS"
Says Line is Drawn Between TWO Par
ties Platform of Captain D. A.
Emery is Highly
Commended.

From Saturdays Daily
"Our opponents say that we are
planning to give Ltumwa a puri-
tanic administration. say not SO;
pure, clean and law abiding adj
ministration is not necessarily
puritanic. But gentlemen, if the
outcome of this campaign rested
with me, and my choice had to be
either puritanic administration.
or a satanic Enthusiastically
take the former every time.'-
William M Reece.
Meeting with rousing general &C
clamation the above words spoken by
Mr. Reece this morning at the Repup-
lican convention expressed the senti-
ments of the entire gathering, which
eliminated in the Endorsement of the
candidates nominated at the city pri-
mary and a unanimous ratification of
the resolutions read at the recent Re
publican meeting by Hon. H. l.. Wa
terman
The enforcement of all laws with
the logical clean and moral city as
the end is the goal that the Republic
cans and self--especting Democrats If
Ottumwa will receive from the ticket
SO heartily upheld at the meeting.
Emery Opens Meeting.
Promptly at II o'clock City Chair
man E. H. Emery called the mereting
to order He stated that the meeting
was called, according to the law, "a
the second Saturday after the city
primary at II a. m. for the formal iu-
dorsement of the candidates nominal
ed at the last city primary. He read
as a matter of form the affidavits of
the city auditor, acknowledging the
nominations of the respective candi-
dates and then turned the meeting
over to William Reece, as chairman.
II notice that most of you wear
significant shibboleth OF this cam
paign," Mr.. Reece said in brief ad-
dress to the assembly. "It says clean
up Ottumwa.' Our opponents take that
sentence to mean clean up the pres
ent administration. Let us proceed
to business. l don't suppose there is
a Republican or self-respecting Demo-
crat in the city that will object to
cleaning up the city,
In very few words Mr.. Reese
spoke Of the notorious condition that
Cuba had reached before the Ameri-
can invasion. He compared the clean
up along civic lines in Cuba to the
reformation needed both morally and
physically in Ottumwa. He told of his
extensive travels throughout the
country and asserted that it remained
for him to come back from the rough
mining towns of the west, to Ottumwa
to find children and young men re-
sorting regularly to the open gaming
tables.
cit is true that no open gambling
Is going On in Ottumwa now, not
because Of the present administration
but in spite of it, Mr.. Reece stated,
and l hope to God it never will be
here again
"It may be said that am a
partisan and to that charge I plead
guilty. I am not so blind however,
in my partisanship as not to be able
to see that wide open town (accord-
ing to the definition which our peo-
pie have learned In sorrow is just
as reDrehensible under the name Re.
publican as it has been under the
name Democratic.
mot one of you understand the
principles Of Democracy as laid down
by Thomas Jefferson the father of
that great party would venture to
say that the present administration
has ever been guided by the fundimen-
tai principle of Democracy which is
Equal and exact Justice to all men
special privileges to none
WAS this the foundation of the
transaction between Rem Lane and
the present mayor Of this city? In
which a gambling house was to be
opened by Lane and protected by the
mayor.
"Will the self respecting Democrats
of this city longer permit this sacred
! principle of their party to be trampled
under the feet of man who was
elected two years ago pledged tc
grant special privileges to certain
class? think not
Committee Appointed.
Upon motion made by Mr.. Eme,,
the committee on credentials was dis
pensed with and the delegates from
the various wards present were giveI
the power to cast the full vote of thei
respective ward delegations.
MI. ASUuly IOlloWeu Ills Will d luO
ton to the effect that q roll call o
the wards be made and that one dele
gate from each ward be selected, tn,
seven men thus chosen to constitut,
a committee on resolutions. AS tn
result of this motion. Secretary G. c
Porter called the roll and the follow
ing men were selected in order iron
the seven wards: R. F. Ramsell,
l.. Graham, w. H. H. Asbury, G. J
Ekfelt, John Chance, w. c. McMict
ael and w. M. Thompson.
The committee retired to act O.
the matter of resolutions and the bus
mess Of the meeting proceeded by I
G. McElroy moving that the Reput
lican candidates nominated at the las
primary be formally Endorsed. TIL
motion carried Upon motion c
Reece, the selection of E. H. Emer
and c. G. Porter as chairman and SEE
rotary of the Republican city comml
tee was ratified. T. R. Buckley TO
lowed this with motion to the g
feet that the central committee !,
empowered to fill any vacancies thu
may occur on the ticket between no