Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-30
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF KANSAS SHOWS THAT
LAWS CAN BE ENFORCED
CHEER SPEAKERS WORD
Authority For His Statements Unas-
saiIabIe-Uses Government Re-
ports and Affidavits to Show
States Prosperity.
From Saturdays Daily.


Appealing solely for unbiased mlnes
as receptacles, using no oratory, prli-
liant climaxes or claptraps, Assistant
Attorney General G. w. Trickett 81
Kansas with simple statement OF
fac Is rendered in an ordinary tone OF
conversation convinced 1000 men at
the Grand opera house last evening
that laws can be enforced.
Mr. Trickett is no campaign orator,
nor any other kind of an orator he
lust talks; talks in a pleasant, level,
even tone that is almost a drawl.
He is so deliberate about his presen-
tations that the very uncertainty OF
what he will say next keeps his hear
ers on the live wire. His weapons are
his tremendous earnestness, his abso-
lutte knowledge of what he has to say
and the trying experiences he has
been through himself. He impresses
the most Indifferent listener as a
man who knows whereof he speaks.
At S:15 o'clock a quiet, retiring
looking stranger walked to the table
set at the front of the stage, laid a
bundle of papers and manuscripts on
the table and proceeded to tell his
audience a story. Two hours later
he walked back to his chair and sat
down. During that two hours the
leaf were made to hear and the blind
TO see.
Indifference leaped into fiery enthus-
lasm. Regularly that quiet converse
lion was punctuated with bursts OF
applause that are seldom rendered the
most eloquent, sensational opponents
of drama or tragedy The speakers
sarcasm and rebukes were so keenly
worded and so carefully yelled that
the following sentence would frequent
ly have to be cut short on account
Of the awakening applause and waves
of enthusiasm.
Every seat in the lower two floors
of the opera house were filed and the
back aisles of the building were
crowded with standing men. Several
women were in the balcony.
At S:15 o'clock Capt. ]. G. Hutchi-
son introduced Mr.. Trickett and the
speaker took the center of the stage.
He laid bundle Of papers before him
ON the table, and taking UP one which
bore a head line about. "Trickett, a
law violator,' he shook it out so that
every one could see, and began his
address of the evening.
Am a Fellow Citizen.
"Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens .
Mr.. Trickett said in opening, holding
the paper up to all. Il must be one
of your fellow citizens. I'm not a can
didate for any Office here, nor do
know to which of the two parties here
belong. Nevertheless I'm a fellow
citizen. Surely paper would not as
sail stranger within your gates;
therefore I must be running for some
office. From reading the editorial of
your other paper this election seems to
be an issue of law enforcement; it
says if one candidate is elected the
laws will be enforced and that if the
other is elected it implies the laws
may not be enforced.
ANY man who attempts to allow the
laws of the state to be violated is
guilty of treason and notification
and any city that elects a man on a
ticket for the purpose Of disobeying
the laws Of the state is refusing obed
fence to the laws of the nation" These
statements were rendered a rousine
ovation and when the demonstration
had subsidized Mr.. Trickett cited the
tragedy Of the Civil war as an incident
of what actually happened when the
laws of the nation were disobeyed.
"Obedience to Law Is Liberty"
"In Worcester, Mass, they erected
a magnificent hall of justice and the
people wanted suitable motto hung
over the portal. They called on Sen