Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-27

IeTeSIS! DeucNS LAdI ally Al SpuUAl
can in this audience is just as honest
as am and as sincere for good gov.
ernment, but believe that the man
agement of the republican party has
passed into hands that are not fitted
to properly care for it and is undeserv-
| ing OF the trust reposed in 1t.
Cites Sen. cummins.
He then referred to speech made
by Senator C,mmins in Des Moines
last May. He stated that the people
OF Iowa. without his assistance, had
elected A. B. Cunmins governor three
times and then made him United
States senator He alluded to Sen
ator Cummins' fight on special inter-
ests. quoting the statesman to have
said. .Most republican leaders are
brought up with these influences sur
rounding them When every law at
'fecting special industries is being con-
sidered the first step is not to see II
it meets the approval of the people,
but instead it is submitted for the ap-
prevail OF these captains OF industry
who look at it from corporate stand
point to see If it will affect the profits
earned by the multi-millionaires
''If this be true continued the
speaker. land the senator from Iowa
makes the arraignment. is it any wcn-
der that we should want to have the
country rid of such interests. Ii it.
cannot be done by the republican
party. it must he done by the rarity
of Jefferson and .Iackson-the demo
cratic party Do the people 0: Iowa
want to support the leadership de-
scribed by Senator Cummins? Is the
governor OF Iowa standing with AID
rich and the leaders or by Senator
Cummins and the lamented Senator
Dolliver?
Strikes at Carroll.
'The democrat state central commit
tee very respectfully invited the gov
ernor of Iowa to meet me in joint &c
bate to discuss the issues. He will
be in your city in few days and
hope that his friends who are present
this evening will tell him that stand
on the democratic platform, for he
asked a few days ago what platform
] stood on Tell him that notWith-
standing the condition Of my voice.
stand ready to discuss national or
state platforms and issues or any
other issues that are german to good
government. / think it is due You
that when he comes to your city. he
tell YOU whether he follows Cummins
attitude on the Payne Aldrich tariff or
not. When we approach the polls No.
yember 8, we will be called upon TO
take stand for the school Of politics
that represents the people or that
representing the special interests
Election Of Y. s. Senator'S.
Mr.. Porter then alluded to the cleo
ton Of United States senators by the
direct vote of the people and told of a
measure to this end that was intro
duced in the Iowa legislature while
Governor Carroll was chief executive.
saying that the bill never returned
from the committee to which 1t was
assigned. He alluded to the Oregon
plan and spoke at length upon 1t, raw
oring that mode of selecting United
States senators. The income tax was
upon by the speaker who told
Of the action OF the supreme court
which by vote of to. 5 decided that
congress had no power to pass such
measure without an amendment to the
He said that twenty-one
states will elect legislatures this fall
and the action taken will have much
to do by the making OF amendments TO
their constitutions in the final action
on the law taxing incomes and thus
making the protected interests bear a
greater burden of taxation than they
now do. Referring to the initiative
and referendum he stated that the re- /.
publicans Of Illinois advocated 1t, as
did the democrats of Iowa. Iowa
democracy wishes the people to have
the power in their own hands. said he
and not entirely in the hands Of legis
latures. He cited the recall and
said II those things were on the
statute books all things would be safe
in the hands of the people. The ex-
pense Of government was alluded to
by the speaker, and the army and
navy was held up as a great expense
not necessary to maintain on such a
large scale in times of peace. He said
that the four years of Roosevelt's adj
cost the government !
more than did all the time intervening
between Washington and the inaugura-
ton of Lincoln. "The modern battle
ship that today costs $18.000000," said
the speaker, would provide ten uni
versities like Drake at Des Moines and
educate 10000 young men. The sum
of s., 100000 suficed for the navy dur
ing a year of the Spanish war and in
1909 1t cost 3137 100000"
He spoke of the state institutions
and OF how proud Iowans should be Of
them He told of how the board Of
control became reality and alluded
to the troubles that came into the
board within the past two years as due
to factionalism in Iowa republican
ranks. He said that these institu-
lions should not be permitted to have
politics enter their management and
recommended change of ad1ninistra-
ton as means of placing the board
of control on the plane Of non-partisan-
ship intended for It, He said that
every dollar invested in Iowa should
be protected and that Iowa is losing
instead OF gaining; that it's young
men are leaving the farms and that
the smaller cities are not developing
as they should. TO remedy this he
that certain element