Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-23
|CL Ark OP EMS
HIS Campaign
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OUT.
LINES HIS PLxrfoRM AS CAM
& piDATE FOR GovERNoRsHIP
TALKS AT GRANT CLUB
Candidate criticises Those Who Have
Used Governorship as Stepping
Stone; Declares For "Greaterl
Iowa."

| Stone; Declares For "Greater
J Des Moines, Jan. i9.-Since 1900 the
greater Iowa idea has been the life
OF all of the legislation Of the state
and the movements Of all the holders
OF state offices, according to Lieutenant
Governor Geo. w. Clark Of Abel.
Mr.. Clark before the Grant club last
night, outlined his platform as can
didate for the republican nomination
for governor. Mr.. Clark emphasized
the word republican" He repeated
tn, party name to drive home the fact
that he is not asking the nomination
from any but republicans.
More than 200 members of the
Grant club crowded the dining room.
Both progressive and standpat republi-
lcans listened with interest to the ad-
| dress.
| Denuncia.ion of governors and state
Off Gals who have used their positions
merely as stepping stones to high fed
eral ofi1ces was voiced by Mr.. Clark.
l. Office Stepping Stone.
1--WE elect a governor who wants to
go to the house or senate" said Mr..
Clarke, "and wants to use the COVER
nor's chair as stepping stone; state
senator who wants to go to congress;
representative who wants to go to
the state senate. These men hope to
get in the lime light In the state or ma
ttonal capital, and want to use one
ONCE as a stepping stone to another.
IL am utterly opposed to business
controlling the government, either
state or national and am decidedly In
sistent that government shall control
and regulate corporate business. am
opposed to corporate interests writing
our tariff laws, because II they do,
until human nature Is reconstructed or
we become imbued with spirit OF
altruigm that does not seem to possess
us now, they will be protected beyond
what is fair and just and beyond what
is necessary to preserve to the Amerl-
can producer the American market.
Combines are Essential.
IT do not think that combinations Of
capital are necessarily and Inherently
wrong and dangerous. On the con-
trary they are absolutely essential to
modern business life, in which COM
merce and industry, in any large sense.
has become corporate and no longer
Individual" <-#.
sa Sums Up His Platform. s-.
Summing up some of the measures
for which he stands Mr.. Clark said:
If the republicans of this state NOM
mate me and the people elect me as
governor will do everything properly
can to bring about such reorganfza-
a nd
essary resultant change Of school Of
f1cials. ."."
I will do all that can for the solu-
ton Of the good roads problem.
will stand for a reorganization OF
our system of taxation and lend all the
aid can.
4 will do all I can for the bettermentl
of our legal procedure in the way OF
decreasing court expenses, preventing
delays and making statutory the prop
osition suggested by Judge Deemer tol
the State Bar association-in substance
that no Judgment shall be set aside or
reversed or new trial granted on &C.
count Of error Of the court or error in
any matter of pleading or procedure
unless it shall appear that the error
complained Of has injuriously affected
the substantial rights Of the parties.
will stand for a workman's COM
pensation law for workmen engaged IN
hazardous and dangerous occupations. !
unless a commission appointed to In
vestigate and report on that subject
should report adversely, because l be-
lieve it would be a great saving in the
long run to the employer and employ |
ed, and Just to both. I
l will stand for better sanitation and
more stringent laws with respect to
purity Of water supplies, as there have
been scourges of typhoid fever In the
cities and smaller, communities of the
state and generally for more careful
preservation and conservation Of the
health Of the people, it being as neces- |
sary to conserve as that Of the horses |
and cattle.
It seems to me there might be great
reform i'm our prison management. do
not know how now but should regard
it as subject compelling the most
earnest and serious consideration.
The Needs Of an Agricultural State.
The ever rapidly increasing need for
more production, scarcely appreciated !
BY many, makes it imperatively neces-
sary that this agricultural state must
become more and more intensively. ag-
ricultural and every reasonable and
lust encouragement should be given to
that end and If anything can be rea-'
sonably added to our already liberal
provisions, for that / should stand
ana tluS 1OT a greater 1OWd upO1i tIS |
only solid and enduring basis upon
which she can become prominently !
great.
I shall stand for an economical ad-
Of public affairs. shall
stand for g. reduction, If possible, Of the
burden Of taxation.
l shall stand irrevocably against |
graft wherever It appears.
I shall stand for conducting the pub
lie business with just the same care
that good business men conduct their |
private affairs.
If the people commission me as their !
governor I will go into office a perfect
ly free and independent man bound by !!
no pledges or promises whatsoever, and |
if cannot go in that way, will not 60 |
at all. .... e..