Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-10-01
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR OPENED THE GAM.
PAIGN HERE LAST EVENING
DISCUSSED TARIFF.
Took Occasion to Laud Activity Of
Senator D%olIiver When Latter
Countered Senator Aidrich-
Scathed Contract Labor.

president and congress-, Hon. Il. G
Dunn in his opening address of the
campaign In Wapello county last night
at the Grand said that he would will
tngly go down in defeat fighting for
Iingly go down in defeat fighting for the
greater stake, a democratic president
and congress. He counted 1t a rare
pleasure to sadR1fce his Own right to
serve as governor II a legislature could
thereby be elected which would place
Dan w. Hamilton in the senate from
Iowa. His W race for the post OF
Executive was placed secondary by the
speaker to what he termed the greater
the electorate. congressman and legis-
lature. The tariff was made the chief
point Of discussion by the speaker
who in a manner quite his own took
up phases Of the Payne-Aldrich and
even the Dingley tariff laws and criti-
cised them with much zeal. Using
many personal experiences in business
and public affairs as examples of the
workings of the present and past
tariff laws for the past twenty years.
the speaker vas unsparing in his ar
raignment of the manner in which he
claimed the tariff laws worked out in
Iowa and elsewhere. The various
phases Of the protective tariff as it
affected the varied industries were
taken up by the speaker and his ar
raignment of the lumber. iron and
rubber schedules vas made the oc-
casion to say laudatory things of the
lamented Senator J. P. Dolliver.
. Critised Tariff Law.
The speaker stated that in 1857 his
father was employed in the textile
mills of New England at the wage of
SIT per week and said that in the
governments investigation Of working
conditions at Lawrence last winter
during the great textile strike, that
the average wage was 81 per week.
This" the speaker said lis an exam
pie of what the tariff laws of the past
twenty years have done to protect the
industry and, hurt the laborer. Mr..
Dunn said that Gov. Wilson is not a
free trader and made the assertion
that he did not believe that democratic
candidates in Iowa were free traders
to the extent that thy would u a
finger where such a move would injure
one of the Iowa industries. 81 am not
free trader" said he. 81 stand with
Gov. Wilson, and am not a believer IN
tariff for revenue only II such a policy
will affect our industries of Iowa. 1
will show you that I am a real pro-
tectionist where the industries Of Iowa
are concerned. We have had no pro-
under the Dingley or Payne
Aldrich tariff laws. We merely traded
eleven congressman and two senators
for what they were pleased to call
Of Iowa, but I fail to find the
we received"
With Gov. Wilson.
The speaker stated that the demo-
Gratis were starting this year from a
dead past and that he did not believe
In asking for political aid to his party
Just because Thomas Jefferson wrote
the declaration of Independence or be-
cause Andrew Jackson whipped the
red coats at New Orleans, and he
warned the opposition against stand
ing on the bier of Lincoln to ask as
sistance to their party cause. There
never has been" he said "since the
days Of Washington a nominee for the
office of president who was better
equipped intellectually or in sound
judgment than Gov. Wilson,
and what he accomplished In New
Jersey in the past few days shows
MS strength. We would willingly go
down in defeat if when the electoral
meets we could cast the vote /
for Gov. Wilson, the man who Is big
to whip the bosses in the big
gest boss and trust ridden state OF the
-'
Word For Hamilton.
Continuing in his advocacy OF the
national ticket Mr.. Dunn said: Il come
,ere not alone for my W candidacy
and to fight my W battles. for !;
realize there is a greater stake to fight |
for. The governorship is only a minor
,fic &c in comparison to the Importance
the ticket as a national matter. We
are out to elect a democratic president. ,
and q legislature that will
send that dandy little fighter to the
Dan w. Hamilton, than whom
here is no more deserving nor better
equipped fighter for Iowa fitted to rep
resent the glorious state in the senate.
I could only be privileged to sign
lis commission as senator | would be
Happy to meet defeat Il
Hits Contract Labor.
In treating on the promises made
~ the two great parties in their 0 n
platforms in 1908, the speaker
,aid that eight of the chief promises
we're made %identically by both repub-
lean and democratic parties and in
.luded among them tariff revision,
abor planks Of promises, direct cleo
ion of senator's. etc. The former, he
stated. was revised upward by the
party. and second was
gnored as was also the third" He
criticised the republican party
With reference to labor, saying the
Of the high protective tariff de-
American labor in favor of
ontract foreign labor. He referred to
200 Greeks in the cement works at
lis home town, Mason City, and laid
tress on the fact that this class of
abor are not American citizens. I'm
he event of a wal with Mexico or
'ther country your father, sons,
rOthora can ha torn away from tho