Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-28
OVATION GIVEN
TO TAFT ORATORS
ENTHUSIASTIC CROWDS IN KAN.
: sAs AND MISSOURI GREET
@ eEDE AND HARLAN.
T. RS MASK FALLING

Il
Men and Mules But Too Far
South for Moose-Aoid
Several Meetings.
Joplin, Mo-. Sept. ga rousin'
meeting In Joplin concluded q mos
strenuous day for the Taft campaign
ers, John Maynard Harlan and }
Adam Bede. They were accompanies
from Pittsburg, Kan, by Congressman
Philip p Campbell, who spoke at al
the meetings. These speakers SPOKE
to station crowds at Liberal, Lamar
Ash Grove, Aurora and Monnett. The,
addressed a great meeting at Pitts
burg, Kan, at 9 o'clock In the morn
ing. They were met at Lockwood
Mo-. by q crowd greater than thai
which came to hear Roosevelt. The
big court house at Springfield, Mo.
was packed to the doors by crowd
which applauded to the echo the argu
ments of the Taft men and then al
most carried them off the stage IN
wild enthusiasm at the close. The
name of the president aroused great
enthusiasm. and it was obvious that
Roosevelt sentiment was negligible
quantity. This meeting at Springfield
was called only a few hours before, but
1t was a greater meeting in every way
than that which Roosevelt addressed
twenty-four hours before. There were
500 persons at the station at Aurora,
where Campbell discussed the tariff in
la short, forceful speech. They wildly
cheered Taft and the speakers as the
train pulled out.
Harlan Rakes the Colonel.
Mr.. Harlan said in part:
Roosevelt breaches the square deal
and practices the crooked deal. He
| would better do what yesterday at
Springfield he said he hoped Governor
Hadley would do-'get right with God
and his own conscience
Caught red-handed trying to steal
166 delegates, Roosevelt savagely
turns and falsely accuses Taft.
Roosevelt admitted Taft carried
Massachusetts by thousands and was
entitled to the support of the eight
delegates-at-large, but when the roll
was called in the republican conven-
ton Roosevelt grabbed eight votes.
But what was right In Massachusetts
under the Roosevelt code was not
right in Maryland, where Roosevelt
had Just forty-two votes to the good.
He claimed the votes of the eight
delegates-at-large from Maryland, all
Taft men, and they voted for him.
They were not moral acrobats, and
did not have the Rooseveltian supple
ness Of conscience"
"In Vermont, Roosevelt denied that
his party was the progressive republi-
can party. He said the bull moose
party was brand new party, that the
republican party was dead and that
voters were entitled to an opportunity
to vote for Roosevelt electors. But in
California he is trying to put his
electors in the republican party col
umn on the ballot, thus depriving re-
publicans of the opportunity of voting
for Taft Roosevelt wants to deceive
California republicans into voting for
him while they think they are voting
for Taft. In Kansas, Roosevelt refuses
to say a word about his electors who
are refusing to resign so that Taft
electors can be placed in the republi-
can column. And while Roosevelt Is
silent, his friend, William Allen White,
bull moose national committeeman
from Kansas announces that unless
the Taft people are good the Roose-
Welt electors will not resign their
places in the republican column until
too late under the law to name TAFT
electors, 80 that republicans in Kan
sas will be denied an opportunity to
vote for their candidate. Roosevelt
sanctions DISTINGUISHING the republi.
cans of Kansas and will take all the
votes he can get by deceiving voters
into thinking that electors in the re-
publican column are for Mr. Taft,
! when in fact they are for Roosevelt.
Thus in Kansas also we have an ex-
ample of the plastic quality of Roose-
velt's moral sense" ...> r. .....- ~
Bede Takes Wilson's Measure.
Mr.. Bede spoke in part as follows:
Missouri is a great state for men
and mules, but it is too far south for
moose and they do not abound here.
The few that roam the back woods
will be caught, dehorned and dis
mantled in November ....
1.-The fight in this state is beween
Taft and Wilson, with the chances
about even, but if my old friend
u
democratic leader the republicans
would look elsewhere for eiectors.
81 believe in two strong parties =
one in power and the other almost in;
one running the government and the
other watching it. Perhaps my best
reason for voting the republican
ticket is that it has always seemed to
me the democrats make the best
watchers. :....-..
81 wouldn't destroy the democratic
party IL had the power, but it seems
almost certain that Mr.. Wilson, II
elected, will smash it into smither-
eens. He has not come up through the
grades, does not know public men at
their real value. would be misled into
throwing those who have helped him
and would assume an attitude of SUI
periority to leaders of congress-
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