Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-01
EXPECTS
PARTY TO WIN

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seryations whatever, and believe That
because have real faith in the intelli-
eence and discrimination of the Amer
lean people. believe they know what
good service is. I believe they have
Iintelligence and discrimination enough
| to enable the party organization
through the press and through pollt1-
cal speakers in the campaign of educa-
! ton that is coming to convince them
that the service of the last four years
has been such that they can trust 1t
for the next four years.
"A campaign is four months long. IL
seems like four years, but every voter
who has been put on the 'qui vive' will
have his interest aroused and will
know the candidate accurately and
will have been given fair opportunity
Fin that time to Judge which party Of
fers the best argument for the next
term"
Asks Square Hearing and Square Deal
From his optimistic look into the tu'
ture, the president turned to the past
and the present and his voice. husky
as It was, rose to higher pitch. He
spoke of the democratic victory at the
polls in 1910. and declared that this
was not the fault of the republican
party. but of disaffection within the
ranks.
"Who are the persons who are going
I'm and down the land distributing
these views? Whose lungs have been
used for years In condemnation and
denunciation? Were there any regu-
lar republicans? Haven't they all
been shooting at the old republican
party and the old administration?
Now I think we are getting to the
point where we are to get our innings.
We will deal not in prophesies and
not in unfounded denunciation, but
with facts. Let us get down to 1acts
and then If they beat us with the
truth we'll take our beating. But let
JUS have square hearing and a square
IDEAL and ask them to brush aside the
fogs of denunciation."
+ Mr. Taft said it made him 1mpa-
tient to hear people talk about the
way his administration had enforced
the ANTITRUST law.
B eve have some lawyers who under
stood that enforcement Of the law
meant It's enforcement in the courts
and not in the newspapers and we en-
forced it. I don't claim any part1cu-
lar credit for it's enforcement. NOW
we're met with the proposition that
we've forfeited the support of bust
ness because we've enforced the law.
That's enough to make one Impatient
Those men who thought its enforce
mert would interfere with business
have been seeing ghosts.
"I would say to you that our record
at washington is good and we are en-
titled to the next four years of admin
istration. Why not go before the
electorate and ask for vote of con-
fldence? We do not promise to give
entry to the millennium. We will not
make every man rich or every man
poor who may have gained his wealth
dishonesty. We will not revolution
ize the constitution and have heaven
on earth, because don't believe any
man who says he can do such thing.
Are Progressing.
/, .sBut we are progressing step by
step. We are improving by reason
able methods and by statutes and
laws directed at evils, but we cannot
work by legerdemain and change hui
man nature over night. Reforms are
not made by hand but by bringing eff
fort to bear to improve the individual.
We cannot make over people by
mere machinery. --
1--WE are progressive in the sense
that we are making progress all 1.-the
time, but we are not progressive, II
that means the overturning Of the con-
stitution and the guarantee Of life and
liberty and property and all the
bchecks on the monetary passion of
the people.