Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-12

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were doing at Washington was wrong
was q new idea-a new idea among
Republicans. It was a rather old idea
among democrats.
J If this new party is preferred on
the fifth OF November, will 1t be In a
position to clear the decks and carry
out the policy which many noble gen.
tlemen have conceived that 1t was
sincerely bent upon. Politics now at
last is intensely practical and real
We cannot afford to vote on the fifth
of November and then wait another
four years. The processes of reform
In this country must take place within
the next four years. II the leader OF
the third party is made president,
what will be his situation? Does any
body suppose that he will have third
PARTY congress behind him? Is 1t not
inevitable that in such an event there
will be in congress such mixture OF
elements and groups and lotteries that
the president cannot possibly get any
program whatever put through? We
have had samples of confusion already.
We already have a very queerly assort-
ed senate of the United States. There
are some democrats in it. some near
democrats. some republicans, and
Isome ex-republicans, and it has been a
gamblers chance whether they would
get together on anything or not. 1t has
been difficult to guess after bill
passed the house of representatives ex-
actly what was going to happen to 1t
when It got into the senate, and the
roll call In the several votes has sell,
dom showed the same list of names.
"Now, suppose you had a house of
Representatives mixed like the present
senate? think we could all go fishing
for the next two years! And if ut the
same time you had leader inslstent
upon certain policies. think the air
would be full of clamorous voices, but
the statute book would be very empty
| of fulfilled promises-not because, it
may be, nobody was trying to fulfill
the promises, but because everybody
was trying to fulfill different
promise.
But the most certain impeachment to
progress have not yet spoken of. The
new party does not even propose TO
clear the decks and set the govern
ment free to act The central proposal
Of it's actual program Is to legalize
monopoly. Instead Of defeating, In
stead Of reversing and remedying, the
evil things that have been done under
the mistaken leadership Of the regular
Republican leaders, It proposes that the
results Of their mistakes shall be legal
lied and made regular by being taken
under the direct supervision Of the
government Of the United States.
Whatever may be the philanthropic
purpose Of certain parts of it's pro-
gram, the inevitable result Of that
particular proposal will be to
confirm by law the partnership
between great trusts and the federal
government. I do not say that this is
what the leaders of the new party ex-
pect or propose, but merely that
that is what will happen, what must
happen under such plan. There has
been history Of the human race, you
know, and a history Of government; 1t
is recorded; and the kind Of thing they
propose has always led to the results
which have predicted.
Then you have only the democratic
party left; and you will ask me how I
can set up claim for the democratic
party. Well, in the first place, 1t is
rather fine discipline to have been
on the outside for sixteen years You
have not intrusted the government of
the United States to the democratic
party because the democratic party
has been opposed all these years to-
the things that the republican leaders
were doing. Is not that statement
of mere fact? Haven't we been attack
ing them and opposing them all these
years, and proposing programs that
once looked radical and now look rea-
sonable? We haven't just begun being
progressive. We have been progressive
for sixteen years, and we saw the year
1912 half generation before It came.
Are you going to give us no credit for
vision? Do you not think it counts for
something to stay out in the cold on
conviction for sixteen years?
"The democratic party Is now, per
haps for the first time In a generation,
united, solid, and enthusiastic. And
the democratic party is the only or
ganized force by which you can set
your government free. was bred in
football college: I know that what
wins is team work: and want to tell
you that we have now got democratic
team, schooled in years Of adversely,
that can hold together against any
team that can be put In the field, and
as compared with which some teams
recently organized are only scrub
/, teams
Wilson at Atlantic City.
! New York Sept. 10-Gov. Woodrow
Wilson left today for Atlantic City
where he will review q parade this