Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-10-03
TEDDY IN West
T0HELP HUGHES
Event Looked Upon IS Last
Step in Consolidation
of Party Factions

ately after Col. Rooseyelt's arrival
shortly before 10 q m. and included Z
monster parade, which the former
president. with Senator'S William Al
den Smith and Charles b. Townsend
Former Senator Lafayette Young Of
Iowa and q number of congressman
was to review from the city hall.
In q huge tent, erected for the pur.
pose, Col. Roosevelt was expected to
begin speaking at 4 p. N.
The coming Of Col. Roosevelt was
regarded by local republicans and pro.
gressives as the last step In the recon.
ciliation of those parties in Michigan.
A feature Of the parade was q Aoat
in which were seated the two chair.
men Of the split republican state coa-
vention of 1912. On top Of this hoat
was dove of peace.
A barbecue at the circus ground pre-
ceded the speech making.
Lambasts Wilson.
The former presidents speech was
a scathing denunciation Of the policies
pursued by President Wilson. He
took Wilson to task for his failure to
preserve the rights Of this nation and
insisted that Wilson should be judged
as much by what he had failed to DO.
as by what he has done. He claimed
that the president had shown no con-
sistency whatever In his Mexican deal
ings and is in reality waging war up
on Mexico while announcing to the
world that he IL maintaining peace.
He attacked the Adamson bill passed
by the recent congress under the spur
of the president, and branded the ac-
ton Of congress and the president az
a surrender to political expediency.
He closed with, q plea for the elec.
ton of strong man like Hughes.
Sen. Young spsahs.
Charges that President Wilson Is =
dreamer" and the "shiftiest man that
has been in public life Since Martin
Van Buren," that the Wilson shipping
bill will result in the throwing away
Of coastwise shipping business, that
the profit Of the federal reserve bank.
ing system 10 stage money and that
the Underwood tariff is deception
and. would have resulted in . general
business stignation but for the Europ.
can war, were made In q speech de-
livered here today by former United
states Senator Lafayette Young Of
Iowa, in favor Of the candidacy Of Mr..
Mr.. Young, after sketchinE
1.-THE heroic character Of the nations
history up to the present administra.
tion." said that when Mr. Bryan was
made secretary of state soft words
began to take the place Of Bismarckian
"The German empire committed out.
rage after outrage and yet no army
was mobilized,' said Senator Young.
1War suddenly became immoral. The
brigade, led by Woodrow
Wilson, William Jennings Bry9n. Hen.
~ Ford, Jane Adams and others are
everywhere waving handkerchiefs in
token Of surrender. The people are
brave. They want to do things. They
are not eager to fight. But II this coun.
try had had IN army and q navy and
a president such as Grover Cleveland
or Theodore Roosevelt. or such q pres
dent as Hughes would make, this
country would have had peace with
honor.
Senator Harding has made plain
the fact that the Wilson shipping bill,
now law, will permit foreign built
vessels to enter our coastwise trade.
Mr.. Wilson has urged the shipping bill
IN the ground that the vessels leased
~ the United States from foreign
countries or foreign corporations
would become a part OF the auxiliary
navy. BY this scheme the great coast.
wise trade of the United States 10 to
'e turned over altogether or III part
o the great shipping countries OF
Great Britain. Germany and Japan. A
rec trader never sleeps and he can
,ut his doctrines over in many cases
Without being discovered.
President Wilson brags about the
ederal reserve banking system which
originated with the late Senator Al.
lrich and which isimore Of a repub-
lean than a democratic measure. The
,rofit of the system at the present
lime 10 stage money.
"The Underwood tariff had a trial
II ten months before the European
var began. The result was a general
Of business. Thousando Of
men were out Of employment. Then
he war came and the country began to
ell horse blankets, horses. cannon,
nuskets, powder, lead, zinc. cotton and
asst OF all. food products to the allies.
3ut the Underwood tariff has not
q dollars worth OF business
O the United States. Every demo
ratio principle which has been coined
INTO statutes had not been tried be-
ause the European war has acted a.
dixie and has kept all the waves Of
diversity back.
.There is one way to get rid Of all
his foolishness and that is to vote for
hughes and Fairbanks"