Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-05
Nebraska
REPUBLICAN IS THE
PARTY OF PRINCIPLE
John L. Kennedy Draws Cheer
After Cheer in His Speech
at Nebraska City.
REAvIS DELIVERS ADDRESS

Nebraska City, Neb., Oct. 4.-(Spe-
cial.)-John L. Kennedy of Omaha,
"epublican candidate for United
States senator. and Congressman c.
F. Reavis of Falls City resumed the
,ampaign in the First congressional
district tonight by addressing one of
the most enthusiastic audiences at
the courthouse here which ever as
sembled in Otoe county.
Judge Paul Jessen of Nebraska
lity presided and introduced the
speakers. All evening the courthouse
was thronged with voters, young and
Old, aud much interest was mani
tested in the coming election. Mr..
Kennedy speaking OH the leading is
sues OF this campaign and or the Ques-
ton Of good citizenship, remarked
That grea; deal had beer said about
the failure 0; certain foreign-born
citizens to be loyal TO the govern
ment OF the United States.
Attitude Misunderstood
En his opinion. ,lis was due TO L
misunderstanding of the attitude of
, the foreign-born citizen. Mr.. Ken
nedy mentioned the fact that he, too,
was of foreign birth, bur that he
realized that every foreign born per-
son had certain warmth of feeling
tor the land of his brit, and was on
that account no less loya! 10 the land
OF his adoption. He stated, however,
that he believed that every foreign
born person should shed such beliefs
as he possessed which were inconsist-
ent with good citizenship at the
waters edge on entering America.
Mr.. Kennedy brought forth a storm
OF applause when he stated that the
republican party had already been,
and still is, the party of principle
rather than of personality, and that
the principles of republicanism were
time tried and true, and that one who
campaigned upon them was never
obliged to change front.
He stated that he had never been
obliged to change front in a quarter
OF a century of campaigning for these
principles, and that the republican
party might be called the party Of
patriotism as distinguished from
<ther parties which had their founda-
ton in partizanship.
Prosperity Built on Woe.
Congressman Reavis spoke of the
present day prosperity, but added that
his democratic friends should not be
too hasty in expressing their pride,
for that prosperity, he said, was built
upen the woes of a warning world,
and the result of taking from the
rank of producers and placing in the
rank of consumers more than thirty
million of the best men of Europe.
Mr.. Reavis spoke of the wasteful ex-
travagance of the democratic admin
istration, and of the sectional manner
of applying the good republican doc
trine of protection. He objected to
the products of the farms of the south
being protected at the expense of the
farmers Of Nebraska, and he objected
to the appropriation OF government
money to build drainage bitches for
the southland when his farmer con-
stituents were obliged to build them
1t their own expense He pointed out
that the democratic senator and
the former democratic congressman
from the First district had always
svoted against the interests of Ne
braska in this respect, while he and
the other republicans had voted for
Nebraska and against such legisla-
ton.