Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-14
v. v. BENNETT IS.
HEARD BY LAR G {.
OTTAWA AUDIENCE.
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE
SPEAKS IN COURT HOUSE
SQUARE-WARMLY RECEIVED
BY AUDlTORS-AFTER Full.
LER'S SCALP.

The congressional campaign, which
in Ottawa and La Sale county is cen.
I terlng about the defeat of Fullerism
thruout the Twelfth district, was
given its first injection of pro.Ameri-
canism last night by William W. Ben
nett, thrice mayor of Rockford, who
/ seeks to defeat the Belyidere states
man at the September II primary.
Candidate Bennett has bee~ giving
the past two or three days of his
campaign to Ottawa and the remain.
der OF La Sale county. Last night
at an open meeting in the court house
yard he addressed a large ana ell.
thusiastic audience. He was intro
duced to his Ottawa auditors by Geo
o, Grover secretary of the La Sale
county Republican Central Commit.
tee
Bennett, living up to his announce
iilNIl hlu iiol ltOOIl W IliuurSilllSiHS
at Fuller to help enhance his own
cause. He made only slight reference
to his opponents record at Washing
ton That record is so well known in
! Ottawa hardly any reference to it
was needed The speaker confined
himself almost entirely to patriotism
and its 100 per cent need at thin
time The former Rockford execu-
/ tive has been a frequent visitor in
Ottawa in early and late years, His
! family now owns large parcel of La
Sale county land, just east of Grand
| Ridge
I Mr. Bennett said in part:
Il bring you people of LA Sale
county greetings from your sister
city of Rockford, the home of Camp
Grant, where your boys and the other
boys Of this nation are learning the
great game OF war | am sure that
it will be cheerful news to you par
ents who have sons at Camp Grant,
! to know that at this great military
post your boys are learning to pro
tect the honor Of your homes and the
honor Of this nation. under the best
! possible environment.
in fact, Major w. l.. Baum Of the
hospital corps at Camp Grant told
me recently that the chances of the
/ soldiers in Camp Grant contractin2
! any contagious disease were eight
( times as great in IFS home place
wherever that may be, as it was in
/ Camp Grant
! Il do not know nor do | care what
/ the politics of Charles NJ Schwab is
( but his statement the other day, ira4
a good American ring TO It: If you
/ men will stand up to this job with
me we'll make the Kaiser take his
medicine lying down
a am going ont on this tour of the
Twelfth congressional district tc
preach the gospel of preparedness
and declaration of principles o
true Americanism: firm in the be
lief that thing that is worth havins
is worth lighting for. Firm in the be
lief also that II your people in OF
tawa have the right to traverse the
streets of your beautiful city, that yol
can come and go on Madison and La
Sale streets, to and from your homes
to your places of business, that We
also have as nation the right tC
travel the great high seas. That We
are not bound to paint our ships lik,
great floating barber poles. at tn,
command of Germany or of any othe
nation. And that when ships bearlns
American citizens are torpedoed tina
! he is weak in his conception of hi
. duty toward the people he represent'
! Who does not follow the Leadership
OF our president and support him il
declaration of war against the arch
enemy of all humanity.
Some time ago in an address il
my home city took occasion in m
humble way TO acknowledge wit
gratitude the leadership OF that grea
heavy hearted man in Washingto
and was later taken to task for som
OF the things that ] said In fact
the Inquiry came to me are you no
a Republican" and my reply was
= am Republican, but would lik
to have YOU know that Woodrow Wi
son stands today as the leader q
= this nation. in its greatest crisis, an
he is as much my president as he
; the president of the most all.woo
roek-ribhed, iron.bound Democrat VIII
: evere voted for him
j Most of the troubles we have com
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