Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-01
Something. however, more in contrast
with the probable regular proceedings
OF the convention would draw better.

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with the probable regular proceedings
| Cedar Rapids Gazette. No one need
place the least reliance in the political
news from Iowa that is printed in the
papers of Chicago. None Of this news
is reliable, it is frequently sent from
| places other than designated in the
address and is published for purposes
aside from detailing the news. Not
one paper published in Chicago has any
other than information colored for the
benefit of certain persons and cliques
and neither republicans nor democrats
will be correctly informed by the
| statements contained therein,
Centerville Citizen: Ottumwa last
year through the organized efforts of
her citizens succeeded in securing the
great Janney manufacturing company,
/ and she is after an extension of the
chicago d. Northwestern railway, from
Muchakinock, a branch of the Iowa
Central from Wright and also has un-
| der Roadway the removal of the big
Dain Manufacturing Co., from CARROLL
ton, Mo-, to that city Centerville's
|
tating about the amount they will SUBJ
scribe to our street fair. Get a move
on you gentlemen.
Oskaloosa Globe: The pastor of a
fashionable Ottumwa church who is
unmarried and is much beloved by his
congregation, in a recent discourse he
said that he considered red the most
beautiful of colors. The next Sunday
the church was mass of red. Every
woman, young and old, who was not
lncumbered with husband, wore the
pastors fayorite color. There were
| gowns and shirt waists and millinery,
and things the pastor wasn't supposed
to see, all in red. The pastor passed
through red sea on his way up the
aisle and the contest, it is reported,
will be continued next Sunday with
red hot vigor.
Waterloo Courier: While there is no
opposition in any quarter of the rebub-
lican party of the state to Governor
Leslie N. Shaw, and while he will with
out doubt be renominated by acclama-
ton and needs no effort of the press
to carry on a campaign in his favor,
it is but just that few truths regard
ing him should be made at this time.
| When he was nominated for govern.
or of Iowa at Cedar Rapids two years
ago, there were those in the state who
declared Mr.. Shaw was railroad can.
didate. His friends denied the charge
that he was the candidate OF any fac
| ton or corporation and their denials
| have been justified in every way. When
the campaign was opened and the can
didate took the stump, he surprised
even his friends with his large grasp
of state and national questions. The
money issue was then more prominent
than now, for it was the time the re.
| publicans were putting the finishing
touches on the 16 to democratic mule
which they had laid out the year be-
fore, 1896.
| Mr.. Shaw confined a large part Of
each of his addresses to support of
the gold standard and his arguments
| attracted national attention at once,
and did much to keep the party not
only united, but to wonderfully aug
ment its strength.
| When he was elected he assumed the
duties of state in quiet and dignitied
manner, not promising any great in
| novation. He has conducted the af-
fairs of the Office in such a way as to
disaIm all criticism even from his no.
litical opponents. There have been no
scandals, and no charges of any detri-
mental character brought against him
or his official family. During his adj
ministration the affairs of state have
progressed in most satisfactory man
ner, notwithstanding that many uues-
t1ons of much importance have had to
be decided and that the recruiting and
equipping Of four regiments of troops
for the war has been carried through
without serious friction although ma
ny ambitions had to be satisfied and
others denied. Iowa's record in the late
Spanish war is an honorable one
throughout and the record our troops
are making In the Philippines is add
ing new glories to the states military
achievements. In all this Governor
Shaw has had no little part, and in all
OF it he has jealousy watched over the
rights of the lowe troops. He has
made a good governor. There is no
need of saying more than that. What
his first term has been gives ample
evidence of what the next two years
will be.
SAM CLARK IN Conversation.
Former Ottumwan Tells Of the yersa.
ulity Of the Keokuk Editor.
n. S. Needler in the Boone Repub-
/ lican: The editor of this nanor bo.