Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-10-24
THETROOpSHONORED.
owa Governor Leaves Political
Campaign to Meet Soldiers.
He CAN MAKE THE TRIP In TEN DAYS.
Hs1 Appointments Cancelled County
FoIrs and Gambling Devices
State Board of Control-Cap-
itaI Comment.

Des Moines, Oct. Ex-Governor Shaw
and Mrs. Shaw started Thursday morn
ing for San Francisco to meet the Fiji
ty-frst Iowa regiment. The governor
has of course always intended to do
this, but it seemed, when the time of
the arrival of the regiment was so I'M
certain, that he should not take the
time required, about twenty days, to
go to San Francisco in time to be there
when the regiment arrived, stay for
the demonstration there and get back.
Gen. Byers, Auditor Merriam and Sec
rotary Dobson started on the morning
of October II, expecting the regiment
TO be there last Sunday or Monday, the
18th or 10th; so if the governor had
gone then he would have lost ten days
more than he does now. The fight the
governor is making in Iowa is of equal
Importance, in way, with the fight
the soldiers have been making in the
island of Luzon. Aguinaldo is holding
out in the hopes that the democratic
tories, or will at least make gains
enough to show that the policy of the
administration in trying to restore or
der in the Philippines is not approved.
1t has been well said that Aguinaldo
places his hopes in the democratic par
ty and the democratic party places it's
hopes in Aguinaldo. Then it is quite
important that the hope OF Aguinaldo
that the democratic party shall make
gains in Iowa shall be crushed The
election of Governor Shaw is not ques-
toned in the least by any sane person.
1t is only a question of how large his
majority shall be, of how strongly the
people of Iowa will approve the Nc
Kinley administration, the government
in time of war. 1t was to make this
verdict as emphatic as possible that
Governor Shaw has been working, and
it was this task which made him hesi-
tate about devoting three weeks to a
trip to San Francisco. He thought the
boys would understand his position
and forgive him for not being there in
person. But now that he can do it in
ten days his desire to honor the regi-
ment and his state pride in having the
state represented by its governor, as
other states have been when their reg
iments arrived in San Francisco, has
led him to cancel his meetings for this
week and start.
In anticipation of this step, were it
practicable to take it, the governors
appointments only run to the end of
this week; today in Usage and Parkers-
burg, Friday in Hampton and Toledo,
Saturday in West Liberty and Durant.
These appointments will be filled by
the republican state central commit
tee, and surely no one can complain of
not having the governor for speech,
considering the cause of his absence
upon patriotic errand.
The county and district fairs will
have to make a showing on affidavit
that they have not allowed any gamb-
ling devices of any kind during their
fairs or they can't get the 5000 allowed
to each fair by the state. The law de-
prives every fair of this allowance that
allows gambling and State Auditor
Merriam intends to protect himself by
requiring showing to be made that
they have obeyed the law. The audi
tors. Office is receiving letters OCCASION
ally from parties who say, you must
not pay the county fair the 5000 bonus
because they allowed gambling at the
fair" The next question is what is
gambling under the law? Auditor
Merriam asked Attorney General Rem
ley and he said gambling under the
law was what the dictionaries defined