Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-13

in Iowa it is not necessary to keep
them open until 1900 o'clock, especially
as the law requires every employer on
absence for two hours for the purpose
OF voting.-Dubuque Morning Times.
Tribute to Gates-Dr. George q.
Gates has formally severed his con-
nection with Iowa college, altho his
successor has not yet been able to ap-
pear and take charge. In the thirteen
years of the incumbency of President
Gates the income of the college more
than doubled and there was a similar
gain in the number of instructors.
There has been great gain in enroll
ment and the standards of work were
made higher. President Gates GER
tainly proved himself an aggressive
college workers. Sioux City Tribune.
1t Did This Time. Iowa is one of
the eight states that have been uni
formly republican in presidential years
since and including 1864. The other
seven are luaine, Minnesota, Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylva-
mia, Rhode Island and Vermont
OlOuA Clty tribune.
Is the First.--The first delegate to
the United States from Porto Rico is
man of education and learning. Fred.
erlco Degelau is his name. He is law
yer at San Juan, was educated at the
university of Madrid, is president of
the San Juan board of education, and
has written several looks. He was
one of the four commissioners sent by
Porto Rico to Spain in 1896 to ask for
autonomy, and was one of the found
ers of the French society to promote
International arbitration.-Des Moines
Leader.
Is Stunned.-Somewher beneath
the avalanche Of republican ballots
lies the fusion party of South Dakota
stunned and speechless. The doughty
men who composed that organization
heard the noise of the landslide as it
broke loose early last evening, but
they stood calmly and listened to the
ominous rumble of the $4,000 republi-
Can majority in the state as it neared
them and swept them and their hopes
aside.
SSAoIOl II. i I SILl6IoW, WIZ lids
been the central figure in this the most
bitter fight ever waged in this state of
spirited political battle and one of the
hardest struggles in the nation. ap-
peared early at fusion headquarters.
He remained but short time and was
then driven home. This nervous man,
who has dominated his party for the
past twenty years in the state, and ter
ritory before statehood, seemed scarce
ly to realize that he had at last been
defeated. 1t was his first experience
of this kind.-Sioux City Tribune.
May Change it.-New York was the
only state which gave it's soldiers fight
ing in the Philippines an opportunity
to exercise the right OF suffrage There
are more than 10000 volunteers in the
Philippines and about $4,000 regulars.
1t is estimated that 1000 men enlisted
from New York state, and If any of
the congressional election districts
are close, especially in the vicinity Of
Fort Niagara, where the Forty-second
regiment was recruited, the vote of the
soldiers in the Philippines will have an
important effect. Officials of the war
department say that the federal gov
eminent could take no action to insure
the voting of troops in foreign service.
This was a matter, it was said, which
the states themselves should have at
tended to and surprise is expressed
that more states did not follow the
example of New York and send COM
missioners to Manila to supervise the
voting Gate City.