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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

1t is scarcely possible to commend
too h.enly the Iowans who were Sc.
lected Wednesday to represent the
republican party in the campaign for
the state offices this year. No "one
can doubt that they will be elected,
for the people cannot help recognizing
them as capable and efficient men who
will perform faithfully and well the
duties of the offices they seek. There
is every reason to believe that the re-
publican candidates will gain in favor
with the voters as the campaign pro-
crosses and their histories and per-
sonalities become better known. They
are typical Iowa citizens, strong, self
reliant, ambitious to do what is right
and to gain thereby the thanks of
their felloW citizens. They will fill
the Iowa state Offices for the next
two years beyond the shadow of a
doubt.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
Burlington Route ExcursIon.

Homeseekers' excursion to points in
west. south, southwest and north and
northwest. Date Of sale. August
7-Sl, good for twenty-one days from
round trip.
Biennial Conclaye X. OF p. Detroit.
Mich. One fare plus 5000 for round
trip. Date sale, August "a. 25. ss.
~ and 20. Good for return Sept. s.
Extension of return limit may ba
had by depositing ticket with Joint
agent on or before Septemer / and
paying SOC fee, until September IA,
1900.
Tickets are on sale also to all sum-
mer resorts east, west, north and
south. For full information call on or
address. w. s. Parker, Ticket Agt.,
Union Depot.
or full information call on or ad.
dress, w. S. Parker,
Tiki. Agent. Union Depot,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
HON. G. S. GILBERTsoN.

Senator G.. S. GiIbertson, of Forest
City, will be the next secretary of
state for Iowa. Mr.. Gilbertson, al
though young in years, has long been
one of the most potent factors in the
shaping of Iowa legislation. His ca
reer in the Iowa senate will ever &C.
cupy conspicuous and praiseworthy
position in the legislative history of
the state. Mr.. Gilbertson's worth as
a man and legislator and his qualifica-
ton for the position sought is SO gen
orally known and recognized thruout
the state that he is regarded by his
friends as easily the leading candi.
date in the contest
Mr.. Gilbertson is in his 9th year,
being a native of Minnesota, having
lived in this state since his 18th year
He has held several public offices, and
las always discharged his duties with
distinguished ability; in fact his of.
fetal, business and private career has
been one of exceptional excellence,
says the Storm Lake Tribune. He is
known to be public spirited and is en-
terprising and enjoys the esteem of
his own community as a man of in
tegrity of character, honesty of pur-
pose and reliability in business affairs.
and excellent Judgment. He is gen
ial, brainy and clear-headed; is large
hearted, generous-h handed and modest.
He was never known to crowd a poor
man, which fact has made and kept
many warm personal friends. He is
the friend of the farmer, the laborer
and the common people, and being
one of them, and coming up from the
ranks, is fully conversant with their
wants, which at all times he can be
depended upon to look to. He is a
man mar whose true worth can best be
appreciated by a reference to his rec
ord as public servant, his career as
a man of business, and his standing
in the community in which he has
lived since the dawn of manhood. and
where he has built up competency
of no little account.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
OF GREAT IMPORTANCE.

Ottumwa has two propositions be-
fore it now that are fraught with the
greatest Importance to the future OF
the community. One is the Carnegie
library proposition, the other is the
question or a park on the block of
ground fronting the Union depot.
There is some danger of the two
propositions becoming involved with
each other, because of the bequest by
Mr.. Ballingall of lot in the depot
blocA for library site purposes. In our
opinion. the two propositions should
be kept entirely distinct and separate.
1. Ottumwa wants the Carnegie Ii
brary, regardless Of any question of
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

dues and a consume tax OF no small
rate. In addition there were exactions
by the church, which was backed by
the crown and the insular government,
and last, but not least there was a
governmental lottery; the mayors
were instructed to sell a certain
amount of the drawings, and they in
vited the citizens to purchase draw
ing. which was understood to be a thin
yelled order to contribute the amount
asked for to the government.
With the occupation by the Ameri-
cans the lottery disappeared and the
burden of the taxation dwindled down
to Is per cent of the tariff upon i'm
ports, and, what was more important,
the amounts thus collected are hand
ed over to the island government for
paying the expenses of running that
government, SO that the Is per cent Of
the tariff does not burden the people
at all.
When Porto Rico was storm swept
the quick response of our people to
the cry of distress, and the liberal
sending of tens of thousands of tons
of supplies for the stranded victims of
the storm gave evidence of the true
feeling which this country entertain
ed toward the new possession. A loyal
lady of San Juan remarked that the
United States is great because it is
liberal; it is prosperous because it is
humane"
Under Spanish rule the weak were
robbed; the foreclosure of mortgage
was permitted in most unwarranted
Ynannar oil to Tho 1pccf re tho
debtor. A military order checked this.
Under Spanish rule large percent
age Of the property owners were alb
sentees, conducting their estates. thru
agencies, and exacting a most ruinous
course against other interests. The
property of the absentee class has
been put under taxable conditions
that will make them bear their por-
ton of the burden of the government
which gives security to their prop
erty.
Under Spanish rule the money Of
the island was subject to the most ex-
traordinary fluctuations; when the
planter needed money to pay his help,
and for supplies, the peso would be
held at 60 cents in gold, and as soon
as the money had passed into the
hands of the men whom the planter
had owed, the value of the same peso
declined to AZ cents. This ruinous
variation in money has been made to
give place to certainty and stability
by changing the currency of the island
to United States currency
Under the rule of Spain the mass OF
the people dared not make an outcry
against any oppression; the bakers
of San Juan testified that their hours
OF labor were from o'clock p. m. till
II o'clock noon of the following day,
and that they worked every day in the
year; other artisans gave similar tes-
timony. With American occupation
shorter hours were demanded without
fear, and fair dealing began to take
the place of ancient wrong.
Aside from the 50,773 property
owners of Porto Rico, made up large,
ly of absentees, priests and pro- Span.
ish residents, the people of the island
are loyal to our methods, and appre.
ciate our efforts in their behalf, so
| far as they can realize the, enactments.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
+ PORTO RICO BENEFITED.

Mr.. Charles e. Buell., who was Sec
rotary of the United States special
commission to Porto Rico, and is IA
maliar with the various conditions of
which he speaks, makes it plain that
our occupation of that beautiful island
has been of greatest benefit to the
people of Porto Rico. Among other
things, he explains that under Spanish
rule imprisonment without hearing,
or the preferring of charges against
the persons arrested, was common,
and the imprisoned persons frequently
passed several years without being
informed of the nature of the offense
for which they had been thus held.
Under American rule no more Span
ish methods are permitted in dealing
with those charged with unlawful
acts.
Before the American occupation of
e Porto Rico it was common custom
to rent burial place in the cemeter-
4 les, and to demand renewal of the
rent from year to year, after the first
five years; a failure to promptly pay
the renewal resulted in the disinter-
/ ment of the body and the throwing of
the skull and bones promiscuously
into common bone heap to 'be there
after forever exposed to the gaze of
. the curious, and to the action of the
elements. This custom was discon-
.tinued upon an order issued by the
military governor making it unlawful
to disinter bodies without special
permit from the governor-general and
then only for the purpose of renter
ment.
IITdar ic,1, IL
had been hedged about with arbitrary
! rules which had made it impossible for
i the poor, especially in the rural dis
tricts, to enter into marriage, and the
result was that more than half of the
families We're living in a state of con-
cubinage, and more than half of the
children born on the island during lat
ter years were illegitimate, and depriv-
ed OF natural right under the laws, due
to the fact Of their illegitimate birth,
q circumstance over which they could
have no control. BY order OF. the Mill
tary Governor the contract of mar.
riage could be entered into without
cost before magistrate, or priest, or
minister, and every barrier to mar
fiage was removed. Those having
children could marry and the legal
status OF the offspring of such as had
been born out of wedlock be thereby
established
Under Spanish rule the island was
ncourged with disease due to unsani-
tary conditions and to a lack of care
for the people by those in authority.
The Military Governor established a
vaccine farm, and army physicians
yaccinated the population of the is
land. Every disease is being conquer
ed by government agencies, and every
sanitary measure is being carried out
to prevent filth diseases.
Under Spanish rule everything was
taxed, and to all the very exacting
taxes on property, real and personal,
were added duties on imports, port
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
Iowa's Vacant senatorship.

v
Philadelphia Times: The death Of
Senator Gear of Iowa leaves vacancy
in the senate of the United States
which will almost certainly be filled by
man of distinguished ability and al.
ready known to fame.
Iowa has for long years held com.
handing position in both house and
senate Of the national legislature.
Bossism there has not compelled her
young men aspiring to public place to
become mere servants Of political
trust. The best selections are made
for state and national offices. Mem
bers of the national house have been
usually graduated from the state leg.
islature, and the two seats in the ma
tional senate have been almost inva-
riably filed by graduates Of the ma
tional house.
In both bodies Iowa has presented
succession of legislators which has
left it's mark upon every line of statu-
tory enactment almost from the time
wnen the territory was erected into a
state. For more than a quarter of a
century the name of William B. Alli-
son has been nearly as familiar as
that of any president of the United
States. Gears long service in the
house, his tenure of the office of an
sistant secretary of the treasury and
his term in and reelection to the sen.
ate made him only less well known.
His predecessor, James F. Wilson.
was worthy colleague for Allison.
Judging from the past, Iowa win he
certain to take from the house to fill
the senate vacc ncy one of the several
representatives whose names are
known thruout the land. Hender-
son, now speaker of the house, has
lost number of his former friends by
treatment which was no doubt well in.
tended. The atmosphere of the sen.
ate would be the more congenial to
him on this account.
Representative Dolliver, late a can.
didate for the republican nomination
for vice president, will be in the run.
ming, and it goes without saving that
his brilliant oratory would find fuller.
expression in the senate than in the
house. Representative Hull is anoth-
er example of the type of Allisonl. He
possesses the genius of industry con.
pied with fine ability. Representative
cousins has gained a reputation for
brilliant oratory almost equal to that
of Dolliver. Representative Hepburn
Of the extreme southwestern district
OF the state, has no superior in the.
house as debator and possibly no
equal in the employment Of sarcasm
and invective.
Few states of the union have SO no.
Table a circle, coupling great legisla.
tive experience with unusual abilities.
from which to choose an occupant for
seat in the senate. -
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
Outside Insolence.

Muscatine Journal: A big brewery
company at st. Louis seems disposed
to jump all over Ottumwa by estab-
fishing warehouse for its product
and saloon Immediately opposite the
union depot and alongside grounds
donated by the late Peter Ballnigall
for public park. The citizens have
been protesting, and now they are
talking about having the city condemn
the brewery companys lot and make
1t part of the park. But as the
brewery agents and the saloons con-
troll the Ottumwa council it is not
likely they will take any such action.
BY the way. how does the fact that
ST Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago
breweries are establishing breweries
for their products all over Iowa agree
with the argument SO persistently put
forth in favor of the manufacturing
bill of 1897, that it would cause liq-
uors used in Iowa to be made in Iowa.
The journal, because it opposed that
bill, was charged with being in the
same boat with the bewers Of st.
Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, and it
was said they had contributed money
to defend the bill. The talk was all
bosh, of course. The bill was used
only as pretext to beak down the
prohibitory law and open wide the
gates for outside liquor makers and
liquor dealers. That has been the
practical result and the Ottumwa, cpl
sode is only a part of this sorry and
deplorable program, which ought to
have been opposed at its incipiency
by some who are yainly protesting
against it now.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
Sketches Of the Nominees.

DIES MONIES Aug. William Brney
sa
Illinois Adair in 1858
attracted the notice the state
ssssstss
born sp0 a5
good school education and
and in
1885, ven
sd j "a
wes dae % his M }s his
born 1sn ssa m 1s ss e,s os
s5.a2s ss
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sassss
appropriations was ses1 ember the eas
ss'' q Sc
elected large majority sSo ne was n0n
If
n nesn.a They nsan piece
he s Ta
pa H was @ eeeat times and vs
s sf Ro tens H s re
I'll ne Re
lie was nominated that year and was elected y handsome
senator Charles w Muan Waterloo
He born in county and with his
the practice Of law in since 1870
lawyers the His ability
senate to which he elected 1897 He
Waterloo
Office he will
= -
Chancellor Emln Mcclain of the
the country as an eminent author Of law
scent He to Upton Cedar county
academy In 1866 Eml at the age of fifteen entered the
philosophical
degree and 1879 the
law in Des Moines until 1881
Elementary
Iowa Reports 1887 Criminal
of
selected work He was can
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
Beware of ointments for catarrh That
Contain Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy the sens. !,
smell aud completely derange the whole systen,
When entering It through the mucous surfaces
Such articles should never be used exeent -,
prescriptions from reputable physicians, AZ the
Damage they Will DO is ten-fold to the good Vol,
can possibly derive from them. Hali's Cafarrt,
Cure, manufactured by f. j. Cheney & CO I
Toledo, ~, contains no mercury, and lis taken,
internally, acting directly upon the blood And
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure TO get the pensires
II IS taken Internally, and made In Toledo
ONO, by +; J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free
Halps Family Pills are the best ~,
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
A Democratic conundrum.

Oskaloosa Herald The democrats
of the Sixth district have played a
queer joke on themselves by nomi-
mating Judge Steck for congress. Mr..
Steck is sound money democrat and
while he has not withdrawn from his
duty he has been conspicuously mac
tive for the past four years. In short
he belongs to that class which the
Journal of this city has steadily main
tanned are traitors" to the party.
Just how the radical free silver fell
lows, whose motto is 16 to 1 or death,
can vote for Judge Steck is conun.
drum that will be hard to solve.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
THE couRIER's NEW FEATURE

The Courier begins today the publ
cation of crop reports from all over
southern, southeastern and central
Iowa. 1t is the intention to pub
lish these reports from day to day.
Each station will report at least once
week. Coming as they do from the
Courier correspondents in the country
and at the small towns these crop re.
ports should be of extraordinary In
terest, not only to farmers and bust
ness men, but to every Courier read
er, Tor here in Iowa the prosperity and
welfare of all depend upon the crops.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.

At Large:
N. Baldwin, of Pottawattarnie county.
Ole o. Roe, of Polk county.
District Electors:
First Distrct-E. v. Tucker, of Louisa.
Second District-J. A. L. Bartholomew, of
Jackson.
Third District-L. B. Raymond, ST Franklin,
Fourth District-C. H. McNider, of Cerro
Gordo.
Fifth District-H. H. Rood, of Lynn.
Sixth Districts H. Harper, of Wapello.
Seventh District-c. Rhynsburger, O.
Marion.
Eighth Decentralization Stookey, of Decatur
Ninth District-P. L. Sewer, of Guthrie.
Tenth District-Thon1as Wray, of Crawford
Eleventh District-George E. Bowers, OF
Sioux.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
They sowed che wind.

Burlington Hawkeye: British and
German manufacturers have for years
sold great quantities of modern arms
to the Chinese, and then sent special
instructors to China to teach the
heather how to use those weapons.
They now do use them with telling eff
feet on German and English and other
Christian soldiers. Perhaps the civil
lized nations will now come together
and prohibit the selling Of farms to
barbarians.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

Twenty-Five years ago Samuel ].
Tilden predicted that early in the
twentieth century we should find
profitable market for 3,OO0,O0O,0O
bushels of corn. The corn crop this
year will reach perhaps 100000, 900
bushels.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
More New To,vne

On the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. PAM
Ry. between Aberdeen and the Mis-.
souri, River. They are. being survey.
ed now. Watch the papers for dates
OF opening sales which will be within
the next three weeks. We want Won
TO purchase and locate in one of them.
Get into business for yourself and on
the ground floor. Apply to Land De.
partment. 9. M. & st. p. Ry. Co.. Mi.
waukee, Wis. 4
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

was in compartment of passenger
car and his coat was hanging on a
hook near where he was standing.
The train suddenly turned a curve and
the motion threw the coat, which held
pistol, against the side of the car,
causing the pistol to fire. The ball
passed thru Mr.. Wyatt's head and
death was instantaneous.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
THEY'LL An Vote.

Sioux City Journal: The fellows
who are pursuing the negroes in New
Orleans, and killing them like dogs,
are all expected to vote this fall
against government without consent of
the governed. They have it in mind
to join with other patriots in various
parts Of the country in an effort to
save the republic"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

The personal property returns of
William Jennings Bryan are larger
than those OF any other man in the
city OF Lincoln, Nebraska. Four years
ago he was struggling along on sal
airy OF $50 a week as editor of the
Omaha World-Herald. And yet he is
the man who is at the head of the
host that is shouting that there is no
prosperity in the county!-Gales
burg Mail.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
Rock Island Excursinna.

Homeseekers excursions to points
in south, southwest, west, north and
northwest, first and .,.ird Tuesday Of
each month. One fare. plus 50 for
round trip, good Tor twenty-one days.
For full information cali on or sd.
dress. w. S, Parker.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

course it was a forgery and the Chi,
nese had our cipher code; they ac-
cept the dispatches from their own
ministers as indisputably genuine -of
course they are because they are in
cipher. The management of Score
tary Hay in getting news from Picking
first, seems to have been a bigger
thorn in the flesh than anybody over
here would have imagined. -
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
The UnbeIievers,

Keokuk Gate City: The one laugh.
able thing in the Chinese difficulty is
the childish mental status of England
and Germany over news from Pekin.
London and Paris knew that the Con
ger dispatch was not genuine OF
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

The contests over the nominations
at the republican state convention
this year were warmly urged because
everybody is sure that nomination is
equivalent to election.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

Governo Roosevelt's mother was a.
Georgian and his uncles served in the
confederate navy. He fought side
by side with southerners in Cuba and is
an emblem Of the type that joins north
and south.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07
A Party in Luck.

Davenport Times:-It lis announced
that former Governor Altgeld is to fire
the nrst heavy shot for the democrats.
which indicates that good fortune has
not deserted the republicans.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

That death is apt to come to us
anywhere and in any manner is evil
denced by the case of Bascom l.. Wy
att, travelling salesman who was the
victim of an unusual accident near
Atlanta, Georgia, the other day. He
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

This is another good time to recall
the saying of Disraeli, that assassina-
ton has never changed the history of
the void.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

The nominees Of the republican con-
vention yesterday are all good men
and will make excellent state off,
GERS.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

Hon. Don. M. Dickinson predicts
that Bryan will not get within two
million as many votes as he did in
1896"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

1t appears that the chief correspond
ent at Shanghai is named Dam Ii.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

When dizzy or drowsy take Beech
ans Pills. -.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-07

The Chatauqua this year at Des
Moines has not been a financial sue.
cess.