Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-05

against reaftirmatlOn, and il he had
been he would not be SO impolitic as
to say SO when the admission could
not help and might seriously hurt his
candidacy.-Dubuque Telegraph.
| Convention Comment.-Since the
last issue of the Montezuma Democrat,
letters have been received by it's editor
| from prominent and influential demo-
Gratis in different parts of the state,
as to the truth of certain charges
made against Candidate-for-G Governor
Phillips
We desire to here publicly state that
the editor of the democrat never
makes a covert and malicious attack
on any one, as the maverick of this
place said we did. People who know
us have never accused us of being a
coward-we have been called most
everything else that's bad except a
Populist, a Bryanite and Sixteenth
oneer! Thank God we have never
gotten that bad-and we are a bad
man.
| This is not to be a campaign
of personalities so far as the
Montezuma Democrat is concerned,
but the Poweshiek county court
records-made by Candidate-for-
Governor Phillips himself to blacken
the character and blast the life of his
wife-will be used in connection with
other positive proofs to show the fit
ness of Phillips to stand on the dead
and putrid corpse of the Kansas City
platform and to fifty represent the
Weaverites, Waltbutlerites, Johnmur-
phites and the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
But Phillips shall not pose as rep.
resentative of democracy without our
protest. His public court record shall
be known. His wife's piteous appeals
shall be read-we have the documents.
Is this "a covert and malicious at
tack" as the maverick says it is?
"Boydston's Blusterings" will blister
"Banty"
If the people and press of Iowa have
any regard for the purity of the home,
just conception of the rights of the
wife and mother, let them unitedly
demand, insist and compel Phillips to
get off a ticket where he stands as a
candidate for the highest office in the
state.-Montezuma Democrat.
What Tom Phillips Really Did Say.
Thomas Jefferson Phillips, of Ottuln-
wa, candidate for governor on the
democratic ticket, is in Davenport to-
day, repairing, it is presumed, the
fences that fell down under the pres
sure of the Burlington-Ha wk-Eye and
Ottumwa Courier interview lombard
ment. When asked for an expression
today covering the latest phase of the
| nt0ruinu hlSir Nv,
the following statement to The Times,
the original of which is in the safety
deposit vaults of his city, under lock
and key, where it will remain, said
Thomas Jefferson Phillips:
Il never said nothin' to nobody no
how. And if did didn't say that I
did say that l wouldn't stand on the
free silver platform. What did say
was that if was going to say that if
| had say coming would have said
that | wouldn't say that / had said
that Editor Davidson was liar in
making me say that never said tina,
l would have said that l didn't say that
wasn't the whole thing now in Iowa
politics. But there is this much about
it. The Ottumwa Courier had no
right to say that said that l had net
said that Mr.. Davidson had said what
he said that | had said, when he made
me say what | didn't intend to say.
And say! If you say anything about
this business just say that you saw
me and | said that l had never said "a
thing to nobody anyhow. It's all pure
fake. Nuff said"
/ And Mr.. Phillips bowed goodbye
nod with the air of one who had re-
pudiated without any further question
the troublesome Hawk-Eye Courier in
acknowledgements Times.
JUST ABOUT PHILLIPS.