Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-04
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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Observation-Disclosures

The Opposition to cummns. - The
opposition to Cummins in the repub-
lican party has no special candidate in
one sense, and it has several in an
other sense. There are good men who
are not candidates who no doubt would
become candidates if that indeed
would restore the party to it's wanted
equilibrium and release it from it's
present distracted and angry condi-
ton.
The Gazette is not pesslmist and
in this review it simply sets down a
fact as to the attitude of many repub-
licans toward Cummins. We regret
and deplore the fact, but that weighs
neither here nor there and takes away
nothing from it. The popular attitude
toward Cummins has been sufficiently
expressed, where the people have had
a chance to pass upon him, to say
that outside of the methods of his ma
chine, where the people have them
selves spoken they have condemned
him with the condemnation SO graph
ically expressed in the Louisa county
esolution.-Creston Gazette.
| This Editor Can't Understand It.
i! The Qttumwa Courier thinks that 1t
has discovered a democratic plot to
aid in securing the nomination of A..
B. Cummins for governor on the part
of the republicans, the democrats to
then nominate Horace Boies. The
] Courier says that the nomination of
Mr.. Cummins offers the only chance
of success for Mr.. Boies There are q
1 few people, however, and the writer is
4 one Of them, who cannot understand
! how Horace BoieS can get republican
votes away from A. B. Cummins, aside
! from few of the anti Cummins lead
ers, whose protestations of loyalty
would not permit them to bolt openly.
Sac City Sun.
They're After Us-Somebody show
the Waterloo Courier where the alb.
sent-minded editor dwells who left an
Ex-Governor Boies gubernatorial baby
on it's doorstep-and then see the hir.
suite integument f1y.-Waterloo Cour.
/ Ter.
Isn't This Just AwfuI?-The Cedar
Rapids Republican is one of the state
papers, like The Tribune, that got
caught on the miscredit of an Ottum
4 wa Courier conspiracy story to the
1 Waterloo Courier. The item said
4 there was a democratic conspiracy TIC
i have the republicans nominate Cum
Minis, split the party in twain as re
/ suit and then name Boies as the dem
ocratic nominee and make a great
campaign to elect him. In a machine
paper like the Ottumwa Courier the
item would have been given little sig
nificance. But finding it credited tt
the Waterloo paper, the Republican
got busy seeing things on it's own &C
count. 1t dished up solid column o.
direful visions in it's leading editorial
and then found that it was only an or
binary political fake from machine
paper whose editor is a postmaster
4 Even among themselves, the machine
papers don't dare take each other too
seriously.
| written for the Sioux City Tribune
by that life long republican (?) and
just now, an ardent Cummins Support
| er-the Hon. Jud Welliver.)
/ A Pertinent Question:-The articl,
from the Ottumwa Courier in anothe
column has been generally credited
by mistake too, to the Waterloo Cou1
ier 1t has cut SO near the line tina
the democratic press with one accord
has jumped up in frenzy and tried t
overcome its influence. If there is NJ
truth in the Courier's statement, VIII
does it so excite the democratic press
The truth is the democrats want t
nominate Cummins on the republican
ticket for purpose and il the reput
licans of Iowa are fools enough to lie
them succeed they will surely suffe
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