Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-16

the entries for the new kioWa, =
comanche and Apache lands to.
tails 10000. Despite certain re-
= ports there has been no marked y
emount of suffering. 1t is a fact
that there are 10000 strangers
poorer classes were first to reach
here, but the majority of them
have secured their certificates and
are gone. Every train brings hum
dreds. The drawing begins July 20 v
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Is interviewed by St. Louis Newspa.
per Reporter.
st. Louis, July 13-Secretary Char
les A. Walsh of the democratic nation
al committee has returned to st. Louis
from a trip to Iowa. where he went to
attend primary election at his homo
Ottumwa. Mr. Walsh is much pleased
with the action of the democratic state
convention in Ohio. Speaking of the
ticket nominated and the platform
adopted:
Good Ticket.
Il know personally three men on the
Ohio ticket-Kilbourne, Young and
McCarthy-and l regard the whole
ticket as exceptionally strong. There
is always chance for the democracy
to win in an off year. like this, and my
opinion is that the excellence of the
ticket nominated renders the chances
of its election unusually good. Colonel
Kilbourne, the standard bearer, is a
native Ohioan. He is not a politician,
but long business career has brought
him near and rendered him dear to
the people. There is not a man in
Ohio whose strength in the matter of
vote-getting equals that of Colonel Xii.
bourne AS for the Ohio platform-it
is all right. There is no ambiguity in
it. The voter can easily understand
what it means, and, unless l am much
mistaken a majority will support it."
Iowa No Candidate.
Twill Iowa offer candidate for the
! next democratic presidential nomino-
tion?"
81 think not. Iowa will rather sup.
port Missourian. There are in Mis-
souri, several men, in my opinion, who
are strong enough to be elected, and
think Iowa will be in position to go in
to the next national convention with
that view. To my mind there are pc.
: tent reasons why Missouri should pre-
sent candidate. Missouri's democ-
racy is unquestioned,. wherefore her
candidate, being strong man must
. be acceptable. The south would ac-
cept a Missouri man as an indication
of the opening of the door for brainy
men farther south. believe that if
the democracy of Missouri goes into
the next national convention united on
big man-one born in the south and
} staunch Missouri democrat, Missouri
: will win the nomination. The south
may be expected to hold the balance
| OF power in the next convention and
, the man who can attract the vote of
the south will be the nominee, think
: he will be Missourian. do not care
to name him-I'm too new in the state
but you may guess whom I mean.
No Backward Step. g
what do think of the talk Of
: party reorganization?
/ eff by reorganization it meant the
turning down of men and of principles
} heretofore recognized as democratic,
say there will be none Of it. There
may be some forgetting. but the turn.
ing-down process is a dream of the
enemy. Under present conditions
do not believe the money question will
be an important factor in the next
campaign. More pressing issues will
overshadow it. Naturally as demo-
crat and a strict constructionist as all
democrats are supposed to be, I look
! upon the late decision of the supreme
: court as, in all probability, furnishing
> the most important issue of the next
> z11 H.
eide whether we are in favor of con-
:, stitutional or colonial expansion,
; whether we are to have citizens or
: subjects In our newly acquired posses
sions. Democrats are in favor of ex-
: pansion, but they demand the kind Of
: expansion that includes American cit
. izenship.
The Tariff.
another important question for
: public consideration in the next cam.
J. paign will be the tariff. 1t is now rap
e idly coming to the front and do not
f believe the republicans con head it off
l. by any such moves as that recently
l. made by Congressman Babcock. do
e not believe the republican party is act
ing in good faith in suggesting lower
tariff. am convinced that the repub-
lican tariff makers are controlled by
= the trusts and monopolies of the coun-
}, try, and that the menacing spread of
i nopolies-rendered possible by the
# existing high tariffs the cause of
j forcing the question forward at this
d time. Other questions will be given
n place in the platform. The people will
d demand an accounting for the hundred
# of millions expended in warfare. They
II will want to know how much the Fill
Pine whistle and the Porto Rican toy
cost us. Indeed, l think the people
!. will want to know so much about their
= own interests that the administration
y party will be unable to answer their
= questions satisfactorily. That being
. : the case, the result will be the peo-
y pies victory"
! Helena, Mont, July 13.-Col John
q A. Johnson, pioneer of both Iowa and
e Montana is dead at the age of rs
. years. He was twice a member of the
- Iowa legislature before the civil war