Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-11
DEMOCRAT CAMPAIGN
Hint That They Intend Making One
This Year.
H-AAYOR PHILLIPS is MENTIONED
Chairman Hoffman Pushing the OF
tumWa Man--Wail Comes From
Davenport That Democratic State
Committee Has RuiIded unWisely.

.Des Moines, June There is occa-
sionally a hint or suggestion made in
the newspapers which indicate that
the democrats intend to make some
sort of political campaign In Iowa.
But one democrat in the state of Iowa
has expressed willingness to go on
the state ticket and make the race for
state office, and that is the county SUI
perintendent of johnson county, who
wishes to run against Prof. Barrett.
References to democratic possibilities
for the gubernatorial nomination are
seen occasionally. The Ottumwa peo-
Pile are confident that ex-Mayor Phil
lips would be the right man to nomi-
nate for governor. Chairman Hoffman
of this city, is active in pushing the
Phillips matter to the fore and as he
travels about the state good deal In
following his profession he is able to
lay the wires nicely. In northwest
Iowa there is talk of having ex-Mayor
Quick run for governor, his name sug-
costing the kind of man needed to get
there his year. What the democrats
want this year. so they have decided,
is man who can put up money for a
campaign and stand for strong anti
corporation, anti-monopoly fight, with
some suggestions about the interior
ence of corporations and corporation
attorneys in the affairs of state. The
program, has been we'll laid and some
democrats believe it is a winner.
A Wall From Davenport.
Frona Davenport comes wall which
indicates that the democratic state
committee has not builded wisely all
along. The democrats are trying to
get together on a sort of anti-monop
oly platform, but they are not succeed
ing very well, owing to some untoWard
circumstances. A big fight has devel
oped over gas and electric franchise
The company has refused to live uI
to agreements and it is said its Off
Gals have openly def1ed the people o.
the city. There is a loud complaint
because of a corporation taking higf
handed methods Of running things, ane
an unwillingness to conform to the
rules prescribed by the city. bis
lawsuit is in prospect. But in the
meantime the Scott county democrats
who have counted on getting together
along the lines laid down at the DeI
Moines conference, have encountered
snag.. E. M. Sharon, the attorne.
for the grasping corporation, who wal
city attorney when it got its powers
has been picked by the big democrat
to sound the democratic key note a
the democratic state convention ant
to start the campaign off in the direc
ton of opposition to everything which
savors of monopoly, concentration ant
kindred evils. Some of the democrats
of that part of the state are protesting
that if the state campaign is to b.
given its send-off by a democrat wh'
embodies all that is obnoxious in COZ
porate greed and defiance of the vii
of the people. not much progress vii
be made through the campaign. TIL
predicament is one to cause nue.
worry to the democratic bosses. The
have already invited Attorney Sharol
of the corporation to make the speed
in the anti-monopoly cause and he
presumably engaged in thinking u
mean things to say about corporation
attorneys riding rough shod over tn
state of Iowa. Will he be asked t
turn this job over to another or wi
the democratic party change its Pre-
gram?