Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-23
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The Right Poiicy.LThe' managment
OF the state fair has given it out that
the coming exhibition is to be thor
oughly moral one. Games of chance and
the sale of liquor will be strictly pro-
hibited and vulgar tent shows Will not
be allowed on the grounds. Mid
ways" will receive no encouragement
or favors of any kind, and it is prom
ised that everything possible Will be
done to shut out all things that tend
to lower the ideal. This is the right
policy and it is to be hoped that the
management will stick to its good res
olutions. The state fair is state IN
stitution and should be free from any
thing and everything calculated TO
smirch the reputation Of the state. For
the sake of its good name, If for no
better reason, Iowa cannot afford to
90 into partnership with crime and i'm
neutrality-suspicious. Gate City.
Col. Henderson Speaker Again.
The Washington correspondent OF the
| Kansas City Star, after devoting two
months to vain effort to make it ap.
pear that there was "a revolt against
Speaker Henderson," has finally felt
impelled, to admit, that. Henderson
will be chosen speaker, and the other
officers of the house will be renamed
practically without, opposition. Vi
course the Star correspondent still in
sists that the presiding officer of the
house is not the genial person of two
years ago and some of his old sup
porters have soured," but nevertheless
the house has never had a more pop
ular speaker than Colonel Henderson
and it is true now, as it was when thu
independent" papers first hatehet
their Opposition" to Speaker Hender
son, that he will be renominated b.
| reclamation, and reelected withou
, an opposing republican vote. Colone
!. Henderson will always be genia
1 and jovia1 man, but the speakership i
: dignified position and he cannot b
]. expected to play leap-frog with tn
), younger members while the house i
in session. He knows the republica
e members of the house thoroughly, an
= knew their desire and intent as to tn
d next speaker before congress adjourl
!, ed. That is the reason why he is no
touring Europe and exchanging cou
/ tesies with kings and presidents. III
S independent" papers will have
d hunt up some real source of trouble
= they hope to befool their own quee
y readers.-Des Monies Register.
Disappointed His Enemies. - Co
gresham Lacey has disappointed h
70 enemies. They expected him to pu
:. ish Postmaster Jarnagin, OF Montez
~ ma for advocating Cummins' nomin
is ton, by refusing to recommend MS /
r appointment as postmaster. me m
Il. jor didn't give them any chance
:. him and has reappointed Brother ia
- nagin for his present 1op.-bel
~ PLANE Union.
re %
ar Rant of Cummins' Papers.-Tl
rant of some Cummins' papers has {
~ gun to bear fruit and these papers
Id beginning to hedge They have be-
ce SO ;nsistent that railroadlsm, as u
~ term it. is so much of an issue that Z
:. farmers have begun to believe 1t al
- are beginning to insist that the on
ne man making the issue should ne
nominee. That is to say the rallro
tissue which has been pressed into t
in campaign for the benefit OF Mr.. Gu
30 Minis, is beginning to line up the &C
sistent believers in this doctrine I
gu for Cummins but for Herriott. A
is they are right. If that is the issue
he the ultra independent press asser
/, Herriott John Herriott"-
the logical candidate and they sho,
ha not wnimper about taking their O.