Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-20
THE OTTUNfwA COURIER: THURSDAY. JUNE 20, 1901.

\ COURIER: THURSDAY
city, especially in the city which is DIS
gruntled because Cedar Rapids secured /
the state convention, will prove s
boomerang, and thoughtful people VIII
pay no attention to them.-Cedar Rap
ids Gazette.
Yea, Verily.-The Davenport Times
is getting the Cumminses mixed. Amos
Cummins is the name of the famous
democratic newspaper writer ana
congressman. He claims always to
have been democrat. Albert Cum
Minis is the man the Times is trying
to talk about. He has always been
republican except for a few years
when he backslid on the prohlpltlon
faith cure but he repented, was put on
probation, then given license as re-
publican exhorter by the Polk county
district conference, was maze regu-
lar circuit rider in 1896 by the annual
state conference, was twice candl-
date for bishop at the general repub-
| lican conference and having failed In
1 that is now content to accept the once
of presiding elder till Bishop Allison
!
ton to his becoming presiding elder
is that he seems too much to be the
candidate of Deacon Dawson, Deacon
Welliver and other heretics to republl-
can faith. This orthodox journal OF
civilization is hereby hoping that this
will give the esteemed Times the pro-
per light and will clear up the bark
on the Cummins' tree Both Albert
and Amos it may be said in truth for
sooth are brilliants and neither Will
be disposed to ask the Times to apollo
gize for the sins of the proof reader
Mason City Globe-Gazette.
Allison and coneer-Walter Well
man has made another discovery IN
Washington. 1t is to the effect that
Senator Allison is trying to enlist the
services of President Mckinley to get
Major Conger nominated in Iowa.
There is no doubt about how either the
President or Senator Allison feel to-
{ ward Major Conger and his nominal
ton. But there is no doubt, either,
that Senator Allison has not gone to
Washington for any such purpose. Ii
is a fairy story, based on nothing more
substantial than the assumption that
1 Senator Allison has never felt any
: abiding interest in self-appointed re
e formers such as Tom Way and G. u
: Mccarthy, who are using the Hon. A
: B. Cummins as mask for their ambi
/ ton to organize political machine in
Y Iowa. Senator Allison is not mar
e who is fooled by any resolutions
!. which Tom Way and G. G. Mccarthy
: may pass. Neither is he afraid thai
those men could defeat him for re
election. They can not do that dc
S what they may. Fifty Tom Ways
q could not induce the republicans o
q Iowa to put Senator Allison out o
the way politically. And when those
II worthless pass resolutions they arr
t. simply paying tribute to the man the!
J. can not defeat, but who is by M
< means in sympathy with their move
: ments in Iowa politics. Senator ALI
II son is too old and too wise a man t
re be caught by the chaff of fellows VIII
1t want to reform the record made b.
" Iowa republicanism.
Further than this there is no trutl
= in the Wellman article given to tn
public yesterday morning through tn
Chicago Record Herald. Mr.. Wellmar
o as usual has got hold of some funds
Q mental facts, such as that Senator A
Z lison is not in sympathy with selfish
& hair-brained reformers, and as usu'
O with him, Mr.. Wellman has built up
&C. vast upper structure on those fact
D. The superstructure falls by it's ow
to weight.-Cedar Rapids Republican.
n Unworthyof Magnanimity.-The De
a Moines Capital which is supportir
10 IF re
re science as republican paper, declare
- >, that zone of the surest indications
&c the increasing strength and popular
na ty of the candidacy of Hon. A. B. Cur
cd minis for governor is the increased b
~ terness which seems to characteri
~ the utterances of the newspapers al
~ political workers who are leading tt
10 opposition to him." 1t goes on to m
~ ralize over the situation saying "m'
a ps who feel strong in the consciousne
~, that they are going to win are o
,n.y times disposed to display somethil
- of a magnanimity toward the o.
ne whom they pretend they are about
,es annihilate." 1t draws the conclusic
sp' therefore, that Mr.. Cummins is sure
III victory The Capital thus places
zee the leading republican papers in 1o'
ere in a unique and unenviable positit
elr 1t makes them out as fighting with
ism creased bitterness against a victo
cry which their own party is sure to W
NC 1t takes the stand that Mr.. Cummi
he is the accepted candidate of the pal
lpt- and that all those who are opposl
for him are what might be termed bolte
,er, or mugwumps. AS matter of Il
the the papers which the Capital ref
gic- to are merely protesting against
;en- thrusting upon the party by a lot
i'm. democratic organs and gong pound
ncy of candidate who in the past I
Sis. shown himself capable of DESERT
say the party at the time of its great
ore need and who now uses as the Oh
896. argument in favor of his nominal
ion the taclt charge of corruption agai
inst the republican party. The Capital
,ple rest assured that the leading repu
re- can papers in Iowa have no spirit
Give magnanimity" towards such cal
Who Burlington Hawkeye.
this
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS