Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-30

Mr.. Cummins. A paper in Marshall
town with two by four convictions inn
mediately answered it by saying 1T
was the "damnable opposition" of rail-
road attorneys. The Clinton Herald
like the Des Moines Capital, pro.
Cummins paper, said mo" to the Mar
shalltown paper. 1t is more than rail-
road attorneys, since more than half
of the railroad attorneys are pro-Cum-
Minis. He cited what he had heard in
Jones county, while making Fourth
of July speech at Wyoming, among
the rank and file of the republican
farmers, men who had never been cor
rupted by either railroad favors or
arguments, the plain masses who do
the voting of Iowa-honest men, sturdy
men, men loyal to their state and to
their party, as to their God The edi-
tor of the Clinton Herald after hearing
those men talk. from down deep in
their loyal republican hearts, express.
ed doubt that Mr.. Cummins. if nomi.
mated, unless the sentiment changes,
could poll 60 per cent of the republi.
can votes in some townships.
1 To say this state of affairs is due to
the "damnable opposition" of railroads
| is really damnable rot. There are
other causes and few Of them may be
summed up as follows:
| 1. In 1887 Mr.. Cummins together
with others was dissatised with prohi
bition. Governor Larrabee was run
ming for a second term. Prohibition
had hardly been tried. The republi
can party had enacted it in accordance
with non-partisan verdict at the polls
The party was no further committed
to it than to give it trial. Mr.. Cum
minis said before the trial had hardly
commenced, you must let go of it. And
he took a republican minority and com
bined it with the democratic minority
and proceeded to do up the republi
can party in Polk county.
2. Last winter Governor Shaw, in
his wisdom appointed Col. H. H. Rood
of Mount Vernon, member OF the state
board of control. Col. Rood is a mar
who stands at the top in the estima
ton of every man who knows him
Capable, fair minded, honest, every
board of control. The Cummins' sen
Shaw, because he had not appointed
Mr.. Cummins instead of Mr.. Dolliver
They took their professional republi
can minority, seven or eight senators
and combined it with the, traditional
democratic minority and the two mi
norities did up the republican major
ity in the senate and Col. Rood and
Governor Shaw were both Inundated
8. This year Mr.. Cummins, after
saying, in effect, that he did not want
to be governor and could not afford
it, yet for the sake of reform" com
menced the work Of combining hii
customary republican minority will
the traditional democratic minority
represented by seventy-five papers
and the same game of holding up the
republican majority, threatening il
with everything dire unless it did sc
or so, began and is still in progress.
i In every contest in which Mr.. Cum
minis has appeared before the people
OF the state he has come with his mi
nority of personal followers and com
bining it with minority of democratic
/ marplotters he has alternately cajoled
and threatened the republican party
i In this attitude and in these meth
DDS will be found the basis for thu
feeling there is against Mr. Cummins
and more especially is against Cum
minsism In such counties as Jones
where according to competent testi
mony, there are places where Cum
Minis and Cumminsism can not poll 81
per cent of the republican votes.
This is the situation that has to b,
met by the republicans Of Iowa whel
they meet in Cedar Rapids on Angus
Cedar Rapids Republican.
4 Gov. ShaW's AvailabiIity.--A Wash
4 ington correspondent reports Congress
man Hepburn as saying recently tina
Senator Allison was in dead earnes
when he started that presidential
boom for Governor Shaw, of Iowa
that the republican, of Iowa are solid
ly behind Governor Shaw and will pre-
sent his name to the national CONVEX
ton, although they fully recognize thu
handicap that the big and certain re
publican majority always given by tn,
tural tendency of conventions to Civ,
doubtful states in choosing candi
date. This, however, was phase o
old-time politics; the pressing neces
SHY IOf IL uoeS uOL uOW SdlSl. ~
democrats were not influenced by tina
consideration when they nominated
Bryan in 1895 and 1900. nor the re
puhlicans when they took their candi
dates from Ohio. New York, New
Jersey and Indiana" used to be tn,
pivotal states; they are so no longer
1t is the great central west that con
trolls national politics now, and Gov
ernor Shaw Is as strong as any west
ern man who can be nominated. Fur
thermore, no western man would b.
more acceptable to the New Workers
and New Englanders than Governo
Shaw, with whom he is great favor
lite. However strong may be the per
sonal friendship Of Senator Allison TO
Governor Shaw, his long experience IL
politics and his knowledge of mel
have also, undoubtedly, influenced hi
judgment in singing out Governor
Shaw as the most available man TO
the republican nomination.-Bur
ton Hawkeye.
\ So Say We Ail.--The Burlington
Hawkeye voices the sentiments of al
who know the gentleman when i