Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15


hopes. effective support. From the trst
1t has stood for party unity and loyalty
to republican principles and candl-
dates, and never was it more sincere
in their advocacy than now. In all
that has been said in behalf OF the
claims of others to party honors in
preference to Mr. Cummins not one
word has been uttered that could by
any possibility be construed as re-
Election upon his personal character or
his capacity to administer the affairs
of the gubernatorial Office ably and
faithfully. On the contrary, this pa
i per has uniformly borne testimony to
his fine personal character and the
brilliancy of his mental attainments.
He is one of the ablest and most Gull
tured gentlemen the state has ever
produced and will bring to the gov
ernorship an equipment of qualifica-
lions of the highest order of excel
lence.-Keokuk Gate City
The State Convention.
The great republican party OF the
state of Iowa has again spoken in state
convention, and it's will and voice is
the will and voice of every true and
loyal republican of Iowa. The repub-
lican party of Iowa has chosen the
Hon. A. B. Cummins of Polk county as
its standard bearer and adopted state
platform upon which he and the bal
ance of the ticket will ride to glor-
ious victory at the polls in November.
1t has nominated strong ticket, no
doubt, and has made that ticket excep-
tionally strong by putting thereon for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the Honorable
Honest John" Herriott. The rest of
the ticket is made up of the entire
Cummins slate, as that element of the
party had a clear working majority in
the convention and politely but firmly
held the reins until their entire list
was nominated, not excepting Brown
for railroad commissioner by the de-
feat of Col. Welcome Mowery.
The result of the convention was not
exactly as the Citizen anticipated and
desired. 1t had hoped to see Honest
John Herriott at the head of the ticket
and so expressed itself freely and
openly. 1t was opposed to the nomi,
nation of Mr.. Cummins and freely and
openly said SO. The record of that op-
position stands free and open to the
, world as opposed, not to Cummins as a
man who is ably fitted and qualified for
the office, but opposed to the methods
applied by his element of the party to
, secure his nomination, methods which
it believed not conducive to the best
interests of the party. 1t was opposed
to III. Cummins for these reasons and
these alone and made it's fight against
the methods applied, the record of
which stands as a monument to the
Citizens true republicanism. But the
Citizen submits to the will of the party
and guarantees that it will support Mr..
Cummins and the entire ticket with
greater fervor than it opposed his nom.
misunderstanding Citizen.
. "Eatin' Crow.'-We have met the
, Cummins' machine" and we are its,
not as vanquished enemy, but with
all the ardor and frankness with which
, we opposed the brilliant Des Moines
man before the convention, we declare
our abiding faith in the principles of
, the republican party, and, like any 9TH
er good American citizen abide by the
will of the majority in the choice OF
: candidates to represent these princi
+ pies. We have fearlessly and con
, scienctiously opposed Mr.. Cummins
during the pre-convention campaign
we have said nothinge which we do not
yet believe is true of him and his mo-
tives, still. as standard bearer for
the platform laid down by the Cedar
Rapids convention, We propose to fol
: low him to victory in the November
election. Mr. Cummins is all that we
t have claimed for him, yet his election
, on a republican platform is preferable
: to democratic administration. Hence
+ forth we will be found in the Cum
; Minis band wagon. Heretofore we
! have been part of the machine that
r propelled the republican band Wagon
v to victory We will still be found il
, the harness for all the rest of the tick
, ct, but we believe in the theory that
: ito the victors belong the spoils' anG
, to those who have supported Cummins
] and brought his candidacy to sue
| cessful issue belong the honor and
5 duty OF dragging his band wagon" tc
a successful election. To those who
, have earnestly labored for other candi
: dates it is due that they be allowed tt
f climb into the band wagon" and ride
2 through, and the liberal application Of
, the golden rule, which prompts us tc
:. do unto others as they have done I'M
. to us will probable impel us to cracl
: our whip and endeavor to spur the
| men who belong to the new machine
, to most strenuous effort They have
: proven their ability to win Throughout
> the short pre-conyention campaign, il
, remains to be seen whether they have
, the staying qualities to do the menia
: work, the unpleasant duties, the
, drudgery foot the bills and in ever,
= way take the places of the men wht
/ have, during the past twenty years, at
, tended to these duties. 1t will not dc
to hitch the old horses to the new
band wagon" AS the Cedar Rapids
l Republican aptly puts it, Success GOV
ers multitude of politics and Mr.
Cummins and his new machine have
: our hearty good wishes. We still
: claim the right of rendering homage tt
the men, who, during thirty years OF
, almost continued republican suprem
| acy, have kept the party record clean
There is not another state in the I'M
ion with as good republican record