Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-03

At first he was opposed to the position |
OF his party on SILVER: then he didn't |
think the declaration in favor of the |
Kansas City platform would cut much
of a figure anyhow; later he thought |
it was probably a good idea to make
the endorsement and, lately, after
seeing former Chairman Charley
Walsh, he is positive the party could
not have done better. 1t is a good
thing to have candidate with such
la firm and unfaltering opinion on the
questions of the day.-Waterloo Cour.
Ter.
Always vgiIant.-The fact that the
democratic nominee for governor of
Iowa this year is the general manager
of the Whitebreast Coal Co. is good
Illustration of the ability of the cor
porations to adjust themselves to
changing political conditions. Jay
Gould's famous saying that he was "a
republican in republican counties, al
democrat in democratic counties and
ter exemplification of the ready
varying situations of the times than
1
| The Whitebreast Coal Co. is essen
TALLY the same thing as the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railway COM
pany. Had j. w. Blythe been the
nominee of the Cedar Rapids conven-
ton, it would not have been more
clearly triumph for the % than
was the selection of Mr.. Phillips at
Des Moines, though the nomination
of the latter is certainly much more
| judicious than that of the former
would have been.
| 1t is not expected that the demo
| Gratis will be able to wipe out the vast
republican majority which Iowa has
of late years been piling up; but if
some unexpected disaster should be-
fall the republicans or their candi-
idates. the railways will be in a posi-
ton to profit by that eventually.-Des
| Moines News.
II A Weak Sister.-We' had about con-
cluded on general principals that T. J.
Phillips of Ottumwa, was weak sis
ter, politically, and new we know it.
He submitted to an interview with a
Burlington Hawk-Eye reporter, and af-
/ ter the interview was printed and he
saw what mess he had made of him
seii Phillips denied the whole thing,
saying he never was interviewed and
declared the Hawk-Eye was a liar.
Any newspaper of consequence has Of
ten run across crawfish of this kind,
but really did not expect to find one
in Mr.. Phillips. He is like Fred
White,-of most benefit to his party
when he keeps still.--0skaloosa Her
aid.
Judsment!-T. J. Phillips, the dem
ocratic candidate for governor, has got
!. ten into a controversy with the Bur
lington Hawk-Eye over certain in
terview. In that interview Mr.. Phil
lips was made to say that he would
rather that the Kansas City platform
had not been indorsed. Since that
, time Mr.. Phillips has been compelled
to say that he stands squarely on the
platform of his party. In the pending
controversy we believe that the re-
: porter of the Hawk-Eye is right and
I Mr.. Phillips wrong. Mr. Phillips from
the statements made by the Burlington
: reporter, evidently made the state
ment attributed to him, and from ne
cessity he is now simply trying to get
out of them. The chances are that IT,
j. Phillips does not know today where
he is at on the gold and silver ques.
ton, and the chances further are that
: he doesn't know what is aimed at Oh
l what would come of it.-Cedar Rapids
Republican.
Mining Coal and Digging Votes
Candidate Phillips has been very busy
q as a repudiator since his nomination
:, for governor by the democratic state
i convention First he appeared in ar
9 interview repudiating the platform
:, claimed to have been adopted by the
j convention, and now he repudiates the
) interview. He will probably be bus,
d the balance of the campaign repudiat
\. ing any proceeding that appears harm
full to his chances. And speaking O
:. chances Mr.. Phillips will learn afte
It election that mining coal is ligh
l. task compared to digging votes for tn,
democratic ticket this year.-Waterlo'
Reporter.
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