Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-06

las been won on the square ana Dy
,talwart methods.
His campaign for the governorship
las been carried on by Senator Ire
win as might have been expected from
he record he has made. 1t was a
Straightforward, vigorous fair cam
1aign all the time. He has been COM
1elled to battle in this fight
against means and methods hitherto
unknown to republican campaigns in
his state. The opponents of Mr.. Ire
win went into his home district and
led about him and misrepresented his
record. They charged that he was not
in this campaign in good faith. They
sought to prejudice labor against him,
and they used money unfairly.
The endorsement of his home coun-
ty and of the other county, which with
his own county forms his senatorial
district, after such a fight had been
made against him, cannot but be graft
flying to Senator Trewin, as it is to his |
friends. 1t is no slight ordeal to be
compelled to go through such a fight |
as Senator Trewin was compelled to
go through. But the frank, hearty and
open endorsement he received, is am
pie compensation. James II. Trewin
will come before the republican con-
vention which meets in this city next
Wednesday, with an unbroken record
as a republican, with a record of
achievement as a legislator and with a
home endorsement as cordial and en-
thusiastic as candidate could desire
He is a young, aggressive, loyal repub
Iican. His candidacy cannot but APP
pear powerfully to all elements of the
party. His prospect of nomination is
exceedingly bright.-Cedar Rapids Re-
publican.
Dark and Rank and Dirty.-On the
18th inst. the Des Moines Capital
printed a certain Conger interview. On
the 18th the interview was made the
subject of pro-Cummins editorials.
Ten days after the publication of
the interview the Des Moines Capital
over the signature of the edior I'M
blushingly stated that the interview
was fake written in the Capital Of
fee"
Who wrote it? What was it written
for? Was it not part of the Cum
Minis newspaper bureau? Part of the
scheme to deceive the public? And
was not the publishing and the edi-
torial comments part of political con-
spiracy? The editor of the Capital
knew the next day, or the same day,
/ that the interview was fake? Why
did he wait ten days before giving
that fact to the public? Was the delay
| in the interests of the Cummins' can
didacy?
There is something dark and rank
and dirty about the whole transaction,
the most disgraceful in Iowa journil-
| ism. ~
But in that respect it is only part
of divisive, factional, un-republican
campaign which has had it's breeding
place in the hot house and pot house
| politics of Des Moines.-Cedar Rapids
Republican.
AS to DolIiver.-The Manchester
Press is talking lot of nonsense about
Senator Delivers neutral attitude ir
the present contest in Iowa, and espe
: cially about politics in the 10th district
Senator Dolliver consulted with Sena
tor Allison, and both decided that thu
republicans of Iowa should be Above;
to select a candidate for governo
/ without senatorial interference. l
was the only wise course that was op
en- to them, or consistent with the OF
: flee they hold. Men like Senator Plat
of New York or Senator Quay of Penn
sylvania may glory in debating the lc
cal politics of their states, but wha
Iowa republican wants Senator Plat
or a Senator Quay west of the Missis
: sippi? Governor Shaw and the entir
.la1o for Wy
' know, are keeping hands off, also Co
!. onel Henderson, the Press congress:
man, is in Europe, while the third dill
$ trict, in which the Press holds fortf
/ will, we are reliably informed, go a
). solidly for Cummins as the tenth
!. Senator Hartman, the local candidate
;, has no chance. The Press says som
thing about the men who made Doll
= YER" Individuals and accidental eli
S cumstances, of course, affect ever
a mans career. But Dolliver is nc
!. where he is because Of individuals {
y Incidents. He is where he is becaus
II he has made the most of his cor
k manding talents, and at the same tin
n endeared himself to the rank and ii
of the republican party.-Algona u
: per Des Moines.
j. %
y Iowa Should Lead.-The suggestic
e of tariff reform" is one which no Ion
b er throws right thinking republican
!. into panic. They have reached u
rational conclusion that tariff 7
70 form" by republicans may mean OF
tning and tariff reform" by dem
Gratis an entirely different thing. II
O. Capital has discussed this matter upe
several occasion during the past fe
- months. This newspaper, howeve
"a does not stand alone in its cow
ly lions concerning this question. Y
ID have frequently cited others of kin
4. red belief. Yesterday we quoted Il
Hon. A. B. Funk, the editor of t
u Spirit Lake Beacon. 1t was only
n paragraph but it was a paragral
n weighty with significance. Edit
.s Funk is not a man given to ephemt
- al whims or fantastic ideas. His re
SO ognized conservatism together wi
is capabilities for intelligent thinkil
have long made him one of the mo
vaIuad counse1OrS of the reDubljc;