Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-06-18

cause the republican party hau
come the prohibition party Ihes
have neither love nor respect for MN.
They despise him for coming to them,
for a brief season, then go
ing back to the republicans. They |C
know he is Hopper and hate MIN &C
but they see chance 10
cut down the republican majority, TO
drive prohibition republicans into
the prohibition ticket. and
are elated accordingly. rms is
case of perennial gall on the part OF
democrats, complicated chagrln 10
every republican who has a thought
above the base effort to force Cum
Minis bossism upon the party IN Iowa
where such men and methods are re-
pulsive The man who goes from
one party to another and back again
with the hop, skip and jump alacrity
of a cricket is not fit leader for any
body except professional boilers. -
New Sharon Star
Governor and Senator Again.-The
following letter is sufficient proof that
the comrade who wrote the letter has
not been reading the Register very
closely during the past two months:
OItunlWI. AIHN s.bl.--lau. heSlSter' i ell
close you slip cut from your issue, of
May 81, in regard to election of Major Con
ger for governor and then senator. Now
that strikes me rs the most senseless thing
have ever read in your paper One would
think that he was the last surviving men,
her of the late, war, and IL we let this
chance slip we never would have another.
Another thing | would like to know is 1t
absolutely necessary that Il man must first
be governor before he can be senator?
do not know all the worthy men who still
,t-it yt1,n Ettb Itt.in hn
dark days of the war. AS for Major Con-
ger, | think him Il gentleman worthy of
all esteem, but he is not the only one:
AS for the war survivors, what is the
matter with Col. Hepburn for the senate?
If any one can tell me of better man
| than Major Lacey ! would love to know his
name. Those two men have both had
ripe experience, and when we come down
to governor. therciis Judge Blanchard, state
senator from MnhasEa county, who Is just
in the vigor of mature manhood, with a
first class military record with the old
Twenty efgth Iowa infantry, man who
would grace any Office in the state.
| Now, we have another Of whom | visit to
speaklone who left his home in his early
/ youth with that grand old regiment, the
/ Seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and in
1861 went to the front and STAYED there,
er went to the rear. He was with them at
belmont, right at the beginning OF the
war: next at Donelson. Shiloh, Cornth and
land Atlanta, and from there to the sea-
with that grand old hero, Gen. Sherman
and from there through the Carolnas and
4 down his arms, he was with that glorious
\ throng that marched down Pennsylvania
avenue, amid the shouts Of well done me
good and faithful servants" After which
I lie and his steel ncrved veterans were mus
4 tered out to return to their homes. where
4 this man engaged in business and has the
name among the wholesale dealers of be-
! ing one of the best in the state. l refer
4 to Major Mahon, of ottumwa, Iowa.
i Now does any. one think we are out OF
material for governor and senator's? don't
/ wish to infer this is all, for 1t is not. Those
ARE the ones ! am best acquainted with
Some. of these men have been in office for
years and others have never held an office
u '''Aeu i'i oe' w i. CONNER,
Late Private, Co. G. I'd Iowa Infantry.
The Register has not at any time
favored the election of Major Conger
for governor and then senator" 1t
has urged his nomination and election
for governor of the state, and 1t is true
that he is splendidly equipped for the
. senatorship, but we have repeatedly
stated during the past two months
, that the Register is in favor of the
, election of Col d. B. Henderson for
senator when Senator Allison desires
, to retire Comrade Conner can easily
4 find the proof of that statement If he
will examine the editorial page of The
Register during the past two months
1t is not necessary that man must
, first be governor before he can be
senator" Iowa has had seventeen
governors, but only three of them
have been senators. Col. Hepburn
!; Major Lacey, Judge Blanchard, Major
u. Mahon, and other surviving comrades
of the Civil war, are we'll qualified fol
the governorship and senatorship, and
are worthy of those and any other pc
sitions within the gift of the Iowa PEG
pie, but they are not candidates at the
, present time, and we think that all O.
) them will join in the statement thai
! Col. D. B. Henderson is better fittee
than any other man-because OF Ions
service in congress and influence will
! the leading men Of the Nation-to sue
! coed Senator Allison. There is NJ
; difference of opinion among the lows
> comrades in that respect.
Major Conger sis not the only one
! the only comrade worthy of the gov
!. ernorship-but we have it on the au
thority of the Independent" De
Moines Leader that "Mr. Conger i
about the only well known Iowa Re
!. publican mentioned for "the governor
SQlp uOC 10 We IS6dluSo as lAelSlilu
| or anti-machine." The Register stand
. four square for harmony in the Re
publican party, and for safety and col
tinued good government of the stats
This is the year to end factionism il
e the party in Iowa, and there is not
d republican in the state who canno
Il enthusiastically support Major Congo
for governor this year. The comrade
of the Civil war have the power to al
> initiate the factionism by the nomins
e ton and election of Major Conger 70
- governor.-Des Monies Register.
e The Nominee Will Be Elected =
e number of Iowa republican paper
have become discouraged over the col
tinuation of factionalism in the part
t. in the state, and are indulging in pess
p mistic comment like the following FRO
y the Ida Grove Pioneer
y "The gubernatorial wrangle in tn
" republican party of Iowa this seaso
~ will most assuredly result in the ele
n ton of democratic governor this fal
1 I. H. r,