Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-11-27

after paying the expenses of the trip.
oh, no! not everything was rosy in
the good old days.
INTERVIEWS AT LONG RANGE.
Alfred Henry Lewis, editor of the
Onlooker-By nature, like Mr.. Hanna,
Mr.. Reed Thomas b. is blunt to the
point of brutality; frank to the brink
of insult. In this direction he has I'M
der gone a change since he came to
New York. Now he furls, as it were,
his horns. Those who knew him in
mis- first speakership would have slim
knowledge of him now. They would
find him quieter if not another man.
This smacks and smells of weakness
on the part of Mr.. Reed; weakness
not so much political as personal. Or
is it merely age? Yet, while Mr.. Reed
would seem to have dwindled from
what he was-for his tongue-tied con.
dition fitch him but i'll and silence
dwarfs him-he is still bigger than
Mr. Hanna. Were | business mana
ger of the nation picking President,
of the two I'd have Mr.. Reed. He sur
rounds Mr.. Hanna mentally like gar
den fence
A. w. Wishard, of Indiana, solicitor
of internal revenue-I do not know the
present intentions of Senator Fair
banks regarding the presidency. When
it is considered that the state for
years kept Senators Turpie and Voor-
hees, democrats, here at Washington
and has just given Fairbanks a major
ity of Sc on joint ballot and majority
of $4,000 in the state it will be easily
seen that Senator Fairbanks is a
strong man in his own state 1t also
goes to show that he would be equally
strong in the nation. think it is we'll
understood now that had President
Mckinley lived to fill out his term
Senator Fairbanks friends in Indiana
would have had strong organization
to promote his nomination in 1904
The situation has changed very mate
rally. President Roosevelt has re-
ceived the applause of the nation and
in my opinion no other name vii be
presented before the next national re-
publican convention.
Judge H. P. Henderson, of Salt Lake
Why SdliNc USltlLSHS vi l.,
republicans and democrats alike, are
hoping that high official of the Nor
mon church, Reed Smoot, will not be
chosen United States senator from our
state. There is good ground to fear
that his election would be the signal
for a renewal of the bitter fight which
was made on Mr.. Roberts, and caused
his expulsion from congress. That cru
SADIE did our state great deal of harm
and there ought not to be repetition
of it by the election of one who would
be the target for the adverse criticism
if not the active hostility of almost all
the other churches of America.
H. R. Wade, of Toledo, O.-The spell
of such men as Golden Rule" Jones
and Tom Johnson is broken in Ohio.
His promises had to bring about great
reforms sounded well, but the voters
gradually came to a realization of the
fact that they We're not different from
promises that had beeen heard from
other leaders for years. Jones was
dormant during the campaign which
Just closed, His days in politics are
ended. do not believe that he could
be elected to any Office in Toledo.
Congressman James A. Norton. of
Ohio.-Tom Johnson has ruined the
democracy in Ohio. He has also
ruined Tom Johnson politically, and.
incidentally some others. Personally,
am friendly with Johnson but politi-
cally think some of his fiascoes were
equal to, if not worse, than the Coxey
army expedition
Hugh Gordon Miller, Omaha:
flag is "up there" in some places that
the fathers of this republic who gath.
cred in Philadelphia in that long ago,
never expected any more than Will
liam Mckinley or Theodore Roosevelt
or Admiral Schley or Admiral Dewey,
or their generation ever expected, but
it went up there, backed by united
country without regard to section or
to party, and | am here to say that
there are 100000 young Americans in
this country who are prepared to back
up the President of this great repub-
lie when he says, "the flag of our coun-
try is up there ito stay put" For af-
ter all has been said and done and not
only the smoke Of battle but the smoke
of partisan turmoil should as to this
subject have forever rolled away and
as we look over the recent record of our
country and our flag" is there one of
us who does not now believe that
when on mat holy Sabbath morning,
four years ago, the guns of our Asiatic
squadron, under the immortal Dewey
lis there one of us, / say, who does
not now, in his heart, believe that
when on that Sunday morning they
fired that first shot at Manila, that,
like the shot at Lexington, went echo,
ing around the world, it pealed forth
to mankind that from that time on, in
whatever cline or region of the earth
that old star spangled banner might be