Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-04
IOWA PEOPLE TO THE FRONT.

Iowa people touring the east are
stepping high these days. The great
prominence and influence of the Hawk
eye state in national affairs justifies
their pride and renders pardonable the
gaiety of the people who are strictly
in it," A bunch of Iowans enjoying
themselves in a New York hotel re-
Gently were pounced upon by New
York Sun reporter. What followed
the Sun tells:
The spokesman of the party grasped
hands cordially and presented the re-
porter all around. The Hawkeyes
were congratulated on their well-fed
and well-groomed appearance.
"Oh, yes" said the spokesman, 1--WE
4 rather felicitate ourselves upon the
fact that the average Hawkeye is cap
4 able of showing up pretty well. We
are on our way to the national capital
:, simply to show to President Roosevelt
our appreciation Of his Judgment in
further honoring the Hawkeye state
by his selection of Governor Leslie
\ Shaw to be the head of the financial
branch of the government.
eve have been somewhat amused
since our arrival III IliS SdSI at SOhC
inquiries hurled at us about Governor
Shaw. There was a Boston man In
here today who wanted to know II it
was true that Governor Shaw was op
= posed to society according to the
, Washington standard, and the Boston
idea, and If it was true that the gov
' ernor had accepted Office With the I'M
derstanding that he would not wear a
tlA Iii rf<1ra
5 functions.
t That's the Boston idea of what con
1 stitutes the biggest slice of the United
, States. Silly as the inquiry was,
, could not refrain from telling the Bos
ton chap that there isn't hayseed II
the state who doesn't wear dress
: suit to dinner every day after he hal
washed up from his labor in the corn
!, field.
i ",rhe average Iowa man is not quite
: SO alfred opinionated as the average
/. Ohio man. There is growing i'm
n ent time Ohio is travelling ON the
our Dave-went abroad last fall, he
: was as much at home in Paris as he il
X in Madison or Mt. Pleasant. OF course
y he never cut much ice until he mat
l. REGULATED in Iowa"
= ct is nothing new, however" inter
q posed another one, rather modestly a
=, he did it, 'for the government to cal
g on Iowa when it wants timber tina
. won't warp. When Lincoln first cal
= ed for troops, old Sam Curtis raised
= regiment quicker than June bug ca
# eat a cabbage leaf
There was no finer body of troop
than the First Iowa Infantry, if / wa
IS one of the thousand myself. remen
le Der that our first order was to go t
q. Missouri We were stationed at
" town that was the hottest secesh plac
B. in that state.
$, "It had already sent $500 of its bes
~ men to join Pap Price. Our regimen
:, stayed in the town until it went t
~ the front. The women called on Sar
s. Curtis as he was about leaving an
u complimented him on being in CON
re mand of the only regiment of gentle
~ men that the government had. Th
NJ First Iowa never showed a whit
a AZ feather during the war.
D. 'And every Iowa regiment raise
thereafter was like unto it, said tn
at spokesman. "Mr. Lincoln showed h
ne appreciation OF Iowa brain when b
10, put Sam Miller on the supreme benc
ne Sam was pillar Of cloud by ds
I'd and pillar Of fire by night to Lineol
d. And yet, when Lincoln called hil
" some peoaAe asked who Sam Mile
90 was. g4iess they know now, even
ly Boston.
st Then there WAS Jim Grimes. H
be was chairman of the naval committt
by during the first years Of the caval wa
IN Some people turned UP their nose
RI at the idea that an Iowan should kno
e. anything about naval affairs. I hay
let heard Sam Miller and Harlan and All
st son say that Jim Crimes made I'll