Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-09
INTERVIEWS AT LONG RANGE.

INTERVIEWS AT LONG RANGE.
Chairman Babcock of the republican
congressional committee: My atten
ton has been called to tables publish
ed by the press generally, purporting
to come from the republican congress.
sional committee or from someone
supposed to be familiar with our sup.
posed estimates. Now, the facts are
that the republican congressional com.
mittee has never published a table by
states during the five campaigns that
| have been connected with It, 1t is
impossible at this time to even
predict, by districts, with any degree
of accuracy, what the results may be,
for the reason that only about one
half of the nominations have been
made, and but few of the state and
congressional committees have as yet
been organized, and local conditions
are such in many places where the
nominations have not been made that
it would be folly to predict what the
result might be in those districts The
republican congressional committee
will publish no tables during the cam
paign, but at as early date as possi-
BILE, when the campaign has progress
ed sufficiently to enable us to secure
reliable information, we shall give the
public the benefit of it.
| believe the republican party will
succeed and elect majority Of the
next house; but we must not get
that since General Grants first term
in off-years, the republicans have sue
ceeded but once in electing congress
in harmony with the administration,
and that was in 1898.
The general state of prosperity is
such that the people are busy, and,
having confidence in the republican
administration, take it for granted
that the fifty-eighth congress will be
republican and overlook the fact that
there are about one hundred southern
districts solidly democratic, in which
experience has taught us the futility
of attempting to make a campaign and
in many of which republican voters
are either disfranchised or free bal
lot and a fair count denied, so that we
must win seventy per cent of the de.
batable districts in order to secure a
bare majority of the fifty-eighth con-
gress, and must carry seventy-five per
to have safe working majority.
/ do not believe that the public
should be misled, and want especially
to call attention to the fact that the
tables that have been published are
misleading, and that the committee is
not responsible for their publication.
Henry Watterson, who has been
spoken of as a democratic candidate
for governor of Kentucky and for pres
ident of the United States:-Since SO
much has been said on the subject
without authorization of mine, it
seems proper that l should in some
public manner declare that I shall not
be candidate for governor of Ken
lucky. Although l have never had .
machine, | am not a stranger either to
the character or the efficacy of ma
chine methods. Nor do / lack some
points of vantage in case l wanted to
construct machine for my own pur-
pose, out no unclean dollar has ever
passed my hand, either coming or 60
ing, and ] am too old to turn rascal.
Sometimes have declared that
should like the people to write Gov
ernor of Kentucky"on my tombstone.
But l should i'll rest in my grave il
there were the suspicion of stain upon
a letter of that honorable epitaph.
| stand upon my record, such as it
is, and, profoundly grateful to my fell
low-citizens of every way of thinking
for their confidence and favor, often
in the face of serious differences of
profoundly hopeful of the
future OF the party and the state-I
shall continue to labor under my own
rooftree till my race is run, free man
a Kentuckian and democrat.
c. H. Young, of New Hampton, Mo-,
exclusive butter, poultry and egg hand.
lers, who is credited with being one OF
the best posted men in his section on
his lines:-You are going to see
poultry shortage this fall" said he.
1.-THE shortage is here now, but it will
be sharp this winter. There will be
about so per cent of crop of chicks,
as | see it, and as to turkeys, well,
there are so few that 35 per cent is a
good round estimate
This shortage is the result of the
farmers selling off their poultry last
fall. never saw such a rush, and ev-
erything saleable went to market.
High feed forced the farmers to turn
loose. t5s
The rains late in June and early in
July killed off thousands of young
chickens, otherwise the supply in Aug
ust would have been larger. The pro-
duction has certainly been materially
reduced.
The shortage in turkeys will be
great. Where We got eight cars last
fall do not expect two cars this sea-
son. We are having inquiries for
young turkeys now This is very ear
ly and shows the demand will be
brisk. The farmers won't sell SO
readily this fall. since feed is now
Plentiful, and will probably hold for
the holidays.