Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-28
Federal Office Holders Incur Wrath
of President.
TWO IOWANS ARE DISCIPLINED
Sioux City Man is Again Mentioned
as Probable Nominee for the Presi-
dency on the Democratic Ticket
Other Washington Gossip.
[BY HAROLD ]. MAHIN.1

| BY HAROLD j. MAHIN.
! Washington, D. G., Oct 81. = The
President is making things uncomfort
able for those gentlemen holding gov
eminent positions who also enter at
| this important time into the business
| of soliciting campaign funds. The
| President is a stickler for strict OBJ
| servance of civil service rules and he
does not countenance any such opera
tons on the part of occupants of gov
eminent berths. In this connection g
story comes from Iowa to the effect
that two prominent federal Office hold
ers have probably just saved them
selves from some embarrassing spe-
ciai attention. on the part of Mr.
Roosevelt. The ones referred to are
Messrs. Robert w. Clayton and Harry
w. Weaver. The former of the treas
ury department in Washington and the
latter the successor of ]. M. Kemble
of Muscatine, as collector of internal
revenue for the southern district OF
Iowa. The gentlemen are members OF
the republican state committee and
their names appeared at the head of a
circular letter recently sent out over
the state soliciting subscriptions to
the campaign fund. 1t is explained in
their behalf that they We're not aware
that their names were being used, and
that as soon as the discovery was
made they had their names stricken
from the letter heads of the Iowa
committees stationery. 1t might not
be fair to make any reference to the
coincidence that this discovery was
made just about the time the Presi-
dent was impelled to rake Senator
and aft for soliciting contributions
from the unwilling and reluctant Of
flee holders.
viii Iowa Awake?
! Reports of apathy among the voters
of Iowa continue to reach Washington
1t is declared that the fact that there
is no registration in Iowa his year Is
| one reason for the difficulty encoun-
tered in stirring the voters to be up
and doing.
Another Iowa Presidential Possibility
A Chicago man came out of the west
the other day with an embryo boom for
the democratic presidential nomination
| in 1904 for an Iowa man. He declared
IF the democrats want to win in 1904
they will have to look to the west fol
a presidential candidate, and my be
lief is that they could not do better
than to take that popular citizen OF
Iowa, Hon. ]. D. Yoemans, at presen
member of the Interstate Commerce
commission. Mr.. Yoemans was fol
many years citizen of New York and
| he has thousands of friends in the
east. In his adopted state of Iowa he
is widely known and liked by all class
es. He is democrat of the old-fash
Toned sort and his party loyalty is un
| questioned. But he is, moreover, g
man with an abundance of common
sense and the proprietor of a leve
head on all national questions. He
would make as strong candidate as
his party could name and on him al
| elements of democracy could unite.
The name Yoeman sounds new amons
presidential possibilities, but if the
gentleman from Iowa is all that is
claimed for him it looks like a chance
for Iowa democrats to get some noto
riety at least.
Mrs. Shaw in the West.
Mrs Leslie Shaw, wife of the secre
tary OF the treasury. is now in the
west. She went out to Seattle to NEE
her son, Earle who has been roughine
it the past summer with a geological
survey party in Alaska. They will &c
to San Francisco for short time ant
will then make tour of California
Secretary Shaw will join them later OF
the Pacific coast The home of Score
tary and Mrs. Shaw is being renovated
in their absence. as they expect to dt
considerable entertaining the comine
winter
Mr.. clarkson's Operations.
The recent doings of James S.Clark
son, formerly of Iowa, but now hold
ing federal post at the port of New
York, has been keeping the name O
| the sHawkeye state in its usual posi-
/ ton at the head of the parade il
Washington this week. His recen
1 letter to a certain negro leader il
| South Carolina, assuring him that tht
administration does not approve O
the efforts of the recognized republi
can leaders in the south to reduce the
colored vote to vanishing factor il
party politics, has caused quite {
commotion. 1t is declared by som,
that this letter shows for what pur
pose that one time eminent manipu
lator was officially attached to the ad
ministration. His appointment to thu
! lucrative and responsible position O
surveyor of the port of New York oc
casioned good deal of surprise an,
some criticism as Mr.. Clarkson was IL
no way conspicuously identified witt
his party's organization in New Yorl
state. 1t was rumored at the time O
his appointment that the Presiden
had been induced to give him the plac
by the practical politicians of the cabi
net not the least of whom is Postmas
ter General Payne. 1t is said tina
Mr.. Payne urged his chief the import
ance of rewarding the one man il
the republican party who knew bel
ter than any other man alive tn
way to keep the colored brother O
the south in line for the nomination il
1904 Mr.. Clarkson has assured tn
blacks in the letter referred to tina
the President is heartily against thei
aim N finn frpYf, apriun io-