Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-19

not, defeat ROoSeyelt'S nomination they
will decker with Tammany to secure
the nomination of a man who will be
the sort they want, and then with him
they will do all in their power to de-
feat the President. But it will not do
them any good"
Major Rathbun has long been noted
for safe predictions on what Iowa will
do at elections. Last fall he stoutly
maRtained that the state would give
the governor fully $4,000 when Mr..
Cumming himself and all his managers
were willing to concede a cut to Co.,
900.
stWhat is the use of state in the de-
plorable condition politically as far as
democracy is concerned that Iowa is
today trying to have anything to say
in the presidential candidate natter.
said Judge Wade of the second district
to the Courier correspondent the 9TH
err day. ut is foolish for us to get in
to the controversy at all. What we
may want. could or would have, will
have very little effect on the conven-
ton since we are in such helpless
minority in our own state
Judge Wade thinks that the Iowa de-
mocracy should sit quietly and say
nothing until the states that have
hopes in democratic way get togeth
er and choose the best candidate and
then that Iowa should come in and do
the best for the party in general. 1t
might be that this statement of his po.
sition is somewhat significant coming
as 1T does right on the heels of vari.
GUS widespread statements from Chas.
Walsh of ottumwa that William r.
Hearst is the man.
1t is becoming more and more evil
dent that Tammany Hall since its re-.
cent great success in New York is CO.
ing to have big hand in the selec.
Charles e. murphy. leader of Tammany
hall, appears to be consulted on the
matter about as often as any national
leader and there seems to be a gener-
al idea that New York man would be
the best and strongest candidate.
The final adjournment of the judge
ship conference which has been trying
to fill Judge Shirass place for these
many weeks shows the seriousness of
the deadlock in that connection. The
next meeting is at the call of Senator
Allison after the Christmas holidays.
1t is intimated that there will be some
lively action out in Iowa by the vari-
Gus members Of the conference, most
of whom will go home for the holidays
and when they return they may be in
better shape to arrive at a conclusion
in the matter. In fact the very action
of leaving the next meeting to be call
ed by Senator Allison would indicate
that the latter will not call one until
he has received some assurance that
more progress can be made than has
been in the sessions which have been
held lately. The members OF the con.
ference themselves realize that an in
terest and an amount of feeling has
been aroused all over the state by the
long drawn out affair that would prob
ably have caused scarcely ripple had
it been decided at an early stage in
the contest.
The news printed in Des Moines that
the contest was likely to end soon in
the selection of Wright was one of the
surprises of the affair. There seems
to be absolutely no foundation for this
report and all of the Washington cor
respondents deny having sent out such
a piece of news which lsaves the infer
enceS that the matter was written in
Iowa under Washington date line
and on authority that can not be dis
covered here. There is nothing to in
dictate that the vote has changed in
the least but still stands two for Heal
ey. Dawley and Reed and one for
Wright.
Several of the Iowa delegation will
leave for their homes tomorrow and
will thus get in a full two weeks
Christmas vacation. Others will not
get away until the first of next week.