Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-05-05

remain very much in the positinon that
senator Mason found himself after
making grand stand play to the gal
ierles; put II the governor condescends
10 accept republican tenents and abides
oy majority dictates there is no reason
why he may not continue to receive
honors at the hands of the party" AS
first requirement, the record con-
cludes, Gov. Cummins must first be-
come safe leader.
If the Spirit Lake Beacon would
support Abraham Funk little more
strenuously, he might win OUT says
the Mason City Globe Gazette.
Rapids Republican wants to know
what the country would do with its
surplus If every man should cut down
his diet to the proportions suggested
by the scientific .sharps "Oughtn't
some one" it asks, ito be willing to
suffer to eat the supplies that are pro-
duced in this country?"
The Boone Republican suggests that
although the democrats do not know
where Parker stands they know exact
ly where Hill stands.
"The country didn't realize fully lust
how utterly bad that New York plat
form was" says the Keokuk Gate CITY,
until Mr.. Bryan pointed out it many
absurdities and shortcomings. 1t takes
democrat to let the wind out of a
democratic platform"
"Nonsense!" exclaims the Marion
Register, in commenting on the predic-
tion of the Manson Journal that the
fight in Iowa would go under a new
leader. The Journal had named Thos.
d. Healy, of Fort Dodge, as a. fit man
for this leadership, but the Register
asserts that Cummins is the only man
in Iowa who could put up fight for
democracy in the republican ranks
that would amount to anything and
that Healy could not muster cor
poraPs guard. Now that Senator Dol
liver has spoken" concludes the Regis
ter, "the Fort Dodge attorney could not
carry his own town in town meeting
or at the polls"
When we says that Iowa could fur
nish no better man for the vice presi-
dency than Leslie M. Shaw it is equiv
alent to saying that there are no bet
ter in the country" says the Cedar Falls
Gazette.
AC 1upuqQe declares
that the voice of the toiIers calls for
Mr.. Hearsts Endorsement.
William Jennings Bryan has again
demonstrated his greatness" says the
Creston American.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil sug-
gests that a great deal Of time and
trouble could have been saved if Judge
Parker had asked Mr.. Bryans consent
before he entered the field as a presi-
Dental candidate.
The school of crime is always in ses-
sion on the streets and in the alleys
and there is large and competent fac
ulty, says the Cedar Rapids Gazette
The Hull Index suspects that the
Winnebago resolutions may have a
boomerang effect on State Treasurer
| Gilbertson's political aspirations.
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The Britt Tribune says that the
democrats who recently came over to
the republican party evidently came
after the republican party and want to
set it over on the democratic platform
Anyway" says the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil, the Russians have plenty
of territory through which to operate
a masterful retreat"
zone thing is certain" SAYS the
Mason City Globe-Gazette. while Dol
liver may sidestep once In while he
continues to broaden in his statesman
ship as the years go by"
"The best spring tonic" says the
hours work in the garden"
when congress and state legisla-
lures awaken to a sense of duty saws
the Des Moines Capital, they will see
to it that bandit literature is either