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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05
What Happened When We Gave
the Old Democratic Party
Chance.
a Chance.
CONFESSIONS OF A MUGwUMp.

Twelve
can ticket thought would try change.
Business in 1892
voting while and
And then the democrats If
tariff They told
money
goods bought.
The proposition sounded promising;
d We'll
how its will ass
like the against There
principle
the democrats field
them the them
they could do just they
Well their
those four something a
Every living who voted at that
after and the democratic
members how the whole
how those
the charity the souptchen instead from family
all the other dreadful things that
voting the question Ia
Shall try it again?
So how going vote this year?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

IS this very over-confldence which has
before lost more than one presidential
election, and it should be guarded
against In 1904 to the extent that not
a single man should make any plans
whatever which will conflict with his
casting a ballot early on next Tuesday
morning. He should, moreover, see to
1t that not only Is his own ballot cast,
but that his neighbors and his friends
as far as possible do the same thing.
That being done the election is sure,
but unless that is done Parker and de
mocracy AID free trade with all that
may come through the success of their
party, may succeed Roosevelt and re.
publicanism and protection. The risk
Is too great and the danger Is too APP
parent to allow single republican
worker to relax his efforts to bring out
a full vote in his election district next
Tuesday, Not only should the work
ers be awakened to the situation, but
every individual voter himself should
take the matter to heart to such an
extent as to resolve that nothing on
earth shall possibly prevent him from
registering his vote for his candidates
and his party.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05
Consultation Free and Confidential
Address DR.. WI[BERT SHALLENBERGER
145 lakewood Blvd, Chicago.
Reference: Drexel State Bank.

accustomed to the work to be done
and this insures efficient service to
the taxpayers. Every year there are
new men coming into office, getting
accustomed to the work, checking up
the books of their predecessors and OBJ.
Waiting the formation of rings" for
the purpose of graft or the continue.
ton in office.
The states where biennial elections
are held are the states where graft
fourishes. And graft" is generally
bigger expense than elections.
AS an educational feature alone, the
elections are worth much more than
they cost to the state and to the ma.
ton. The electors are the greatest
educational feature within the reach of
the naturalized voter who makes this
country his home after he has passed
the age to attend the public school
1t is through the conversation and lit.
erature attendant to the campaign
that he learns of the government and
OF the duties and responsibilities OF
citizenship. We have never yet met
a man who said he knew too much
about these matters.
1t is certain that there is no nation
on earth where the prosperity of the
people is so dependent upon the policy
OF the government as in these United
States. That being the case. then the
policy of the government should be
dictated by the highest intelligence
and knowledge. In this country the
people are the government and they
should at all times be interested in
the affairs of their government. PEG
pie take an interest and are concerned
in only those things with which they
are familiar or desire to become ia
miliar. If the number of elections
is decreased one-half, then people be
come less familiar with them, lose in
terest in them and they will certainly
be dominated by men who will take
advantage of this lack of interest tc
further their own ends at the expense
of good government. If all the people
vote. we are certain to have good gov
eminent Abraham Lincoln said that
he never feared the result of any cleo
ton when all the people went to the
polls
The Courier Is firmly convinced
that the election system of Iowa has
done msAch to place this state at it's
present high standard
There should be much thought and
consideration before any change is
made. 1t is not proposition of leay.
ing well enough alone-to make the
change now advocated is to throw
aside the best there is in any state
and take up something that has
proved bad in other states
We believe that every voter should
make a cross opposite the word "No''
on the amendment ballot.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

Cures permanently the canes he under
takes and sends the incurable home with.
out taking n fee from them This is why
he continues his visits year after year.
while other doctors have made few visits
aud stopped. DR.. Shallenberger is an emil.
nently successful specialist In all chronic
diseases, proven by the many cures effect.
ed In chronic cases which have baffled the
skill of all other physicians. His hospital
experience and extensive practice have
made him so proficient that he can name
and locate disease III few minutes.
Treats all cstrehle cases of Cntarrh. Nose.
Throat and Lung diseases, Eye and Ear.
Stomach. Liver and Kidneys. Gravel.
rheumatism. PARALYSIS. Neuralgia. Ner.
vous and Heart diseases. Blood and Skin
diseases. Epilepsy. Bright's Disease and
Consumption In early stage. diseases Of the
Bladder and Female Organs. I.lqr r. and
Tobncco habit. Stammer,rg cured and sure
methods to prevent Its recurrence given
A neyer-failine remedy for Rig Neck.
PILES. F1STI1LAE end RUPT IRE guar.
anteed cured without detention from husi
mess. Special attention given to all Srrgi
cal cases, and all diseases of tie Eye. Ear.
Nose and Throat.
GRADUATED lids. Cataract. Cross Eyes
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

talked it over at the store, at home on
the sidewalk, and every place where
men gather, and it's pretty safe to say
that every man has his mind made up
as to how he feels on this election.
Now, the next thing Is to vote the
way he feels. Don't take 1t out in
thinking. Your thoughts won't do the
country any good unless you vote as
you think. A man in war time might
as we'll have lain behind tina trenches
and thought hard about the enemy and
have forgotten to shoot. as to reason
this campaign out and forget OF neg
lect to vote.
There are momentous questions at
stake. This Is no mere by.election,
with few minor offices in the bal.
ance. The control of the federal gov
eminent is at stake; the house of rep
resentatives and practically one-third
of the senate are up Tor election. There
is som ething doing.
If the federal administration is
changed, 1t means handing over to an
other party the presidency with the
appointment of many important Off
Gals; the treasury department, with
power to materially alter the admins
tration of the financial system; the
state department with many great in
ternational questions involved: the
war department and the navy; the
postoffice department and the rural
free delivery; all these to go into IN
friendly hands.
1t means that if the house of repre-
sentatives is changed. the Legislative
policies which have been approved by
the people for many congresses will
be assailed.
Republicans, Independents and gold
democrats who have endorsed the wise
policies inaugurated by Mckinley and
the congress that came in with him,
and which were sustained by Roosevelt
and successive congresses, should
turn out on election day and vote to
keep the ball rolling.
1t is important to you, to your fam
lily and to your neighbor that you go
to the polls on election day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

You people ask your family physi-
clans about my treatment and many
of them have not had the experience
of treating by my method and they OBJ
ject to it and say 1.-THE knife is the
only method" Yes there is more
money in curing patient with the
knife method
Hospital Bills, chloroform and big
parade over surgical operation; but
let me tell you it is no more successful
than my method and there is no dan
ger or loss Of time. have many
cases call on me who are ruptured and
have had the knife operation. I have
lately cured VIM. Carr of Hilton, Mr..
S. d. Thompson, Mr.. c. v. Nichol and
son of Abba, Mr.. VIM. Gibson of Abba,
little boy with three ruptures for
E. Seigel, East Main street, and dozens
of others.
Hydrocele and Variocele are cured
with very short time.
Piles, Fistula. Fissures. Rectal Dis
eases cured. l have cured hundreds
of case of Catarrh of the Nose and
Throat and such diseases as Rhe,lma-
tism, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Kidney and
Bladder Truobles, Dropsy Private
Blood and skin diseases.
In fact / do an Office business in
treating all Chronic Diseases.
have bath department Of four
teen rooms, where you can get any
kind Of bath. Turkish and Steam
baths help your circulation and cures
many diseases medicine alone will not
cure.
have the finest X.Ray machine in
Iowa and cure many diseases by the
use of the same.
Write for my book on Chronic Dis
eases Address
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05
SOUTHERN CRITICS.

The principal criticism of extrava-
gance comes from the beneiciaries of
the large expenditures. Beggars al
ways have been ungrateful and they
are no exception in the matter of gov
eminent appropriations and expendi-
lures. Senator Culberson, of Texas,
was the first democrat to discover that
the present administration had an
enormous military budget and he
counted in all the appropriations for
river and harbor improvements as a
part of the expenses of the army. A
very little examination would have
shown the Texas senator that his own
state had more than $1,000,O00 Of the
expenditures for the war department
last year, and that this money was
spent on some of the most question:.
Bile improvements that have ever been
/, saddled upon the federal government
by over Jealous and selfish senators
and representatives. These expendi.
lures were authorized by congress
after that body had ben held up by
southern senators who took advantage
of the lax rules of the senate. and they
have for years been looked upon as
tainted with jobbery.
There are several millions more in
the military budget" which went into
rivers and harbors in the south for
which congress made appropriations
because the southern people demanded
them as absolutely necessary, though
the principal necessity so far apparent
has been the distribution of the money
in southern states
Senator Culberson, Of Texas and
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
have been the principal critics of the
expenditures for the war department,
and they both have been openly
charged with using brigand methods
to compel congress to make the appro-
priations which leave the secretary of
war no alternative regarding the ex-
penditures.
Ii Judge Parker should become pres.
ident and authorize an Investigation to
determine what expenditures by the
war department were useless and
tainted with corrupt practices, he
would find them in the river and har.
Dor appropriations for southern rivers
and harbors. He would also find that
Senators Tillman and Culberson had
been charged with employing methods
little short of those employed by high
robbers In compelling congress to
give up millions in appropriations. and
that neither OF these southern gem
tlemen > d resented such charges.
The best way to keep down appro.
priations and expenditures would he To
keep few men like Tillman and Cu1.
berson at home.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05
REPUBLICAN (cENTER) TOWN
SHIP TICKET.
VOTE AGAINST 1T.

there is only one argument ad-
Vanced In favor of the biennial election
VIZ, that it will cut down the expense
OF elections, and even that argument
Is wrong.
1t will not cut down the expense of
printing and counting but it will add
to that item of the election expenses.
II the state and county officers are
elected only once in two years, then
the ticket will have to be twice as
large as it is now it will contain twice
as many names and will take twice as
much paper as it does under the pres
ent system. A type form necessary to
print ticket two times as large as the
ticket that will be used this year,
would be such bulky affair that the
printer would have to charge extra
for handling it. In fact there is not in
the city of Ottumwa, printing press
large enough to print at one impression
a ticket two times as large as the one
that will be used in Wapello county
next Tuesday.
Any man who has worked through
the tiresome hours of the night count
ing ballots Of the ordinary size, knows
that 1t gets very monotonous going up
and down the columns of the
scratched" ballots, and we ask that
man, what time during the next day
he would expect to get through if there
were twice as many names on the tick
cts? AS the progrees of counting must
be slower with the big sheet than with
the small one, as it would be harder
to handle and the names twice as
many, it would require more than
double the time TO complete the count,
Or it would require more than double
the number of clerks and judges to
count the ballots in the same time as
Is consumed under the present sys-
TEN. Thus it will be seen that there
Is no saving in this feature of the plan
and that the force must be at least
doubled in order to get the returns
complete before noon of the day fol-
lowing the election.
Under the present system of holding
elections in Iowa, there is more or
less change in the county and
state Offices every year. Never
at the same time, are all the offices
filed with men who are new and un.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05
ELECTIONS AND "RlNGs."

Careful study of the situation fails
to show any reason why Iowa should
cast aside her present system of cleo
lions and adopt the biennial plan sug-
gested in the proposed amendment to
the constitution upon which the elect
ors OF the state will vote next Tues
day. The constitution Of this state is
a good one. For more than fifty years
1T has stood the test and new states
which have sprung up have been glad
to model their constitutions largely
after that of the Hawkeye state. This
constitution provides for annual cleo
tons. This allows half the officers in
both state and county to be elected
one year and the other half the next
year. In this way the formation of
rings" of Office holders is made diff
cult, for with chang being made
every year no scheme of underhand
organization can be carried into ef-
feet before another set of new officers
begin their duties. A good illustration
of the advantage is shown by the con-
ditions now existing in Iowa and Wis
consin. In the latter state biennial
elections are held and all the officials
are elected at the same time. Now
that state Is divided into half dozen
factions because of alleged ring" pol
itics on the part of some of the state
officials. Graft can be carried on much
more easily when gang can be or
ganized, each member of which runs
the same risk and must square his &C.
counts at the same time, than if the
officials were changing oftener and the
CRATER did not know Tho might hap
pen in upon him just at the height of
his success as a trickster.
Never has the state of Iowa had to
shoulder charge of ring" graft
among its public officials and it is
largely due to it's constitution that this
has been almost impossible. This is
no reflection upon the men who have
held offices in the state for their repu-
tation would make anything of that
kind foolish and impossible. But the
fact remains that the constitution is
a good one and the conditions as they
now exist are good Why not, then
leave them as they are ?
This Is not a case of simply letting
well enough alone 1t IS discarding a
plan that has been proven good and
practical by fifty years experience and
adopting in 1t. stead one that has
proven uns atisfactory in at least one
case. and one that, as can be easily
seen, could be unsatisfactory and an
assistance to grafters in any case.
Vote against the adoption of the
biennial election amendment.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05
A SIGN OF THE TIMES.

Des Moines Register and Leader
1t is not entirely without Significance
that the reader of the reports of. the
great Iowa championship football con-
test between the state university and
state agriculture college stumbles upon
such phrases as these:'
"Ames, confident of victory for
weeks sent down a train load of root
ers, numbering TOO or more. h They
f1ourished great plethoric rolls Of BILLS
which they offered to bet at odds rang-
ing from even money to Ito 8, that tha
'Aggies' would win.
Iowa money was a sSafteT q . Il its
noise was PLENTIFUL" f7lT
In politics betting odds have coms
to be accepted as stable subject OF
comment, in fact as a very conclusive
campaign argument. But have we ar
rived at time when betting odds are
to be accepted as the settled accom-
paniment of amateur athletic contests
between college boys representing our
great state supported institutions OF
learning?
The Register and Leader does not
recall having seen In connection with
the great football contests Of the east
any conspicuous reference to betting
odds. Even professional baseball is
not attended by open betting. nor are
odds quoted towards the close OF the
season on the leading mines. Horse
racing and politics seem thus far to
hove monopolized open and notorious
gambling. Are the amateur athletics
Of our colleges to be added to what
may be properly listed as Americas
great sporting events?
We suggest this latest tendency Of
college athletics to the assembled uni
versity presidents as q subject worthy
of their serious consideration. Would
1t not be well for educational institu-
tons at the earliest opportunity to
set definite standard Of athletics,
with great, plethoric rolls OF billsa
very rigidly eliminated?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

quiet in Guthrie county this year that
you can hear a pin drop in a 100 acre
blue grass pasture.
IF war has killed it's thousands ty-
phoid has slain its tens of thousands"
says the Marshalltown Times Republic
can. I'VE organize peace tribunals
and offer mediation to fighting ma
tons, which are losing less human life
In year of battle than typhoid takes
in ten days, All the time we continue
to pour the seeds of typhoid fever into
the streams whence our neighbor Is
forced to draw his water supply.
ton on the question of sewage dis
posal. We are killing more people
through ignorance and carelessness
than are slain with the sword
TON Dennison's contract to defeat
L. w. Fallon for county attorney Of
Harrison county is doomed to mis-
carry" says the Council Bluffs Nom
pareil Tom is getting desperate. He
seems able to tell mountain from a
molehill.'
Japan has protested against the
wearing of Chinese costumes by the
Russians says the Des Moines News,
and adds: Hard to understand why
the Russians should want to wear
them; nobody could run very fast in
one of, those Mother Hubbard rigs"
Are you aware Tat within month
the Thanksgiving turkey joke will
have made its appearance" says the
Des Moines Capital
Every good housewife, on next Sat-
urday morning" says the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil, Should beam on her
liege lord across the breakfast table
and address him thusly: my dear,
have you registered?"
Mr. Wilcox, the democratic candidate
for congress in the ninth district, de-
clares himself "unalterably opposed to
a protective tariff" Are we to infer
from this that the gentleman favors
the duty on pearl buttons?" asks the
Dubuque Times, shyly.
ut would add mmeasurably to the
sum Of happiness If the brain and the
hands were alike educated" says the
Dubuque Telegraph. IF men who
have great means to be expended for
education would employ a part of their
wealth in founding technical schools
they would render lasting service in
their day and generation"
There was recently complied by the
state librarian, we believe, list of
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

Iowa books" says the Cedar Rapids
Republican. 1T was meagre list.
short and not very good. Iowa must
get down to better work in these lines.
In art matters the state is hardly. an
infant crawling on the ground. But
the meantime every man who loves his
state ought to give every possible en-
couragement to those who want to
work along the higher lines"
Talk about the joys of October!"
exclaims the Sioux City Journal.
What Is finer than to sit down cozily
near a warm radiator and read Of the
glories Of autumn in the woods?"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05
DR.. j. c. BoNHAM,
Corner Green and Second sts.,
Ottumwa, Iowa.

crops; men are at work in the mills
and on the railroads: merchants are
doing we'll. The general prosperity
makes place and wage for thousands
of salaried people.
Do you want a change? If you
change the political complexion of the
country, you are bound to change the
business aspect. Do you think it wise
to do that, knowing that the change
will be for the worse?
Think 1t over carefully and wher
you have made up your mind be sure
to go to the polls and register YOU
will.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

This is great country and we are
doing great business, but neither the
country nor the volume of industry
are too great to be affected by adverse
political conditions. A vote for a
democratic congress will constitute
the adverse political conditions, If
enough votes are cast See to it that
you don't swell the volume.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05
GUARD AGAINST APATHY

There is only one cloud in sight in
the political armament today. It
should be impressed upon every repub.
lican voter throughout the country
that there is yet danger of losing this
election, because of oysr-confldenee
which seems to prevail! that Nh. Rcasa-
velt's vote will be. so Overwhelming
that he cannot possibly be defeated. It
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

Can it &c possible that the people
have forgotten what happened to them
when they put the democratic party in
power in the last Cleveland admins
tration? Has recent prosperity wiped
out the memory of those blttr days?
We cannot keep that prosperity If the
democrats come into power again.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

A tariff system that has brought to
the people of the United States the
prosperity which they are now enjoy.
ing is worthy of being maintained. 1t
cannot be maintained If the demo-
cratic party comes into power. That
is proposition which is self-evident
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

The first voter should ask whether
he prefers the Presidents foreign pol
icy or that of the Sultan of Turkey
who would eagerly approve the Grip
pied navy and starved army advocated
by the democratic spellbinders.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

If you are looking for democrat on
election night you will probably find
him at home. The music of the tele-
graph instrument on election night is
the democracy's annual elegy Of grief.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

There is no danger of an insurrec-
ton in the Philippines, but it is no
fault Of Judge Parker or the demo-
cratic candidates for congress who
have been throwing verbal sop to the
malcOntents.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

One year from now, if democratic
house of representatives should be
elected at this election, the men who
voted for democratic congressman will
look back with remorse upon their &C
ton. For, as sure as night follows day,
the election of democratic house will
bring business and commercial dis
aSter
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-05

Judge Parker should be familiar
enough with the law not to attempt to
reinstate the Imperialism case after it
has been settled in the peoples court
CT last resort the ballot box.