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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01
A DISCIPLE OF ouTLAwRY.

John Temple Graves, hailed few
years ago as one of the brightest
young men of the south, has demon
strated that he Is disciple of outlaw
ry, one of the southerners who can
not, or will not accept and improve
the conditions that have been given
them through the agency of civiliza-
ton. progress and humanity. Mr..
Graves is editor of the Atlanta, (Ga.)
News and in a leading editorial recent
ly he advocated lynching and a re-
vival of Ku Kluxism in order to ter
roize the southern negroes. Such an
expression by a man who has upon
his shoulders the responsibility of
shaping. or helping to shape public
sentiment, calls for the strongest con-
demnation. 1t proclaims it's author un-
worthy his calling and position, in
short, a disciple of outlawry.
No one knows better than the south
erner the disadvantages which have
been met by the negroes in their eff
forts to advance since the days of
slavery Poverty, ignorance prejudice
have each played their part in retard-
ing the progress of the colored race in
America. Yet, SOme-many-haVe come
up out Of the slough of servility and
have taken places in which they COM
mand and receive the respect of white
men whose views are not too narrow
ed by prejudice to allow them to see
clearly and impartially. This adj
vancement has been accomplished in
spite of obstacles. Consider then, the
progress that could have been made
by the brothers of these fortunate
ones if they had been encouraged to
become good citizens. If helping
hand had been extended to them, a
word of advice given them now and
then, others would have scaled the
heights that interpose between igno-
rance and learning and would have
stood today among the respected and
respectable men Of the country. But
1t is upon the shoulders of such men
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01
THE AMEs EXCURSION.

On Friday and Saturday of this
week the people of Iowa, or at least
all who care to go, will be welcomed
at Ames and allowed to inspect the
State Agricultural college. A few
years ago the late President Boards
ley inaugurated these excursions
along the route of the Northwestern
railroad only, but now they have be-
come SO popular that all the roads of
the state are included and it is expect
ed that several thousand people will
take advantage of the low rates and
the warm welcome this. year.
To meet the public demand it Is pro.
posed this year to run two excursions.
The first on Friday, September 80 to
accommodate those along the line OF
the Chicago & Northwestern railroad,
and the second on Saturday, October
l for those on the Milwaukee, Rock
Island and the Chicago, Great Yves
tern. Special trains will be run and
a merely nominal fee charged. Gov. A,
B. Cummins will deliver an address
on Friday and on the same occa
will lay the cornerstone of the new
central building now being erected at
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01
(cENTER) TOWN
SHIP TICKET.
ALL MUST REGISTER THIS YEAR.

ALL MUST REGISTER THIS YEAR.
1t is perhaps a good time to begin
telling the voters that this year all
who expect to cast ballot in the gen.
eral election must register. Only one
month remains before the first of the
four days on which registration can be
made. One month from yesterday,
Thursday. October 81, will be the
first of the registration days. The fol-
lowing two days, Friday and Saturday,
will also find the boards of registrars
ready to record the names of those
who desire to vote. In other words,
the last Thursday, Friday and Saturday
In October, are registration days On
one more day, November 5, the Satur-
day Just preceding the election day,
The eleventh hour contingent will have
an opportunity to register.
1t is necessary for everyone who
wants to vote this year, to register. No
previous registration will make this
unnecessary. Every four years all
voters must register and this year is
that of a general election and gener-
al registration as WELL The boards of
registrars will, of course, be in session
on election day, but none can register
then except those who have been pre-
vented by illness or absence from the
city on previous registration days.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

the slightest foundation. Immediately
afterward came the explanation of the
Post and the statement from Mr.. Don
nelly himself that he had received no
such letter from President Roosevelt.
At the outset of this campaign it was
thought and hoped that 1t would be
devoid entirely of underhand, low class
trickery and In the main 1t has been.
But no condemnation severe enough
can be uttered against the scheme that
has been discovered in the west. Mr..
Roosevelt specifically states his posi-.
ton on the labor question in his letter
of acceptance and this alone, even il
it were not borne out by his actions
during his term of Office, is enough to
set at rest any doubts as to his fair.
ness. Such trickery is out of date a
relic of the mud singing campaigns
Of the past, and the sooner it is drop.
ped entirely the better will be politics
and the nation,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01
THAT DID NOT TRICK


The promptness with which the
President turned aside the charge that
he had expressed hatred for trades
unions and the undeniable proofs that
the charge was utterly without
grounds turns the point of the arrow
of trickery against the opposition
which was fostering and abetting the
scheme to poison the minds Of the
labor classes against Mr. Roosevelt
A clumsy trick is worse than no trick
at ALL 1t reacts upon it's author more
severely that ii could affect the intend
ed victim. 1t is safe to say that few
men who knew the attitude the Presi-
dent has always taken in cases affect
ing unions gave the slightest serious
thought to the letter published in the
Denver Mining Magazine purporting to
be a communication from Roosevelt to
President Michael DonnellY of the
butchers union of Chicago. The
memory of his action in the anthracite
coal strike period, his action in the
Miller case and his action in other mat
tiers concerning trades unions would
cause the well informed union man to
view the statement of the Mining
Magazine with great deal of dolbt.
But the explanation of the whole af-
fair shows it's utter clumsiness SO
clearly that it cannot but react upon
it's originators with more force than
it would have had against Mr. Roose-
welt had it been allowed to run It's
course unchallenged.
The New York Evening Post eX-
plains the matter very clearly in it's
yesterdays issue. The Post admits
that it first published the letter. stat
ing plainly that it MIGHT" well have
been written by the President to Mr..
Donnelly during the meat strike. The
Post attempted and probably intended
not the slightest trickery but used the
letter to express its own views upon
the question of the strike. Tint they
were against the strikers is no reflec-
ton upon President Roosevelt. who
never knew the article was published
until the explanation came from the
Post. But when the Mining Magazine
published the letter as coming directly
from Roosevelt the democrats of the
west were quick to seize the oDportun-
ity to use is as campaign material and
forthwith 1t was sent broadcast
through the mining regions of the
west. No attempt to verify its auth
orship was made, foT there was danger
in such move. 1t was turned loose
upon the public mind with the hope OF
working Roosevelt's political downfall.
But happily copy fell into the hands
of republican in Montana and he
asked President Roosevelt about it's
truth. Then came a prompt and con.
else staten ent from the President to
the effect that the letter was absolute.
ly forgery and the scheme had not
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01
WATTERSON TIE UNREcoN-
STRUGGLED,

No one who knows even the outlines
of Col Henry Watterson's public life
as a brilliant journalist, should be sur
prised at his speech to the democratic
editors in New York, denouncing
President Roosevelt as "a self-willed
adventurer upon the high seas of pub
lie life" This is mild criticism from
Col. Watterson, who always deals in
extravagant assertions with little heed
of facts
Colonel Watterson is the lone unre-
constructed insurgent against the gov
eminent. All others, including Aguin-
aldo, have come in, but Colonel Wat
terson remains on the war-path not
only against the government but
against society and all industrial pro-
gress. He fought yaliantlv for the con
federacy and never surrendered. He
has denounced every president and ev-
cry congress that has held authority
since 1861 He has not been partisan
in this, for the one democratic presi.
dent and the several democratic con-
crosses in that time have been lam
basted by him in terms quite as severe
as the republican presidents and con-
crosses.
LiuSOlu, I1dySS, AL
thur, Harrison, Mckinley and Roose-
welt have all been held up to scorn in
no severer terms hy Colonel Waiter.
son than was Grover Cleveland. He
described Mr.. Cleveland at the Tilden
club dinner in New York two years
ago as the appearance of "the deaths
head at the feast" and he said ito Mr.
Cleveland's insuff1ciencies, to use no
harsher term, it (the democratic par
ty) owes its undoing."
He described Mr.. Cleveland as "The
Diaz of Democracy" and at the same
time denounced hirn as traitor to his
party. having twice betrayed it for
his own selfish ends"
President Roosevelt has been enter
ed in the book of great presidents by
Colonel Watterson in his attack, for
Watterson therein classes him with
the great presidents of the last forty
years in his abuse. The President
should thank Colonel Watterson for
this mark of his disapproval, for it
shows that Colonel Watterson recog-
nizes him as bright and shining
mark. as he never levels his lance at
the insignificant or the unworthy This
is not Watterson the democrat who
warns the people against President
Roosevelt. 1t is not partisan. It is
simply Watterson the Ishmaelite, the
knight-errant Of a past of which he
remains most unique and interesting
relic-an unreconstructed insurgent
AGAINST the government whatever it's
politics or policies.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01
as Graves that the blame lies for thei
failure to do so

as Graves that the blame lies for their
failure to do so.
The negro of the south, the son Of
a freedman. is born with heritage of
woe. Coming Of race that has
known nothing but abuse, morally
and physically. for generations back
of generations, he is thrown upon the
mercies of a heartless world While
yet a pickaninny he learns that the
white man hates him. and it is natural
that he learns to hate the white man.
Growing up, this hatred grows with
him, and too often he lacks the cour-
age and the ambition to leap over the
obstacles that bar his progress. This
is the crisis of his life. If he is given
an encouraging word from white
man, he may take the difficult road
that leads to enlightenment. But
where can he receive that word
among such men as Graves? Refused
encouragement, he becomes a ne'er-do.
WELL and drifts with the current.
Even then the white mans baneful in
fluence does not leave him. 1t masters
the very blood that flows in his veins.
He sinks to crime and the rope swings
over him.
And here the white man makes an
other mistake, the very mistake that
is pointed out SO often, but is disre-
garded by Graves. Fired with race
prejudice the white man leads mob
to lynch the criminal, disobeying the
laws Of state. nation and humanity His
utter lack of respect for the law i'm
presses the negroes. They reason
that if the white man has no regard
for laws they need have none, and
crime multiplies.
The solution of the race problem
must come from the south, but as long
as the south listens to such men as
Graves the problem will remain un.
solved.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

you as successor to the late Senator
Hanna was not approved by all when
the campaign opened, but subsequent
events seem to show that here, as in
everything else, President Roosevlt's
judgment has been splendid. 1t is a
noticeable fact that the republican
campaign is moving along very
smoothly and that President Roose-
Welt does not have to make frequent
trips to headquarters as does his. op-
ponent.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

In the interest of accuracy let us
again draw attention of several Iowa
papers to the fact that George Taylor,
the colored candidate for president, is
not resident Of Oskaloosa. Mr.. Tay-
Tor writes his address as "Ottumwa,"
and his letter of acceptance was writ.
ten under an Ottumwa date line.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

There used to be theory that rail-
road wrecks occurred in groups Of
three but the events of the past few
weeks would lead the timid reader to
believe that they come in crowds of
something like thirty-threes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

1t is probably just as well that in
this quiet campaign some one like
Lincoln Steffens should pop up and
cause little excitement. Else how
would we know that an election is
coming?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Should Judge Parker become presi-
dent he would find it necessary to
dictate a great many documents of
wide import. In most Of these the
first draft would have to be the final
one. 1t would become public as soon
as signed. Then what would become
of the authors sober Judgment and
second thought? A man without de-
termination and stability is not a fit
man for President of the United
States. :.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

After almost everyone else in the
country had been to st. Louis, enjoy
ed the fair and pronounced it sue
cess, 1t remained for William E. Curtis
to sit down upon it with the declara-
ton that it is too large, and the dis
tances are too great.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Secretary Shaw was mistaken bv
the cashier of Chicago hotel for a
dancing teacher. Now We may exnect
to hear of someone delivering mail
for the advance man for week stand
show to your Uncle Joe Cannon.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Disaster has always followed the en-
actment of tariff which has failed to
furnish adequate protection. Such a
tariff has neither furnished protec-
ton to our industries nor raised
enough revenue for the government.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Robert Treat Paine, Jr., of Boston,
twice the democratic candidate for
governor in Massachusetts, will vote
for President Roosevelt. Mr.. Paine
knows consistency when he sees it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Even though Ottumwa may be a
back number when it comes to munic.
ipal graft and scandals of that kind
she can manage to be sued oftener and
for more different reasons than almost
any other city in Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Tho democracy depending upon the
Acknowledgement of the colored vote
of the south and the methods of cor
ruption employed by Tammany in
New York, poses as the party of purity
and reform.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01
watch
out /"

and Tom Taggart has come back to
Indiana Ito work up lntercs..' there.
Can it be that Ton has had trouble
keeping good man in charge at
French Lick? Doesn't the wheel roll
right with the boss away? Can it be
that the reds and blues and whites are
moving across the table from the deal
or?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

The various experiments which are
under way in the democracy just now
suggest the idea that the different
leaders are trying it on the dog;
but even the canine constitution can.
not stand everything all at once.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

National Chairman Stewart Of the
prohibition party has succeeded in
getting his followers to dig up two
dollars apiece and he will now start
on speaking tour.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

1t may be an unkind thing to do, but
you can have fun by asking your dem
ocratic candidate for congress to fur
nish list of the great issues which
have been settled right and which
have not been settled right by the re
publican party.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

While the democrats can count on
the vote of the solid south, an analysis
of the returns from Oregon, Vermont
and Maine shows that the republicans
can count on the solid farmers vote.
They "stand pat for continuance Of
good times.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

May Irwin says she has known
Dave Hill far good many years, but
she does not say she will marry him.
Perhaps she doesn't think it necessary
to deny the story for who ever heard
of an actress marrying man she has
known more than few months at
hnSto
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Tom Taggart, when he went to New
York. to take up the work Of the demo-
cratic campaign management, an
nounced to number of correspond
ents that he would not leave the
metropolis until Parker had been
elected. Isn't there some mistake
about the story that Taggart has gone
back to Indiana?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Candidate Swallow of The Prohibition
party, denounces Bishop Potter, his
Subway Tavern and the Whole scheme.
In one point at least Mr.. Swallow gives
Indication of being Sane.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Tom Taggart might write book
about the democratic campaign man
agement and good title would be,
Many Men of Many Min.s,' If Tom
doesn't object to ALTERATION.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Now Walter Wellman who,in spite Of
himself. is sometimes right, has dis
covered that William ]. Bryan's fol
lowers are not enthusiastic Parker
men and that the fact is causing the
campaign managers no little concern.
Charles Walsh knew that long time
ago
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

We were told at the beginning of
this campaign that the democratic
party would return to sanity, but re-
cent developments lead one to suspect
that it has forgotten just where sanity
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

It is almost time for Tom Taggart
to send message of coincidence to
the commander of the Russian troops
in Manchuria. He knows how it is
himself
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

If Uncle Gsssaway doesn't break in
to print again it will be high time to
look for him in few days. Maybe this
presidential election business has
slipped his mind.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Despite all efforts to ward it off the
street carnival is coming and the PEG.
pie must be ready for it. Next week
1t will begin in all it's glory and the
confetti will smother you
IF you
don't
watch
out"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

John L. Sullivan has again declared
that he is done with BOOZE" but the
Cedar Rapids Gazette believes that
in some unguarded moment he will
accept another challenge from the
bottle for Knockout fight. "Of
course he will lose,' says the Gazette.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Some of the wild eyed newspaper
correspondents detailed to work up a
story on the decision in the Wisconsin
case have been disappointed by the
failure of the state supreme court 70
decide and have written to their pa
pers that Wisconsin is in grave danger
of going democratic this fail If they
wish to become political prophets they
are making poor beginning.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

PARTIES" says Senator Fairbanks,
Should be judged by deeds, not
words" This is unkind. The democrat
ic party hasn't done anything TO be
Judged by.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

1t is all very we'll to be cautious, but
Parker's silence leads one to suspect
he has been warned that whatever he
says will be used against him.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

The campaign has at least Trough
one blessing; John Alexander Dowi'
has been forced to the background.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Mr.. Cleveland says Providence is d.
recting the democratic campaign.
Providence ought to have had more
sense than to use David B. Hill, if that
is the case.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

If Judge Parker continues to give
valuable directions at the last minute
this will be known as the P. S. cam
paign.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Field Marshal Oyama always has
just one more trick up his sleeve
when his hand seems to have been
played out.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

So many keynotes have been sound
ed by democratic leaders that II
sounds something like Chinese or
chestra so far.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Mexico proposes to make it's silver
dollar worth SO cents in gold. That's
what Judge Parker wanted this coun-
try to do in 1896 and 1900.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

EVERY man who votes for Roose-
welt for president should vote for a
representative that will vote for the
policies which Roosevelt represents"
says the Clinton Herald and adds: "a
Il. Dawson Is the man."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Everything seems to conspire to-
ward a quiet campaign" says the Keo-
kuk Gate City. "a Topeka magistrate
has just ruled that it Is all right for
man to let his dog bite a political
orator."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

This country will refuse to be in
sured in Judge Parkers company SO
long as it cannot find out what sort of
policy he is offering.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

America has the highest average
wage rate in the world. The Amer
lean workman does not want change
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

Parker showed his hand in the New
York democratic convention, but 1t
came out through Sheehan's sleeves.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

But there'll be frost in Esopus on
the morning of November 8.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-01

"Inane to a degree"-such is the
dominant impression produced on the
Des Moines Register and Leader by
Mr.. Parker's letter. "It is hopelessly
commonplace continues the Reg
lister and Leader. "It Is the
weakest public declaration, cir
cumstances considered, that has been
offered to the American people within
the memory of the present generation.
Where nothing but a ringing appeal
that would enthuse and fuse his di-
vided following was worth while, he
has offered, in a discouraged tone, the
veriest NANTES Of policies, and has
put wet blanket upon his campaign
compared to which his speech of &C.
ceptance was stroke Of genius"