Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-16

every man who wanted work could
obtain it six days in the week and
ffty-two weeks in the year. The rate
of wages has been the highest ever be-
fore known. If you are a friend of
tories running. If you want good
prices for farm products. vote to keep
labor employed at good wages, SO the
men who run the mills and factories
can pay good prices for what you raise
on your farm. This fall we are going
to decide these questions for four
years. Let us decide them right"
General Weaver has decided not to
run for congress In the sixth district
this year. observes the Cedar Rapids
Republican,, continuing: 1.-THE poor
general has been trying to get some-
thing out of politics oil his life-but he
has at least had his board and lodging
and that Id about all the best and most
SUCCESSFUL get out Of this life."
Now that yenst factory Is coming
to Des Moines the Register and Lead
er concludes that city ought to be
able to raise things easier" The Keo-
kuk Gate City says that ""As Des
Moines Is chiefly occupied in raising
choice variety of hades it would al
most seem as II the yeast factory were
unnecessary"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says:
From the amount Of stamping in the
political stable at this time, and from
other evidences Of unrest, the popu-
lists conclude that they will have
about two million votes. They have
not said what they will do with them"
Des Moines notes that Louise Busse
dislikes the idea of inaugurating the
hanging custom In this state"
Strange" says the Capital, "he did
not think Of the matter when he was
getting ready to brutally murder his
wife,
Mr.. Bryan at his age is enabled to
take the cheerful view that "a single
election is but an incident in the life
of party" but according to the Sioux
City Journal. Henry Gassaway Davis
cannot see the matter in precisely the
same way.
Secretary Cortelyou is another man
whose selection for an important po-
litical position was greatly deplored by
the democratic press as a menace to
the welfare Of the republican party"
says the Burlington Hawk-Eye, but
who is succeeding so well that the re-
greet has changed to personal fear on
the part of the democrats"
The Burlington Hawk-Eye says that
Judge Van Wagenen is never so happy
MS when riding a hobby. IF the ruling
sentiment in the country was in favor
of government ownership" it assumes,
the good judge would probably set
about organizing Enforcement
ownership clubs"
This is not partisan affair."" de-
clares the Marshalltown Times Re-
publican, discussing the Vardaman
case. THE south and the north should
join together in refusing even minor
honor to men who want the decency to
respect the highest official in the land.
Let governor Vardaman clear the
skirts Of Editor Vardaman or go with
out his postofiice namesake."
That the wages of sin is death is
proved over and over every day, but
1t takes more than the wages to dis
! courage prospective apprentices" says
/ the Des Moines Register and Leader.
Republicans in Iowa should not bt
/ caught mapping this fall Every re.
publican should vote,'' says the Masor
City Globe-Gazette.
Paraguay is in state of siege
says the Burlington Hawk Eye and
adds: Strange how little interest
those South American people take In
I real live events. such as the war in
/ the far east, and the goings on at
/ Esopus. They seem to be entirely
wrapped UP in themselves"
o.
! The Des Moines Capital thinks that
Perhaps Abdul Hamid will learn some
day that battleship can serve prac-
/ teal as well as ornamental purpose
1T Is needless to state that those
diplomats who think Japan would well
come peace and Russia refuse all gel
/ their mail at st. Petersburg" says the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
! 3d.
Judge Parker is not going to run TO,
a second term, SO he says. The Des
| Mo1nes News recalls the fact that
THAT is what Cleveland said, and he
ran three times"
Twenty one states in the union have
been born since the nativity of Vice
Presidential Candidate Davis says
TIE sioux City journal, only Two OF
which, Arkansas and Texas, will prob.
ably follow him politically"
o.
If the weather will do it's share to.
ward moving the corn crop the Cedar
Rapids Gazette is sure that the "Peo.
pie will find means of attending to thu
slight detail of transportation"
1T is question with the populist!
whether to fuse or refuse" is the wa,
the Keokuk Gate City has figured 1
out.
1t Is understood that both Professors
Sims and Andrews, late Of the Stat,
University, have secured better payin,
and more agreeable situations sine
their services were not wanted by tn
board of regents. The Iowa City Re
publican says that the university, no