Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-05

is out of sympathy with one faction of
his party Prior to his late anti Hearst
letter, the Journal points out, Mr..
Wade had succeeded in balancing him
self fairly well on the top rail of the
political fence, bu. that letter seems to
have placed him where the democrats
who resist the reorganizers can place
their fingers on him with some GER
tainty that he has not crawled "from
under" when they lift their hands.
The Burlington Gazette, DEM, says
the bolt of the Hearst men from Des
Moines county democratic convention
when things ceased to go their way
shows that the Hearst movement is
wholly personal. 1t seeks control of
the party" continues the Democrat,
through the purchasable element of
the community by methods Of intima-
ton and personal violence, and, falling
to secure majority by these methods,
it bolts"
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil con-
cludes that John Cownie isn't such a,
bad fellow. after all.
Inc general assembly is on record as
favoring change in the method of
elect1ng United States senators, but
the Rockford Register suggests that
Iowa could gain nothing by the propos-
cd, change, as the state could not be
better represented in the senate than 1t
is at present.
The DEBORAH Republican says the
impending reduction in the price of
coal affords no satisfaction now, when
all we have to show up for the coal bin
is much larger ash pile than in pre-
vious springs"
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that Congressman Wade may be COM
PEELED to do some sidestepping or be
run over by the Hearst boomers in
Iowa.
THE discouraging feature Of the sit.
uatlon from the Hearst standpoint
says the Keokuk Gate City lis the fact
that the presidency isn't for SALE"
If the republicans of Iowa are by a
large majority in favor Of letting we'll
enough alone" says the Keosauqua
Republican, lit should be SO resolved
in words so plain that no free trader
In the land will undertake to miscon-
strue their meaning"
MIR. Hearst appears to have found or
purchased the key to the democratic
situation in Iowa." observed the Mar
shalltown Times-Republicans
The Cascade Pioneer can discern no
quarrel between the democracy of
Grover Cleveland and that of William
Il. Hearst, and sees no reason why
there should be.
President Roosevelt speaks softly
and carries big harmony stick" says
the Mason City Globe-Gazette
us there question on earth of more
vital Importance than this one?" asks
the Cedar Falls Gazette, referring to
the divorce evil "Why do not the en-.
thusiastic reformers organize to crush
this monster that is threatening the
substructure Of society and govern
ment?"
The Des Moines Register and Lead.
er believes that whatever other iegis.
lation fails in the closing days of Che
session, and whatever other worthy
projects are abandoned for want of
money, nothing should be allowed to
come in the way of establishing the
proposed inebriate asylum at Knox.
vile. 1t is the Des Moines papers
prediction that if the asylum is es.
tablished and conducted on the lines
proposed habitual drunkenness will be
almost unknown in the state ten years
hence.
The Keokuk Gate City says the cir.
cumstance that a fool Is born every
minute ought to insure large number
of people against lonesomeness.
AS to that part Of the 1903 platform
to which objection is made, the Des
Moines Register and Leader says: "The
plank of 1908 was not perfect and
there are many other ways Of saying
what all Iowa republicans agree upon
as to the tariff. But this plank was
carefully written; 1t was written by
men representing both factions of the
party, and it was made the basis of
one of the most enthusiastic campaigns
the state has ever had. Its accept
ance now involves no defeat for any
body, and no reputation of anybody's
views. 1t is, therefore, the one declara-
ton the coming convention can put
forth that no one is in position to OBJ.
ject to or criticise."