Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-26
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Maxwell Is not the democratic
party" says the Marshalltown Times
feeling Of the major portion of its
wing. They have been bun
coed and trapped and thousands of
them, like Maxwell, will renounce the
party that cozened and bejaped them"
The Cedar Rapids Republican OBJ
serves that railroad companies are
abused when they run their trains too
slow and when they run fast enough
to meet with accidents they are the
more amused.
Mr.. Hearst's newspapers are point
ing out to Judge Parker the wicked
ness Of Messrs. Belmont, Cochran and
McCarren, which makes 1t apparent
to the Sioux City journal that Mr..
Hearst will give the ticket fully as en-
thusiastic support as Mr.. Bryan has
been giving 1t.
The Muscatine Journal suspects
that the Chicago Chronicles change
Of heart is for this day and date only,
Is on probation and under suspicion
and that long term of good behavior
intervenes between it and seat in
the inner circle.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES all Iowa
democi ats can give Parker" says the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil. THE vote
OF the state is so securely nailed down
by the republicans that the Parkerites
Will not even dream Of delivering It,"
"Blkins says his father-in- law Is too
large man for the vice presidency.
says the Sioux City Tribune, "and this
Is the most considerable, way that
the orientalcould be devised"
Getting the British Interested in
the oriental war may be Russian
way of getting the borders of the war
widened," opines the Cedar Rapids
Republican. Zone can hardly other
wise account for Russian interference
with the British shipping in the Red
sea-"
Bryan received more votes in 1900
than was ever given to any other
democratic candidate for president"
says the New Sharon Star, and adds:
'Just watch and see If Parker don't
fall he Ii million or more behind the
high water mark scored by Bryan"
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'The devotion Of Mr.. Maxwell to
principe" says the Waterloo Courier,
lis touching, and the more so because
1t is so touching principle. But who
Is he gong to vote for-Debs or Swal-
low?"
Bloomfield News-Republican. - On
last Saturday the republicans of Wa
pello county nominated Hon. +. M.
Epperson. Of Eddyville, as their can
didate for representative to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Hon.
A. w. Buchanan. He Is an old wheel
horse republican and will be elected.
The Des Moines Register and Lead
er finds nothing to indicate that Mr..
Rinehart was at Iowa City when Sam
5. Wright was being received with
such enthusiasm.
us the party never to hear the last
of the braggart?" asks the Ackley
World. dem as 1t takes note Of Mr.
Bryans plans for 1908.
Bryan comedies that the democracy
Is In a bad way, but he still has conf
dence in himself" says the Algons
Upper Des Moines Republican. "He
thinks that in four years more he car
straighten 1t out"
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says
that the harmony just displayed at
Iowa City was more negative than
otherwise; there was nothing to fight
over.
"a good many Of us may think the
companies do not bear their share of
public burdens" says the Fairfield
Ledger, commenting on the fact that
the railways in Iowa pay more than 10
per cent Of the taxes collected, but 1t
does not seem possible that they own
10 per cent Of the property of the great
state of Iowa"
ut is quite a novelty to witness the
gathering of bunch of Iowa demo-
Gratis without a fight" remarks the
Waterloo Reporter.
The Dubuque Telegraph explains
that the gold democrats dominated in
the Iowa City convention merely by
sufferance of the "uncommercialized
democracy" but 1t gives assurance
that when it becomes necessary "the
prairies will awake in new born ZEAL"
and the real democrats will reassume
control.
The Boone Republican says the
democrats hardest fight will be to
smother the Roosevelt enthusiasm in
their own ranks.
This country does not want to
make good Americans out Of the in
habitants Of the Philippine islands,