Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-04

rotary Of the national democratic COM
mittee was simply the happening of
the expected"
The Marshalltown Times-Republi-
can says that the increased railway
assessment-the third by the present
executive Ncouncil-shows that the
council is trying to keep railroad as
gress of real values without singing
out railroad property for specious at
tack for political purposes.
AS to whether Mr.. Ketchum. the
nominee for railway commissioner. is
a standpatter or not, the Mason City
Globe Gazette says: who gives
tinker's condemnation what he Is as
long as he is thorough republican
sioner, which the Globe Gazette be-
lieves he will do? Ketchum believes
he has right to do his own thinking
and choose his own friends. Suppose
he be given a chance on his own mer-
its-not on some reform spasm."
it,
Tact is capital,'a whole heap of It,"
says the Orange City Herald. The
young man with much tact and small
book knowledge will succeed where the
wise guy without tact will go to pieces
in the first inning. Tact is simply
recognition of the fact that there are
others besides yourself"
1.-THE pictures of some of the sue
cessful men who drew Rosebud farms
are being printed, and the Sioux City
Journal notices that of the number no
pictures of farmers have yet appear
ed 1t isn't much of farmer who
would leave good Iowa farm for the
prospect of getting poor South Da-
kota farm" says the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil.
And now the authorities of Cook
county are going to suppress gamb-
ling at all suburban race tracks
Really Chicago Is getting SO good
says the Sioux City Journal, that hel
citizens must show constantly increas.
ing reluctance to change their place o
residence to be beyond the COLDER
gates"
! THE packers have surplus banl
account to draw upon" says the Wat
erloo Courier, "the striker has hi
4 strike benefit and the consumer o
j beef may turn vegetarian and that to-
with profit, but the producer Of tn
cattle, with his profits gone, surel.
holds the bag"
: Asserting that "a vote for Parker |
: vote for uncertainty as to the flu
ture turn of business" the Burlington
| Hawk Eye believes "the average bust
, ness man, farmer, workingman ant
professional man will prefer the Ger
tainties of present national policies t
the mysterious and unknown"
In the opinion of the Des Moine
Capital MugWumpian essays on Judg
f, Parker's independence of characte
people to forget the fact that Parke
owed his appointment in the first In
stance to Hill, and that but for Hi
his elevation to the highest court I
1.-The state might have been an ever
1 long. deferred-perhaps never take
} place. ITO intimate that Hill will ne
be Judge Parker's right hand man
t the present campaign, and his chic
counsellor in case he is elected, is
the working of our modern politics
SYSTEM" declares the Capital.
THE democracy Is going to send OF
4 tons of literature SO the report goes
!. says the Cedar Rapids Republica
S "On good portion of it the republ
l. cans could afford to pay the postag
A democrat cannot make a speech tn
year that will not reveal to an INTEL
gent man the utter unworthiness
t that party. 1t dare not refer to !
7, past, and 1t is even afraid to promi!
:, anything definite as to it's future"
It "John ]. Ryan deserves some credit
the Cedar Rapids Gazette says, 81
proving to a great lot of people thu
they need guardians. If they will bel
. the fact in mind for the future, WHIT
q they see other chances to get rio
s quick, they will be able to regard hi
g as benefactor to that part Of tt
e race in which they are most immed
ately concerned"
. The Council Bluffs Nonpareil sa
. that the democratic vice PRESIDENT
70 candidate is still figuring on the pro
n lem whether he is the oldest living
IL lustration of the maxim that all thin
come to him who waits or whether
was left for him to give evidence tn
70 Overwhelming disaster may overta
!, a man in the closing hours of a su
~ cessful and brilliant career.
in DEMOCRACY'S NEW DEAL.
Kansas City Star.--The democra