Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-18
REPUBLICANS THINK THAT HE.
81 MOULD MAKE A eooH 80
j OFFICIAL.
Governor cummIns Writes Article on
Reciprocity for cyeIopedia Amerl-
cana - Way and Blythe in Fourth
pistrict-kasson Letter Discussed.
Thy LEON BROWN
Des Moines, Bureau of the Courier.
DeS Maines luna 1E

oo1ue VI tne newspapers, IN this gay
summer season when things are dull,
are indulging in the pleasant and anus
ing occupation of specializing on
| who is going to run for office next
year, the year after, and for three,
four, five and ten years ahead. Healy
has been elected standard bearer for
the Cummins element-to the chagrin
OF the friends of Garst and others,
Cummins has been made candidate
for congress several years in the flu
ture;s etc., all on paper. Recently an
enterprtsing scribe has had Congress
man Smith running for senator against
Dclliver in 1907
What's the matter with Lacey?"
asked a politician when his attention
was attracted to the Smith article.
cummlns on Reciprocity.
The publishers who are bringing out
the Cyclopedia Americana are now In
\ receipt of the manuscript of the ar
ucle on reciprocity which Governor A.
B. Cummins prepared for them at their
request for insertion in their forth
coming book. 1t is supposed that the
article will not be public property till
Y lne time after the national conven-
Z /.on low admirers Of the governor
and people who believe ardently with
him in reciprocity had been hoping
that the article would be made public
before the national convention. The
governor is not at liberty to make it
public, of course. even If it were re-
garded as desirable. for the article is
the property of the publishers.
All that is known Of s. -ticle is
a. 70 ut tbo& ic non.ra,,,con n n.
facter. This, of course, was essential
from the point of view of the publish
ers; but 1t was the natural view for
, the governor to take of the subject
for the reason that the principle Of rec
iprocity is one of statemanship and not
LOT partisan politics-at least the
the case.
The kasson Letter.
The Kasson letter has created con-
siderable interest among public men.
For some time it has been said that
u Mr.. Kasson, surviving and rallying
from four delicate surgical operations,
has rapidly regained his health and
with 1t his facility for intellectual af-
fairs. In a recent letter to Hon.
Charles Aldrich, written in his own
hand he gave evidence of a restoration
,of his old time strength His letter
on reciprocity is regarded among pub
lie men as Of great weight.
"But because great man says 1t
is good thing, doesn't make it SO, .
said one man today.
POSSIBLY it is a good thing to close
one American factory so that another
American factory can do more business
abroad. Mr. Kasson, the governor and
the reciprocityites think it is good
thing to do SO when the volume of
extra business done by the latter fac.
tory is greater than the total business
Of the factory that is closed.
"But do the people of Iowa regard 1t
as good business 10 close the pearl
button factories along the Mississippi
river so that the fine shoe maker in
Massachusetts may sell more OF his
products in France?
'The senate of the United States
thought not and has failed to ratify the
Kasson treaties for that reason"
The Fourth District Situation.
Information from the fourth district
is to the effect that the stories sem
out few days ago from that BALL
wick announcing that Tom Way hat
won a complete victroy over ]. b
Blythe in the fight over fourth distric
committeeman. were grossly exagger
ated.
at is always WISE" said posted
fourth district man today, ito wait fol-
conventions and caucuses to be helt
before declaring positively that this
side or that has won fight. You SET
there Is many a slip 'twixt the cul
and the lip. One can tell better afte
a fight is over who is winner than hi
can Just before. Frequently man hal
a contest won until it is held. Yo,
recall the recent wreck at Clear Lake
at the close of the G. A. G. encamp
ment. Tow Way was badly shaken III
In that. you remember; while Mr.
Blythe escaped unscathed. Possibl.
the Cerro Gordo county political figh
will come out the same way. Bette
watch and wait and not be so positive
about the Way victory"
BIythe's Friends Confident
IN other words, the friends of MI
Blythe are profoundly convinced tina
he will win in Cerro Gordo county
which means that "standpatter" will
succeed Mr.. Hempel as state commit
teeman from the fourth.
Clayton county. which backs MI
Hempel who resides in it, is mucl
concerned as to the situation. In
strong editorial the Elkader Argu
pleads with Fayette county not to g
back on Hempel. 1t is claimed tina
Clayton county stood by H. l.. Adam
of Fayette when he was running TO
state superintendent at the time, las
year. when r. G. Barrett of Mitchell
county was demanding fourth tern
as state superintendent and did it a
the danger of losing the friendship Q
Mitchell. This is advanced as req
son why Fayette should now stand b
the Clayton county candidate for con
mitteeman.
Barrett and the Superintendency
THE fact is that the Cummins men /
Mitchell county that is, the ant
standpatters today-managed to kee
Barrett in hopeless fight long enoug
tn ki11 off all chance that Adams ha