Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-17


Eiboeck's suggestion for wide open
city and fair. THE policy advocated
by Col Eiboeck," the Mail and Times
asserts, would ruin the fair and would
have a very disastrous effect upon the
city"
THE fellow who thinks God has
much to do with American politics."
remarks the Iowa Falls Citizen, "evi-
ruler of the universe"
The Sac City Sun says that although
there has been financial stringency
in Iowa for two years, owing to crop
failures, there has been little occasion
for idleness and labor has been in
demand at good wages. in fact" it
adds, while money may be scarce; the
confidence of the people is unimpair-
ed"
1T seems to us that labor has not
had wise leadership of late years"
says the Algona Courier. There are
too many strikes. and we fear some of
them without Just cause
The Rockford Register, discussing
Col. Eiboeck's proposal for a state fair
supported by sales of liquor, says the
people of his adopted state. His plan
would start an insurrection," declares
the Register.
The Dubuque Times regrets on
Judge Evans account that he did not
give Banker Soule the limit. leaving
the governor to pardon him at the ex-
piration of eighteen months If he so
desired. The Times argues that
pardon at the end Of eighteen months
would have occasioned little criticism
by comparison with the volume the
light sentence has brought forth.
"As far as the sentence is concern
ed" says the Hampton Chronicle,
eighteen months Is just as much pun
ishment for man like soule as five
years would be. He Is not hardened
criminal, and had he made little
money in his speculations instead of
losing large amount he would today
be classed with the upper 400 in Iowa
Falls"
The Vinton Eagle says that Secre-
tary Shaw is regular schoolmaster
in politics.
The Ida Grove Pioneer believes that
If all the Iowa farmers who became
dissatisfied and We're induced to emil
crate to the Dakotas. the Indian coun
try or Canada could be rounded up and
polled nine out of ten of them would
say that, after all, good old Iowa is
the best.
The DEBORAH Republican recalls that
gambling on the Chicago board of
trade is what ruined Soule, the ,Eldora
embezzler. While he was successful
he was an operator" but now he
realizes 1t was clear cut gambling all
the time.
Mr.. Parker is held up as an ideal
man, but the Glidden Graphic thinks
that the man who comes within hail
ing distance of the ideal could never
associate so intimately with David B.
Hill and his colaborers as Parker has
DONE
The Manson Democrat says that
philanthropy like that Of Abraham
Simmer, of Whverly who gave his
home for a public hospital is true
philanthropy without any ifs or isms
to balk or hinder.
The Carroll Herald says that there
is nothing about the current political
contest to impress voters unfavorably
or to disgust them with practical poli-
tics, and it reasons therefore that the
people are not apt to vote for the
biennial elections amendment as they
would be were the campaign more
heated and firing.
The Des Moines Capital recalls the
interesting fact that Bourke Cochran
stumped Vermont.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil OBJ
serves that the republican majority in
Vermont seems to be "irrevocably es-
tablished."
THE democrats have taken our fire
and batter" says the Britt Tribune,
"and If they can manage to raise
grease enough to grease the griddle
they think they will have pancake of
their own"
AS to Capt. Hull's "two-fors," the
odebolt Chronicle says the joke is on
the voters.
Grandpa Davis must be laborine
under the mistaken impression that
he was nominated on the strength of
his record as a self-made man." saws
the Sioux City Journal. LAS a matter
Of fact Mr.. Davis owed his nomination
to the fact that he was q self-made
multi millionaire"
III Donnelly had stood by the agree
ment made after the first walk-out,"
says the Cedar Rapids Republican,
and had submitted all questions of al
legged discrimination to the arbitrators.
as provided for in the protocol he
might today be looked upon as VIC
tor, instead of failure and disor-
ganizer."
The Creston Advertiser Gazette
thinks that Russia might with
advantage sell few hundred
of her sacred icons on which
she has relied to such a large
extent to win battles and with the pro-
ceeds buy some modern guns and war
ships.
DEMOCRATIC MANAGEMENT.
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