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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-30

second district. This year every con
Iditioa is changed. Judge Wade, by be-
ing placed in the lime light, has at
tracted wide attention and his action
when Iowa was divided between
Hearst, Parker and Mcclellan senti-
ment did not add to his popularity even
among the members OF his own party
After the victory of Judge Parker over
the Hearst element which was predomi-
nent in Iowa Mr.. Wade wrote to the
nominee, telling him he had been work
ing for his nomination all along. This
statement, which cannot be borne out
entirely by tie facts, has even more
@detracted from the popularity of Iowa's
lone democratic congressman and it
is very safe prediction that he will
not poll as many votes as he did two
years ago.
All things considered, the election of
Mr.. Dawson seems to be practically as
sured this year. His nomination by &C.
clamation at yesterdays convention in
Davenport indicates that the republic
ans are united in his support, as they
should be, and his undoubted ability,
coupled with Judge Wade's unenviable
record, cannot help but win votes for
him.
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DR.. ]. c. Bonhanl.
Elks Block
Ottumwa, Iowa.

by saying that 1--WE will act within the
any," and adds: Let the white peo-
pie of this country understand
that they are ruled by the
black vote added to the republic
cans. and remedy may come. The
white men of this country pay nearly
all the taxes, and they should rule
This means, If it means anything. that
the ancient democrat will repeal the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
il he gets into office, and abolish
throughout the whole country the
have ended in half dozen of the
have ended in half a. dozen Of the
southern states.
How does Davis know that the
whole of the black men of the north
who go to the polls vote the republi-
can ticket? A good many of them In
st. Louis vote the democratic ticket,
is true of all the rest of the country.
The republican lead in the northern
states In 1896 and 1900 far exceeded
the black vote in those states. Lin
coins vote in the north in 1860 was
far ahead of Douglass and Breckin-
ridges combined, and very few ne
groes voted that year. The reconstruc-
ton act of 1867 and the fourteenth
amendment were some distance in the
future at that time. The chances are
that the republican majority In the
north and west in 1904, where the
black mans vote is counted IL he casts
it, will be very much greater than the
aggregate negro vote. Advanced years
and the strain of the candidacy are
playing tricks with Candidate Davis.
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THE BoNEsTEEL BUBBLE.

Elk Point, S. D.,Leader.-Like Whit
of smoke from an old settlers pipe the
Bonesteel bubble will float and curl
before the eager vision and then van
ish-a ray of fog. A palace cannot be
erected on straw foundations; the tale
of the man who builded his house on
the shifting sands is the story of the
Rosebud. When the registration ends,
when the mob fees, when the few
have been called and the many draw
their blanks, the magic land will seem
far away. Its rolling meadows, its
luxuriant grasses, its virgin Wales and
gold sparkling streams will grow misty
and indistinct. The farmers, the bank
ers, the schoolma- and cutthroats
who pushed along the ropes and cruel
fled each others corns, will go back to
their old haunts and their ancient
loves. Harvest will sweat out some of
the burning fever and stacking and
husking will take the rest. The BUSH
ness man will cup his temple in his
fingers and answa' phones as Of yore.
The schoolmaam will return to her
swarm The roses of Rosebud will
wither and the SHOWS as of old will
once more mantle her rugged bluffs.
The $500 cabins and a handful of
mushroom metropolises, the slender
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WALSH is OUT.

AS told in the telegraphic dispatches
in yesterdays Courier, Charles A.
Walsh of this city who has been sec
rotary of the national democratic COM
mittee for eight years has been replac-
ed by Urey Woodson of Owensboro,
KY, and during the present campaign
will simply represent Iowa as the
member of the national committee
from this state.
Regardless of politics, Ottumwans
are sorry to see Mr.. Walsh deposed
from his place of national prominence.
The civic pride that is greater than ev-
en- political enthusiasm is the cause
of this feeling and republicans as we'll
as democrats would have been glad to
see Mr.. Walsh again in the Office of
secretary during the campaign which
will soon be inaugurated. His defeat
was not due to any inability, for his
management Of the two Bryan cam
paigns was masterful He was depos-
ed because of his preference for Will
liam Randolph Hearst as the demo
cratic nominee for president. Wood
son on the other hand, worked for Par
ker and in fact managed his pre-con-
vention campaign for the nomination in
Kentucky. Mr.. Walsh was even more
active in the interests of Hearst, not
only in Iowa but in other states.
1t is to Mr.. Walshs credit that he
declares he will not let the action of
the committee influence him in the
least during the campaign. 81 am as
much a democrat as ever" he said to
reporter yesterday when notified OF
Woodson's election and no one will
say that Mr.. Walsh has ever been any
thing but democrat.
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OF Tammany are to be determined at a
conference held between Leader Muir
ply and Candidate Parker.
There will be no dealing with any
of the men who have been represent
ing Judge Parker's interest before or
since the ST. Louis convention" is the
language of the pre-conference def of
Leader Murphy. The reason for the
enforced Punishment exile of Hill to
the back yard is therefore as plainly
understood as 1t is plainly intimated in
the def.
Neither Mr.. Hill, the manager be-
fore, nor Mr.. Sheehan, the manager
after, the convention is to be present
Leader Murphy is fully awake to the
fact that the safety suggested in the
multiplicity of physicians is safety for
the doctors but not for the patient. He
knows that the recollections of the
terms of Tammany submission might
become confused or enlarged or even
wholly forgotten in the memories of
attendant consultors of the Parker fol-
lowing. Therefore will Leader Murphy
deal only with Candidate Parker, or
he will not deal with anybody. The
promises of performance must be de-
livered under the hand and seal of the
gentleman nominated for the presi-
dency at st. Louis, and the recollection
of the leader is to have the force and
effect of the recollection of the candi-
date.
The terms are hard and somewhat
humiliating to Parker, but good poll
ties nevertheless. What the terms of
alliance between the tiger and the
candidate are will never be known, of
course. The election of Roosevelt and
Fairbanks will avoid all necessity for
publication of the terms of the sur
render Of Parker, the exile of Hill and
the apotheosis of Tammany-but they
would make mighty interestin' readin'.
in. ..,.sl,
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a .a
streaks of breaking, the straw, cattle
cotes will dot the red mans erstwhile
possession and the wallcws of the
noble bison. Time favors sanity. Frost
cures fever. Some day along the
streets of Bonesteel and Fairfax and
Echo the trolley cars will rattle and
boom and the fashionable world crowd
and g1ggle, but not tomorrow, nor next
year. The brownstone fronts will not
look we'll amidst the bunch grass, the
homes of the elite on the Prospect
hills will not reflect the sparkling
wealth of ST. Elmo. ST. Elmo! Saint
In sooth! Who but a genius Of the in
finite west could pin Klondike to the
pantaloons of a Rosebud, and massa
ere two birds with one stone? But
booms, like cyclones, Matched and nur-
tured by arid sands, soon blow them
selves to pieces and join the things
invisible.
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Excess Of ex-

NEXcess of imports over exports.
Table Of statistics are not attractive
to the average reader on hot July
morning, but the above table
will repay at least cursory glance.
1t will prove very comforting to the
man of business who wishes to be as
sured that conditions are favorable to
American trade, and that the immedi-
ate prospect Is bright and inspiring.
1t will be noticed that with the ex-
ception Of 1901 we have sold more
abroad than during any preceding year
and that, too, in spite Of the great
shortage in agricultural exports.
American manufacturers have never
met such a foreign demand as during
the fiscal year that closed July /. II
will be noticed also that we have
bought abroad over thirty-five mil
lions less than during 1903, leaving 6
balance Of trade in our favor of ovel
40 millions, or 80 millions greatel
than for the preceding year.
With the present year the United
States becomes the great exporting
nation Of the world. Not only is Its
total commercials exports and I'm
ports combined-greater than for any
preceding year in It's own history, but
its exports are greater than those of
Great Britain, which now goes to the
second place.
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NO SENTIMENT FOR ASSASSIN.

Chicago er-Ocean.-The London
Saturday Review compares the assas-
sination Of General Bobrikoff Of Fin
land with the Phoenix park murders
and the murders Of three American
presidents. and arraigns what it calls
the attitude of the public mind in Eng
land and the United States in con-
doning the offense Of Schaumann.
has not been noted in the United
States that there has been tendency
to condone the offense. 1t is true that
Schaumann has been represented as
one of people laboring under gov
eminent that was distasteful, even
oppressive, and that he struck against
the governing power as protest
against tyrannical conditions. 1t
may be true that under such circum-
stances the horror of the act would not
be as great in this country as would
be the horror over the assassination
of an American president. And it
may be true that Americans pause and
contemplate that what might be con-
sidered blow for freedom in Rus
sian province would be blow against
freedom in an American state. But
they also consider the method and they
do not condone 1t any more than they
condoned the assassinations in Italy
or Servia.
Americans may stop to consider
causes, but they do not sympathize
with assassination. The man who
uses the boom, the knife, or the pistol
to strike down the head Of the govern
ment of the representative of a gov
eminent is not judged in the light of
the circumstances Of oppression or of
personal grievances. It is not the
American way Of looking at such
things.
The offense in Finland has not been
condoned in America. For England
the Saturday Review may possibly
speak, and If the attitude of the public
mind there is as it represents, then
the argument fits. But in America
the assassin Is not person in favor.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-30
DEMocRAcYs HARMoNIzERs.

Chicago Chronicle.-Hill and Cor
man at irregular intervals clasp their
hands reverently, roll their eyes sky
ward and exclaim with fervent emo
ton: THANK God, I am a democrat"
Their watchword is, Anything to
win!" They know no such thing as
political principle. With them party
politics means trickery and sharp
practice. 1t is game without rules,
In which anything and everything is
fair.
These are the great thermometers.
They take it upon themselves to rec
ognize the trreconcilable, to unite in
wedlock saint and sinner. right and
wrong, good and evil, truth and false
hood and make. them one flesh. But
their usefulness is impaired by the
fact that nobody has any confidence in
them, and least Of all the plain, honest
voter who has not learned how to
confound all logical and moral dis
tinctions. u.s.
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THE REPUBLICAN, RECORD.

keokuk Gate City.-Among the first
things the republican party did on
coming into being and power was to
save the Union by force of arms and
put an end to human slavery. This
was followed by restoration of the
rebellious states to the rights they had
forfeited and the enactment of a
homestead law. The resumption of
specie payments and like beneficent
economic measures f1ttingly supple
mented the great achievements of Its
earlier years. Still more recently the
party has further demonstrated its
worthiness of public confidence by a
like record of wisdom and statesman
ship. 1t has been in power now for
eight years consecutively. Some of
the most important accomplishments
during that time are thus briefly sum-
married. in the Cincinnati Star:
Passed new tariff law.
Successfully conducted foreign
war.
Extended the commerce of the
country.
Settled the money question by es-
tablishing the gold standard
Passed laws opening the arid lands
of the country to settlement.
Passed wise and beneficial immi-
grafton laws.
Increased the government revenues
until there is large surplus, besides
paying $100,000,O00 of the Spanish war
debt.
Lowered the rate of interest on
government loans.
Annexed Hawaii.
"Reorganized the army of the United
States and the militia of the states.
Built up new navy.
Handed Cuba over to its people
free of encumbrance
'Took the Philippines, put down the
insurrection, and gave the Filtpinos a
beneficial, wise local government.
'Interfered for the legations al
Pekin and prevented the partitioning
of China.
Settled the Venezuelan complica-
tons, giving added prestige to the
Monroe doctrine, and made of The
Hague Tribunal living force.
Settled the Alaska boundary uues-
tion.
Secured absolute control Of the
Panama canal zone, and is now pre-
pairing to build the great canal"
The republican record is one OF
which the party has just reason to be
proud and one which should not in
wife public confidence in vain. There
Is nothing in 1t for which 1t needs tc
apologize or that any sensible patriotic
American would wish to have undone
The record Of the part IN the past is
its best guaranty for IA future, anc
on that record 1T goes to the people III
supreme confidence Of their approya
by a decisive vote.
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WELL MATED.

Seattle Observation-Disclosures. = Judge
Parker apparently has had no opin-
ions. He has waited with patience for
the democratic convention to furnish
him with a set of ready made opinions
but it has been unable to do So He,
therefore, stands as the negative can
didate on platform of negation His
claim to public support and indorse-
ment and his sole one, on his personal
record or on the platform upon which
he stands, is that he is opposed to
Theodore Roosevelt and that his party
is opposed to the republican party. He
and his party offer nothing save this,
and in this campaign platform and
candidate are ideally mated.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-30
DAVIS AS A sEcTIoNALIsr.

st. Louis e-Democrat.- SEN
ator Henry Gassawav Davis, the dem
ocracy,s centenarian candidate for vice
president, says the black man gives
the republicans their performance in
the country, and cites table of ne
groes of voting age in many of the
states to show that they exceed the
republican plurality in those states.
His deduction is a little astray for the
republican lead in nearly all the states
he mentions was much longer in 1900
than was the number of the black men
of voting age. The figures which he
cites prove the opposite of that which
he intends, and which he thinks.
But what is the centenarian going to
do about it? He answers this query
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DAwsoN,s NOMINATION,

The nomination of A. F. Dawson, of
Preston, to represent the republicans
Of the second district in the campaign
for congressman meets with the gener-
al approval Of republicans through
out the state. Secretary Leslie M. Shaw,
who keeps an interested eye upon af-
fairs in Iowa despite his removal to
Washington, consented to be interview
ed upon the nomination and expressed
himself to Harold ]. Mahin, the Court
er's special correspondent at Washing
ton, as greatly pleased with the action
of the republicans of the second dis
trict. Mr.. Shaw thoroughly believes
that Dawson will be elected over Judge
Wade and that the Iowa delegation in
the next congress will be entirely re.
publican.
The second district republicans have
shown their good judgment by nominal
ing Mr.. Dawson and throwing aside
every trace of internal disagreement.
Mr.. Dawson is regarded as unquestion-
ably the best man for the nomination.
He is a young man but has had long
experience in Washington Official life
through has association with the Iowa
delegation. He has the entire respect
of every republican in the second dis
trict, represents no separate clique or
faction, and will draw the whole re-
publican vote in addition to many from
the other party.
The redemption of the second dis
trict is not so much of task as it
has been made to appear. The election
Of Judge Wade two years ago brought
him info national Drominanca hacouea
he became the only democrat in con-
gress from a state which had for
years sent solid republican delega-
ton and which gives the republican
candidates upward of $4,000 plurality
at every general election. But Judge
Wade made an especially spectacular
campaign against rather passive one
by William Huffman of Muscatine.
The democratic party was united and
every effort was put forth to carry the
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deed, a young man and his sweetheart
last week, travelled from st. Louis to
an Indiana town before they could find
someone who would issue them a Ii.
cense 10 wed, the objection being that
the prospective groom was a grass
widower."
Whether divorce is at any time jus.
tlfiable is of course question. Wheth.
er the fault is in marrying or in being
divorced is also a question. But the
question as to how to prevent the evil
and its growth is the biggest of them
The latest suggestion has come from
Mrs Frederic Schoff the president OF
the National Congress of Mothers, who
has summed up her theory in twelve
matrimonial commandments. as fol.
lows:
Begin at the beginning by teach.
ing children the real meaning :, and
sacredness of marriage.
Teach them that it is a permanent
relation, for life or nothing.
"Enlighten girls as to their duty as
future wives and mothers.
Impress upon boys the fact that
marriage is the hottest bond in life.
Never advise girls to marry for any
other motive than love.
Money. should be strictly ruled out
of the marriage consideration, Char.
acter%is the chief requisite. 49,
Make re-marriage for divorced PEG.
pie impossible.
"Ostracize absolutely divorced cou.
pies who remarry.
Let ministers all over the country
unite to refuse to sanction such mar.
riages. NJ
Let unhappily mated pairs focus
every effort to making the best of the
situation.
Let impossibly mated couples sepa.
rate, but not remarry.
Let parents, teachers, clergymen
legislators and all reformers unite to
utterly discourage the evil and stamp
it out of the country"
Mrs. Schoff is no doubt sincere in
her plan for the abolition of the di.
vorce, but it is hardly possible that,
unless she should live to be several
hundred years old she will see the
realization of her dream. 1t is easy
for the woman who has enjoyed a
score of years or more of happy mar.
ried life to believe this scheme prac.
tical but it is hardly probable that the
woman who, for instance, marries a
man in whom she has confidence but
who afterward turns out to be brute
will see the logic of the twelve com.
mandments. 1t is equally improbable
that this woman, after living on the
products of her toll for while and
finally receiving an offer of marriage
will feel single qualm of conscience
in accepting. The divorce is very
firmly grounded in American institu.
lions and though it is often abused, it
would be as hard to do away with it
as with crime or some of the other
evils to which the world is heir.
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TIP WILLIE.

A waiter he stood at my goodly right
Singing willie! tip Willie! tip Will
lie!"
And said, Honest Richard, now why
do you stand
Singing Willie! tip Willie! tip Will
lie.'
Is 1t weakness of intellect. waiter. 7
"or clockwork device in your little
inside?"
with shake of his barbershop curls
he replied:
Zip Willie! tip Willie! tip Wdllie!"
My plate he removed and he held out
his hand,
Signing willie! tip Willie! tip Will
lie!"
Till 1 said, Simple waiter. can't un-
derstand
All this willie! tip Willie! tip will
lie!'
Your accents denote indigestive re-
morse
Do you wish me to pay for my meal
by the course?"
But the waiter replied In monotone
hoarse:
Tip Willie! tip Willie! tip willie!"
When paid for my dinner he acted SO
strange.
With his Willie! tip Willie! tip
Willie!"
AS quietly pocketed all of the change
To his Willie! tip Willie! tip VAL
lie!"
Then a sob, and sigh, and gurgle
he gave,
And said to the steward: How your
walters behaved"
But the latter just winked as he MUIR
rlred-the knaye-
"Your silly-tip Willie! tip Willie"'
New York Globe.
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SATISFYING AMBITIONS.

The recent death of Wilson Barrett,
the great English actor, brings to mind
the story of his boyish ambitions and
how they were satisfied. Barrett was
the son of an English country gen.
tleman and had before him life of
comparative ease - a passive life to
be sure, but pleasant one for man
without ambitions. But Barrett had
ambitions. While still a school boy,
he spent his last coin to gain admis-
sion to the Princess theatre at Lon
don, where Charles Keane was play
ing Hamlet. This opened new era
to him. From that time his greatest
ambitions were to play Hamlet and to
women who was in the Keane com
pany.
Everyone knows how we'll Barrett
played Hamlet and thus satisfied the
first of his boyish ambitions. A few
years after he became of age he
sought the acquaintance Of Miss Heath
and in short time they were maj.
ried. Thus Barrett attained the sue.
cess of which he had dreamed.
The story of Lord Roseberry, who
when boy determined upon three
achievements - to marry the richest
woman in the world. to own Derby
winner and to become prime minister
of England. One by one his ambitions
were satisfied he welded daugh-
ter of Baron Rothschild when thirty
years old, won the Derby at fifty and
before he was sixty years of age he
was prime minister of England.
The careers of Roseberry and Bar
rett emphasize the value of ambitions
The boy, who as youngster, deter
mines to be great lawyer or a mer-
chant prince should be encouraged to
keep his ambitions ever in mind. With.
out ambition nothing will be accom-.
plished and the earlier it begins to
make itself known the greater will be
its influence upon the life of the boy.
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THE PLAcATIoN oF3TAMMANY.

Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Undoubtedly there must be placation
of Tammany, and none understands
the need so thoroughly as does Alton
Brooks Parker. 1t is a situation UNI
derstood by him as completely as he
understands the necessity for sending
David Bennett Hill to the rear, con-
tent with an occasional hand-out, but
with strict orders to keep his presence
as fully concealed as his socialism.
For all of which reasons it will not
come as a flash Of lightning from a
clear sky, nor even as a CLEAN of rea-
son would come from Lincoln, Me-
braska, that the terms Of the placation