Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-06
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

''In order to prevent herself rushing
into war with Japan for the assistance
of Russia" says the Cedar Rapids Ga
zette, France has started a quarrel
with the pope and is greatly pleased
with this proof of her own daring"
The Keokuk Gate City, in pessi-
mistic mood, says: Most people
thought the civil war was over for all
time, but announcement has lust been
made that the granddaughter of jeff
Davis and relative of General Grant
are soon to we'd"
Not excepting anyone but taking in
all the territory of which there is any
knowledge, mortal or otherwise. Ed
itor Rinehart in his paper which was
the first in the United States to sug-
gest William R. Hearst for the presi-
dency. refers to William J. Bryan as
the most finished product of the In
finite" The Keokuk Gate City, in COM
menting upon the character sketch
says, ut ought to be worth something
to possess an imagination capable of a
performance like that"
The Clinton Herald predicts that
when Judge Wade bumps up against
Dawson he will learn that he has found
more than his match as a campaigner.
The Clinton Age presents a new
view of the annual election. "The mass
of both dem ocrats and republicans" it
says, seem to think that frequent cleo
lions are sort of grand breathing parks
and are slow to relegate any of them
to the rear. Elections have come to be
recreation and there has never been
a time in the history of Iowa when the
people could afford recreations better
than now"
The Burlington HawlS-Eye says that
the state tax levy of mills is surely
small and should be most cheerfully
paid. "The people get magnificent re-
turns for their mills" the Hawk-Eye
asserts. Few states can compare with
Iowa So far as her state institutions are
concerned or the care which she gives
the unfortunates who have become the
wards of the state. Nowhere is pub
lie money expended to better advan-
tage for public purposes than by the
state of Iowa, and mills seems a
very low tax when the benefits are
considered"
sr, Ill o.
The Des Moines Register and Lead.
er points out that the latest mistake
of the legislature, instead of being
costly, as is usually the case, actually
saved the state $4,000. eff this could
be kept up" it assumes, "the taxpayers
would be in favor of the legislature
meeting annually instead of biennial
ly."
Leslie M. Shaw" says the
Keokuk County News, is one of the
very big guns of the nation and is in de-
mand on the platform in the east Keep
your eye on Shaw"
The Davenport Times notes that "No
candidate for congress from Iowa has
been nominated in recent years who
has received such favorable editorial
mention from the newspapers as has
Mr.. Dawson. He was well known
throughout the state before he was
nominated"
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The Cedar Rapids Republican would
let the G.. A. R. pass in the natural
course of events. AS an institution, the
Republican asserts, it could not be per.
petuated in anything like it's original
glory.
The Washington Press speaks of
Barlow Granger, a pioneer Polk county
democrat, who has left his party, as a
man who has Served the Lord and
voted the democratic ticket all his life,'
and the Keokuk Gate City suggests
that 'it is one of the elements of humor
to point out relations unthought OF
before"
'"Those who predicted democratic
landslide are entirely correct, except
as to the detail of the character of the
slide," says the Council Bluffs Non
pareil.
would it not be just as WELL" sug
gests the Cedar Rapids Gazette, I'll
Cannon had slapped Roosevelt on the
back and said You're it?' Then the
President could have said, I'll go you
one for luck and the program would
have been under full swing"
THE REASON.
Sioux City Journal.-The cellu-
loid collar manufacturers dowr
east are pointing with pride tc
the fact that one of their contraptions
saved a mans life by stopping a bull
let Ridiculous! If the man hadn't
haen wearing celluloid COLLAR he