davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
tainments are mixed in the right pro-
portions with the joys of outdoor life
and camping,
THE JUDGE AS A TALkER.

New York Globe.-Judge Parker's
daughter is in st. Louis and has given
out the startling information that her
father is really great talker. She
says it doesn't make much difference
to the judge to whom he is talking.
Anybody will do that Will lend ears.
If there are not visitors at "Rosemont'
and members of the family are too
busy to listen, this daughter says her
father will go tramping over the farm
and talk to the men. He Simply loves
to talk" Although this information Is
not exactly in harmony with recent ex-
perience, it would seem to find some
support in the announcement issued
from Esopus to the effect that the
judge would like to be notified" as
soon as possible after his nomination.
He realizes the impropriety of talking
before he has received his official no.
titication, and the inferepce is he sim
ply can't hold in much longer.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
ITS WEAKNESS LAY IN ITS
COWARDlcE.

Muscatine Journal (anent the demo-
cratic PLATFORM 1.-The idea was that
the Bryan men could consistently sup-
port the ticket because the PLATFORM
contained nothing. antagonistic to them
on the money question. To the con-
servative wing it could be said, and
with good grace, that the candidate
was sound money man as Indicated
by his letter Of acceptance. To the
Bryan men the plea could have been
made, and with equally good grace,
dictate the utterances of the candi-
date; that the candidate did not make
the platform and the Bryan men could
-possibly-be kept In line. It was a
beautiful theory but its weakness lay
IN its cowardice. It spelled fear in
large letters and the democracy Of the
country SO regard 1t.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16

Mr.. Bryan is consistent in nothing
so much as inconsistency. After cut
ting his throat politically by standing
up for the silver idea after the nation
had turned 1t down he made his demise
doubly sure by his action in the reso-
luttons committee. Then he fought
Parker on the floor of the convention
and lost. Now he comes out in an in
terview and after saying that he will
vote for Parker and Davis he picks
the platform to pieces and says all the
bad things possible about it. Mr..
Bryan appears, even to casual OBJ
server, as man who is "up in the
air."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
HER NEW Ian NGUAGE.

She possessed mind discerning,
That was stored and crammed With
learning,
And her thoughts forever burning, !
She could suitably express.
All her sentences were rounded,
All her words imposing sounded:
1 was really quite astounded
AS listened, confess.
1t was rather an infiction,
All this verbal unrestriction,
But her elegance of diction.
Each precise and polished phrase,
And the beautiful selection
OF the words and their connection
And her most correct infection
They were quite beyond all praise
But saw,her very lately,
And she did not talk ornately;
All that language suave and stately.
She no longer kept on tap.
She was saying: "Bessums diddumsli
Where de bad old pin got hiddums
In her muzzer's precious kiddums? p.
To the baby in her lap.
London Tit-Bits.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
A PLEA FOR UNITY.

Chances are brighter than for many
years for republican success this fall
in the election in Missouri The dem
ocrats with dishonest officials, a cor
rupt ring, internal strife and hard
fight for state officers, are in no way
to win on the national ticket. Sum-
ming the whole situation up, the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat concludes that
only one event can keep the republi-
cans from being victorious this fall.
That paper makes strong plea to
the republicans of the state to lay
aside personal matters and small
fights in order to win this victory
that will mean SO much to the party.
The Globe-Democrat says:
It must be clear to the republicans
of Missouri that they can carry the
state with proper management this
year. The way to do it is to let the
more than 100000 republicans speak
for themselves through the coming
convention. Any attempt to control
them for selfish ends will work mis-
chief in the degree that it succeeds.
The republican national platform is a
document warmly approved by the en-
tire party No objection is raised to
it in any respect. An undivided sup
port Is given the national ticket The
only republican faction that has ex-
listed in this state has been caused
by antagonistic groups organized to
get or control federal patronage. Con-
tention over federal patronage will de-
feat the republicans in November if
it Is tolerated as all sincere lovers Of
a better era for Missouri hope will not
be the case.
In the light of how Missouri has
voted in the years following 1892 it
can not go for Parker. The manner
IN which he was nominated and his
treatment of the platform preclude
the idea that he can poll the accus-
toned democratic vote of the state.
Republican voters have been moving
in The republican vote has been in
creasing, the democratic vote has been
falling off. First voters favor repub-
lican principles and candidates. The
democrats of Missouri have an inter-
nal fight over the governorship and
other state offices. But all these DEM
ocratic disadvantages will not suf-
flee for the, republicans If the old
pulling and hauling over federal pa
tronage is to be the main thing in the
party action. What a pity if the re-
publicans should throw away the op-
portunity that can not, apparently, be
otherwise lost.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
CANADIAN VIEW OF BRYAN.

To see ourselves as others see us is
generally denied. but Mr.. Bryan has
an opportunity to know the view TAX
en- Of him in Canada where his name
is as we'll known as it is in this coun-
try. The Toronto World in its issue
of Sunday morning after saying that
the Nebraskan has shown new signs
of life. goes on to picture a sacrifice
of his personal ambitions to his prin-
ciples The scheme is a very pretty
one but Mr.. Bryan could not see his
way clear to follow it. Though the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
IAN ERA OF cALAMlTIEs.

The year 1904 will. unquestionably
stand out as an era of calamities. AL
though the Iroquis theatre fire occur
red on December 80 the nation did not
recover from the shock until the new
year had been ushered in and it seems
more like an occurrence of 1904 than
of 1908. Following 1t have been the
burning of the steamer General Slo-
cum at New York and the wreck of
the Norge in the Atlantic ocean. The
aggregate loss of life resulting from
these three disasters has been more
than 1000. Then there are any num-
Der of lesser disasters reported almost
daily from all over the world. Only a
few days ago a train hurrying to the
st. Louis exposition and convention
ran through an open switch at Litch.
killed. Last evening an excursion
train with 600 people on board collid.
ed with "a freight train at Glenwood,
Ill, and twenty-five people were kill
ed. The European nations have not
escaped, and Spain, France and Rus
sia have reported terrible catastro-
phies this year.
In nearly every one of these cases,
careleSsneSS was the cause, either d.
rectly or indirectly. Investigation has
discovered the fact that men who
were paid to guard the interests Of the
public had neglected their duties. One
or two or three men were found to
have caused the death of hundreds.
Surely these lessons need not continue
much longer. They should be warn
ing to the people and should not be ov.
erlooked or passed by lightly. The
number of deaths resulting from acci-
dents of this nature is appalling.
The totals read like the casualty list
after great battle Surely this les.
son will be received for what 1t is
worth. These lives have been sacri-
feed to the carelessness of inefficient
or dishonest officials and the sacrifice
must be made to do good. Hasten
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
SAM wRIGHTs iTHEATRlcALs.

Dubuque Times - Sam Wright's
performance at the st. Louis conven-
tion was very much like Sam Wright.
He has always been a hard one to
harness. The state central committee,
on which the Cleveland democracy
had a majority, selected him for tenn
porary chairman of the state conven-
tion at Dubuque in May, 1896 He is
sued to the press a speech in which
he poured hot shot into the free sill
Yer men and ridiculed their theory.
They proposed to censor the speech
or select another man for the chair
manship, whereupon they were noti-
fled that If he should act as chairman
he would deliver that speech precisely
as it had been given to the press.
Fearing a bolt If the. state committees
selection for the craftsmanship were
set aside, the silver men concluded to
take their medicine. though they did
so with groans and Kisses. Wright
threw the convention into disorder
and bad temper, and not a single act
of generosity marked It's turbulent
proceedings.
His conduct at st. Louis was
hardly justifiable. The state con-
vention has the right to instruct the
states delegation or it has not. If
1t has not its right should have been
challenged on the spot, and If 1t has
good faith requires that the delegates
should at least abstain from express
sions of hostility towards the candi-
date for whom they are instructed. If
Mr.. Wright. believed that Hearst had
purchased control Of the Iowa conven-
tion he should have declined to be-
come its agent at ST. Louis.
~ -.-
Cedar Rapids Republican.-Sam S,
Wright, of Upton, was one of the
heroes of the all night session Of the
democratic national convention. He
was for few minutes the storm CEN
ter of the whole convention, and, it
must be said of him, he acquitted him
self finely. even If his colleagues COM
PEELED him to take refuge in the bosom
of the Georgia delegation. Mr.. Wright
spoke rather bluntly about the infiu-
ence Of Mr.. Hearst's money in Iowa
democratic politics, which caused the
uproar in the Iowa delegation. And
yet there was not man in that
Hearst contingent who would be able
to go before a notary public and take
oath that he had not been either di-
rectly or indirectly assisted by the
Hearst campaign funds. Hearst's
money was spent freely in every dis
trict in the state To say that this
was purchasing" votes may be lit
tie harsh, but did it not amount to the
same thing in the end? The men who
were assisted by Hearst's money did
not vote their own sentiments-they
stayed with Hearst no matter what
his candidacy stood for.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
prophesied he would never be able to


prophesied he would never be able to
dig out again.
In the convention of 1900 - eight
years afterwards-it was only the,
ghost of Hill that appeared His pa
thetic appearance was cheered as Bry-
an was cheered at the recent conven-,
tlon-for what he had once been.
And now!
The man Is the puissant figure OF,
the national democracy. He has NOT
only reorganized his party, but has
dictated candidate and platform. The
81. Louis convention of 1904 was res !
direction day for Hill.
How has 1t all come about?
First, because of brains. Fiji is the
aplest machine politician, has wider
scope of mind and shrewder WAYS than
any man In America since Hanna died.
Second, the man never knows when
he is whipped.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
WHO CARES FOR cINcINNATUs
NOW,

Judge Parker spent the Fourth of
July working in his hayfield.-Speciall
dispatch.
Who cares for Cincinnatus now,
Who dares to sing his praise?
They say he used to guide the plow
On Roman holidays.
But he's has-been. he is through
The plow he held Is dust,
greater man has loomed in view.
Soliciting our trust.
The world has moved since Caesars
time,
Since Cato's voice was heard,
All, how could they have seemed sub,
lime
While saying not word?
Who cares for Cincinnatus now?
He's dead, he's had his day;
'Tis true, he trudged behind the plow,
But Parker pitches hay.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
WHERE DO THEY STAND?

w. .sA. ~ ANU
Now that the democratic convention
is all over and the platform has been
made, will someone please step out
from the ranks and say where the
party stands on the money question?
After making noise that was heard
all over the world, with free silver
as the basis for 1t all, is it enough for
the platform to remain entirely silent? :?
Surely the democrats have some ideas
about money. In fact, that seems to
be the trouble. There are too many
ideas for one party and So all are kept
out of the platform because no agree
ment can be reached as to which is
the best.
No more mixed-up affair could be
imagined than the stand the party now
takes before the public. With a can
didate who admits that the gold stand
ard is the only practicable monetary
system, but with platform which
was purposely made silent on the ques-
tion of money by committee which,
by a vote of thirty-fve to fifteen,
turned down a gold plank, the democ-
racy may well ask where it "is at"
There is only one question that ST.
lence can answer. That is the one
which every writer of love stories man
ages to wiring from the lips of his
heroes. Generally, "the maid answers
not a word, but her eyes glow, etc."
Politics is no love story. Silence does
not answer the question: "What is the
party's stand" on this question or on
that. The people of the nation, before
they vote for the representative of a
party, want to know what effect their
vote, If it helps to make majority,
will have upon conditions at large
They have right to know this and
the party is not doing its duty unless
1t makes clear its position upon all
questions affecting the nation.
The record made in the st. Louis
convention upon the silver question is
indeed a strange one. In the resolu-
tions committee, after hours of dis
cussion in which the speakers defend
ed or attacked the "God-given ratio"
the committee voted the gold plank
down, thirty-fve of the fifty votes being
cast against 1t.
Then came Parker's message and the
panic that ensued. The convention
bore out the verdict of General Grant,
who said that the democratic party
could always be depended upon to do
something suicidal If given the oppor-
tunity. The democracy comes before
the people in this campaign, divided.
full of dissension, lacking some Of the
leaders it formerly adored, led by men
it has trampled under foot-its plat
form failing to express the sentiments
of the rank and file of the party. What
more confusion could exist?
And yet, some democratic organs still
persist in calling the republican nation
al convention machine affair, ruled by
the party BOSSES" No greater bosses
exist than David B. Hill, August Bel
mont, Sheehan, Taggart, and their ilk.
They swung the democratic convention
into line on platform that Is not en-.
dorsed, nay, not even understood BY
many of the members Of the party-a
platform that says not one word upon
the issue that was, only few years
ago, the whole thought of the party.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
OF NO USE TO ANYBODY.

Iowa City Republican.-The Council
Bluffs Nonpareil defends the college
graduate from the charge of knowing
nothing of value. The Nonpareil
might have added that about the
streets any day may be seen a lot Of
loafers who are not college graduates
who know nothing and do nothing of
any use to themselves or anybody
else
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
A MONEY MAKER.

Algona Courier.-Wood Cowan Is a
moneymaker. He is not yet 18 years
old, but he works on the sewer with a
shovel and gets $1.75 a day and is one
of the best men on the job. He went
to Bancroft on the Fourth and umpir-
ed game Of ball for, which he got S5,
and he won a foot race and got SIS for
that. He has the disposition and nerve
to do things.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
FREAklsHNEss OF POLITICS.

Lincoln Journal.-Col. Bryan will
not bolt. He makes a few grimaces
while swallowing the meal prepared
for him at st. Louis by the New
Yorker, but in few weeks he will
take off his coat and plunge into the
fight to elect the favorite of the New
York plutocracy, while the farmers of
the west and the plain common people
everywhere bend their energies to
elect Theodore Roosevelt, who is not
wanted by Wall street because he
cannot be controlled by the officers of
the great corporations Politics is in
deed funny business. and makes
strange bedfellows
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
COL. wATTERsoN PRAYs.

New York Globe.-HenrX Watterson
stayed at home, but at last reports he
was praying long and loud one of his
editorial broadsides closing with the
following fervent prayer In behalf OF
his warning brethren, at st. Louis:
Save them from the hand of the
Money Devil on the, one side, the
brand of the Incendiary on the other
side, all for the love of God, his grace
and glory, now and forever. Amen!
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16

The czar has ordered that hereaft-
er a prisoner must have fair trial
before the courts of the land before
he can be banished to Siberia. This
great stop forward by the most
notable tyrannical government in the
world Indicates that Japan is fight
ing fight for reform and for civili-
zation, in addition to one in which
territory and commercial interests
are at issue.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
AN EXPLANATION.

Chicago Record Herald. = Bishop
Potter's wife has been robbed Of $780,
900 worth of jewels. 1t is only fair to
say for the benefit of young men who
are thinking of entering the ministry
that the jewels were not purchased
with money saved out of the good bis
hops salary
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
TELLING THE HAs.BEENs.

Des Mones Capital-It is to be
hoped that the telephonic connections
with the realm of political obscurity
are sufficiently complete so that Adlai
Stevenson, Fred White, Coin Harvey,
Lob Davis, Jeke Lentz, ct AL, will be
able to promptly know just what is
taking place at ST. Louis
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16

Again has England upheld her repu-
tation for being unable to take a
joke. With Kuropatkin in Manchuria
wondering whether he will ever be
able to stop his retreat from the Japs
the London Telegraph publishes a ru-
NOR that he is about to invade India.
The government officials actually
considered the story and after mature
thought gave out statement that it
caused no anxiety.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
NEEDED REFORMS SUGGESTED.


ed by the county attorneys of Iowa,
who were in session at Ottumwa yes
terday and the preceding day. These
men, who are intimately acquainted
with the criminal business in the
lawyers to pick flaws in the present
flaws no one denies, and one Of the
objects for which the county attor.
neys' association is organized Is to
ones already existing.
One reform upon which the county
attorneys will insist Is in the law
which now provides that when de-
fendant in criminal case has been
tried for any offense which includes
lesser offenses Of the same nature and
has been convicted of one of the less
er and included offenses and makes
application for new trial and such
new trial is granted, the defendant
shall be again put on trial, but can.
not be tried for any offense greater
than the one of which he was former
ly convicted. The change sought by
the county attorneys is one that will
make 1t proper to try the defendant
upon the maximum charge upon re.
trial. no matter what charge was
fixed by the original verdict.
The justice Of this suggestion can
easily be seen. Courts of law are
now more than ever before courts of
justice. No man who Is innocent may
fear conviction of crime except
when surrounded by the most unusual
circumstances. Many cases are or
dered back for second trial because
of some technicality when there is al
most no doubt as to the guilt of the
defendant. In the meantime, new evil
dence may have been discovered
which will convict on an indictment
charging the maximum crime. The
county attorneys ask law which
will give them an opportunity to Sc
cure the new trial on this maximum
charge and thus rid the community of
dangerous criminals
Fred w. Neal, county attorney of
Scott county, made recommendation
which will meet with general approx
al. He urged the county attorneys to
take decided stand in favor of the
enactment of law which will pro-
vide for the proper punishment of a
man who deserts his wife and chill
dren. Many cases Of this kind come
to light in Iowa every year, but the
state has no law to provide for the
punishment Of such heartless men.
The woman can secure divorce, but
seldom does she receive any money
with which to provide for the chill.
dren of the man who deserts her to
fight alone the battle of life. Every
city and nearly every town has It's de.
serted family. In many cases the
woman is forced to do the toughest
kind of manual labor in order to make
q living for her children. Her life is
shortened and saddened, her dream
Of happy married life Is blighted, and
she lives only for the sake of the lit
tie ones depending upon her. She be.
comes, in time, the object of charity
and loses even her self respect.
Meanwhile the man, serene in the
confidence that the law cannot reach
him except to divorce him and his
wife, which he no doubt desires,
spends his time in much more agree
able manner. Now the county attor-
neys want to have law with which
they can punish him. Should such a
measure be enacted it would reduce
the number Of deserting husbands and
might also lessen the number of di.
vorces, which Is growingNat at an alarm
ing rate in Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16

the time when travel will be safe as
far as men can make 1t safe. Rapid
movement itself furnishes enough
dangers, but when it is possible for
inspection to reduce the danger to
minimum the opportunity to SO reduce
1t should be improved.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16

The Ees Moines Capital says that
the st. Louis platform is a typical
democratic pronouncement in that it
indulgea in cowardly evasion of essen
tials and rallies around nonessentials
with a flourish of trumpets and the
waving Of banners.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
Many Other Cures Cured.


My office is an institute for the cure
OF chronic and nervous diseases. Dis
ease OF women, piles, fistula, rupture,
and varicoceIe. We cure the worst
cases of nervous debility and attending
symptoms. Cure catarrh of the nose
throat and lungs.
Diseases such as rheumatism, seia-
tica, neuralgia, blood and kidney dis
eases. Dropsy cured. Electro-Ther-
NAL, Turkish, Russian baths eradicate
diseases. We give every form of
baths. You need not go to Hot Springs.
Send for book of testimonials on
rupture, piles. Send for book on vari.
cocele. Write me for information. ad-
dress
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16

At least one man-Henry G. Davis
must consider the vice presidency
an honor. He certainly cannot think
that it would put him any nearer the
presidency. Just think, in eight; years
he would be ninety years old.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
DR.. ]. C. Bonhanl
Elks Block
Ottumwa, Iowa.

victions all along the line? The con-
vention was certainly open to the
charge of dishonesty when 1T acted in
the Illinois matter. Confessedly the
record was made because Bryan advo-
Gated another course from that which
the convention took. But the gold
standard plank was another matter.
1t meant votes. A personal rebuff for
Bryan did not. 1t is the first time in
years that the democratic party has
played the part of nincompoop In
it's platform expressions. And 1t will
be the last after it learns it's lesson
next November"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16
AN IMPORTANT MATTER.

Davenport Times. = The people
would like to know whether the pic
ture showing him smooth shaven or
the one showing him with whiskers is
to be the official portrait Of Grandpa
Davis.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16

Lieut.. Peary is ready to make an
other dash to the pole. He should
join Kuropatkins army and get few
Japs to follow up.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16

Whatever the fortunes of the cam
paign," says the Des Moines Register
and Leader, cit is a remarkable testi-
monial to the soundness of our Ameri-
can life that two such men as Theo-
dore Roosevelt and Alton Brooks Par
ker are made our standard bearers.
Not blemish on the public services,
or private character, the professional
honor, or domestic life of either"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-07-16

The aYarshalltown Times -Republi-
can says that Bryan was in evidence
at st. Louis as a personality rather
than a force.