Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-12

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It's all over but the election,
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IOWA PRESS CONNIE rTs
IA reasonably aggressive campaign
will be made for Judge Parker" says
the Des Moines Register and Leader.
"In the eastern states It may even be
warm campaign. But the mea who
are nominating Judge Parker at st.
Louis all have their eyes sct OH 1908,
and not on 1904. They are planning to
elect a president-but not this year"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette thinks 1t
Is queer how the Russians always
have victory won up to the time the
Japanese reinforcements arrive. There
is something peculiar" it adds, Gin the
fact that the reinforcements arrive on
schedule time"
Perhaps Mr.. Bryan will not bolt
Parker outright" says the Marshall
town Times-Republican "but there Is
little doubt that he will withhold his
active support and that he will be fol-
lowed by a very considerable number
of middle west democrats. The Iowa
democrat Is a fair sample of the Bry-
an following and there are thousands
of these who will vote for Roosevelt
next November or stay sulking at home
in event of Parkers nomination.
The men who escape the nominal
ton at ST. Louis are the ones whom
1T would be most appropriate to con-
gratulate," says the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican.
The Cedar Falls Gazette thinks it
Is really too bad that the prohibition
party should waste SO much good
money, time and energy.
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Regardless Of what is being said
and done at st. Louis" says the Keo-
kuk Gate City, .'the real issue is the
size of President Roosevelt's major
ity."
Republican, "the best of it all is the
utter rout of Hearst. That such a
man should aspire to presidential
nomination was, gall personified-but
anybody can aspire to the presidency
in this country. The disgrace of it
was that he was able to make any
showing whatever"
Secretary Charles A. Walsh has as
Louis that he will not bolt There
doesn't seem to the Keokuk Gate City
to be any good reason now why the
nominations should be longer delayed.
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"Coin Harvey will not write the
principal democratic campaign text
book this year." says the Des Moines
Capital.
1T is scheme to save election ex-
penses by offlceholders," asserts the
Britt Tribune, voicing the opposition
to the biennial elections amendment.
The next thing asked for will be to
double the length of each office term.
They are long enough now, and cleo
ton are all right as they are"
In view of the revelations in the
Smoot case, including the disclosures
of five mothers with forty odd children
In one family, 1t seems to the Council
Lake paper to boast of the gain of
births over deaths in that city-adG!ng
insult to injury
1T will take year of costly legal
work to get Tom Dennison out of Ne
braska," predicts the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil. ut may be that Omaha
CITY oIHclaiS VIII nave TO levy special
tax to provide friends for the defense"
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mot content with having Jim Wea-
yer as their representative on the
committee on resolutions" says the
Cedar Rapids Republican, 1.-THE Iowa
delegates pooled issues with South
Dakota, Idaho and California and Sc
lected Pettigrew to represent them in
an anti-Parker conference. Such is
Jeffersonian democracy as the Iowa
delegation to st. Louis understands
it,"
Judge Parker is called lucky "He
will be" says the Burlington Hawk
Eye, "if he gets off with just the or
binary democratic defeat this fall"
I'm the accounts of the st. louis
gathering the name of Hearst appears
now and then in some remote connec-
tion," says the Council Bluffs Nom
pareil but 1t is not given sufficient
prominence to arouse any curiosity as
to who Hearst was"
A CLEAN CAMPAIGN. r.