Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-18
they are dukes who have generally
worked themselves up from section
hands"

worked themselves up from section
hands,"
Commenting On Parkers piadge the
Waterloo Courier says! The prob
ability of his ever having presented the
opportunity to fulfill the pledge is re-
mote, but the reasons given for maxi
Ing it are none the less Interesting and
forceful. Very many thoughtful and
patriotic Americans have long felt
that assingle and somewhat heightened
term for an American president would
operate to the welfare of the country
and the perpetuity of its institutional"
aJudge Parker's speech does not disl
close the paramount Issue unless it be
by his silence with reference to the
City Journal. Judge Parker cannot
get In without letting the party in
his party? The speech does not in
dictate that he Is stronger than his
campaign managers"
The Onawa Sentinel reasons that
the man who confesses that he has
Just recovered from an attack of in
charge Of the affairs Of big business
concern. yet, that is the confession
the democrats make while applying
for the management of the largest
business concern in the world" says
the Sentinel.
The Marshalltown Times Repub-
lican says that Judge Parker succeeds
in maintaining his attitude of silence
in his speech, adding: ITO date no
one has been able to learn lust where
he stood on the main public questions
at issue. And no one will know any
more about 1t now"
1T is the wealth of money that can
be raised to conduct the campaign in
the east that inspires the democratic
party with hope of success" declares
the Carroll Herald. There seems to
be general impression that bushels
of money can be raised for the purpose
of defeating the reelection Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, and on this hope of
Parker's success Is based. Those who
believe that a corruption fund can de-
feat the will of the American people
place too low an estimate on the moral
sense Of the nation
The Des Moines Register and Lead
er does not believe that Judge Par
ker's speech will quite satisfy anybody
es'' w SAC Sdi ddSS L al hSls lhSiC -
not quite the ring of greatness about
any Of it, as there was occasionally in
the Cleveland declarations" 1t says,
to prove convincing, while there is
just enough of the element of evasion
| and fair pretense to arouse suspicion"
What has become of MAXWELL
| asks the Waterloo Courier. rs he still
boiling? Or is he quietly chewing the
of nf,,1 r,
The Algona Upper Des Moines Re-
publican says that Bishop Potters sa-
loon, his whisky and his philosophy
are all bad.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye observes
that all over Iowa democrats of great
| er or less prominence are kept busy at
present lodging nominations for con-
| gress.
"The fact that James ]. Hill is being
doomed for the democratic nomination
Keokuk Gate City, shows the unmis-
taxable trend of the democratic party
and the purpose it now has in view.
Onlyl a few months ago the same
political organization was posing as
the friend of the downtrodden and OPP
pressed and the implacable foe of Wall
street and the trusts
IF money is of consequence" says
the Sioux City Journal, "let Mr. Bryan
and Tom Watson arrange joint de-
bate for the edification of our centers
of population, not. failing to charge for
| tickets what the traffic will stand
| -O-
1T must have been disastrous to the
correspondents at Chez Foo and Shan
ghai to have to stop lying and romano
| ing for a few days and tell the truth
about the stirring events in their re-
| spective neighborhoods," says the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
One company engaged in the manu-
| facture of saloon furniture and billiard
tables has sued another company. In
the same line of business, for libel in
the sum of 100000 for referring to II
as a trust The Sioux City Journal
says This action goes to show that
there is distinct tendency in our
| politics toward reform
The Mason City Globe-G Gazette says
that President Roosevelt evidently has
instructed Secretary Hay Ito call the
sultan on the carpet, even If he must
shoot a few holes through the Smyrna
rug"
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.