Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-03-17

to be the absolute dictator of his party,
the guardian of it's mind and con-
science, and it prophesies that Cover
nor Cummins will find that he does not
know when it is time to let we'll enough
alone. "He had been Loyalty supported
when he little deserved it," continues
the Republican" He has been cour-
teously treated when he did not appre-
ciate it. He aspires to be dictator.
The republican party of Iowa never
had a dictator, and it never will have
one. Heretofore the republican party
never knew factionalism. 1t is appar-
ent that Governor Cummins will have
nothing else. The rank and file Of the
party will not stand for it another mo-
ment"
The Burlington Hawk-E Eye says the
compromise Iowa tariff plan of last
year, which Governor Cummins pro-
poses incorporating in the national
platform this year is not essentially
Objectionable if rightly Interpreted but
it contends that the governor and his
trends have insisted upon an interpre-
tatiOn that is repugnant to the Presi-
dent and to the republican party at
large. 1.-THE governor has created con-
ditions surrounding that plank" the
Hawk-Eye continues, (which make 1t
both impolitic and impossible for the
national convention to adopt. If the gov
ernor is a delegate and offers a reso-
luton of that character it will be over
whelmingly rejected. He would make
a lamentable spectacle of himself and
the state he misrepresents upon the
tariff ISSUE"
Governor Cummins is surely pos
sessed of the faculty of saying the
worng thing at the wrong time" says
the Oskaloosa Herald.
Considering Governor Cummins' an
nounced purpose to attempt to force
his reciprocity ideas upon the Chicago
convention, says the Keokuk Gate City,
there is but one thing to do, and that
is, while permitting the governor to &c
as delegate, to send with him such an
overwhelming majority of genuine
Iowa republicans as will insure that he
will be powerless for mischief to the
party and the president.
1.-THE chances are that Blythe would
have been elected" says the Nevada
Representative, "even If the great
weight of Polk county had been thrown
against him; but with Polk county in
structing for him his election does not
appear to be open to question:"
The Cedar Rapids Republican points
to the Hearst movement as showing
how easy it is to make political head
way with plenty Of money, especially
when it comes to organizing caucuses.
The Keokuk Gate City says the diff
ference in the ownership of the injur-
ed OK probably accounts for the dis
crepancy in the governors statements
before and after the Polk county con-
| yention.
.Who will be the next man." asks
the Iowa City Republican, ito step up
in front of Captain Hull with chip
upon his shoulder"
Candidates for congress are SO num-
erous in the eleventh district that the
Melvin Argus judges that the congress
sional salary is none too low. What
the district should look out for it says,
"is to send a representative to congress
who will earn the $4,000 he now re-
ceives."
The Corning Union Republican says
! the governors fool friends seem to
| have been strictly in evidence during
the recent Polk county fight, tying him
up so closely with the fortunes of the
defeated candidate that the result is
unquestionably a. great blow to his
pride and prestige.
| would it not be good plan," sug-
gests the Des Moines Capital, ito have
a special session of the Iowa legisla-
ture for the sole purpose of doctoring
and making effective the laws which
already constitute the state code?"