Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-11
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
The Eldon Herald says that what
ever may be said of Quay, he was a
man of such positive convictions that
it was always easy to tell where he
stood.
Roosevelt" says the Mt Ayr Rec
ord, will in all probability be named
by reclamation. When the work is
done it may be truly said that the peo-
pie did it,"
why not" asks the Manson Jour-
nal, referring to the vice presidential
nomination, "shy the castor at Sena-
tor Dolliver again? 1t might hit this
time"
THE greatest victory the democratic
party has won In the memory Of mid
die aged men," says the Waterloo Re-
porter, rs that derived in refusing to
make Hearst it's candidate for the
great office Of president"
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The Manson Democrat says that
deadlock convention in Illinois will be
a tame affair compared to the encoun-
ter that will be pulled off at Iowa City
between Maxwell and jackson when
the next state democratic convention
meets.
at isn't natural gas which has Gre
ated that recent disturbance in Iowa"
says the Des Moines News. at is
but the eXuberance of the soil"
o.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says that
the good Americans who desire a
noiseless Fourth of July will be COM
PEELED to go to some country where the
day and date have no meaning to get
it.
"That talk about some one expect
ing to step into Senator Allison's
shoes makes all Iowans tired" says
the Marion Register. 1.-THE senator Is
good for twelve years more In the
senate, and everyone hopes he may
be for eighteen"
The Eagle Grove fervently prays
that no one will mention any kind Of
an Iowa idea" for ten years, at least.
With the squabble over the state
Craftsmanship in progress, the Bur-
lington Gazette confesses that the
democratic campaign in Iowa does not
look very promising.
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The Keokuk Gate City says that
Rev. DIR. Parkhurst banks too much to
be dangerous.
So far as President Roosevelt is con-
cerned in the opinion of the Glidden
Graphic, the thing that should count
with voters is "the fact that he is
striving manfully to place, American
politics and citizenship on higher
plane than 1t has ever before occu-
pied" All other considerations are Of
small moments compared with this,
the Graphic believes. and 1t asserts
that I'VE have taken a great forward
stride as the result of Roosevelt's
courage and integrity"
Moines Register and Leader If it does
not know the battle is over.
THE democrats are bound to have a
state convention at Iowa City," OBJ
serves the Mason City Globe Gazette.
"even If it takes two chairman and
two calls to make it." 9
The Dubuque Times does not under
stand why the state university case
should be tried in the newspapers, I'M
| lcoS tllS ODJSSI 10 W VI lIo IlS plSSSui {
Of public opinion to bear upon the re-
grets In the interest of one side or the
other.
"To an outsider" says the Emmets-
burg Reporter, referring to the state
university affair, ut looks as though
there had been scrap in the faculty,
and, like all scraps, it had to be taken
to the newspapers to be thoroughly
N {t,1 ~.
| that it is not half so bad as it has been
pictured"
1.-The greater Mr.. Bryans influence
the more grief there is in store for the
party he represents" says the Keokuk
Gate City.
| AS to the dissatisfaction with the
republican state platform, the Eldora
Herald suggests that those who are
not pleased should move over into
some party with whose principles they
are pleased"
ut seems like fate to have trouble
with seed corn the very first spring
after Uncle Dick Clarkson retired from
the Register" says the Iowa City Re
publican.
4 How Mr. Hearst expects to retire
gracefully from the field which he has
occupied with such a flourish of tri-
umphs is hard to imagine" says the
Burlington Hawk Eye. But he will
do it. His great business interests
4 will furnish him an excuse"
is 1T A REVERSAL?
Dallas County News.-Some Of those
papers that are disgruntled over the
i 1rintor,, of the gland rattara 4l,ie