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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-05

without resorting to, a Spanish lexi-
con would never fail to bring out a
burst of patriotic, applause.
Mr. Shaw was never hear in. public
life until 1896, when for the first time
he devoted all his energies to the sue
cess of. the republican cause in; that
state He was the next year chosen
governor. This would give him about
twelve years of prominence before re-
ceiving the presidential nomination,
about the period that proves most serv-
iceable. Too long a record for most
men is to be regretted, while the op-
posite has it's defects. Thus it hap
pens that the politicians in making
plans for 1908 cannot afford to leave
Leslie M. Shaw out of the reckoning.
Secretary Moody's Criticism.
Secretary Moody thinks that the
Importance which the newspapers
give to discussions of things that are
to come by comparison with what they
tell of what has been actually done,
one of the extraordinary developments
Of the day. Every newspaper in the
country having an editorial page and
a Washington news bureau gave q
great deal of attention to Mr.. Can
mons probable committee appoint
ments. Gossip on committee
changes in prospect was reeled out by
the yard. When the announcements
finally came with their history making
effects, little attention was paid to
them; the actual changes did not pro-
woke one-tenth the comment Of the
proposals for change. Prophecy rath-
er than history, according to Secre,
tary Moody, holds first place in the af-
fections of the reading public.
| Mr.. Moody discusses in the same
vein the different estimate of the news
value of speculations as to what a
| cabinet officer for example, will say in
his report, from what he has actually
said 1t might afford good test
to interview hundred newspaper
readers a week after a presidents
message to congress has been sent in,
to ascertain what they know, concern
ing "a what the message actually rec
commended, and ~ what it was ex-
pected it would recommend The
| formation is valuable, the latter worth
less, because so largely liable to be
misleading. And yet, when there is
so much to read, why should the pub
lie be burdened with inchoate, plans
with prediction rather than the recit-
al of accomplishments? The secretary's
idea may be as serviceable to readers
in their selection of things to skip as
to editors in deciding what to use.
| The Friar Question.
/ The vexed question Of the friars in
the Philippines, which has at times
threatened the serenity Of administra-
4 ton affairs seems to be finally settlja.
Private advices from the islands IA.
dictate that with the Purchase OF tie
| friar lands, church na..tters viii iot
further trouble or imk and Dir 4, ~ a.
ment in it's work. Pr 'lno - 'iie IS
his religion like e ID
1.-The world very easfAir tonight and| It
for the race feelipThursday. 4
the Spanish frisa,he,. ,
are that there v
any church quest 49,. :. =. 70
4 The purchase -. =. I; -. ~ ~
2. .............37N
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-05
A LOOK INTO
The FUTURE |. R
THE YEAR OF 1908 WILL DOUBT.
LESS WITNESS WARM 20
LlTIcAL WARFARE.
TINE OF REIMBURSEMENT
The Democratic Leaders Look Upon
1t as the Season of Their Deliver
ance The Great Parties Will Bat
tie for Supremacy.

Washington, D: c., January 2. ~
The year of 1908 will be one
of political REIMBURSEMENT. Near
~ everybody assumes that the Roose-.
welt administration will have another
four years, making a compact three
terms of the Mckinley Roosevelt regi-
me, which came into being as the re-
suit of the free silver upheaval, but
forgotten. The politicians who do
not like the present President have de-
cided to tolerate him for another term.
Then obligations will be settled and
the party leaders can readjust affairs
more to their liking and start forth
for the battles of another decade or
two. To 1908 they look for this new
start.
Similarly the democrats count on
1908 as their deliverance. They real
ly do not expect victory in 1904 with
so large part of the country in the
hands Of their opponents. But they
plan to carry the house of representa-
tives in the off year elections of 1906
and the presidency two years later.
They never yet carried the country in
presidential battle when they had
not elected the house two years be-
fore. One of their chief concerns to-
day over the coming nomination is to
select someone who will not have an
embarrassing claim for re-endorse-
ment in 1908 on the strength of Wig
orous though unsuccessful fight. For
that reason they prefer a candidate
now who, by 1908; will be too old for
serious consideration. They want a
clean slate Tor that year just as. the
republicans .expectsto have.
Expect Western Candidate.
"A 1t seems likely that after eight years
of Roosevelt the demand will be strong
in the republican party for western
candidate. The west will by that
time be more than ever necessary to
offset the growing strength of the
eastern cities which tend to be demo-
cratic Two men stand out promin-
emily today as in line for the repub-
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one end of the country to the other.
Mr.. Shaw has been able to do these
things in the face of well-established
precedent, because of his equally we'll
earned reputation as defer of Wall
street Such a name is of utmost val
ue to an administrative officer, and
he has made the most of it. Nor is
there the slightest reason for thinking
the newspapers of the rural sections
will ever lose confidence in his deter
mination to fight the minions of high
finance.
The Merchant Marine.
Mr.. Shaws relation to the subsidy
project is another case in point. He
never makes a speech of Importance
that he does not come out strongly
for the subsidy. The sea Of upturned
faces seems to inspire him with a de-
sire to launch a ship. And yet his
own Iowa is the least in favor Of this
Legislation of any republican state in
the union. The two Iowa senators
were among the six republicans to
vote against Mr.. Hanna's bill. Speak
err Henderson, of Iowa, was always re-
garded as an obstacle to subsidy legis-
lation, and made no secret of his belief
that its wisdom was decidedly open
to question. Now, the subsidy inter-
ests will become very ripe in 1908,
even though much of the near future
be spent in Investigation. They will
want President who Is with them,
heart and soul. 1t would be a great
stroke to find such a man in the in
terror of the country, where personal
and local interests were necessarily
absent from his thought. 1t has come
to be recognized, moreover, that candi-
dates for the presidency or for senator
ships must have strong affirmative in
terests enlisted in their behalf, just as
the protective interests were back of
McKinley's candidacy for the nominal
ton in 1906.
A Stout Protectionist.
Mr.. Shaw is. however, a stout pro-
tectionist of the grand standpat
school from corn raising state which
has no largs direct stake in the pro-
tective system. Iowa would vote for
him anyway. for he was her tfavorite
SOM" Pennsylvania, because he was
the most devout protectionist in sight.
Whether people like Mr.. Shaw or not
or believe in his policies, they cannot
fail to recognize his strong available
ity for the presidency. Nor does it
end with these issues.
Secretary Shaw is one of the very
best stump speakers in the United
States. He made his reputation in
the days of the free silver struggle,
| when Iowa was holly contested
ground The old line republicans
there had been trimmers on this qnes-
ton. Shaw came into politics just
in the nick of time. when courage was
the winning card, when man could
afford to talk gold monometalism as
results finally showed. He has steadily
favored the adoption of the straight
! American currency in the Philippines
and has had no patience with the Co
nant dollar or other schemes design
/! ed in attempted conformity with the
customs and institutions of Asiatic
peoples. His ringing declaration on
the stump for currency in the Phil.
ippines which Americans can know
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-05

lican nomination of 1908, William H.
Taft of Ohio, and Leslie M. Shaw of
Iowa. There may be others, but as
yet no distinguished party leaders
seem to be getting into line. Fair
banks does not arouse enthusiasm.
The senate is not good place to Sc
after convention has shown. Foraker
and Spooner each have warm admir-
ers but for different reasons They,
too, are in the senate, and will be
there in all probability beyond 1908.
The chances are that the republican
convention will look outside the mem
bership of that body.
Talk OF Gov. Taft.
Governor Taft's adEisability has al.
ready been discussed in these columns.
Unless he goes to the supreme court
of the United States, to succeed Chief
Justice Miller, he will figure fpromin-
emily, according to present appear
ances in the preliminary plans Of four
years from today But few people
have realized the extraordinary ability
of Mr.. Shaw, who, although secretary
of the treasury now, is too good a poll
tician to remain in that office very
close to the time Of the nominating
convention. He is geographically
about what the republicans will want
AS an ex-member Of the Roosevelt cab
met he will doubtless represent about
the degree of Identification which good
politics would dictate.
Shaw is Prominent.
/ But what is vastly more important
lis the fact that Secretary Shaw has
been little less than wizard in meet.
ing the wishes of the two ends of the
republican line, ordinarily supposed to
be antagonistic. He is one Of the few
secretaries of the treasury to come
from what is distinctly the agricultural
section of the west. The newspapers
fsthe great belt, have, in consequence
chronicled his various movements I'M
der the flaming headline, SHAW Defies
Wall Street" In point of fact, no sec
rotary of the treasury has SO liberaliz-
ed the law in the supposed interests of
high finance as Mr.. Shaw, if indeed all
the secretaries combined have done so
much. AS set forth in these columns
at the time, he has made the indepen-
dent treasury system practically mop
eratiye by his decision to segregate in
ternal revenue receipts from custom
fund within the trea5ury for deposit in
case of emergency in the national
banks. His acceptance3,of state and
municipal bonds as security for public
deposits was step in the same di-
|rection, which none of. his predeces-
sors had dared to take. His intimation
that during the crop moving season
the banks need not always be- careful
to hold their full reserves. against gov
eminent deposits, was along the same
line. Most of these things were
changes for the better, from a common
sense point of view, but to any of his
predecessors they would have seemed
like notorious concessions to the
money power, and SO, on political
grounds greatly to be dreaded. Mr..
Shaw's deposits with the national
banks have reached an aggregate
threshold, that for which the first
Cleveland administration was CON
demned, in republican platforms from
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-05
Known the World over.

For it's wonderful cures.-Dr Kings
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds. 1t cures or no pay.
F. B. Clark.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-05
Children Poisoned.

Many children are poisoned and
made nervous and weak, if not killed
outright. by mothers giving them
cough syrups containing opiates. Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar is a safe. and GER
tain remedy for coughs, Group and.
Jung troubles, and is the only promi-
nent cough medicine that contains no
opiates or other poisons. Sold by w.
D. Elliott.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-05

Rev. J. E. Conant of Dubuque, has
received a call to the Chicago Avenue
Baptist church, of Chicago
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-05
How's This7

We offer one hundred dollars reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. ]. CHENEY, & CO., Props,
Toledo, o..
Cheney for the lnst IS gears, ana believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm
WEST & TRUAX,
Wholesale Druggists Toledo, o.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrll Cure Is taken Internally
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system. Price 75c per bot.
tie. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials
free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-05

Farmers in the vicinity of Madrid
are agitating the establishment of a
cooperative creamery at that place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-05
What They DEMAND.

Headaches, liver complaints, bowel
disorders demand DR.. Kings New Life
Pills. They are gentle, but cure or
no pay. 25c. F. B. Clark.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-05

Fire. caused by defective fue,
damaged the Dixon hotel at Rolfe to
the extent of $4,000. Fully insured
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-05

Read the Courier for news.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26
NEW MINING COMPANY.

a company has been organized
to develop 81 acres of Mrs. Ella Lab
aides land just south of town. and
living on the east side of the Militia.
ry road. 1t ia believed good ore will
be found there and drilling will be.
gin in day or two. If the compa-
ny succeeds in finding pay ore the
ground will be cut up into small
tracts and rapidly developed. The
company is composed of p. b.
White. DIR. C. NJ. Jones, G. f. Rucker
J. w. Grantham, A. L. Harvey and
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26
PROTECT YOURSELVES

Intending visitors to st. Louis
during the Worlds Fair can assure
themselves satisfactory rooming
accommodation through the Mer-
chants Service Company at NOM
inaI expense. For particulars, ap-
DIV to Carl Peterson, Frisco Agt.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Masonic building, but action was
deferred few days. All bids were
turned dow, the specifications will
be revised and new bids will be
asked for. The building will be
two stories high, 56xS0 feet, and an
architectural beauty.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Mrs. Lille Freeman and Miss Net.
tie Doty went to Galena Wednesday
to see Miss Bertha Quigg, who has
been very i'll for some time, and is
not improving in health.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Some vandals have cut the dam
at Mrs. Hornor's stock pond and let
all the water out They will be
prosecuted If Mrs. Hornor can find
out who they are.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Cyclone Rebekah Lodge, No. 2S3,
met Monday night and elected OH
GERS as follows: N. G., Leila Hogan;
V. G., Ora Hogan; d. D., Lulu Greg.
ory; delegate to grand lodge, Lizzie
Stallsmith; alternate, Lulu Gregory.
LULA WINTERS, Sec.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Misses Rhea Moore, Hollie Wag-
oner, Ethel Rains, Bessie Goodner,
Jessie Ditson, and Messrs. Earl Ry-
an, Fred Trick, Otto Moore, George
Long, Walter Manlove and Will
Burr of Galena, and Miss Zoe Bou-
cher of Joplin spent last Sunday at
Blacks grove.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Mrs. Anna Chase of Chicago ar
rived in Baxter Wednesday even
ing to visit relatives a couple of
weeks. Mrs. Chase is a sister Of
Mrs. c. w. Daniels.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Miss Llewella Estabrooks, a for
mer teacher in the Baxter Springs
schools, was married Sunday in the
Baptist church at Galena, to Mr..
Paul A. Diety of Joplin. The newly
welded couple will make their
home in Iopln.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Harry Gibson late of Kansas City
is with S. ]. Armstrong in the East
Side barber shop. Mr., Gibson is a
first class workman and will hold
down the first chair.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Cut your weeds; cut them now;
keep them cut. If you don't, the
authorities may enforce the weed
cutting ordinance. OF course there
isn't much danger of this, but You
can show a little pride in your sur
roundings by keeping the weeds
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Jim Warner and son, Charles, left
Monday with their families for Min
eral, Kas., where they will be en-
gagged in mining work.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Now is the time to clean up your
back yard and alley. Hot weather
is coming, and bad smells from
trash piles with it, but you can es-
cape the odors by cleaning up.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Diamond Soda is like a kiss
GOOD to take. 1t has a rich, palata-
BILE taste. All customers declare it
ia the best. You will find they are
right il you will give il a test.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Ed. Polster. who has been teach
ing school at Hartford, kas.' has
gone to ST. Louis to take position
as cashier and bookkeeper in the
Visitors Worlds Fair Hotel.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

At the residence of the brides
parents, near Neutral, Kansas. on
Sunday, May %. at 6 o'clock p. M,
Mr.. Chas. Mosier and Miss Grace
Rasom were united in marriage by
Rev. W, T. White. pastor of the NJ.
+. church of Baxter Springs.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26
Just think of it! A two
burner gasoline stove for
SI.oo. Call and see them.
Gould & Easter.

Mrs. +. r. Conaway of Des Moines
Iowa. is official hostess at the Iowa
building at the Worlds Fair She
ia a sister of Mrs. X. II. Sands OF
4 1, 10 cifH
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

]. +. Ginder went to Joplin last
Saturday to buy some mining sup
plies. but when ready to pay for
them he discovered that his pocket
book, containing $3.50 was gone.
He doesn't know whether he lost it
or was the victim of a pickpocket.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Several farmers are cutting out
their hedges and putting up neat
woven wire fence instead. A hedge
shades too much ground, draws too
much from the ground, and besides
it is impossible to use ground as
close to hedge as to a woven wire
fence.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Valley Stoskopf, who was so bad,
Iy injured by corn cutter several
months ago. is now able TO walk a
little. He has had a long siege OF 1t.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Golden Machine Harvester Oil at
30c gallon at The Morrow Carney
Drug Co.'S.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

TO SELL OR SWAP-Nice 7-room
house and quarter of block of
ground in Chetopa, Kas.; barn that
will hold 100 tons of hay and II
horses; never failing well of water;
cistern; east and north front. Will
sell cheap for cash, or exchange for
land in Southwest Missouri or Ar
kansas. Call at this office.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Welby Morrison, who has been
working as a millwright at Wal
ters, Okla, for several months, Wis
tied in Baxter this week. He will
return TO Walters in few days.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26
Hark! from the people a happy cry.
The cheapest place is found to buy.

Highest patent hard soft wheat flour per hundred S5o
LARGE sacks of meal 2Oc Small sacks of meal 1Oc.
Best Sweet Picked Meat, lb.......... 12Hc
lbs. best salt meat AoC
Good smoked bacon, clear sides, per lb lOc
3R lbs. best lard compound ......... 2oc
Murdock's Hecla Coffee, best in the world
pounds of good tea dust for Zoe
pounds of corned beef for ...........2oc
4 hs hast ravv beans ~ ....... 25c
cans Clipped beef for. r...... ........ Zoc
three pound cans apple butter tor. dsc
C,1;fo-r;, hams ner Mound ...... 09c
Rex hams. the best st................ 12Rc
Gallon can of annles ............. 25c
3-lb of apples .:.......'..'.. zoc
.E5- The above prices are for cash trade.
Always pay the highest market prices tor country pro-
Dents Cash Grocery.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Sarah Elizabeth, four months old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Bert
Smith, died Monday. Funeral ser.
vices were held Tuesday and the
remains inferred in the Lowell Gem
etery
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26
+. ". Dow of this city.

1t is thought the same run of ore
found on the John Opperman farm
can be found on the Labadie land.
The finding of ore on this lease
would mean much 10 Baxter.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

DR.. c. NJ. Jones has bought the
east half of the Baldwin lot oppo-
site the Hotel Baxter, ard IL pu'-
ting a neat brick barn on II.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Ice cream and cake every Sunday
evening at Springs Hotel.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Black oil? We have it. The
Morrow-C Carney Drug Co.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

The Christian church people are
raising funds to build a chapel at
the southeast corner of Main and
Sheridan streets. 1t is TO be brick
yeneered building.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Mr.. Townsend of Joplin spent
Sunday in this city.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Miss Helen Stewart visited friends
in Joplin and Webb City this week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

VIM. Fl. Lytle Post, No. 81. of Fort
Scott, asks our people to participate
in Memorial Day Exercises at that
place. There will be special rates
on the Frisco.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Bids were opened Monday for the
construction of the new bank and
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

Just think of it! A twO.bur.
ner gasoline stove for S9O.
Call and see them.
GOULD & EASTER.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-05-26

]. C. Naylor returned Saturday
from St. Louis, where he attended
the National Good Roads Associa
ton meeting. He reports an en-
thusiastic meeting.