Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-01

Times. "The second trial Is one of the
principal evils connected with the adj
ministration of Justice. 1t frequently
results In the miscarriage of JUSTICE
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In spite of Fred Whites protested
| gloom, the, Cedar Falls Record con-
lends thst he Is supremely happy when
ne gets all the newspapers talking
Judge Parker. democratic candidate
for the presidency, ought to know the
folly Of hanging on to a hot potato 4"
says the Dss Moines Register and
Leader. but Judging from the persist
ent relteration of his absurd and In
accurate statements concerning the
Philippines, this bit of w!adom must
common nonse things he doesn't know
about politics."
II there were not demand for
steere'n idiocy, however, the Steere
Typo would not exist" says the Mason
City Globe Gazette, referring to the
case or the Iowa City correspondent
The Dos Moines' Capital Is amazed
az CONGRESSMAN Grosvenors self re-
straint. He has not made a single cleo
ton prediction this year.
o.
1t Is less than two weeks to election,
and the keokuk Gate City says 1t is
either a Very short time to accom-
pllsh what remains to be done. or a
long while to wait. according to the
individual point of view.
The Cedar Rapids Republican pre-
sumes that Mr.. Bryan Will probably
show up after the election with that
old time smile Of his and the express
sion that he told everybody SO from
the beginning.
Grover Cleveland does not stand on
the democratic platform when making
speech" says the Cedar Rapids Ca
sette. He only pokes his head up
through the hole where he would have
liked the gold plank to be-"
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil OBJ
serves that the frost came SO late this
year 1t didn't find anything but few
democratic rallies to work on.
The Muscatine Journal says that Mr.
Parker VIII never set any river aflre in
HIS indignation over the trusts-not
oven river OF petroleum.
The Denison Review saws It isn't
going to get worked up" because
congressman Smith gave the, Fair
banks presidential boom little boost
at Denison. It asserts that while the
great mass OF the people Of Denison
believe Secretary Shaw to be big
enough to f1ll the presidential chair,
ana would be more than delighted to
SCI MN elected to that position either
IN isoS or any other year, they are not
trying to weight him down by attach
ing presidential boom to him at this
GATE. 1t is much too early, in the Re-
views opinion, to begin the campaign
Of 1908.
AS a rule the less attention people
give to politics the more attention the
pontlcians give to it," says the Des
MONIES Capital, and 1t is a struggle
all the time to prevent the ofticeholders
and officeseekers from transacting all
lne business of politics. The fight
against the biennial amendment is the
nght TO give the man out of office a
chance to have influence IN politics"
The football game must have lost
some OF the old time vigor," suggests the
. a Telegraph. The number of
SO small as to cause interest in the
game to lag"
learned professor has figured IT
out that married men live the longest
out the Cherokee Democrat suggests I,
mat perhaps 1t just seems the longest,
o.
With the cold season coming the
oop the gap-ers will have to stop" re-
marks the Fort Dodge Chronicle, "but
men there is bunch of hunting acct
tents to Gomez
., Smoke the campaign cigar and die
IKE nero but don't go into an UNI
.;t grave With the smell of
cigarette on you," suggests the Mason
City Times Herald.
THE BoER TRANSFORMATION.
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