Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-23

America may accomplish" comments
the Davenport Times, adding: HE be-
gan as freight brakeman on one of
the roads he now owns. So far it is
encouraging, but at the age of 81 he
has been placed at the head of a los
ing ticket and will have to spend no
small amount of cash for the honor.
Surely that is not very encouraging
for young America
'"The man who goes to church on
Sunday when the mercury stands near
100 Is the man who is entitled to the
front seats of heaven" is the way the
Cedar Rapids Republican has figured
it out.
"The trains on the Wabash worlds
fair suburban line in st. Louis are
operated on what is called the shuttle
system. This probably means that the
company is in and the patrons are
out" says the Council Bluffs Nonpar-
ell.
After spending time in wonder
ment, the Des Moines Capital breaks
out thus: Senator Steve Elkins an
nounces that he 'cherishes feelings of
the highest affection and regard for
Candidate Davis. This is queer. One
a $20,000,000 estate would tend to de-
velop feelings of the most bitter re-
sentiment"
Editor Burrell Of the Washington
Press attended the democratic con-
ventlon and was impressed by the fine
appearance of the crowd. He says:
THE men SO clean and manly looking,
the women SO handsome, and all so
all Ill
bright and wearing such an air of
good breeding that one is proud of the
American race. And it puzzles him
how party that can bring such peo-
pie together can have the nerve and
audacity to talk calamity and hard
times"
Credit to whom credit is due" says
the Keokuk Gate City. The Iowa
delegation at st. Louis was at least
consistent in voting wrong on every
proposition that came before the con-
vention."
"rhe peril of Roosevelt is that he
is not tool" asserts the Sioux City
Journal. His honor is that he be-
lieves in government of the people
and for the people,"
Every county has politicians who
always hit at every fellow member of
their party who attains prominence
enough to gain attention." soliloquizes
the Iowa City Republican, Especially
If he aspires to a position of honor or
trust. But they are a cheap lot"
The Sioux City Tribune demands
that the democracy of the state be re-
organized. The suggestion seems to
the Cedar Rapids Gazette "just as
timely as though it had been urged to
abolish receivership so that proceed
ings might be commenced in involun-
tary bankruptcy"
what the church needs is more
short meter prayers and long meter
faith" concludes the Burlington Hawk
Eye
The Des Moines Register and Lead
er says that such men as the late
Golden Rule" Jones render a general
ly nnrecognized service to society by
breaking the ice of the conventional
way of doing things. "It is not SO i'm
portant that their methods are not
particularly an improvement on the
old" continues the Register and
Leader. Merely that they are new
constitutes an element of merit. There
is such tendency in society to crust
oved., to say this is the established way
to snsist that nothing can be right that
does not adjust itself to the old stan
dards."
Zone thing is certain = this will not
be one of the old time campaigns of
vituperation," says the Manchester
Press.
"Just as meat went up potatoes
went down." notes the Cedar Rapids
Republican. 'The hungry man. you
see is never wholly forsaken."