Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-16
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

The washington Press esteems Mr..
Deneen as a clean. honest and very
a HE man. "Of late years" It says,
a1l,inois had had the il! fortune of
having governors apparently good only
to cuSS."
The Jefferson Bee says 1t may hum
BILE our Iowa pride some, but it is a
fact that the nation at large pays very
little attention to the tariff tempest
that is lust shilling in Iowa. THE sun
shines lust as brightly elsewhere as it
ever did" observes the Bee. so, after
all. what does the whole thing amount
to-"
The Keokuk Gate City says that if
the Iowa idea advocates and the DEM
ocrats hadn't been displeased with the
republican state platform there would
have been reason to suspect its repub-
licanism.
The Carroll Herald comedies that J..
W. Blythe has not made name for
himself as spellbinder, but it says 1t
is wrong to conclude that he cannot
make speech. He used to be one Of
the best jury lawyers at the Des
Moines county bar, composed, as it
was, of the ablest attorneys in the
First district" the Herald recalls. HE
has a head fun of brains well weighted
with gray matter, and not man in
the state can express himself in a
more forceful, impressive way before
jury or audience than he can"
Writing of the statuary in the Iowa
building at tbs ST. Louis fair, the
Washington Democrat suggests that
CHI HOY Of Cato
Sells making a speech before the dem
ocrats at the meeting the night pre-
ceding the last democratic convention.
The Democrat concludes that the COM
missioners did not get a statue of Cato
because they could not get room for
him to be looking both ways at the
same time"
The Cedar Rapids Republican Judges
from the Oregon election that there
isn't going to be any democratic re
Vival on the Pacific coast this year.
The Rock Rapids Reporter observe.
that it is puzzling the Iowa delegation
to st. Louis, to find soft place to
light, now that Hearst is out of it bu
it suggests that if the matter were
left to Jim" Parsons, of Rock Rapids
'the delegation would land all RICH
even if a good deal of ground and loft,
tumbling We're INDUCED in before {
landing was effected"
The Des Moines Register ant
Leader says that Judge Gray seems tt
be in the hands of his friends, tn,
enemy.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil OBJ
serves that many a sweet girl gradu
ate becomes so fond of the center o
the stage that she comes back for al
encore as the June bride.
"The high school and college dl
plomas," says the Ida Grove pioneer
| ought to be tied up with ribbon
now and laid away on the shelf for
time. while those who have won then
roll up their sleeves and help fathe
and mother"
The Cedar Rapids Republican say
that the orator who called Gov. Yate
Richard the Small" knew the man.
About the most that can safely b
| predicted of Wisconsin," says the Du
1 buque Times, SIS that Gen, Apathy vii
beat retreat very early in the fight.
AS to the Iowa republican platform
the Eagle Grove Eagle says that no
body cares. but democrats, who stan
on it, or off it. 1T is cutting no ice,
the Eagle continues 1.-THE campaig
will be conducted on the national plat
and all the republicans and lot Q
l 1aO1ncratS arc for in,