Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-08

In chronicling the fact that FIX
Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, will
spend the winter in Washington. as is
her custom, the Sioux City Tribune
says There ought to be some respon-
sible person there to keep the con-
gressmen straight"
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1.-THE millennium has been given an
other setback" says the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil "a band of Illinois women
have established a literary bureau to
defeat the purposes of the equal suf-
eragists."
1.-THE most inexplicable feature of the
inexplicable Chadwick case is that the
most imaginative reporter has not sue
ceeded in working up an allegation
that the woman in the case Is beauti-
full" is the Sioux City Journals
opinion.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette rashly
supposes that since the Thomas bomb
incident in Omaha, highwaymen in
politics and diamond stealing will no
longer be wanted in Omaha and that
to use the language of an attorney
employed for their defense. directed
toward witness for the prosecution,
they would better leave Omaha and
Nebraska "as quick as God will let
them"
The Sioux City Journal calls atten-
ton to the fact that the county ticket
did not show either the name of the
state or the county Considering the
biennial muddle the Journal is moved
to say: THE query is whether the
courts should not be asked to consider
whether the people in Woodbury.
county, for instance, knew at. the time
they were voting for county auditor
that they We're not voting for a county
auditor for johnson county,
1.-THE people of the Vardaman mould
are more damage to the south than the
race issue or a run of pestilential
fever" declares the Waterloo Re-
porter" in deep disgust.
According to the Iowa State Register
there are not few men who want no
better proof of their business ability
than to start out in the morning with
an old plug of a horse and return at
night with a better kind Of a plug, SO
in cash and an old harness. Every
little town has one or more Of this
sort says the Register. Their wives
ger rally take in washing to support
the family
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The Mason City Globe-Gazette
pleads with the country to give con-
gress chance to inquire into the mat
ter and make whatever revision is ne
cessary If any without alarming the
BUSINESS interests of the country
! Roosevelt and the republican congress
can be trusted says the Globe Ca
zette.
The Des Moines Capital says thai
Editor w. o. Payne, of the Nevada
Representative, may yet demonstrate
/, that the great constitutional lawyers
| of this state are not all necessarily
engaged in the practice Of law.
"This thing is becoming so regula,
| that it will soon cease to attract at.
tention." says the Burlington Hawk.
| Eye. "a big stock show has just beer
| held in Chicago, and Iowa again walked
away with the best pick of the prizes
| BY and by Iowans will have to con-
| fine themselves to the Iowa state fail
and to competitions among or witt
1 themselves, as others will not care tt
enter contests where the result is &
foregone conclusion"
Considering. the fact that the off.
| cial count of Illinois shows plurality
of 100000 for Roosevelt, Tom Taggar
was justified in neglecting that state
remarks the Davenport Times.
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"Tama jim Wilson was born {
lucky man." says the Cedar Rapid.
Republican. He will break all rec.
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