Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-09
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
The Washington Democrat saws the
nomination of Hearst would be politi-
cal suicide. ut is an insult to Bryan .
1t declares. ito even think of Hearst as
his successor"
"The Lord help the country if any
considerable number of our people are
sincerely for Hearst" says the Iowa
City Republican.
The republican press Is wasting a
lot of valuable space fighting Hearst
before he is nominated" says the Eagle
Grove Eagle. 1T will be soon enough
to fight Hearst after he is nominated
and easy enough"
The Keokuk Gate-City contends that
at best the 1903 platform is now a last
purpose.
The Fairfield Ledger suggests that
perhaps republican objection in Iowa
to the tariff plank of 1903 Is not 80
serious as objection to the construc-
lions placed upon it.
The Cedar Rapids Republican, dis
cussing the existing corruption in
American municipal government, says
there is only one hope for better things.
some time become as well organized
and as aggressive as the forces Of
evil.
"The man does not live" says the
Corning Union-Republican, "who be-
lieves that the provisions of any tariff
law are sacred, and all argument
meant to convince such a man or to
hold him up to ridicule is in itself ridi-
culous."
The Ida Grove Pioneer says that Jud
Welliver's congressional boom Is joke
THE joke of the day."
If going to a national convention at
the head Of a Hearst delegation can
be called coming to life, then, SAYS the
Cedar Rapids Republican, Pettigrew is
celebrating a political resurrection.
The Sac City Democrat says there is
very little sense in the contention that
the democrats of Iowa should not ex-
press a preference for presidential can
didates because the state Is hopelessly
republican. Why, asks the Democrat,
should not Iowa's 225,000 democrats
have a choice in the selection Of presi-
Dental candidates, the same as demo-
Gratis in other states?
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The Creston American says that
Hearst represents the loyal element of
the democratic party.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil be-
speaks fair treatment Of the state uni
yersity, to the end that the schools at
Ames and Cedar Falls be not develop
ed at its expense. The university, 1t
asserts. today is dying of rivalry. 1T
not only has the rivalry Of these other
Iowa schools" the Nonpareil continues,
but 1t is confronted on all sides with
the rivalry of better universities pro-
vided in adjacent states. This latter
competition will be sufficient to keep
the university alive II the state only
will put 1t in a position to meet It's
neighbors on something like an even
footing"
The Des Moines Capital suspects
that Mr.. Welliver, If sent to congress
would be disposed to talk several oc-
taves above a whisper, and with one
foot constantly on the loud pedal"
The Knoxville Journal is now con-
WINGED that the attempted reformation
of the inebriate is great and glori-
Gus" work. work that Is likely to in
sure Knoxville one of the largest, If not
the largest, institutions in the state.
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The Wesley News World says that
all man has to do If he wants horse
with locked tail is to take the ami
NAL across the Minnesota line, where
they will do the rest"