Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-25
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

How much or now nttle the dctlOn
represents the convictions of the re-
publicans of Iowa need not be dis
cussed at this time" says the Water
loo Reporter and continues. 1T is in
line with the general belief in the rule
of the majority and in accordance
with universally accepted theories
that performance is better than precept.
Iowa republicans are thus committed
to accept the judgment of the major
ity of the party in the nation
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that if the tariff reformers had sue
publican party to overhaul the tariff
now" that is at the next session Of
congress, in the present campaign we
would have had the schedules instead
of the principle of the tariff the issue
in the pending campaign. In other
words the party would have been de-
batting with the democrats as to what
schedules it would revise, how much it
would revise them and how soon. The
have promised more in the same d.
rection.
Hon. James H. Eckles, Of the old
Cleveland guard, is among the Illinois
delegates instructed for Hearst. The
Keokuk Gate City thinks that "He
probably likes the situation about as
well as our own w. W. Baldwin"
Possibly the Japanese have been
waiting for the Fourth of July to enter
Port Arthur" is the comment Of the
Cedar Rapids Gazette. Such an ac-
ton would surely indicate harmony of
purpose in working for the open door"
The Marion Register says 1t is too
early to be naming candidates for gov
ernor, and the Dubuque Times sug-
gests that it is not too earlv. however,
to suggest that factional lines should
be disregarded in the selection of a
candidate.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil notes
that 1.-THE Oskaloosa baseball team has
only won ten games thus far this sea,
son and the Herald is making one OF
the most heroic efforts on record to
refrain from expressing itself. 1t is
succeeding nobly so far, but Is begin
ming ITO siZzle in spots. UNFOLDING a
punk baseball team is the supreme test
of the booster"
ida M. Tarbell thought she was
handing John D. Rockefeller a few
says the lies MOllleS Sdplldl, Dut
compared with Thomas Lawson's
package Ida's broadside reminds one
of fusilade of paper wads."
-O--
"In the view of Governor Cummins
decision last winter" says the Bur-
lington Hawk-Eye, that Mr.. Blythe
must not be a member of the Iowa
delegation, and the governor himself
would be the Iowa member Of the
committee on resolutions the outcome
of events at Chicago this week is fair
| ly dramatic"
| The Cedar Rapids Gazette is con-
soled with the fact that there can new.
| er be an effective trust in Strawberries
| for the reason that they are already
| 81 per cent water and will not sub
nit to further ipundation.
The Oskaloosa Herald hints that ad
vertising is good thing when II
saws: 1.-TWO weeks ago the New
| Sharon Star contained four full page
advertisements for merchants of thai
town. and a page in the Star means
something, as it is a big sheet. The
| following Saturday the town was alive
| with goods buyers. They came some
| twenty miles in every direction anc
were agreed that it was good to BIZ
| there"
Tt seems to the Atlantic Telegraph
| that Governor Cummins, In MAKING
ready to attend the republican ma.
| tionai convention, must have fell
about as the fellow who is going t.
call on a girl he has courted though