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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28
THIS is TIE LIMIT.

Out in Oregon some genius has
evolved scheme which for real,
downright, absolute foolishness is abb
solutely "the limit" Though this
may sound little slangy it is never
theless entirely true. and we think the
great majority, probably every one, of
the readers of the Courier will agree
with the criticism. The scheme has
for its object the collection of some
100000 to be given to Miss Alice
Roosevelt on the day when she be-
comes Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. The
money is obe raised, according to the
plan OF the Oregon genius by popular
subscriptions OF not more than ten
cents per Subscriber subscription lists
to be in each state. The money is to
be FORWARDED to the state treasurers
and by them to the secretary of the
treasury at Washington, to be given
! by him to the bride.
1t is not hard to foresee that Mr..
ocsevelt will set his foot down hard
upon such 4 proposition. and it is
needless to say that the western
mans plan Till never pan out, but it
| is also unpleasant to learn that there
are people in the country who are lis
tened to seriously who would propose
such plan. If it were to raise $780,
600 for charity, the object would be
good one and the plan would be acted
upon, no doubg. but the idea of raising
that sum simply to give it as we'd
ding present to a girl whose future
| is absurd. Mr. Longworth is one of
i the richest residents of Cincinnati.
Miss Roosevelt has comfortable pri-
vate fortune What could be more
| foolish than 10 give them a present of
! money
| To be SURE the bride-to-be is the
daughter Of President Roosevelt and
the latter is enc of the most widely
/ popular men America has ever known.
! Because OF tie prominence of the fam
/ lily she has zen lshowered with atten-
tions for several years. But she is no
I better, no rettier, no wittier than
thousands ami thousands Of other girls
in America She has been honored
/ more highly than any other girl in.
1 America, anishe knows that her pop
/ ularity in hei country could not be in
creased. Thi presentation of mil
lion dollars tould not show any in
crease Of tina popularity.
Since this 3 true there can be only
one reason, r could be only one, for
/ giving this roney to the Presidents
daughter on her wedding day. That
would be tha she would need it. But
she doesn't, nd there is no promise
4 that she eve will need it. The man
who will be .ers husband has millions
Of dollars pre than enough to as
sure her all he pleasures she may de-
sire as long IS she lives. Were she
about to mary some poor and worthy
clerk there night be some reasonable
argument adanced in favor of the
plan of the Oegon man, but under the
circumstance he has certainly found
/ the limit in tie line Of foolishness.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

Bushels of letters addressed to San.
ia Claus are held up in one postoffice
and another for postage; but SO divine
is Santa Claus that he knows what is
written therein.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

Julian w. Richards, of Waterloo,
has formally nnounced his candidacy
for the republican nomination for the
office of secrfary of state and is max.
ing an activt canvass among his
friends throuhout the state. Mr..
Richards was born and has lived all
his life in low. His father located in
Blackhawk comfy in 1855, coming to
the state by the prairie schooner"
route. The ,andidate for political
honors was eucated at the state uni
versity, gradating therefrom in the
class of 1876 For twenty years he
was editor the Waterloo Courier
and latterly b has been Iowa cores
pondent for le Chicago Tribune as
well as representative of the several
Iowa papers t sessions of the state
Legislature. e has also had charge
of the repubran literary bureaus in
the campaigniof1 1896, 1900 and 1904.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

The Glidden Graphic expresses the
hope that LATE. Young will be the
standpat candidate for the guberna-
torial nomination. Everybody knows
Lafe," it says. "and they also know
where and how to find him. He would
be both a candidate and a platform"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

1t is the Des Moines Stats An
zeiger's opinion that there is an i'm
mense amount Of political lying beinl
done in Iowa just now.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

The Hampton Recorder says it Is not
frightened by the threat of the pro
gressive republicans" that if the pres
ent congress does not revise the tariff
a democratic CONGRESS- will be elected
that will. I'VE had rather see the
republican party beaten" states the
Recorder, than have it repeat the folly
perpetuated bv the democracy when it
passed the Wilson bill"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

The Melvin Argus says that Iowa
has an inexhaustible supply of honest,
conscientious and faithful men to draw
on for the governorship, and there
will be no more difficulty in finding
worthy successor to Governor Cum
minis than there was to Governor
Shaw.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that Emory English would stand quite
as well in the public esteem if he die
not try to represent Polk county in the
coming legislature. ut does not look
like the square deal about which sc
much has been said Of late" the Re-
publican suggests.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

The Storm Lake Pilot Tribune say
that Iowa, generally, believes tina
Senator Smoot should be sent to Sal
Lake or at least up Salt river.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

I'm our opinion it would be the
greatest mistake Iowa ever made to
harness up the three educational in
stitutions in Iowa and rob them of
the Municipalities that now surround
them" says the Cedar Rapids Repub-
lican.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

The Sac City Sun SUGGESTS that a
single board of control for the state
educational institutions might make
1t easier for members of the legisla-
ture to distribute appropriations fair
ly, but it would not be Of as much
service to the institutions as are the
several boards under the present law.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

1.-THE principle Of the statewide pri-
mary is radically wrong" declares the
Burlington Hawk-Eye. ct is an In
fringement upon the rights of the peo-
pie. The state has no business to In
terfere with the free assembling of
the people in party conventions or
their freedom Of choice Of methods of
selecting candidates"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

Lament, of the Des Moines Register
and Leader: What youngster Of to-
day can say, off hand the names of
Santa Claus RENDERS, and yet few
years ago such knowledge was gem
eral.''
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

Machine methods are much the
same in all the states, and it happens
in one state as well as in another that
no sooner is one machine smashed
than another is made ready for bust
ness" says the Sioux City Journal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

The Christian without home is de
lighted to see the streaming light
from the homes OF other people.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28
iowa sentiment is against third
terms" says the Boone Republican.

Every time someone or something
goes wrong, the cry goes up for more
leeislation," observes the Cedar Rapids
Republican. I'VE are getting laws
enough but can we ever have enough
laws to make men good?"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

THE best thing and nearly the
whole thing when it comes to Christ
mas is the children" says the Algona
Upper Des Moines- Republican. what
would anybod-- think Of a Christmas
with no children in it?"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

OF the Dolliver bill, the Des Moines
Register and Leader says: ut is evil
dent that this bill has been brought
to its simplest terms, has little in 1t
that will be Objectionable. and yet
that 1t definitely accomplishes the
purpose the/ President has had in
view. There should not be much diff
Guilty in securing an alignment be-
tween the friends and opponents of
government regulation"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

More than any other time of the
year is Christmas time the time that
you should not forget the children
and the poor" suggests the Manson
Democrat.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

The, Muscatine Journal speaking OF
the Dolliver rate bill, says: I'VE are
glad that Iowa had the honor Of in
PRODUCING the bill. Now we want to
see that august body line up on the
situation. We want to see how many
men are there representing the peo-
pie and how many are owned by the
corporations"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

The Sibley Gazette is opposed to an
educational board of control and as
serts that the people are not demand
ing change.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

The Onawa Democrat concludes that
there is little in statewide primary
law except an extra bill of expense"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

= THE COURIER PRINTING co.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

Let us see" saws the Mason Cit,
Globe Gazette, wasn't it said some
where a short time ago that wha
Iowa needed was a voice in the sen
ate?"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

The Clinton Herald says that Gov.
ernor LaFollette is man of some
ability and an abundance of assur.
ance.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

Fcunsee 9Th AUGUST. ls4a.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-28

Sigourney. Dec. 26.-Charles Good
man is home from Des Moines, where
he has been attending business coll
iege, and will spend the vacation with
his relatives here.
Frank Grum is visiting in Washing
The news & observer., 1905-10-27
HIGHER COTTON.

The report of the National Ginners'
Association indicates that the crop
of cotton produced in the South this
year will be under ten million bales.
The crop is nearly all out and was gin
ned much more rapidly this fall than
last. The crop in North Carolina will be
twenty per cent. less than last year
and yet more has been ginned up 10
this time than last year. Last year
$4,000 bales had been ginned while
this year 306,O00 bales have been
ginned. Farmers and ginners are not
fooled as to the size of the, crop be-
cause it has been ginned early. The
crop was two weeks earlier this year
and the gins put it in bales more rap
idly.
The farmers who rush their cotton
to market when the price is lower
than it should be, as during the past
few weeks are helping to put down
the price of cotton. If spinners can
get cotton at nine cents they will not
pay eleven. The world conditions and
the law of supply and demand should
make every pound of cotton of THIS
years crop bring eleven cents.
The news & observer., 1905-10-27

published in town that has no local
fair and therefore no local or private
interest to subserve, takes the correct
view when it says:
1.-The complaint that the State Far
does not measure up to what it should
be is we'll founded but we are con-
vinced that the State capital is the
place for this fair. The Concord Trl-
bune makes the point, which is Well
taken, that it is not the location put
the quality of the shows and the IN
feriority of exhibits which deserves
criticism. When the State Fair man
agement eliminates the horde of gam
blers and Bowery attractions and pc
comes more concerned about the dis
play this talk of moving the falf VIII
end but not before then.
The State Fair until the last two or
three years has been in debt and its
income did not warrant spending as
much money as it's management felt
was needed Now it has reduced its
debt to a sum that requires only ST.
600 a year to pay interest on the
bonds, has built a good grand stand,
has money to make other improve
ments, and it's policy is to spend every
extra dollar for the entertainment and
instruction of the crowds who attend
the Fair. The management, with the
burden Of debt put behind, now pur-
poses putting every dollar received to
make the Fair worthy of the patron
age of the whole State.
The news & observer., 1905-10-27
MRS. JACKSON PRAISES HIM.
Generals Widow Found President
Large Hearted, Good, Great"

Charlotte, n. c., Oct. 25.-In an in
terview given out here this evening
Mrs StoneWall Jackson, widow of the
Confederate General pays tribute tc
President and Mrs. Roosevelt
"In President RooseVelts tril
through the South he has probably
made no more pleasing impression
anywhere than in this city.
although his stop with us was al
too brief (only Is minutes), our peo-
pie gave him a grand and enthusias-
tic welcome and ovation, and certainly
he captivated those who were fortu-
nate enough to meet him by his own
exceedingly cordial and gracious man
ner.
Il had been honored in being placed
at the head of a delegation of ladies
to receive Mrs. Roosevelt, and when
was presented to His Excellency
was both surprised and overwhelmed
at the warmth and eXuberance of his
greeting. He expressed so much admi-
ration for my husband and so much
joy at meeting his wife, holding my
hand so tenderly and yet reverently,
that my heart was deeply touched;
and when he spoke of his pleasure in
appointing my grandson to q cadet
ship at West Point and complimented
him as "a splendid young fellow he
struck the tenderest chords of q very
grateful heart.
Eyes, [ am sure the President is
all right-a large-hearted, good and
great man. His noble tributes to Gen
erals Lee and Jackson proved that ne
is of the true metal.
"The Presidents wife made as fa-
Vorable an impression upon the Ia
dies as any first lady of the land
could. being cultured and gracious,
womanly and responsive to all the
eager attention showered upon her. 1t
was lovely to see how the ladies and
children crowded around her and how
kindly and sweetly she received them.
MY faithful old cook was perhaps
the most eIated person in the parlor
Of my simple little home as she handed
the first lady of the land a glass of
water, and she told me afterward that
we was the bontonest folks in town,
as nobody else had the Presidents wife
in their house.
"It made all Charlotte happy to
have this brief and inspiring visit from
the President ond his charming wife,
and especially was the town delighted
when he affirmed his belief in the
genuineness of the Mecklenburg Dec
laration of Independence. We Char
lotte people now think with such dis
tinguished and unquestiOned indorSe-
ment that no one can ever doubt that
Mecklenburg county did declare her
independence against Great Britain on
May 20, 1875.
May His Excellency long live to
be q blessing and a powerful, great
good to this grand country of ours. =
Special to Baltimore Sun.
The news & observer., 1905-10-27
No Stopping Over.

Charity and Children:
The President has come and gone
and our people treated him royalty
and in dignifed way. We have seen
no evidences of stopping over from any
source. Mr.. Roosevelt was delighted
with his reception and expressed him
self in terms too fulsom. The Presl-
dent is not by any means an engaging
speaker, and his conversation aboundS
with slang phrases entirely unsuited
to a man occupying his h1gh station.
"By jove," "by George" and the like
are forever on his lips ana they 10
not sound well. but he is great
man and honest, and our people
think much more highly of him than
they did before his visit.
The news & observer., 1905-10-27

Many women long for child to bless
their homes, but because of some de-
bility or displacement of the female
organs they are barren.
Preparation for healthy maternity is
accomplished by Lydia E. Pinkham's S
Vegetable Compound more successfully
than by any other medicine, because it
gives tone and strength to the entire
female organism, curing all displace-
ments, liberation and Inflammation.
A woman who is in good physical
condition transmits to her children the
blessings of good constitution. Is
not that an incentive to prepare for a
healthy maternity?
If expectant mothers would fortify
themselves with Lydia E. Pinkham' S
Vegetable Compound, which for thirty
years has sustained thousands of
women in this condition, there would
be great decrease in miscarriages, in
suffering, and in disappointments at
birth.
The following letters to Mrs. Pink
ham demonstrate the power OF Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in
such cases.
Mrs. l.. G. Glover, Vice-President of
Milwaukee business Woman S ASSOcla-
ton, of 614 Grove Street, Milwaukee,
Wis, writes:
Dear Mrs, PinlSham:-
" | was married for several years and no
children blessed our home. The doctor said
/ had complication of female troubles and
/ could not have any children unless / could
be cured For months | took his medicines,
trying in vain for a cure, but at last my hus-
and n cta1 o11l c+o1 hot
Many Women Have Been Benefited by
The news & observer., 1905-10-27
THAT DOGS TAIL MUST BE CUT
OFF JUST BEHIND THE EARS.

There was more robbery practiced
I'm Raleigh at the State Fair last week
than anybody here imagined. The
coming of the President engrossed so
much of the time of the authorities
that they were not as alert as usual,
and the men licensed for guessing
games and games said to require skill,
robbed the people in wholesale man.
ner. OF course the folks ought to
have too much sense to permit sharp
ers to rob them. But that does not
excuse the Fair authorities for licens-
ing unknown men to carry on any op-
erations at the Fair. The only way to
end this disgraceful business-(and
il must be ended or the people will
wisely boycott the Fair)-is to do two
things:
/. License no game of chance or
skill (so-called) on the grounds. Ex-
perience has shown that the base fell
lows who get such license turn in
and rob unsuspect'ng people, and,
under license to conduct a game of
chance that looks innocent enough,
they carry on all the games from
Canfield's down.
.. License nobody to do anything on
the EAir grounds whose character is
not known. There are plenty of peo-
pie, who live in North Carolina, OF
who can establish good character, who
will be glad to take all the conces-
sions the Fair hcS to offer. If they
practise extortion or robbery, they
can be punished. The travelling gang
of fakirs and thieves do their stealing
and skip.
Just as long as these two essential
rules for reform are not adopted and
rigdly adhered to, just SO long will the
disgraceful robberies of last week be
repeated. The only way to cut off the
tail of that dog is to cut it off just be-
hind the ears. Any concession or
compromise is to license what is worse
than highway robbery.
The news & observer., 1905-10-27
Spirit of the Press.
Politics and Suicide.

Rlcnmond NeWS-Leader.
1t is a strange and tragic co1nc1-
dence that within a week TWO prom
inent men have been driven TO sui
eide by the corrupting influence Oh
Republican machine politicians, one
in New York, the other in Pennsyl-
vania. Last week Armitage Mathews,
of New York city, destroyed himself
rather than face trial for consplrlng
to plunder an estate. He was secre-
tary of the Republican committee, and
it is said and generally believed that
he killed himself to protect the prom
inent politicians who were his cocoon
spirators and who has lnstigated, IL
they had not forced, his crime. AT
Allegheny, Pa, on Wednesday, Lee
Clark, cashier of the Enterprise Ma
tional bank there, blew out his brains.
a rapid investigation reveals that the
bank is literally gutted, being loaded
with the paper of Republican poiltl-
clans who had borrowed money on
worthless collateral. United States
Senator Penrose is deeply involved. In
consideration of these loans the poll
ticians had arranged to make the
bank a State depository, and at the
time of it's failure it carried more
than half a million dollars of State
money.
Frederick Gwinner, a very prom
president of the Enterprise bank. He
confesses, weeping, that he was but a
dummy president, knowing little or
nothing of the conduct of the busi-
ness and predicted through his tears
that the scandal would destroy the
Republican party in the State. If it
accomplishes that end, the unfortun-
ate cashier will not have died in vain.
Here in the South we have little
conception OF the frighttul, shameless
rottenness of Republican politics in
the rich Northern States where the
party is firmly established. Forum
ately for us, we have as little COM
prehension of the servility, the terror
and the hopelessness with which the
respectable people of these States con-
template the conditions. The power
of the machine extends everywhere,
into every department of life and
business and its corrupting, Destroy
ing Influences is felt everywhere
Some of these days great leaders of
the forces of honesty in New York and
Pennsylvania will rise, like Folk in
Missouri and there will be "a vast mi
grafton to the penitentiaries and a
political upheaval the cleansing and
purifying effects of which will remain
many years.
The news & observer., 1905-10-27
THE LOST COLONY.
Ought to be an Exhibit of Indian
Relics at the next State Fair.

To the Editor: 1t occurred to me
while | was at the State Fair that one
of the most interesting exhibits was
omitted ] could not help noticing its
absence, and / have concluded TO men
ton Il at this time, so that if the man
ayers of the State Fair think as | do
they can make preparations for 1t and
have such an exhibit a year hence
The melancholy. yet interesting story
of the Lost Colonists has been mar
rated time and again, and a deep i'll
terest mas been awakened and now
centers in the Croatan Indians, their
descendants; and it is an exhibit of &
band of these people to which l re-
fer. Under the circumstances, can
anything be more interesting than
these Indians and their curios? /
have no doubt that these people
have among them most valuable relies,
as we'll as those which will excite our
most intense interest and curiosity
The history and fate of the Lost
Colonists and that of these people
seem to be bound together by indis-
soluble bonds-names and circum-
stances connecting their history are
pregnant with meaning and strongly
indicate that these Indians are the
descendants of those early settlers and
possibly of Virginia Dare. Let us see
these people and judge for ourselves.
VIM. J. LEARY, SR.
Edenton, ~ c., Oct. 26 1903
The news & observer., 1905-10-27
That DupIin County Case.
Wilmington Messenger.

Governor Glenn has notified the
sheriff of Duplin county that If it is
thought necessary he Will order
special term of court TO try the negro
1iend who attempted criminal assault
on the little white girl near Wallace
Sunday. The great pity about this ne
gro's case is that the law limits the
punishment in such cases to maxi
mum of fifteen, years in the peniten-
tiary. There can be no doubt about
this mans guilt. In such cases as
this the penalty should be death. Such
a fiend should not be allowed to live
In Virginia the penalty for such q
crime is death and it should be the
same in this State. Those people of
Duplin county, who had the opportun-
ity to hang this brute but who, in
stead, secreted him until the sheriff
could spirit him out of the county
showed great firmness and law-abid-
ing spirit not usual in men under such
circumstances.