Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-12

there is a belief among republican edi-
tors that w. j. Bryan is spongino his
prosperity, and that he should pay at
least an income tax on his receipts
from lectures.
THE diversity of this state is we'll
Illustrated in he fact that not with
standing the general prosperity there
Is crop of calamity howlers raised
every season. walls the Des Moines
Capital
The Des Moines Capital discerns the
dark outline of the winter coal prob
lem through the fog and mist of these
September mornings.
Judge Parker finds cause to won
der suggests the Dubuque Tele-
graph, how much worse it would have
been if the peace settlement had hap
pened year ago."
CAS- a reliable means of guarding
against a surplus age of population the
shotgun ranks next to the automobile
and the trolley car" says the Keoku!l
este Cit referring to the opening of
the hunting season.
ut was sure to come" says the Dav-
export Times speaking of the plans
of the state fair managers to secure
further appropriations from the legis-
lature. If there was no excuse in the
way of a deficit in state fair funds
something else would be suggested"
SHAW and Cummins are having
little tiff in the papers. and green
horn journalists down east observes
the Washington Press, fancy that the
party will be split in Iowa. Guess not.
Those men are not the only pebbles on
the beach. Let 'em fight; who cares?
The party will be more apt to take
the naughty boys across kness and fan
the bulges with stout shingles Split
It's a too tough old elm knot to split
o
The Cedar Falls Gazette believes the
country is in greater need Of moral
reformation than of political reforma-
ton.
can outsider reading the republican
newspapers of this state says the
Mason City Globe Gazette, could
justly come to the conclusion that one
set of editors We're democratic and the
other set republican from the handy
names they call each other and the
alacrity with which they question each
others motives. 1t reminds one of the
good old days when there was a strong
democratic press in the state and real
ly argues the necessity of a more
formidable democratic party Other
wise the republican sharpshooters will
kill themselves"
Stranger things have happened than
that Mr.. Roosevelt should succeed him
self" says the Marshalltown Times
Republican. There is much to do that
J,n fyi fi,,
that he can do best"
Nothing would give the people more
pleasure than to send back the presi-
dent for four years MORE says the
Cedar Rapids Republican. He has
summed up what is best in American
manhood and craftsmanship. There
are only a few men who could find it
| in their hearts to vote against him
We're the election in this coming Mo-
vember But three years are long
time and sentiment may have changed
a great deal by that time
Japan has conquered her enemy
| twice, once by the power of her arms
and once by the generosity of her
conduct saws the Mt. Ayr Record
"She has proven to the world that she
was worthy of victory"
The Cedar Falls Record says thai
the man who leaves an Iowa farm an6
goes to town to raise his family makes
! a great mistake. and that the young
man or woman who thinks life a bur-
den on the farm and pulls out for the
town or city in search of a soft snaT
is sure of disappointment.
Roosevelt is the slickest politician
since the days Of Andy Jackson says
the Washington Democrat.
The Iowa City Republican says thai
Major S. H. M. Byers will do fol
governor if he will bind himself not tc
put his state papers into poetry. Maj
Byers, the Republican thinks, is much
better than his poetry.
"a week has passed and no letter
from either Cummins or Shaw" OBJ
serves the Mason City Times Herald.
Eastern newspapers are asking wha
is the matter with Iowa politics, ant
the Davenport Times replies: Moth
| ing at all. We are having little
'talkfest out here, but everything viii
be all right when the next election
rolls around
The Clarinda Herald says there Is
no ground for either fear or hope tina
| the Shaw Cummins scrap will cause
a party split. There are plenty O.
high privates in the party 1t says
who are just as smart and have {
great deal more common sense when i
comes to quarreling and If it becomes
. necessary the places can be filled ant
the party not feel jar or jolt. Their
are no two men in the party who ar
| big enough to split It,"
with banks bullying with deposit
and corn cribs grooming over thei
. prospective burden, why shouldn'
staid old Iowa feel a little coltish?
asks the Marshalltown Times Repub
lican.
4 "The fellow who holds a job yer.
long at Washington now-doesn't,
observes the Mason City Globe-G Ga
zette