Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-12-19
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.


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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
II is the Judgment of the Boone
News that there is no place OH this
earth for man who deliberately COM
I mits murder
/ Inc Marshalltown Times Republican
says that if Germany is really anxious
TO test the Monroe doctrine, she could
! not nave struck better time or man
man the present and the present
| President.
the Clinton Herald says the Iowa
legislature should pass pure food
| faw--one that can, be enforce.
o.
The Clinton Herald observes that
Webster Davis has brains enough to
! discover that he has spent the last
t1ve years in bad company
The Cedar Rapids Gazette is of the
| opinion that there are a whole lot
worse senator's than Tillman. .He is
not had fellow" it saws, his chief
failing being that he had tongue that
| refused to keep in | inc with his iuds-
1 ment."
The best, in fact the only way, to
insure that public officials will do their
| auty, says the KeoEuk Gate City. sis
Tor every person TO do his whole duty
IN the premises as q citizen. Eor much
" the iaXlty In public office the peo-
ible" ie'i'o''''
1T is horrible thing to hang a wo-
man, or even to hang a man in that
way, says the Cedar Rapids Republic
can. But 1t was also horrible thing
to commit MURDER"
Governor Cummins is quoted as say
ing in a recent address: THE Iowa
men asks no protection against any hen
IN the world, and the Iowa COW asks
no protection against any COW in the
universe In the opinion of the Keo-
kuk Gate City, this is nothing but
puncombe and bombast. Both the
iowa hen and the Iowa cow" it as
serts, need and want protection, as
every Iowa farmer will testify"
POSSIBLY more death penalties
would have the effect of reducing the
number of homicides in the state"
suggests the Boone Republican.
The Waterloo Reporter points out
IL
there was no other issue In the cam
palgn for the nomination than the per-
sonar popularity of the candidates.
O.
The Atlantic Telegraph states that
Governor Cummins was not AN issue
IN the Cass county primaries and that
Des MONIES Is badly mistaken when 1t
asserts that the result was a Cum
INNS victory. "Cass county has been
making her fight on other and higher
grounds than Mr.. Cummins," contin-
ues the Telegraph. Mr.. Meredith will
go to the legislature this winter I'M
hampered by factional pledges The
republlcanism of the people OF Cass
county is not measured by the
by that of Mckinley, a Roosevelt, a
republican congress and republican
national committee"
Last month was very fatal month
for bosses, and it's going to be late
spring for LaFollette, Folk and Cum
minis to plow and get in their hoped
iof crops, says the Washington Press.
We don't care what he says or
does, confesses the Washington Dem
ocrat. speaking of President Roose-
vet. We have no special interest in
Roosevelt. We refuse to become en-
thuSlaStlc over him or his deeds SO
we don't care a cent whether the rail-
roads run him or he runs the rail-
roads,"
In the art of maxine haste slowly
there is nothing on earth that can beat
congress- saws the Des Moines Cap
ital
As matter of fact" SAYS the
Sioux City Journal. "Meriwether was
not criminally responsible even if his
hloW caused the death of Branch If
there was responsibility it must be
divided between the whole cadet body
and the faculty. The cadets formed
the code under which Meriwether and
Branch must fight to save their stand
ing IN the school. The faculty tolerat-
ed the practice of that code year after
year 1t would be unfair to hold one
individual responsible for an act which
was forced upon him by an institution
Just as binding as the written law
which In fact the code was allowed by
common consent to supersede"
The Clinton Herald observes that
J Jimmy Hyde, with $2,000,0O0, got out
in time to save some money, even i'll
MS coat tails We're badly scorched.
II corporations have been paying
political parties for protection after
the fashion in vogue among gamblers
and erafters in the great cities, 1t is
time the public knew about it," saws
the Marshalltown Times Republican, I
If there is no truth in the charges and
counter charges mo6e w +ln