Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-01

Secretary Shaw may be crazy to be
president" as Walter Wellman alleges
but it adds, there is no alarming in
crease of insanity on the part of the
people to make the next president out
of the secretary Of the treasury. "At
this distance from the next presiden-
tial plum crop" continues the Report
er, ut is a little difficult to enthuse
over the prospect, or to cultivate the
eagerness that Wellman says spells
crazy"
Matters at Chicago are easily ad~
Unstable, if onlv a man was at the head
of affairs says the Mt. Ayr Record |
"A real man, as mayor, and supported
by some real men, would settle all mat
ters and protect all citizens in their
rights in that great city,"
The Nevada Representative says
that in the public mind there Is still
doubt Of Tom Dennison's guilt, not
only Of this crime, but Of many others.
But the proof in this case" 1t con-
tinues, seems to rest largely, If not
wholly, upon the statement Of the ac-
tual perpetrator of the robbery, and
it takes a good deal of testimony of
that sort to send to the penitentiary a
man who is able to fight every bit of
the proceedings"
when you consider Tom Dennison
the Omaha gambler. and his bunch"
says the Iowa City Republican land
then turn to the chief witness for the
prosecution, Shercliffe, the x-burglar
and robber, and his bunch, there is lit
tie to be concluded at this time with
reference to the Dennison case save
that several respectable lawyers con-
nected with the proceedings are in
great danger Of contamination in full,
| f1llment of the old adage that evil COM
nunications corrupt good manners.
! There Is little apparent merit in the
| ca se."
The Waterloo Courier says 1t begins
to look as If the government will yet
have to intervene to stop that Chicago
strike.
The Des Moines Capital says that
the railway rate question, it will be
safe to follow the lead Of President
Roosevelt.
The Cedar Falls Record regards the
Chicago strike as proof that the proper
place for the small factory is out of
| the great cities. "The smaller cities
railway facilities and none of the labor
troubles and congested conditions that
annoy, perplex and bankrupt the strug-
Cling factories in the labor centers."
1.-THE decreased rural population of
Iowa" says the Iowa City Republican,
tells the story Of improved farm ma
chinery and the passing Of the hired
man.
Il
joe R. Lane, Of Davenport, would be
4 satisfactory to the Webster City Free
man Tribune as candidate for COVER
nor. "He is Of the progressive type of
/ republicans it says, land would sure
ly make a broad guaged governor, just
4 the kind Of man to succeed Cum
MINIS"
i Speaking Of "Jud" welliver's de-
parture from Iowa, the Des Mones
Capital says, among other things
"The Capital regards Jud as one Of the
4 brightest newspaper men which Iowa
nose for news and handles it without
heart-like a surgeon. He will make
} things hum when he reaches Washing
ton and has worked a while. He will
probably not tie himself UP to the poll
ticians again, but will be independent
i An editor of an Iowa paper who re-
Gently got married. announces in large
type on the front page Of his paper
the name of the happy BRIDE" "Force
| IF habit no doubt" remarks the Coun-
Gil Bluffs Nonpareil, whose editor it
may be remembered, was also married
J recently.
Wasn't 1t just about this time last
!, year that tine corn crop. in the lowlands
was hopelessly ruined?" asks the Sioux
City Journal
| The Mason City Globe Gazette adj
vises Lincoln Steffens that the gas
!. business in his nome city Of Phila-
delphia, fright now would be more eff
fective reading than some of. the stor-
les written about the horse after it is
stolen"
eff someone would give good rea-
5 son for taking state census he would
be eligible to consideration by the trus
2 tees of the Carnegie hero fund.-" says
2 the Davenport Times.
: mo one can question Harvey Ing
D Iham's fitness to be governor Of Iowa .
E says the Eagle Grove Eagle. but we
: simply can't elect every man in the
state to that office who would make y
Y good governor; there are too many OF
i them"
"And after ALL" says the Burlington
Hawk Eye, there are quite nurnbe,
], OF American cities that are not in con
Gition to point the finger of scorn al
Philadelphia"
Edward Box says tipping is bad
habit. 1T must have been severe
i strain on his p1antal machinery to pro-