Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-15
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
The Dayton Review says that SEN
ator Dolliver sis always found on hand
with the goods, all attempts to dis
credit him Notwithstanding"
The Mason City Times Herald sug-
gests the possibility that in the future
gubernatorial campaigns in Iowa the
congressman will be too busy to take
a hand in the state fight.
Sherman Bell, ex-adjutant general
of Colorado, accompanies President
Roosevelt on his hunting trip by in
vitation, and the Dubuque Telegraph
expresses sorrow that the President
has chosen to be in bad company on
this trip.
"Col A. G. Stewart must have found
Porto Ricans a congenial people," says
the Cedar Rapids Republican. "And
he couldn't speak their language
either"
would Dolliver fght?" asks an
Iowa paper. to which the Mason City
Globe Gazette replies: WELL Senator
Jonathan is slow to anger, but If suffi-
ciently prodded might cause the OPP
posing party to wish he had confined
his study of destructive agencies to an
examination Of buzz saw"
The Cedar Falls Record agrees that
1t is not right to shoulder responsible
ity for ex- Mayor "Jim" Brenton on to
Gov, Cummins. "Brenton trots in
class all by himself" says the Record.
ut is a slanderous piece of business to
attempt to make anybody responsible
for him."
1.-THE lack of an election this year"
says the Guthrie city Guthrian, will
have it's compensation, when we come
to electing all the officers next year
Won't it be a hurrah time? We will
start at the TOP with the governor and
go down the line through the state
and county to township constable
Say! Things will be doing in Iowa
next year r
Major Rathbun. of the Marion Reg
lister calls for political peace in Iowa,
which the Council Bluffs Nonpareil re-
CARDS as humor, inasmuch as it is well
known that no one in the state enjoys
good humored turmoil more than the
major.
The Marion Register concludes that
biennial elections have come to stay.
"It is not the first time we have been
counted with the minortv." it says
'and we yield as gracefully as most
men do when they are licked"
The Keokuk Gate City says that
President Roosevelt, in all his travels,
has never reached "the enemy's coun-
try
CAS- acting president of the United
States, acting secretary Of state, Sec
rotary of war and supervising archi-
the Sioux City Journal says William
]. Taft comes pretty near to realizing
the comic opera character Of Pooh
Bah"
Raymond the, unfair and untruth-
full correspondent of the Chicago Tri-
bune, whose. misrepresentation were
largely responsible for the criticism Of
Col. Hepburn in connection with the
railroad rate legislation, has come as
near to correcting the wrong he did
as is possible with a yellow writer,
says the Creston Advertiser Gazette.
I'm a recent letter he says that Col
Hepburn has heartily supported the
program submitted to congress by
President Roosevelt That's as near
as he could come to doing justice to
Col. Hepburn without calling himself A
liar--and he is not apt to admit this
even though he probably has no doubt
on the subject"
"How about Helen Gould's monev?''
asks the Cedar Rapids Republican
"She got it honestly from her father
but did her father get 1t by means any
more Christian than John D. Rookie
Teller got his?"
The Burlington Hawk-Eye declares
that while the eagle is tolerated as a
national bird nobody loves him. HE is
a savage bird" says the Hawk Eye.
No one pets him. He may represent
the prowess Of the republic but moth
ing more"
Now that the biennial election law
of the state has been upheld in the
supreme court the people might just
as well settle down to the belief that
when they have a plenty they have
also enough Of a good thing" says the
Cedar Rapids Gazette.
About the surest way for an Iowa
girl to secure husband" says the
Iowa State Register, Seems to be for
her to go west and homestead farm.
The land commissioner at Bonesteel
is deluged with letters from men who
want to marry the 100 girls who Sc
cured homesteads on the Rosebud res
ervation."
Answering the criticism that An
drew Carnegies gifts have morally
pauperized America the Burlington
Hawk Eye says: Instead Of pau