Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-22

CiOWH prince ana the new Danger OF
a clash with France, Wilhelm has his
hands pretty well filled.
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Tom Dennison is to be tried again in
connection with the Shercliffe case.
Another chance for Omaha's chief of
police to show his friendliness for the
gambler king
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
ut may not be a new idea in naval
warfare" says the Sioux City Tribune,
but it Is certainly a telling one, to
disable ships about enough to make it
easy to repair them for use in the VIC
tors navy
Perhaps the President will transfer
Mr.. Bonaparte to the Attorney Gener-
alship and if he does the trusts will
think they have been logged" says
the Centerville Citizen.
ut should be interesting at ST Pc
tersburg at this stage of the proceed
an advance movement remarks the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
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eff Rev. Bro. Lomack ever tires of
preaching he ought to find himself
fairly well qualified to take up the law
business" declares the Des Moines
Capital.
BE patient with the Russian" urges
the Sioux City Journal. at is a bitter
dose he still has to take from DR.. Jap
and he is entitled to few preliminary
grimaces.
Judging from the ability with which
he has filled every position in the game
of life, his friends are convinced that
Roosevelt would make an ideal UNI
pire," says the Creston Advertiser-Ga
zette, "and that is almost the hardest
test a man could be asked to stand
for.'
"Given speed Of 127k miles an
hour an open switch or box car on
the line, what is the ar>wer?" asks the
Marshalltown Times Republican with
shudder.
Don't it beat the world how the
life insurance companies have paid
policyholders every cent that their
money earned and still contrived to
pay unreasonable salaries and ex
penses?" exclaims the Cedar Rapids
Gazette.
of course, the rate legislation ask
ed for by President Roosevelt and the
legislation which the mere politicians
anxious to take advantage Of this agi-
tation have been advocating are two
entirely different things" says the
Cedar Rapids Republican. "There is a
square deal, even for the railroads, in
the presidents program, while there is
nothing but politics in the professional
agitator's program.
Party harmony is not always the
essential thing" declares the Webster
City Freeman Tribune. THE thing
for the republican party to do is to do
right. Stand for justice and a square
deal to the people and to the corpora
lions. Let harmony take care of it
self, but never sacrifice principle to
promote unity and good fellowship"
THAT little war game the army and
navy has been playing down on the
Atlantic coast may have been excit-
ingly interesting" says the Sioux City
Journal, but it is difficult to arouse
any enthusiasm over it after eighteen
months Of the real thing in the east
"If King Alfonso wants the genuine
article he ought to come to the United
States for a wife," says the Burlington
Hawk-Eye." Our woods and prairies
are full Of princesses.''
zone thing is certain in connection
with the Tom Dennison show" re-
marks the Council Bluffs Nonpariel.
land that is that on it's second APP
pearance it will not play to so large a
business. The public is tired of the
performance"
1.-THE madness Of the inordinate bus
mess scheming" is what Grover
Cleveland calls it, but the Keokuk
Gate City says There is another
name for it, shorter and more COM
mon, but less polite"
Kansas has such big crop that
Mrs. Nation might improve the OPP
portunity to gather few sheaves, the
Sioux City Journal thinks.
THE dove OF peace is liable to be
overworked," says the Clinton Herald
orient, Norway and Sweden and
France and Germany. 1t might spend
a couple of days profitably in Council
Bluffs settling the school vaccination
controversy
The Iowa City Republican views the
two-column editorial of the Des
Moines Capital on the tariff question
as time wasted. 1.-The people," it de-
clares. are satisfied with existing
conditions except a few fellows who
want to kick up muss and let 1t be
known they are on EARTH"
Judge Welliver has reached Wash
ington and has resumed his favorite
occupation of trying to take falls oul
OF Hon. Leslie M. Shaw" remarks the
Des Moines Capital.
THE expression, good roads, is be.
coming as important part Of Iowa's
daily speech as 'how's the corn p" re.
marks the Burlington Hawk Eye.