Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-11-16

that wherever the republican party be-
haved itself this year it came out Of
the election all right.
ut Is rather surprising to see Mr.
Hearst going to all that trouble te
get himself into a position in which
he must show his inability to keep al
those promises" says the Sioux Cit,
Journal.
The Hampton Recorder thinks II
would be nonsense to enact more laws
for the suppression of intemperance
until those already in existence are
better enforced.
"The truth is" says the Washing
ton Democrat, that Rankin would be
the worst disappointed man In the uni.
verse If the state marshal bill became
a law, because then he would be Out
of job
The Des Moines Capital says that
nothing in the entire political career
of Boss Cox, of Cincinnati, was SC
perfectly Pc becoming as his taking leave
Must even our firesides be regulat-
ed and controlled by the state?'' asks
the Iowa Staats-Anzeiger, commenting
on the suggestion of a cabinet port
folio for women.
1T will always remain a question In
the minds of many" says the Mason
City Globe-Gazette, speaking of the
absence of an election in Iowa this
year, whether the biennial election
law is a. step in the line of political
progress-not that Iowa has any great
amount of house cleaning to do, but
she always ought to have her hand in
and her ammunition dry"
.Tammany has been from the be-
ginning a standing threat against
honest civic administration" SAYS the
Des Moines Register and Leader
Graft has been it's watchword 1t has
fattened on stolen contracts and the
purchased immunity given to thieves
gamblers and prostitutes. That Boss
Murphy may not be as bad as Boss
Croker and that Mayor Mcclellan has
been inmeasurably better than Wayne
Van Wyck merely serves to white
wash in spots an organization that is
essentially a conspiracy against good
government"
"A half a crop Of potatoes at 70
cents bushel beats mighty big CROP
at what potatoes are really worth,
says the Clinton Herald.
Billy Sunday thinks the world
church members and all, is very, very
bad, but" says the Cedar Rapids Ga
zette, "he should not dwell on that
point too long. If it were not so bad
there would be no excuse for his re-
ceiving $500 to 5000 per week for re-
forming it,
Having learned that President Heg-
eman of the Metropolitan Life "strug-
giles along on 100000 year" the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil declares that
provision should be made for pensions
ing supernnuated insurance managers
Missouri Is entitled to some con-
sideration as the original boss boun-
GER" is the Sioux City Journals gem
tie remin Ter.
The Waterloo Reporter says the evil
dent determination Of the people to i'm
prove the quality of their government
over what it has been in recent years
is the leading lesson to be learned
from the late election.
The Des Moines Capital say, that
Mayor Mcclellan is dead political
duck so far as democratic leadership
IN New York is concerned, and that
the man whom the democratic party
will reckon with in coming contests in
New York is Mr.. Hearst.
If there Is political boss In Iowa"
says the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
ne read the returns on Tuesday even
ing, that the biennial elections amend
ment carried last year."
The fact that Secretary Taft is
writing magazine articles convinces
the KeokulS Gate City that he has no
thought of being candidate for the
presidency.
The Des Moines Capital, commenting
on Tuesdays election results, notices
that tho i-told-you-so man is acting
very much like a tongue-tied individ-
ual this time"
The Waterloo Courier thinks that
the massacre Of the Jews In Russia
illustrates the folly and danger of
mixing politics and religion in the gov
eminent of any country.
The Cedar. Rapids Gazette suggests
elhlI liie CZdT illdy yet ma himself III
the predicament Of the fool that rocks
the boat.
To the Davenport Times the trouble
appears to be that the railways fear
that some Of the rates now establish
ed could not be defended successfully
il, court.
when Mr.. Hearst, his wife and his
friends. rode by the outra geous bill
boards and saw the libelous post card
pictures thick as leaves along the
streets thew saw one of the successes
of the yellow school Of journalism"
says the Marshalltown Times Republi-
can.
"All we sell abroad is our surplus.
which Is very small when compared
with the grand total of what we pro-
duce and manufacture here" sa--s the
Marion Register. "But the surplus
seems to be all that worries the agi-
tators.''
"The more frequent the accounting,
other things being equal. the stricter
the responsibility to which the people
will hold the government" says the
Clinton Herald. discussing the four
year term,