Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-26
aoTIvE OF THE REGISTER AND
LEADER PUT BEFLRE THE
PEOPLE
Report That the Publishers Expect to
Be Beneficiaries Of the Terms of Ed
chasseIl as State Printer-Makins
Preparations.

Des Moines, July 26.-The question
mas often been asked what impelled
the Register and Leader to espouse the
Cummins cause with so much bitter
ness and so little good judgment as
that paper has manifested during the
present campaign?
1t was we'll known that at heart both
the proprietors of the paper were not
Cummins men. Both were anti-Cum-
minis leaders in his earlier campaigns
and one of them at least, has declared
that he was financial loser by reason
of the former political opposition of
the governor which compelled him to
make a very expensive campaign a
few years since.
been forgotten and forgiven and the
Register and Leader, not only editori-
ally, but in its political news stories,
has for months been most vitriolic in
its assaults upon Nh. Perkins and his
friends. The reason is now apparent.
1t is not so much manifestation Of
change of heart on the part of the pro-
prietors of the paper as it Is a mat
ter of policy-a policy governed by the
counting room and based upon hope Of
future remuneration. The statement
is now made upon good authority that
arrangements are on foot for trans
ferring the state printing patronage
from the Iowa Printing Co., which has
done the work for State Printer Muir
ply to the job rooms of the Register
and Leader under the new State Print
er, Hon. Emery English.
Seven vo,rc - pIan+v
Mr.. English, having captured a year
which might reasonably be expected to
belong to Murphy's term as state print
er, has about seven wears of this job
to contemplate. A seven years con
tract to perform the work for Mr.. Eng
| lish means a handsome sum annually
for the Register and Leader. Such 9
reward ,of merit" is one that no pub
lie spirited newspaper, especlally one
devoted to the reign of the common
people" would reject. OF course II
would scarcely be admitted that this
would be in the nature of graft fol
none of the progress1ves would ac
cept such thing as graft" 1t is
merely a plum fixed up to fall into
their basket.
While pursuing this line of though
it might be appropriate to suggest tha1
the perpetuation of such snaps as these
and the rich picking FOR the politica
oil inspectors and other members O
the governors flying squadron, seem tt
afford about the only excuse outside
the qualification of his own ambition
for the governor to remain any longe
a candidate for third term.
/. Shaw the Preacher.
The Oyster Bay conference has set
tied it that the policy of the republl
can party will continue to be "stand
pat" without any leaning toward tar
/ liff-ripping or any of the other fads 0
the progressives, and 1t has also mad
it certain that Secretary Shaw, instea
of LaFollette or Cummins, will be on
of the principal expounders of Roose
welt republicanism on the stump.
!, The passage of the rate bill by cor
gress has settled the railroad question
so far as political parties are cor
!. cerned, hence the governor is left W.T.
no excuse for being in politics excep
. that he wants to repay his friends an
incidentally, land in the United State
senate.