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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31
HAuGEM To "Gov

1t is predicted by the editor of the
Arlington News that Congressman
Haugen will go two years hence. Mr..
Lake does not intimate that he wants
him to CO. but says that he has it from
a gentleman who knows and was pre-
sent and heard the conversation when
T. L. Green, postmaster at West Union
said that Duncan Rule, a Mason City
railroad attorney, had beaten Jim
Blythe In that city and that in two
years he should be given the position.
He concludes his article with this pre-
diction:
Now, all the News asks is to have
the people remember this prediction
and see If it does not come true, viz:
that in two years from now Duncan
Rule of Mason City will be the nomi-
nee for congressman in place of Con-
gresham Haugen If Tom Green, Post
master, Sturgis and the machine are
in power In this district"
Congressman Haugen was first nomi-
mated at the conclusion of prolonged
fight In the fourth district in which
Jim Blythe and Congressman Thomas
Updegraff were the principals, neither
one being able to muster majority of
the delegates In the convention.
Blythe made another trial four years
ago and Duncan Rule was brought out
in his home city to defeat him and sue
ceeded, the result being that neither of
the Mason City candidates got any
thing. The Fourth district is great
battle ground, being great deal like
the Fifth, split up so that they got
nothing. The Third, which is between
the two, has been sufficiently united
for many years to get with the swag
that might otherwise have gone to
them
So, If the News prediction holds
good there will be chance to see a
battle royal in two years, and the pro-
mise may be made that it will be no
imitation.
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WHO'S GOING TO HEDGE?

Consistency in campaigning" says
the Chicago Post, lis as much of a
jewel as it is when it shines elsewhere.
If the party speakers, as they must,
talk high tariff in ten places and hedge
a little in the talk in one place, it
will be for the democrats to laugh"
But who is advocating talking high
tariff in ten places and then hedging?
Surely not the ones who met a few
days ago with the congressional COM
mittee and decided upon the stand pat
policy Imagine Shaw and Joe Can
non hedging on the Dingley law, and
that is presumed to be what the Post
means when it says high" tariff, for
that is the law they propose to sup
port in the ten places. President
Roosevelt said he took Shaw with him
on his western trim because he want
ed man who was not afraid to use
the word "gold'' out among he popu-
lists. Where is the zone" place that
any republican should fear to suppog
the Dingley law? That is law that
was made for the whole United States
and not for any section The fact Of
the matter is the only objection to it
is sectional. The Massachusetts man
ufacturers want the tariff removed
from the very things that the Iowa
farmer wants it kept on.
AS congressman McCleary said few
days ago, 1.-THE tariff will stand as it
is. 1t will stand because it is not
meant to build up the industries of one
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CAN HE HARMoNIzE THEM?

Washington Post.-Much depends on
the state of William B. Allison's
health. Never was he SO necessary to
his party in his state as in this good
year 1906. He is the great pacificator
AS much of partisan as Joseph G..
Cannon or Joseph B. Foraker, Mr.. AL
lison is always and everywhere a CON
sentative. His voice is ever for har-
mony. That is what has kept him in
the national council since 1863, with a
hiatus of two years. That is what
gave him life lease on his seat in the
senate, of which body he has been a
member longer than any other man of
our history.
John ]. ingalls, and William B. Al
lison became senators on the same
day. ingalls, served eighteen years;
Allison has served thirty-three. In
gals was a brilliant man; Allison a
plain man. Ingalls, dazzled; Allison
planned. ingalls, was admired; Allison
was trusted. ingalls, was grand on
dress parade; Allison was excellent for
hard service. Had ingalls, hailed from
Iowa 1t is quite likely that his serv-
Ice in the senate would not have been
extended beyond eighteen years. had
Allison been from Kansas 1t is alto
gether probable that Kansas too, would
have rewarded him with sixth term.
Just now standpatters and revision
lists are flying at one another's Threats
out in Iowa. Gold democrats and sill
yer democrats to all appearances, were
not farther part in 1896 than Perkin-
lists and Cumminites are in 1906. There
is but one man who can compose the
difficulty, and he the senator who
fetched Dolliver and Aldrich, Clapp
and Knox together on the rate bill last
spring. He rendered the republican
party and the republican President a
great service on that occasion, and If
he shall have the health and strength
he will be found in the convention Of
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IOWA AND THE TARIFF.

st. Louis be-Democrat.- the
date for the Iowa republican state
convention approaches it becomes
clearer that the republicans of that
state are in no mood to put themselves
at variance with the cardinal doc
trines of their party as result of i'm
mature thought on tariff laws, as they
touch and operate upon the chief in
dustry of their state. The palapable
fact that much of the beneficence of
tariffs which promote manufactures
has not heretofore been fully felt in
purely agricultural states, owing to the
cost of distribution being artificially
out of proportion with the cost of pro-
duction is prime fact In the econom-
ic and industrial situation in this coun-
try The republican party has entered
upon an intelligent coditicatior; of laws
with the purpose Of harmonizing all
means to the great party ends Of en-
ploying labor at good wages and dis
tributing it's products at reasonable
prices The Hepburn Dolliver law is
the first great step in this direction
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change in our interior arrangements.
Ihere was something of a novelty in
MS proposition. Though old as the
nils, 1t appealed to a generation which
mad never seen 1t tried with all the
force of new idea. The congressman
representing district destined to be
one OF the greatest lead and zinc fields
IN the world could, in that day of the
untried and the expectant, raise an
Ebenezer at every cross roads dedicat-
ed to the god of free trade. and find
hlmself acclaimed and promoted
Ii Senator Stone is under the delu-
sion that the same fantastic tricks can
pc played before high heaven now as
then, and that the men who play them
VIII not gain more laughter than votes,
ne is at liberty to put such an interest
ing theory to the test. Let us have an
old-time tariff campaign in Missouri
this year Give 1t to us as it was given
to us In the days of the tabernacle at
Plattsburg. where the brains and chiv-
airy Of a Bourbon Democracy sought
to batter down every wall built by the
republican party for the protection of
home industry. Let the orators rave.
rant and roar of a despoiled and op-
pressed consumer. Let them split the
ears of the groundlings with their talk
OF ad valorems and specifics of exports
and balances. 1t will be all in
vain For since the day of the
tabernacle the walls have been once
battered down and again rebuilt, and
the people retain distinct and poignant
memories of the time between the fall
ing and the raising thereof, when the
greatest change in our interior ar.
rangements was in their attention,
and the consumer ceased from troub-
ling because he had ceased consuming.
Senator Stone can talk the same tariff
argument he talked fifteen years ago,
bue he can no longer offer a panacea.
The people have tried it and found it
poison.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31

or not the party shall be split in two.
The election of governor is a mere
incident OF this falls campaign. In
every county complete set of officers
must be elected and in every congress.
slonal district the question of whether
Roosevelt's hands shall be upheld by
the reelection of republican congress-
men must be answered.
The Times believes there is today
and tomorrow and even until Saturday
an opportunity for some man among
the disinterested republicans of the
state to take the initiative and call by
telegraph to Des Moines or some other
convenient center a number of inflll-
entail men who will be in a position
to demand of those guiding the fac
lions in the convention that they shall
be fair. They might meet in Des
Mcines with the state central commit
tee in an advisory capacity and out
line some plan of action that will be
acceptable.
The thing that is causing the hard
feeling just now is the threat to con.
test delegations from counties where
there is no reasonable ground upon
which to base a contest. This confer
ence should advise the central COM
mittee to put aside factionalism, as
sumo some authority and determine
for purposes of the temporary organic.
alton what shall be considered reason
able grounds for contests There are
not more than eight or ten counties
whose delegations can be contested
with any due regard for fairness. Then
why should there be threats and uncer-
tainty in regard to 1882 delegates? 1t ia
absurd and unreasonable to any disin-
terested person.
The Times does not hesitate again
to say that it believes the work of tha
district caucuses to be the most Inn
portant For the purposes of selecting
committees, at least, they should
determine some of the contests.
Where there is reaf enable ground for
differences of opinion let the con-.
testing delegations be given half
vote for each delegate. Then let them
select for member of the committee
on credentials the man who Is of the
largest caliber, the broadcast minded,
the least factiona.ist in the caucus.
A committee made up Of such a body
of men would be able to get at the
merits of the contests and bring In
one and only one report That would
end the bitterness of the convention.
Above all things else it should be
the determination of the delegates that
there shall be no split at Des Moines.
In order to make such result posi-
Bile there must be compromises,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31
PROSPERITY FOR UNIVERSITY,

In us report filed yesterday for the
benefit Of the executive council and
general assembly the board of regents
of the State University of Iowa show a
year that has never been equaled in
the history of the institution. Such
reports as that are what Iowans like
to see. They are paying taxes to main
tain first class educational institu-
ton and it is with pleasure that they
view such returns as this.
Iowa has an unusually large num-
Der of small colleges, but no very large
ones. The Iowa State college at Ames
has been forging ahead a great i'm
petus having been afforded by the
labors Of the late President William
Beardshear. For a time it over
Swallowed the university, but more re-
Gently greater amount of attention
has been paid to the Iowa City institu-
ton and every effort has brought a
favorable result.
The time is past when people ques-
ton the advisability of the state build
ing up institutions. Even those who
head the sectarian schools are loud in
their praises of the right kind of a uni
versity. where the finishing touches
may be put on the educational periods
of the young people. 1t is no secret
that numerous other state universe
ties in the middle west states have
gone ahead of Iowa, but the right be.
ginning of new life has been made in
the closing of an unprecedented year
and could the regents and the legis-
lature be assured that their action
would meet with the full endorsement
of the people of Iowa, there is no ques-
ton but that the needs of the institu-
ton as they see them would be sup
piled, and this would be made not
only a great educational state SO far as
numbers of colleges and universities
are concerned but it would draw to it's
state schools from other states that are
less fortunate, the same as the others
have been drawing from Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31
CONDITION AND THEORY.

st. Louis Globe Democrat. - Sen.
ator Stone is in for tariff cam.
paign. If the country could ever be
brought back to the days when the
congressman from the Vernon county
district used to wake the echoes of
Missouri with thunderous demand for
the opening of all our ports, even the
presidency might be within his reach.
Those were the days Of that faith
which is the evidence of things un.
seen. Il was well; wanted to be bet.
ter; took physic and died." is pro-
verb in which the Spaniards compress
the vice and penalty of discomfort with
good. The tariff tinker offered an ex-
pertinent He proposed to go down to
the fundamentals Of our economic sys-
tenn and tinker with saw, hammer and
chisel. until he had wrought radical
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31
THERE MUST BE NO SPLIT

Davenport Times-The Times be-
lleves there are many newspaper men
in Iowa who regret that they have
been parties to this intense, bitter and
disgraceful factional fight in Iowa
Given an opportunity to drop the con.
test, they would be glad to do SO, and,
1t is probable, they never could be
drawn into such fight again. Stuff
has been printed-stuff is the word
that has been misleading, illogical and
altogether unfair. There is no need Of
anyone who has been mixed up in this
factional fight to pose in the ''holier
than thou" attitude. The condition is
admitted by men on both sides in their
private conversations. Personally they
are disguised. If they had it to do over
again they assert they could not be
drawn into such a disgraceful muddle
This being the case, why should the
delegates who will meet at Des Moines
next Wednesday consent to carry on
this fight to the last ditch without COM
promises-a condition that will pro-
duce only one result. Everyone with
any political experience knows what
the result will be, unless-and that is
the point to which some attention
should be given.
Let 1T be admitted for the sake Of
fairness that neither the Cummins nor
the Perkins men. who have been lead
ing this contest, have any right to cast
the first stone at the other faction. AS
sumo that both sides have been guilty
of misrepresentation, of exaggeration,
OF getting support from outsiders-for
that Is one of the charges one hears
Notwithstanding both sides are
guilty, what shall be done?
If the leaders of the factions are un.
able to agree upon satisfactory ar
rangement, but are determined to let
things drift along until convention day,
there can be but one result. That re-
suit Will be split of the republican
party. This must not occur. There
are men in the state who are not as.
pirants for office who, if they would as,
semble at Des Moines few days
ahead of the convention, could so bring
pressure to bear upon the factionalists
as TO compel them to agree to some
program that would avert a crisis on
the day of the convention.
1t is of far greater Importance to the
republicans Of the state, a thousand
times OF more Importance, that the
party shall be saved and shall remain
working unit, than that Cummins, or
Perkins, or Rathbun shall be the nom
lnee. The question of who shall be
nominated pales into insignificance in
contrast with the question of whether
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31

may care for it's own. If 1t but will.
Iowa as a state is doing its part, by
providing for hospital for the treat
ment of the patients, and its people
in large body have organized to do
their part. The work is no longer an
experiment, results are being accomp-
lished elsewhere on the line of care
and treatment proposed In its work
the association plans not only to edu-
cate the people in the treatment of the
disease when it appears but to educate
in view of prevention. Too much as
sistance can not be given to the as
ISOLATION in the work of charity it has
taken upon itself.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31

section, but for all. 1t does not foster
monopoly. My people clamor for re-
duction of the duty of So on lumber,
but I ask them If they want the tariff
on butter and other dairy products and
they say no. am for national tar
if policy that is for the nation, and not
for my district alone"
There need be no apology for the ten
years of republican administration in
any state of the union, so there is no
reason to hedge.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31
THE INSTANT DOING OF WHAT is
RIGHT.

Emerson lays down as practically
the foundation of the moral code in all
the varied relationships and affairs of
life, THE instant doing of what is
right" Nothing could be more COM
prehensive or more direct as guiding
rule of the actions of men whether act
ing as individuals. aggregations or in
political parties. The republicans of
Iowa are up to the point where they
need to reflect upon this wise injunc-
ton of Americas greatest philosopher.
That there has been a great deal done
in the ,pre-convention campaign that
is not right, is conceded Neither fac
ton represented in the controversy
can claim immunity from this moral
dereliction. Neither faction is in po-
sition to cast the first stone or to de-
clare that Eve have been entirely
right and you have been entirely
wrong" The situation is exceedingly
grave and unless the republicans of
the state, who as class are actuated
by high moral principles, pull them
selves together with mighty resolve
to do that which is right, regardless of
fractional or personal interests, there
is going to be at Des Moines next
week clash, the injurious effects
of which will be manifest in the state
of Iowa and in the nation for a genera
tion to come. In this connection we
commend to the readers of the Courier
the careful perusal of an editorial from
the Davenport Times which is re-pub-
lished in this issue. There must be no
split at Des Moines next week. 1t is
nonsense to say that split in the re-
publican ranks cannot now be avoided.
1t can be and the way to avoid such a
catastrophe, is the instant doing of
that which(is right.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31

The judicial puzzle in the Benton
Marsnall-Tama district has been set
tied by the nomination of Colonel J. M.
Parker of Marshalltown. He is named
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Judge Caswell. One of the things
that complicated the situation for
time was the fact that the delegates to
the judicial convention had been in
structed for Judge Caswell's renomina-
ton and the question arose as to what
the attitude of these delegates should
be under new circum instances and
whether or not new list should be
chosen. The matter was settled ami
cably and the old ones served.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31

Three more indictments have been
returned into the federal court for re-
batting. This time the American SUI
gar Refining company is involved. The
offenders have not been convicted yet,
but the good work is going on just the
same and somebody is bound to get
caught While the bogus reformers are
talking the real ones are doing the
work.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31
For reporter OF supreme court.
Fer railroad commissioner two

For reporter OF supreme court.
Fer railroad commissioner two candl,
eates)
And for the transaction Of such other
business as may properly come before said
convention.
Ali voters Of the state who believe In
republican principles and who endorse the
policy Of the republican party, ere cor.
daily invited to unite under this call In
tioa. The ratio of representation will be
as sollows:
Que delegate at large for each county
hundred votes or fraction Of one hundred
or over, cast for Theodore Roosevelt, re.
publican candidate for president at the
The representation to which the several
counties will ha entitled under this call Is
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31
CALL FOR REPUBLICAN STATE
CONVENTION,

To the Republican Electors of the State Of
Iowa:
the republicans of Iowa, held in the city
OF Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, Aug.
ust l, 1906, at 1890 O'Clock a. m. for the
dates Tor the following Offices:
For governor.
For lieutsnant governor.
For secretary Of state
For auditor of state
For treasurer Of state.
For attorney general
For Judge Of tue supreme court 1.-TWO
For clerk OF supreme court.
For superintendent Of public Instruction.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31

August !, when and where he will DOM,
pose things, If 1t be possible.
What William B. Allison cannot har-
monte, however, is an irrepressible
conflict and an implacable quarrel.
Has 1t come to that-this tariff mess
out in Iowa?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31

The Sioux City Tribune says, with
Stickney member of the Interstate
Commerce commission, and La Fol-
lette in the senate, both working for a
system of valuation of railroad proper
ties, there would be prospect of secur-
ing it, Judging from what, La Fol
lette's influence and attitude on the
railway rate bill? If so, his record
would probably show, NAY"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31
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Judge Wade of Iowa City says he
has too much business to accept the
democratic nomination for governor of
Iowa 'If he should accept the nomi-
nation" comments the Anes Times.
he would have a real touch Of high
life. when 1t comes to business, for the
man who overcomes Iowa's great re-
publican majority will have to be bus
Ter than he would practicing law"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31

One boy was killed, another lost his
sight and another broke his arm play
ing with a cream separator at LeMars
Thursday, while at Eddyville 6-year-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31

After his experience of yesterday,
Mayor Tom Johnson may be expected
to advocate strong anti-i injunction
plank for the next democratic plat
FORM says the Sioux City Tribune.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31
Professional Cards
10 the Public:

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If you do not believe
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l make this PROPOSE
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31

at wasn't until the standpatters be-
gan to contest certain delegations to
the state convention that the progress
sives realized what mess their flying
squadron had made Of it in precipitat-
Ing contests in counties that were
overwhelmingly anti-Cummins," says
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.