Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-24
whole show or whether they them.
selves are still on the map.

whole snow or whether they them
selves are still on the map. "
E The Boone Republican says that Mr..
Herriott hasn't the remotest chance
of being nominated for governor this
year and that his candidacy is not
considered seriously even In the ninth
district.
Governor Folk has promised to pun
1sh every man in the brutal mob that
burned three negroes alive in Spring
field, Mo-, for assaulting a white girl.
The Washington Press says that If
he makes good in this case it will be
a tall feather in his cap.
A professor in the University Of
Chicago has assailed Richard Mans
field, declaring that he is long on ego
tism and short on brains. The Coun-
Gil Bluffs Nonpareil declares that If
this is true. the proper place for Dick
is on the faculty of the u. of G.
Referring to question that has
been worrying the Keokuk Gate City
and other Iowa papers recently, the
Sioux City Journal offers the follow
ing advice: Before fully making up
your mind to take 'em off try to recall
that tremendous cold that followed
your first experiment with the light
ones last spring"
The Des Moines Capital is convinced
that the governor would make the
same fight on Herriott or Rathbun or
any other man as he is making on
Perkins if they exhibited equal
strength. I'm other words" continues
the Capital, "the Cummins people
picked out the railroad question ( or
which to fight their battles regardless
of the personnel Of the opposing can
didates The followers of Cummins
have no other standard. They are go
ing to attempt to fasten the corpora
ton tag on every man who opposes
Cummins.'
The Webster City Journal is confld-
ent that if the Spirit Lake debate
could be repeated in each congress
sional district in the state there would
be no question about the nomination
of Mr.. Perkins for governor.
The Clinton Herald declares the
Spirit Lake debate a draw.
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"As to which one extinguished the
other depends altogether on the politi-
cal bias of the hearer," says the Cedar
Falls Record, speaking Of the Spirit
Lake debate.
Major Rathbun states in his Marion
Register that he was asked to file nom
nation papers in Polk county, but did
not consider it proper to do so. eve
would not make even q seeming oppo-
sition to any other candidate In his
home town or county," says the major.
If 1t was necessary to secure the
nomination we would not do it. We
don't want to be governor bad enough
to even violate the proprieties Of a
campaign"
"The standpatters dare not fight In
the OPEN" asserts the Webster City
minis would defeat Perkins in a square
contest, hence they endeavor to drag
Iowa United States senators into the
arena in order to obscure tn, real Is
sue. But such methods will not work
In. Iowa this year, as has been demon
strated by the primaries AM conven-
tons already held"
"The debate was the first Of the
kind in Iowa politics and Is likely to
be the last. for 1T resulted in little adj
vantage for either candidate" says
the, Davenport Times speaking Of the
Spirit Lake debate.
1T may be a new doctrine In some
quarters in Iowa that man may be a
member Of congress and still be a free
citizen" says the Council Bluffs Nom
pareil.
1.-THE modern religious prophets have
no use for personal poverty and de-
privation," observes the Cedar Rapids
Republican. "They take to luxurious
hotels, private cars, a palace with ser
wants and all the trappings of royalty,
and as a rule they get what they
want"