Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-10

standing right UP to be counted and
have been doing their share Of the
pioneer work, hewing path for 9TH
ers to follow
Notice everybody climbing into the
Dolliver bandwagon!" says the Rock
we'll City Advocate.
The Cedar Rapids Republican urges
the defeat of the bill for an education
al board of control. Let Them Il
says, speaking of the schools concern
ed, keep their own individualities and
work out their own destinies IN their
own ways. To make them like three
peas in pod will be to make them
worthless to the best interests of the
state"
Because Senator Stephen B. Octo-
pus gave Governor Albert B. Cummins
a rigid cross examination on the wit
ness stand Governor Albert B. thinks
1t is necessary for him to be governor
OF Iowa for seven years." remarks the
Des Moines Capital.
The Glidden Graphic says that
stranger things have happened than
taat Senator Dolliver should succeed
President Roosevelt,
The Charles City Intelligencer be-
lleVes that the removal of the circle
from the ballot would be folly, for the
reason that it would be putting a
premium on stupidity and ignorance.
hts no way to advance the intellig-
ence of the voter continues the Intel
l.gencer, ito take away about the only
responsibility placed upon him-thas
of knowing how to vote when he has
the ballot before him. Leave the circle
alone; it's useful to men who can vote
without having an instructor at their
elbows"
The Sioux City Journal bemoans
thus: Here is another idol shattered.
Prof. Wiley before the house COM
n1ittee on interstate and foreign COM
merce, expressed the opinion that no
real Scotch whisky is sent to this
country. Maize, he said; is used In
the Scotch that Americans get, and
turn up his nose at the name of
Bourbon"
The Des Moines Register and Leader
suggests that Mr.. Rankin is taking the
defeat Of his state marshal bill alto
1gether too seriously, and 1t advises
him to consult the advocates of wo-
man suffrage and learn how to accept
periodical defeat with smiling coun-
tenance.
The Onawa Sentinel says that Sena
tor Delivers browning service in be-
half of the people is his victory for the
railroad rate bill
Lets be consistent" says the Car
roll Herald, land denounce this popu-
,f<,I, !, &tr,
the rousing Of one class against an
other. We called 1t rank demagogy in
Bryan in 1896. 1t Is no better in 1906
and is entitled to no more respect. No
man who resorts to it Is any better
than Bryan and his cause Is no bet
] ter than Organism"
! Noting that John A. Mccall, after
drawing a salary of $150,0O0 q year
about $4,000, the Clinton Herald
clincs that che must have gone some.
Thomas Hedge has decided not to be
a candidate for denomination for con-
gress in the first district and the
Council Bluffs NonpareiT thinks that
thus some of the pressure Of political
/ interest Is shifted from the northwest
4 to the southeast corner Of the state.
The Sioux City Journal sticks to Its
conclusion that the Crossleyites car
be held responsible for the failure tc
enact a primary law which would be
satisfactory to nine-tenths of those
who pctitioned broadly for primary
law
"Mr Perkins has lived in Iowa forty
years and has been in the public eye q
4 greater mart of the time During al
this period a suspicion has never en-
tered the minds Of the people that Mr.
Perkins was the tool of the corpora
tons or in league with monopolies,
says the West Union Argo