Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-04
PRESS COMMENT.

The Sioux City Journal says that
Gin any event, it doubtless will be the
last time a Polk county republican
convention authorizes one candidate
to select delegation committed to the
support of many candidates"
"It only comes bienially now. That's
some consolation" says the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that whoever is nominated for gov
ernor, Cedar Rapids wants the base
ball pennant this year"
Train robbing in Russia is called
patriotism, and the money obtained is
all alleged to go for the cause of good
government" says the Sioux City
Journal. THE robbers, however, seem
to get about the same treatment there
when caught as in this country, where
the motives are not claimed to be so
high"
at is related of John D. Rockefeller
that he spent two hours in Paris play
Ing with baby. Really, the old mans
heart must be hungry. Maybe he de-
serves some pity says the Council
BUTTS NOnparel.
1.-THE situation in Union county is
not dissimlar to that in Others coun-
ties. and there is universal demand
over the state for the speedy enact
ment of a law that will purify the
pre-convention proceedings of both
parties, and relegates slick politics to
the rear" observes the Alton Star
Enterprise.
The Traer Star Clipper notes that
Farm hands are this year receiving
more wages than school teachers, and
ton
The Kansas City Journal says at Is
not surprising to learn that Judge
Parker is opposed to Hearst. Parker
has always been decent kind of DEM
Ocrat.
when a man goes abroad and ac-
cumulates a large sized presidential
iff laws cover the CASE asks the Iowa
City Republican.
The Keokuk Gate City believes that
Speaker Cannon will have large fol-
lowing in Iowa, provided the state has
no candidate of its own for the presi-
dency. with his name at the head of
the ticket says the Gate City, "the
campaign in 1908 would be one Of the
most enthusiastic this country has
ever known
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil be-
lieves that If the republicans Of Iowa
had it to do all over again the situa-
ton at Des Moines today would be
different.
"Allisonism is republicanism," says
the Waterloo Times Tribune. What
Allison stood for the republican party
stands for"
The Cedar Falls Record, speaking of
the factional abuse of Secretary Shaw,
says that the secretary's principal Of
Tense is that he refuses to become a
traitor to the President and to repub-
lican principles.
The Dubuque Telegra PHI Herald,
dem, says the fact that a United
States senatorship is the prize contest
ed for in the Iowa campaign should
not be lost sight of. "That is the am
bition of Cummins," continues the
Telegraph Herald. ITO attain 1t he
is a great lawyer; to attain it he has
sunk himself in debt; to attain it he is,
at Sc years of age, when the dynamo
should be relaxing its energy, track
ed horse working to the limit of wan
ing endurance"
"They are talking Of getting voting
machines in many cities In Iowa. OBJ
serves the Mason City Globe-Gazette,
but if half the campaign stories are
to be credited there are already plenty
voting machines in the state and In
pretty good repair"
The Atlantic Telegraph says that
more deceptive tricks have been prac-
ticed in Iowa politics this year under
the name of reform than was ever
known to republicanism in this state
before.
THE REPUBLICAN CHALLENGE.
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