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influence us, but we also
influence them. They are the air
which every day we take into our sys-
TENS, but also they are a product of
ourselves. They will grow better If
we grow better. Money will tempt
them less If 1t becomes less of pow
er with all of us. Success will be less
exclusively their standard If we all are
guided by brighter star. We are
trying to make political standards no
bier. We are trying to remove cor
ruption from the great business enter
prises that affect the welfare Of us all.
At present the wave of exposure
seems to accompany genuine moral
uplift. If it is real, if the whole tone
OF our society is being raised, then this
belief in better newspapers will be JUS
titled. If there is no genuine improve
ment in our hearts, if the outbreak Of
exposure is only an epidemic, then, Of
course, this apparent step forward Of
the press will prove Elusive also. We
are glad to be among those who be-
lieve in it's reality
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PARKER AND THE SOUTH.

Davenport Times.-Judge Parker Is
giving the south a series of lectures
on political toxicology. He is UNDER
taking to emphasize the dangers of the
Nebraska poison in the hope that the
democracy Of the south will discover
an antidote for it before 1t Is too late
in another presidential campaign.
Curiously enough the New York judge
has discovered that the younger men
stricken with the effects of Organism
than the older men. AT the last
election, perhaps eight out Of ten of
the younger men were ranged with
our opponents, and today the party
organizations are lifeless."
All Of which was presented inciden-
tally to the suggestion that the south
now has an opportunity to rise up in
its might and demand that the DEM
ocratic nomination for president shall
be given to the most representative
man that the south can produce and
to none other, because the strength Of
the democracy lies in the south and
without 1t democracy is dead.
In the opinion Of Judge Parker the
time has come when really effective
democrats should be recognized"
Many people thought this was the en-
deavor when Parker was nominated
he is not very effective. 1T may be
possible that the party will go to de-
feat again." said he. Quite.
He adds that since 1895 1t has been
going to defeat under northern leader
ship and it certainly could do no worse
under southern leadership. There
fore, in his opinion, the south ought
to be given a chance. Possibly If the
party had been winning under north
ern leadership he would urge the south
to stay in line for voting purposes
only.
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able to decide this question of the gov

able to decide this, question of the gov
ernorshio on It's merits.
Honest differences may exist be-
tween men without necessarily stir
ring up n fight. These differences can
be argued without resort to PERSONAL
ties and harsh criticisms. The argtl-
ments will have more weight when
they are backed by disposition to be
fair. Factionalism such as is being dis
played in some parts of the state is
not fairness. There are limits to the
freedom of expression and of innuendo
in politics as in everything else, aud
in politics within a party these limits
drawn than in politics between oppos-
ing parties.
Let the republicans of lows remem-
Der that they are all republicans. Let
them remember that the convention is
several months in the future and that
the election is several months after
that Let them remember that there
is campaign, in which the issues
will not be entirely of the state and
in which the republican party NOM
inees will need the undivided support
of the whole party. Let them remem-
Der that there are other campaigns in
future years for which they must be
prepared. Let them consider this
question of the governorship calmly
and remember that there will be, after
all is said and done, republican tick
ct and democratic ticket, and that
they will be expected to support one
or the other Let them have opinions
and preferences, of course, but let the
cam paign for the gubernatorial nomin-
alton be on fair and high lines-an
open contest, not a fight. There is
no reason for fight within the re-
publican party. There are plenty OF
reasons why there should not be one.
Let us have harmony.
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WHAT JUDGES COST.

Topeka (Kas.) Capital-A justice
of the Missouri supreme court has re-
signed because he can not longer af-
ford to forego the more lucrative re-
turns Of private practice. The salary
Of supreme court judges in Missouri
Is $4,000.
This Is $1,000 more than we pay SUI
preme Judges in Kansas, and within
a year we have lost one Of the ablest
men on this bench, who resigned to
enter the service Of the Santa Fe rail-
road.
Not long ago the Capital asked a
high political authority, Hon. Morton
Albaugh, why SO few candidates were
turning up for nominations to state
offices. He replied: THE time has
gone by in Kansas when a salary OF
$4,000 for two years at considerable
expense in getting nominations and
elections, appeals to men of any pros
poets in a business or professional
way" We believe that this is so.
A few years ago Kansas raised the
salary of its governor to $4,000, and
at that time the Capital urged the adj
vance of the salaries of supreme courl
judges to the same salaries as in
1885. when the cost of living was
hardly more than one-half what It Il
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BATAVIA.

Batavia, March 20.-Eldon Mace OF
Vilisca visited last week with his Sis
ter, Mrs. Ed. Alfred.
Mrs. VIM. Lutz OF Eldon Is visiting
relatives in town. She will be accom-
panied home by her sister. Mrs. Hanna
Alfred.
The remains Of Samuel Howell, an
aged and respected citizen Of Hedrick,
were brought to Batavia Thursday, ar
irving here on Burlington No. 10, and
were laid to rest in the Batavia ceme-
terry by the side Of his wife, who had
preceded him In death sever
AL years. He leaves four children
to mourn the loss Of kind and loving
father, as follows: Mrs. Lillian Hugh
ey, Mrs. Eva Swearingen, Mrs. Alkaline
Hoffman and Austin Howell. all resi-
dents Of Hedrick. He was the uncle
of Mrs. Henry Clark and Mrs. Lewis
Shaw.
Mrs. Una Bure OF Seymour was call
ed here last week by the serious Ill
ness of her mother, Mrs. Mary Moss.
The Christian Endeavorers- will give
a box supper at Nelson's hall Satur-
day night, March "a.
Mr.. George Evans and daughter. and
Harry and Lincoln Cremer Of Ottum-
wa, and Mr.. Morehead of Creston, at
tended the funeral of Samuel Howell
at this place Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Smith Of
Bladensburg spent Thursday with
their mother, Mrs. Angeletta Smith.
Mrs. Sarah Walker is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Frank Mckenzie of
Competine.
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CONFORMING TOO MUCH.

New York Mail.--It is an old accu-
sation that the American conforms
too much. So long as his instinct to
do what the other icllow does takes
the course Of wearing the same style
OF hat and coat and the same color of
shirt waists. no great harm can come
OF 1t, except perhaps, the reproach
that ne looks ridiculous and lacks
originality. The. harm comes where
he does what the other fellow seems
to be doing in a matter with an ethi-
cal basis to it, and almost insensibly
becomes part of system in busi-
ness or politics, which overwhelms
him in condemnation when its con-
sequences are exposed by some one
too strong to conform.
The more comfortable, and, we
widespread exposures Of business and
political corruption is that packhorses
are numerous and warehouses; compar-
atively few. A great many essentially
neutral men will do the square thing
when that is the tradition about
them. They will be efficient workers
in reform political regimes and loyal
subordinates in well managed business
establishments. They can easily be
the other direction. If there is a lax
tradition they will adapt themselves
to it. They may accept its very indi-
rections as If they had the sanction
of established Institutions The
trouble is that the conformity for
which they are praised in other mat
tiers. brings condemnation upon them
whenever a system" comes under
critical examination.
so long as in. this country an ex-
orbitant value attaches to conformity
in dress, in life, and In ideas, anu in
ldividuality Of judgment is penalized
by a degree of social disfavor, we shall
have hosts of neutral men yielding to
the current and trying to justify
themselves by alleging custom Of the
country" 1t is the man who wants to
know why, not the man who wants
to know, you know" that keeps the
bark of democracy in midstream.
Everybody does it, is as fatal a doc
trine for democracy as latter US the
deluge" for an aristocracy
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TIE MODERN NEWSPAPER.

The modern newspaper typifies the
growth of the science of journalism
and the profession of news gathering.
The newspaper of today is so far
ahead of that of decade ago that
they can hardly be compared. 1t is a
contrast rather than a comparison.
everal things have entered into the
revolution. The men who make the
newspapers of today are business
men. A few years ago they were
merely editors. While the editor has
his part to play it is only one part In
the making of newspaper for his
work is useless unless there is capital
behind the enterprise. Here is where
the business man steps into the pro-
position. To conduct a newspaper ac-
cording to the modern standards mon
ey is needed. The machinery for set
ting type, for printing papers and for
increasing the speed with which edi-
lions can be produced costs thousands
where the old style equipment cost
hundreds. A business head is needed
in order to make the newspaper of to-
day pay dividend upon the invest
ment. Consequently the editor has
gradually removed from the front seat
to an Office in a secluded corner, where
he can still keep up his work as Of
old. and the front Office" is looked af-
ter by the business man of the firm.
Together they make newspaper that
4 is ages in advance of the paper of Only
comparatively few years ago.
To keep pace with the advance In
the newspapers themselves the news
gathering agencies have made won
derful strides. The Associated Press
has become factor in the daily pro-
gress of the world, just as has the
newspaper, and to it must be given
much of the credit for the growth Of
the newspaper itself.
An article published recently in Col
lier's Weekly is not out of place in
this connection. 1t says:
Newspapers grow better in their
character and their influence. This
fact may lately have been obscured by
the amount of criticism, most of it
just, that has been passed upon GER
tain evils in the press Papers are
proper subjects of criticism, like gas
companies, insurance companies, poll
tics, or oil trusts, and we have been
among those to be as frank about our
own profession as about any other.
The truth remains that the American
newspapers today have more power
and use it for better ends than at any
previous time. The permanence and
reality of this gain depend on us. The
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STORIES THEY TELL.

In a sweeping condemnation of foot
fall, the rules Of which he is working
hard to change, Harold Balm told the
other day football story.
1.-TWO matrons," he said, were con-
versing. The first said:
I hear your son has been winning
high honors at college,
He has, indeed replied the second
woman. He has been a quarter back
a half back, a full back and now
Yes, what Is he now?' said the
first matron eagerly.
Now replied the other, he's a
hunchback.'"
A Bostonian was talking about the
late Henry Harland.
'Harland was a graceful, gallant
SOUL" he said. Even in his boyhood
he turned the prettiest compliments.
under charming young lady.
This young lady, calling him up In
class one morning said:
Henry, name some of the chief
beauties of education
THE boy, smiling into his teachers
pretty eyes, answered.:
'Schoolmistresses.'"
Yasujiro Ishikawa, the Japanese
on his nations wonderful adaptability,
it's wonderful assimilation of foreign
customs, manners and ways Of
thought.
eyes" the journalist agreed, "a
Japanese wherever he may go can
soon learn to conduct himself like a
native. In that he is like the Ameri.
cans and unlike the English.
THE English are singularly I'M
ar Ia mr. h1o Soma Of jr,S
never learn the customs of their own
land.
IAN English diplomat once told me
Of a simple minded curate who was
invited up to London to spend week
at a great house.
THE curate, ignorant of high So
ciety, fearful of making mistakes, call
ed on the diplomat and asked for
guidance.
1.-THE diplomat told him how he
should conduct himself during his
stay in the great London house and
ended with the words:
think, too, you had better take
a servant with YOU
"I will said the curate, and ir
due time the poor fellow arrived at
the residence Of his host, with some
most modest luggage and house,
maid"
Geronimo, the Apache chief, has
gotten married for the eighth time.
you are brave man, Geronimo,
te marry SO often" paleface said
the other day to the old warrior.
Brave? Not at all,' returned
Geronimo. 1.-THE fact Of the matter
Is that an Indian is master in his
own house and marriage hasn't the
terror for him that it has for
white.
Whites and their wives," Geronimo
chuckled- why, once I went to a
tailor's shop in Washington with n
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MACON FOR SECRETARY.

The semi official announcement of
the intended retirement of Secretary
Of War Taft from the cabinet and his
appointment to the supreme bench
has started talk as to his probable sue
cessor. Many who should have ideas
that are worthy of consideration have
picked Hon. Charles e. Magoon for
the next war secretary. Mr.. Magoon
is now governor Of Panama. To his
credit be it said that he is really gov
ernor, too. He lives on the isthmus
and runs things" there, without max
ing frequent and extended trips to the
states. He is down there to be gov
ernor and he fills the bill 80 we'll that
if he leaves it will be hard to find a
man who can succeed him and keep
up the good work lie has done.
The Washington Post, discussing
the possibility of Mr.. Magoon's ap-
pointment to the cabinet, brings out
some interesting facts regarding the
man, facts which cannot but increase
the respect people in general have for
him. The Post says:
"And most excellent readjustment
that will be! So, the well informed
have begun to talk among themselves.
If Mr. Taft be going over to the SUI
preme bench, and since the greatest
and most important duty of the secre-
tary of war is the construction of the
Panama canal, who SO fit for the sue
cession as the Hon. Charles e. Ma
COON?
"Here is a public servant who came
to Washington from Nebraska. a
few years ago. He came in the capac-
ity of a mere law clerk and was as
signed to the lnsular bureau OF the
war department. Hundreds OF men
come to Washington in similar capaci-
ties, and ninety-nine and seven-eighths
per cent of them strut their brief hour
on the stage-petty enough at best
and then alternate to the disappear
ing point and are heard Of no more.
It was different in Magoon's case. He
grew not by favor, for there was
none behind him; he simply took his
place in moral and intellectual equa-
ton which absorbed him by that law
of nature which .Gbhors vacuum.
Washington, however, is familiar with
the facts of the case, and, outside OF
Washington, the hole country now
believes that Magoon knows more
about the canal zone, its actual condi-
lions and its Indispensable needs, than
any one man who has been connected
with the enterprise from first to last.
He is the one high official who went
to Panama and stayed there for long
months consecutively, and is in close
and sympathetic touch with the real
conditions OF the enterprise.
There may be nothing in the gossip.
Rumor, painted with many tongues,
always runs unbridled with or without
warrant that can be labeled and iden-
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WEST END ITEMS.

Mrs. s. S. seaton and son William.
OF Cedar Rapids, are visiting at the
nome OF Mrs. p, A TulHs, on West
Second street.
Art Feiget, who resides on McPher-
son avenue, is on the sick list.
Miss Maude stanier who has been
at the hospital for some time, was
aole 70 return to the home OF her aunt,
Mrs. M Woods, in Fairview yesterday.
Miss Olive stanier Of Fairyiew ave.
nue.. Fairview, is visiting her parents
In the country,
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BIG BATTIEsHlPs.

Admiral Dewey, in an address before
the house committee on naval affairs
yesterday. declared that the crying
need of the American navy today is for
big battleships similar to the Dread
naught Of Great Britain. Admiral
Dewey should know whereof he
speaks. He has been in places where
battleshtps were real necessity, and
he has come away from such places,
too. His judgment is worth taking into
consideration and there are goodly
number who are willing to side in with
him on about anything he says about
the American navy or any other navy.
There is talk in Washington of build
ing a 10000 ton battleship at cost
of $10,000.000, in order to outclass by
a large margin any warship now afoat.
The British Dreadnaught recently
launched at Portsmouth, which will
cost $7,0OO,0O0, has displacement of
1880 tons and embodies some new
ideas. At one discharge her guns will
hurl, with the maximum of force,
twice as much metal as those of any
other ship now in commission, while
her armor is intended to be proof
against all forms of attack, including
submarine She is the longest battle
ship yet planned, carries ten 12-inch
guns and is unique in her turbine driv-
ing power. Naval builders calculate
that the Dreadnaught, which is ex-
pected to join the fleet next year, will
be equal to two or three battleships of
the largest existing class, and that
alone she might decide a heavy en-
gagement.
But some American naval experts
claim that the Michigan and the South
Carolina, the twin battleships author
lied by congress a year ago, will be
able to concentrate heavier fire than
the Dreadnaught in certain directions,
for each will have eight 12-inch guns
in four turrets in line. the extreme
turrets to be on a lower deck, giving a
broadside of four guns astern against
the Dreadnaught's two. The new Con-
necticut is a 10000 ton battleship,
with both broadside and turret bat
teries. Since the smashing, in about
half an hour, of the Russian armored
fleet in the sea of Japan, the naval bu-
reaus have decided that colossal battle
ships must be the main reliance. But
the lessons of the recent war are in
distinct, because the Russian fleet was
poorly trained and miserably handled
in action. The cry is now for bigger
battleships, with Admiral Dewey as
chief crier, and the argument goes
bravely on. Just what will be the re-
suit is an interesting question and if
we can forget that there is a future
full of the possibilities of war we of
the inland country can sit back quietly
and calmly, watching the tournament
without the least care as to who wins
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PAUSE AND REFLECT.

On, Wad some power the giftie gle us
10 see oursePs as ithers see us"
IL is time that the papers and the
people of Iowa should pause and look
aDouI them. We refer mainly to the
republican papers and the people of
the republican party. Almost the
word was written parties" for tht
fractional feeling that has sprung up
within the party is so great and is be-
Ing famed into flame so industriously
that It is necessary that Iowa should
stop moment, look at herself as from
an outside viewpoint and consider the
length to which she is going in this
political campaign which. is engulfing
h the whole party in a factional war.
J Next November there will be
an election in Iowa. Some
time In the summer there
will be state convention at which the
candidates will be named on the state
ticket and a platform will be adopted
The candidates will, as matter of
course, make their campaign for cleo
ton upon that platform, and they will
stand for the principles it advocates.
There will, OF course, be candidate
Tor governor, and he will need the
united support Of the republican press
and the republican party. Democratic
governors have been elected in Iowa
and such thing can happen again.
When it has happened it has been
brought about by division in the re-
publican party, fight within itself.
The lesson Of the past should be
guide for the future.
There are several candidates for the
gubernatorial nomination and there
may be others before the convention is
held. The campaign is at present al
most entirely between two men, Cum
minis and Perkins. Each has u perfect
right to ask for. the nomination. and
the supporters of eacn have a perfect
right to produce argum ents favoring
the candidacy Of their respective favor
ties. The republicans are going out
side of their rightful lines and their
province when they take part, on
either side, in a bitter factional fight
such as threatens Iowa and such as
Is indeed now in progress in some
parts Of the state.
The republican party has record
Of achievements in the nation and in
the state. 1t has reputation to sus-
tain and it cannot afford to be dis
rupted by factional fights. 1t is a
great organization with high mis-
sion. It's members should remember
that it's power depends upon the loyal
ty of it's component parts to the body
as a whole. In Iowa they should re-
member this and should realize that
no question wholly of Iowa is great
enough and important enough to be
the cause of factional fight that
must have its effect upon the party
in the nation.
Harmony should govern the republi-
can party in Iowa and Mysteries should
be put in the background Political
campaigns are not won by fanaticism.
They are generally decided upon their
merits. The people of Iowa have new
er departed so far from the path of
common sense as to warrant any fears
that they do not know what is best
nor that they cannot see as far
through any question, political or OH
erwise, as the average man. The
faith that is born of this fact should
satisfy the politicians that the voters
of Iowa, the republicans of Iowa, arc
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The value of strong and solid con-
struction of railway coaches was we'll
Illustrated in the case of the wreck on
the Burlington at Lockridge Monday.
A passenger coach, with Pullman
and an observation car behind, all
three heavily and substantially built,
crashed into box car arranged for a
boarding car and built of light mater
ials The only fatality occurred In
the lighter car, while comparatively
few in the heavy passenger cars were
injured in anything like serious way.
The wreck was one of those that can
not be avoided but seldom occur. No
one was to. blame for 1t and it was
simply one of the accidents that go to
prove the risk one runs in daily life,
no matter what ones vocation.
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This city can stand half a dozen
good, live manufacturing plants this
year. Everything Is here in the way
of railway facilities, coal, water, fire
protection and convenient sites. A
factory looking for good location
can't afford to overlook Ottumwa.
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congressman who wished to order a
new suit.
The congressman selected the
cloth, and the tailor measured him,
calling out the dimensions to a clerk
with a book. After the measuring the
tailor said:
Married or single, sir?'
Married, replied the congressman.
One pocket concealed in lining of
vest the tailor babe the clerk"
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When Divine Right" Baer offers to
confer with the officials of the miners
you may consider it pretty good
bunch that the coal famine isn't COM
ing right away.