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

old boy killed his 3-year-old brother
with a rifle. The lesson is plain.
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PRESS COMMENT.
The Marion Register says that if 100
of the leading progressives of the state
We're to be asked to define the term
progressive" there would be 100 diff
ferent definitions Therefore there is
absolutely nothing in the name as it is
used asserts the Register.
The Clinton Herald says that har-
mony that has to be fought for by fac
tons does not wear we'll
ut wasn't until the standpatters be-
gan to contest certain delegations to
the state convention that the progress
sives realized what a mess their flying
squadron had made Of it in precipitat-
Ing contests in counties that We're
anti Cummins," says
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
After his experience Of yesterday,
Mayor Tom Johnson may be expected
to advocate a strong anti-injunction
plank for the next democratic plat
FORM says the Sioux City Tribune.
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 Ames Times
The 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"
mo man." says the Sibley Gazette.
should be nominated in republican
convention whose delegates were
chosen by other than republicans. Let
justice prevail in the coming conven-
tton."
Tho Des Moines Register and
Leader. being the offspring of a mar
r1agc of the old Register and the old
Leader, is apparently trying to be per-
fectlN respectful to the politics of both
of its progenitors," Is the opinion of
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Anyway the standpatters, even If
they lost the convention, will still be
an integral part of the great republic
can party in the other forty-three
states. And that's more than the pro-
sresslVes can say since the Oyster
Bay conference is the conclusion CT
The Waterloo Reporter.
"Des Moines is getting ready to
show the comparatively small number
OF people still unconvinced that she is
the great convention city of the west"
says the Des Moines Capital.
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
1t is we'll to bear in mind that the
'progressives," after having stolen a
number Of counties bodily, are now
ents from taking away the stolen prop
erty. But We believe" adds the Re-
publican, that it is good law for the
riShtful owners to seize stolen proper
ty In whatsoever hands they may find
The Cummins managers protest too
much," asserts the Council Bluffs Nom
pareil. "The Perkins managers con-
test too much" rejoins the Boone Re
publican.
"A contest which appeals more TO
the farmers than those being talked
about by Ed. Hunter Is that between
King Korn and Jack Frost which will
be on before long, puts in the Grim
nell Register.
After a two months view of the
dried-up garden patches in the east
they call farms, it is a great relief to
get back to Iowa and see a man sized
farm" says Frank P. Clarkson's Ida
Grove Pioneer.
Plainly the threat is to bolt unless
the governor and his party shall have
their way in the convention" says
the Nevada Representative, comment
ing on the declaration of the Des
Moines Register and Leader that the
governor has won his denomination
and is not going to be cheated out of
it.
There appears to be a deliberate
attempt on the part of some one to
worry Senator Allison into an actual
illness by the publication of sensa-
tional statements concerning his
health" says the Burlington Hawk
Eye.
will 1t be worth while to name a
committee on resolutions when the
democratic Sioux City Tribune has al
ready outlined what the platform
should be?" says the Des Moines Cap
ital
Brethren" says the Fort Dodge
Post (dem.), commenting on the res
direction of the free silver scarecrow,
that dodgasted ghost will never again
trouble the democratic party, rest as
sured of that"
IF the republican party, or any
other party, is unwilling to bow to the
VIII OF the majority It ought to be
split and stay split until reason again
assumes the throne" declares the
Webster City Freeman Tribune.
Even in a square deal there may be
an ace in the bottom of the pack"
says the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
eff there are two nominees" saws
the Boone Republican, ut will be an
absolute impossibility for the stand