Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-08
goods which the candidate for office I
ever Stands ready to deliver" says the
Des Moines Capital.

lISS IAOlllco5 Sdptttl.
The editor of the Marion County
News says that IL editors are to be
considered possible candidates for the
governorship that there might be some
chance for him after ALL
The subject Under consideration be-
Ing the successor to Allison, the Sioux
City Journal thinks that It is hardly
possible that a machine in this state
can be maintained In fine running or
der, however elegantly 1t may be
labeled, that has for its great purpose
the filling OF shoes made vacant by
death and with all expedition when
the sad words have been spoken Of
earth to earth. and dust to dust" Tn
the name of all that is pure, all that
is uplifting, all that Is due the living
and all that is due the refined sensi-
bilities OF mankind, let us have done
with grasping, itchine, wholly demon
alizing politics of this kind" says the
journal.
THE first political convention Of the
year will be held at Des Moines next
week, when the Iowa Corn Belt Meat
Producers association meets to In
struct congress on the rate question
and the legislature on the primary
election BILL says the Dubuque
Times.
Publicity is the best safeguard
against graft in public places" says
the Cedar Falls Record. THAT is
why the legislature passed a law COM
polling the publication Of all transac-
tions Of the boards of supervisors
town councils and the like"
''Wellman Is no more likely to dis
cover the north pole than he Is to
shine as prognosticator of the course
and results Of peace conferences, ana
his limitations In respect Of that are
Portsmouth, says the Waterloo Cou-
rier.
The woodbine Chronicle is moved to
remark that IL we don't have some
rain or snow before spring 1t is going
to be dry farming.
to create honesty In politics 1t will
prove fiat failure" says the Clinton
Herald.
Close scrutiny of the Crossley pri-
mary bill causes the Waterloo Re-
porter to wonder that it Is seriously
proposed to burden our election sys..
TEN with such an incongruous and
cumbersome piece of machinery
wieldy and full of impossible and un-
reasonable conditions" says the Cou-
rier, land sober second thought woulc
wonder where reason was spending
vacation when that misf1t statute was
enacted"
The Marion Register makes it plain
n 49, n,,f I, q
governorship If 1t involves going into
office bound by pledges. AT the Same
time" the Register adds, I'VE would
be neither obstinate nor dectatorial
We would first seek to know our duty
and then do it."
The Iowa City Republican notices
that Major Rathbun is getting some
nice newspaper notices, and it pre-
publican editor has had experience
along this line and he testifies that
at makes a fellow feel nice to ret
them, and all he has to do is to turn
them over to his wife, who proudly
arranges them in scrap book" And
the Republican adds that after con-
vention time they will do to keep and
ness Of humanity Is under considera-
ton"
1.-THE pure food agitation is on and
/, ought to be fought out to finish. "
says the Cedar Falls Record "The
legislature of this state can do but lit
tie, but what it can do ought to be
done promptly A national law is the
only sure solution Of the problem"
The Fairfield Ledger notices that in
counties having primaries the candi-
dates already are making their an
nouncements and 1t remarks that
"fads like biennial elections and COM
pulsory primaries will keep state
disturbed the year round rather than
lesson political agitation and excite
ment"