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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
THE cIRcLELEss BALLOT.

Council Bluffs Nonparlel-By decree
of the last general assembly, there will
be no circle at the top of the ballot at
the coming election. Hereto
fore, since the adoption of the modi-
fed Australian system, a circle has ap-
peared opposite each of the party
names at the head Of the ballot. This
has made voting a simple matter for
those who wished to vote it straight"
it being necessary for such merely to
place a cross in the circle opposite the
party name, republican, democrat, So
cialist or prohibitionist, as the case
might be. Hereafter, however, there
will be no circle on the ballot, and the
voter will have to place his cross in
the square opposite the name of each
candidate for whom he wishes to vote.
What effect this will have on the for
tunes Of the different parties and diff
ferent candidates is matter Of specu-
lation. The circleless ballot is an in.
vitation to Independent voting. Having
to run down the long column and make
a mark for each candidate, the voter
may find 1t little additional trouble to
indulge an inclination at come point
along the line, the Scratch" that is,to
move over to another column and give
an opposition candidate for some parti-
cular Office the benefit of his suffrage.
1t is manifest that the new system will
be conducive to irregular, or independ-
ent, voting, even when in some re-
spects, the circumstances are extraor-
nary, 1t is likely that the scratching
will proceed with corresponding in
creased vigor. This is the way the sit
uation seems to strike the average OBJ
server. But who will benefit and who
will suffer remains to be seen.
In an interview at Des Moines the
other day. Congressman Lacey said, 81
think a mistake was made in changing
our form of voting this year by taking
the party circle off the ballot. There
are many voters who would vote the
straight ticket with the circle, who will
scratch when they are required to vote
on every candidate"
To analyZe bit, Major Lacey sug-
gested the "the governor may have
some little advantage over the rest of
us, being first on the ticket. Undoubt-
edly there will be many voters, who
will not notice the change In the law
and will mark the square opposite
the governors name. thinking they are
thus voting the whole straight ticket,
whereas they are voting only for the
governor"
Be that as it may, the congressman
makes timely observation when he
says that there ought to be campaign
of education to Impress on the voters
the new method of voting. The change
from the old method is considerable
one and it doubtless will have notice
able effect on the voting, and many
ballots may be lost as to many of the
candidates If thought is not had to
carefully instruct the voters.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25

sas politics which should be encourag.
ing to reformers.
Less than twenty years ago." he
says, "the United States marshal of
Kansas lay drunk and half naked in
the secretary Of states office, and the
whole statehouse and nearly all the re-l
porters in town came to look at him
and laugh. Less than twenty years ago!
Kansas politicians kept their mis-
tresses on the payroll Less than
twenty years ago man lost no stand,
ing In Kansas by being known as al
railroad man In the legislature. Less
than twenty years ago the legislaturei
adjourned drunk and disorderly andl
the members carried off the desks, andl
the writer tried in vain to get one OF
them. Times have changed and wei
have changed with them. The things
that seem all right to this generation
will seem like larceny to the next. The
world is growing better, and If you
don't get getter with 1t the fault Isl
yours -
This Is pretty plain and pretty true
talk. There is not a newspaper man
In Minnesota but could duplicate the,
sentiment expressed by Mr.. White
from his own experience. Drunken-,
ness. righteousness and dishonesty
were more common in public office
twenty years ago than today Men who
were leaders then would be regarded
as lepers now There Is better stand-
ard of conduct. There is less tolera-
tion of the double standard virtue, one
for the public man, the other for the
private man. The senator of great
abilities whose private life is rotten
finds now that he must give up his evil
ways or give up his position. He can-l
not serve two masters, the people and
the flesh
There has come in public life. 1t is4
true. another dangerous character.
namely, the snug, clean, perfumed and
correct agent of the corporation, whose
nice private character Is a cloak for
his operations against public morality
But he Is being dealt with. He Is UNI!
masked, and it will not be long before
he is endorsed. The world is, as Mr..
White suggests, growing better, butt
the tide does not sweep on unremit-I
tently. We see eddies and back watersI
in our own vicinlties that make usl
think the whole sea has set the otherl
way; but 1t Is not so. The world is K
growing better, and the ouly way to be
truly prosperous is to grow better with
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25

growing boy and the deliberate wick
edness OF a mature rascal; time and
patience will cure one; they only foster
and promote the other. He likens the
one to the children in the homes of
this country and the immigrants land
ing on our shores and the other to
the enemies Of righteousness. The one
must be taught, the other fought.
He makes an effort to nerve the
righteous to battle, saying that the
days of conflict are not over He
urges that the strength Christians use
In fighting one another be used to COM
bat the common foe. Persecution, he
says, has changed his name and now
calls himself Prudence and whispers
to the editor to not call evil that
which public sentiment calls good or
his subscription list will be cut down;
to the politician not to antagonize cor
ruption lest he be put out of politics;
to the preacher to be tactful and con-
siderate lest he lose his influence
However, he does not indict all mem
bers Of these callings as listening to
the whisper.
1t is well to consider who it is that
comes to the publisher, politician and
preacher as impersonators of "Prud-
ence." All too often they are the per-
sons who pretend to be enlisted in the
fight against the common foe. II all
such would join in the battle of the
common enemy referred to instead of
shooting in the back the ones who are
attempting to lead, there would be a
smaller number who fall in the ranks,
overcome by the shot and shell Of
persons who are clothed in the uni
form of their own regiment.
The publisher, politician and preach
er are constantly on the lookout for
the spies from the ranks of the enemy
who try to mislead them, but when the
officers OF their own battalions ride up
CARRIED in gilt and golden decorations
and give the command, the good sol
der will obey. If they be traitors to
the cause, the persons who vested
them with their Office and fastened
on the plume and epaulets must share
the blame.
The fight is on and should be on I'M
til good conquers over evil, and where
there is an editor or politician or a
preacher who listens not to the advice
of the enemy he should not be imposed
upon by being shot from the rear or led
to obstruction by men who claim to be
fighting the same battle.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
NO SUPPORT FOR RoLTER.

-
Norman E. Mack of the New York
democratic committees has announced
that he can no longer look with favor
upon the nomination of William R.
Hearst for governor by the democrats
Of that state in the Buffalo conven-
ton.
He says that since the nomination
of Mr.. Hearst by the Independent
league convention, where full ticket
with Mr.. Hearst at the head, and a
platform of principles was adopted,
making 1t appear from the Atlantic to
the Pacific that he is the candidate of
another party, no matter what others
may say te the contrary, he is con-
vinced that as official head of the de-
mocratic party In the state he can no
longer favor such candidacy.
Hearst has become notorious as a
bolter. refusing to support any one on
the ticket who would not take orders
from him, and the democrats are be-
coming tired of that kind of party sup
port, from man who is continually
asking favors in the way of support
from the party members.
The New York editor may not care
If he is left outside of the democratic
fold, for he has now organized party
Of his own, but whether he cares or not
1t would seem that he could hardly ex-
pect enthusiastic support coming De.
fore them as he does bolter OF any,
body and everybody that does not suit
him.
Boiling may not be an inexcusable
offense, but when the offender comes
back it should be meekly and not de-
manding everything in sight, claiming
to be the only pure one in the multi
tude.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
POPULARITY OF SHAW.

Washington Correspondence Milwau-
kee Sentinel.-Somebody some day
will write an interesting story about
the success which has attended the ca
reer of Secretary Shaw in the treasury
department 1t probably can not be
shown that Mr.. Shaw Is the greatest
secretary of the treasury since Hamil-
ton. but he is possessed with native
shrewdness that has stood him well in
hand and enabled him to do as much
good work in the great Office as has
been done by any secretary, except
perhaps, the resumption work, the
floating Of the greenbacks and other f.
nancial operations under the great Sec
retaries since the civil war.
This comment upon Secretary
Shaw's success in office is in a large
measure induced by the part he had in
the rece mt Panama bond sale. Contrary
to the predictions Of many of the
shrewdest financiers, the secretary
was enabled to float S30,00O,0O0 Of Pan
anna bonds at price which netted the
government from 100000 to $5,00O,.
wise ones he would obtain. Not only
is this true, but the secretary perform
ed the operation against the judgment
Of many experts in the department
who advised that the sale of Panama
bonds be postponed until fall, when
they would probably bring higher
price. 1t is also an interesting fact, in
this connection, that the famous New
York bank that has been said to domi"
nate, to a large extent, in Secretary
Shaw's management Of the department
failed to obtain a dollars worth of the
bonds. Its bid was fully half of l per
cent lower than the price at which the
bonds sold.
Secretary Shaw is Vermont Yam
kee, who has cultivated the native
shrewdness Of that product by exper-
fence rustling in the early days Of Iowa
as a seller Of fruit trees. He drifted
into the law and into country banking,
and was successful in both lines, be-
cause of his cleverness which is in
large part the result of the experience
he obtained while close to the people
in the precarious business of selling
fruit trees to them. He tells story
full Of Yankee wit, and his illustrations
are invariably those of the farm and
farm life. 1t will be recalled that in
the first weeks following the nominal
ton Of Mr.. Bryan, in 1896, when the
prairies Of Iowa were said to be
ablaze with free silver enthusiasm and
the Bryan craze, it was Shaw's clever
campaign sueeches and homely Illus
trations that awakened the Iowa farm
ers to the fact that they could not af-
ford to jeopardize the national inter-
ests or their personal interests by de-
molishing the gold standard and plac-
ing the money and credit of the coun-
try upon debased silver standard. 1t
is not believed here that Secretary
Shaw is seriously a presidential candi-
date, but he has many elements of
popularity as a member of President
Rooseyelt's cabinet, and he is admit
tedly the most effective campaign
speaker the Republican party has to-
day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
MONOPOLY OF HOLINESS.

For some reason, probably because
the trusts and monopolies have pros
pered equally with the individual dur.
ing republican administrations, demo.
cratic orators and writer's have sought
to brand the republican party as an or
ganization of trust magnates and their
servants. This has been common dur
ing all periods of prosperity. To hear
and read these discourses one would
think that the democratic party had a
monopoly on holiness and that that
was the only monopoly or trust that 1t
was connected with.
While the republican party has been
willing to accept as a fact that the
greater portion of both rich and poor
have a tendency to support 1t in it's
prosperity, 1t is well to once in while
call the attention Of the public that
not all of the party leaders who are
serving corporations are at the head of
the republican party.
The most recent exposure has been
in connection with the case Of Senator
Bailey of Texas, who has been one to
sit in judgment on all other men in
public life Senator Bailey has become
notorious as leading democrat, and
has become more notorious now as a
servant of the Standard OIL company.
The latter fact was brought out In the
oil investigation of the southwest.
1t may be recalled that it was only
a few weeks ago that former Senator
James K. Jones, who was chairman
of the national democratic committee
when Bryan was candidate for presi-
dent, visited Oyster Bay as an ennis
sary from the Standard Oil company.
Previous to that, however, his connec-
ton with the cotton bale trust was
exposed.
With the exception Of William j..
Bryan these are probably the two most
conspicuous democrats west Of the
Mississippi river, place where trusts
flourish only as interests of the eastern
capitalists. By going to New York and
other eastern states one can find
plenty of magnates who are affiliated
with the democratic party, some Of
whom were prominent in the recent
reception of Bryan upon his return
from his world tour.
When Charles A. Walsh wrote his
notorious letter to Chairman Taggart,
resigning his position as national COM
mitteeman from Iowa he set up sub
stantially these statements as the
reason. He had found the democratic
party in control Of the corporation
element, and he proceeded to give their
records and connections at some
length
This letter would lead one to believe
that this had only recently come to
pass, but in commenting upon it in an
interview in Ottumwa Senator Tillman
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
BLEssEDNEss OF BATTLE.

In an articles entitled "The Blessed
ness of Battle" DR.. Lyman Abbott OBJ
serves that there are in this country
enemies Of righteousness who need not
to be taught, but to be fought. He
says that the kingdom of heaven is
like seed growing secretly, first the
blade, then the ear, then the full corn
in the ear; that it will not Immediately
appear, and we must await the slow
processes of it's growth
1t is further observed that there is
Difference between roughness of a
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
AT SHAWNEE DAM.

Kansas City Journal:-A party of
young people enjoyed an outing at
the dam at Shawnee recently. Those
present, according to the Shawnee
Journal were: Misses Bishop, Eng
land, Johnson, Cary, Walker, McMan-
us, Eggerman; Messrs. Archie and
Jim Watson, McCay, Vincent, Cade.
Templeton, Sparks. Mr.. and Mrs.
Johnson acted as chaperons. It is
stated that the whole dam party had
a pleasant time.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
WABASH TIME TABLE.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

Governor. ....... Albert B. Cummins
Lieutenant governor. Warren Garst
Secretary Of state. .....W. G. Hayward
Auditor of state. B. #. Carroll
Treasurer of state. -. W. w. Morrow
Attorney general of state. H. w. Byers
Supreme Judges ..........
:. ..E- Mclean, John G. Sherwin
Superintendent Of public instruc-
ton ................ John f. Riggs
Clerk Of supreme court. ..........
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. John G. Crockett
Reporter Of court. w. W. Cornwall
Railroad commissioners ......
----W. l. Eaton. David ]. Palmer
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
Congressional Ticket.

"a
For congressman. John F. Lacey
judicial Ticket.
For Judges Of Second district
Wapello County-M. A. Roberts.
Monroe County--D. M. Anderson.
Davis County,. W. Eichelberger.
Appanoose County-C. w. vermilion.
County Ticket.
Senator'S. H. Harper.
presentative-E. J. Moore.
Auditor. r. Criley.
Treasurer-W. B. Moore.
Clerk of court-Edwin DUNCAN.
Sheriff.. D. Stephens.
Recorder. L. Swenson.
Superintendent of schools--Miss
Emma Nye.
Surveyor-C. R. Allen.
Coroner-E. L. Scott.
Experimentation Decker, G. w.
Hatch, J. S. Redfern.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
DID TO g. E.

Des Moines Capital: Up in the
Chickasaw-F Floyd senatorial district
the republican delegates seemed to
know Just what to do with the wrong !
Mt Wright
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25

observed that the situation had always
been SO as long as he had been con-
nected with the party.
The II am holier than thou" plat
form is winner sometimes, but as
rule people will vote for prosperity as
opposed to holiness, especially when
they know that there is as much holt
ness in prosperity as there is in calam-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
Professional Cards.
To the Pnhlic.

To the Pnblic:
l hereby offer to put up
a bond of one thousand
dollars with approved
surety, the same to be
forfeited TO any peraon
who will bring to Tue an
indivi dual suffering
from any affection who
has no subluxation In
his spine.
If you do not believe
In Chlropractic, here is
your opportunity to
make money.
i make this PROPOSE
ton to stimulate an in
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ence of Chiropracttc:
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
TOWNSHIP CONVENTION CALL.

A delegate convention of the repub-
licans Of Center township, Wapello
county, Iowa, will be held In the court
house. at Ottumwa, Iowa. Friday, Sep
TENDER q, 1905, at s p m. for the pur-
pose Of nominating candidates for tho
following offices:
One assessor.
One township clerk.
Two justices of the peace.
Two constables.
Two trustees, term commencing
January l, 1907.
Also to select township committee
man.
The basis of representation in said
convention for the different precincts,
shah be as follows:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND &
Goino East,

No. Going East.
b206-Keokuk, Kansas City,
California and Southwest. :.
h202- Des Moines to Keokuk..
a204-Eldon, Davenport and
Chicago ........ ........
b274-Local freight ............
Going West.
a203-Des Moines. Ruthven,
West Nebraska & Wash
ington, Muscatine. Daven-
port and Chicago $500.
b201--Keokuk, Des Moines and
Omaha .......... 80. ;.
b205- Keokuk, Des Moines and
Omaha
b273 : Local freight ..........
n---daily; b-except Sunday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25

Total delegates 1877
Primaries to select delegates for said
convention will be held on Tuesday
evening. September 1s, 1906, at p. M,
at the usual places, unless otherwise
ordered by the precinct committeeman
e. q. Sharp,
Township Committeeman.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
CHANGES OF TWENTY YEARS.

Minneapolis Journal-William Allen
White make soma remark about Kan.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25
ELIZABETH M. THOMPSON.
osteopathlc Physician.
Graduate American School Osteopathy.
Missouri
Office, 227 N Court st. New phone 1914.
Hours, 900 to 1900 and 1870 to 400.
R. r. TIME TABLES.
All c. B. & @. and c. r. /. & p. trains
depart from Washington street
Union depot.
BURLINGTON ROUTE, c. 3. & @.

BURLINGTON ROUTE, c. 8. q @.
w. S., PARKER, Ticket Agent.
No. Going East. Depart
l2a-Chicago, Dubuque & Quincy 2:O3 a. M
p21-I,ocal freight . 500 a. M.
b3b-Burlington & st. Louis -. 2:1O a. nj.
l0b-Peoria Dubuque & Quincy II 80 a. m.
6a-Chicago Limited ........ 1:43 o. m.
sa-Ghieago. St. Louis & Quincy 7:Io p m.
sa-chieago Peoria Rockford ii % p p m m.
11ss h ri , & St Louis ....7:s5 a. M
Going West.
5a-Omaha. Council Bluffs &
Nebraska ...... 12:4S a. m,
l5a-Fast NAH .......:...:..... 800 a. m.
3a-0maha, Kansas city, Denver,
Hot Springs, Deadwood Og-
den, Portland & California 7:45 a. M
ab--Peoria to creston ......... 40 p. M m.
lib Chicago to ottumwa, arrive io:io p p. N.
Ia Denver to Omaha ...11:45 D. m.
a-daily; b-exeept Sunday. Nos. I, 8
and Is do not carry passengers.
Via Fort Madison-Goinq East.
TT. Madison & ST. Louis fb).... 1885 p. m.
Going West.
From TT Madison & st.
Louis (b) ..................11:5 80 a. m
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WE HAVE AN INTEREST in n

st. Louis Globe Democrat: The
cruiser Des Moines is watching the
Cuban struggle with an impartial eye.
This is equivalent to having an Iowa
man on guard
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-25

Old Phone 267X
DR.. CHARLES RAY PARKER.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-04-27
RgUNlcN CALLED TO ORDER.
Everything Points to Most 9uceessfc'
Reunion OF Organization.

New Orleans, April 26,-Undor
weather conditions that were ideal, a.
tended by a multitude that tried To
The utmost the great auditorium erect
eded for the occasion, and with en-
thusiaSm unbouuded, the annual reun
ion OF the United Confederate veter'
ans was on Wednesday called tn order
by General stephen D. Lee, the com
mAnderinchief
Everything a. the outset points 10
Hns OF the most successful reunions In
The history OF the organisation.
The hall In which the reunion Is to
be held Is as beautiful az n structure
of bare boards could he made, Every
roof pillar was covered from top To
bottom wtwth white and red bunting
wound In alternate bands and between
these uprights hung, first the Confcd
crate nag. then tho national COlors
then the stars and bars again, the
spaces being h,llCd In this manner
from end to end ot the hall The ROOT
was concealed by ropes ~ rod and
white tissue. caught up NJ regular tn
tc,Nals by small confederate nags.
Portraits NJ thr leaders ~ the Con.
tederacy were placed ~ regular In,
teINals throughout the hall,
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-04-27

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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-04-27

street after 10 o'clock Tuesday night
and sentry shot through the window.
A looter who broke into several places
In Vallejo street. Is reported to have
been shot BY marine sentry.
An alleged thief. who Il said to have
jumped out Of window Wrn a bun.
die OF clothing AZ Pierce and Oar
rell streets early Wednesday morning,
Is reported 10 have been shot by II
national guardsman.
The fact that two companies OF the
Fourteenth United States lnfnatry from
Vancouver went to Oakland to do
guard duty In THAT city. indicates that
the militia will be recalles.
Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-04-27

still wet from the rain. Everything
possible was done to alleviate then
distress by putting women and chit
dren in houses, but as no ores were al
lowed. and there Is . lack OF blankets,
1t helped but little.
AZ 4 result OF Mayor Schmits sharp
letter to General Roster. commanding
the national Buard In which the may
or calls the generals attention to the
fact that the city was not under mar
tial law, and that the drastic meas
urss and arbitrary Acions OF some OF
his men which have caused 90 much
complaint, were illegal and requesting
him TO put a stop To II, there was but
little shooting Tuesday night in the
district over which the militia holds
sway.
A marine reported having found a
hight burning In a house on Fillmore