Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-23
THE OTTUMW A. UUUKIEn

and shouting, ,''the senator from okla
homa!" says the Council Bluffs Non
pareil
"The contest to date in Iowa does
not give any candidate cinch," says
the Clinton Herald.
''The talk of democratic governor
being elected this year is bosh," as
serts the Hartley Journal.
1.-THE fact fmust not be lost sight Of
that President Roosevelt ate some Of
paigning In Cuba" says the Sioux City
Journal.
The democrats of Iowa are wearing
very cheerful faces" notes the Onawa
Sentinel. They see in the strenuous
factional fight IN the republican party
an open door to victory. That is why
they are taking a more active part in
the Perkins Cummins contest than
the campaign opens watch them line
up under the democratic banner with
William Jennings Bryan at the head"
THE increase of Bryan sentiment is
no accident in the democratic party
Just now" says the Mason City Times
Herald. Run over in your mind the
leading democrats who would be avail
able as candidate The field Is GER
tainly clear for the orator Of the
Platte"
The Cedar Falls Gazette does not
concur in the opinion that President
Roosevelt Is the only republican who
could defeat Mr.. Bryan: it thinks the
party has many men as large as Mr..
Roosevelt. THE Gazette will risk the
welt will not be the next nominee OF
the republican party and that w. J.
Bryan will not be the next president"
Anyhow the democrats cannot talk
calamity and distress the next cam
pa1gn. 1t will be observed that Bryan
is ominously silent on the subject Of
hard times" says the Clinton Herald.
Nothing has yet developed to In
dictate a disposition on the part of the
only living president to place his
o. X. on Col. Bryan's credentials as a
conservative says the Sioux City
Journal.
The Waterloo Courier, pro-Cunl-
Minis, says that there isn't going to be
any compromise candidate for COVER
nor. st must be either Gov. Cum
minis or man opposed to him and the
cause he represents" the Courier as
serts.
ut has been suggested that the dele
gates will have a month to cool off
before the Des Moines convention"
notes the Davenport Times. "They
may be less excited, but more than a
month will have to elapse before they
will forget.
The most the Des Moines Mail and
Times can get out Of the present po-
litical situation is that the state con-
vention will furnish the biggest row
the party ever had In Iowa, with prob
ably split and possibly two tickets.
Each side seems determined to ruin
the party IL 1t cannot VIM" says the
Mail and Times, ''and devote the rest
OF the campaign irving to prove that
the opposing faction is to blame" The
Mail and Times trusts, however. that
the delegates will find a way out and
1t suggests that that way is to unite
upon some man who Is not objection
able to either side"
"The contest is beyond the dark
horse stage" asserts the Marion Reg
lStoT. fAS tHG rtSSiotSTs has ucIcloIptS
said. the nominee will be one Of the
candidates now in the field, and the
convention when it meets will decide
which one It shall be-
THE campaign can well be classed as
one Of Misrepresentation and one in
which more falsehoods have been set
afioat than in any previous campaign
in. Iowa." says the Atlantic Telegraph.
What the final outcome will be, no
man can foretell at this time"
The Brighton Enterprise is moved
to remark: "a quarter of century
ago the hungry inhabitants came into
town from the hollow barefooted car
rying basket of wild berries to sell,
but now they ride in Surveys and feed
on the fat Of the land"
"of course there are June bride
groonns as we'll, but they are simply a
sort Of necessary evil and are toler-
ated as SUCH observes the Keokuk
Gate City.