Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-27

tice, to all and special privileges to
none.
The Keolsuk Gate city has a grow
ing impression that the proposed pri-
mary law Is loaded In the interest
Of the politicians, it says, that Is
strengthened by the fact that what
support it has comes almost exclu-
sively from the centers of population
The Iowa City Republican says that
If the bill to prohibit the sale of fire.
add to the long list of those that us
ually are ignored.
The Dubuque & Times remarks that
If the new state hospital for inebriates
at Knoxville received all the business
coming to 1t the institution would
have to be duplicated in every city of
the state.
President Roosevelt by this time"
says the Cedar Rapids Republican, "is
probably beginning to realize that not
even his administration can be one of
triumphal achievement. He is find
ing out what 1t Is to go up against
the things as they are"
"If the legislature were content to
make only the changes in the statute
books necessitated by the biennial
amendment, the legislature might now
be getting ready to adjourn" remarks
the Sioux City Journal.
The planet Mars is several million
years older than the earth, and the
Keokuk Gate City notes that the
theory has been advanced that this
may explain why her canals are COM
pleted.
THE question now Is as to whether
there will be any government when
the packers get through with It," says
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye says that
the late Marshall Field was shining
proof of the absurdity OF the Osler
theory.
The initiative and referendum prop
osition has made its appearance In the
tai anticipates that this will probably
be followed by a glorification Of 16
to /.
No one seems to take Tillman SER
1ously any more except some of the
Chautauqua platform managers,
says the Des Moines Capital.
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that 1t is evident that a certain class
of newspapers and alleged statesmen
are not going to be satisfied with any
thing that may be done In the way
of railway rate legislation, even
though 1t shall have the unqualified
Endorsement of President Roosevelt.
Senator Tillman has now been
dubbed .weeper' along with Thurs
ton and Teller" remarks the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil, and adds: "But the
prize lachrymose senator was Mitchell
and perhaps 1t Is to his case that we
must turn to get the true significance
of senatorial tears"
John Sharp Williams predicts that
the democrats will control the next
house, and the Clintqp Herald re-
marks that the democrats have habit
of carrying elections every month ex-
cept in November.
| The Dubuque Telegraph thinks that
with an ever increasing gold produce
ton, and promises Of an inexhaustible
supply, there exists no reason why
| the currency should be reformed"
| Even the silver men are content to
let matters rest as they are in view
of the enormous and unprecedented
volume Of gold production says the
Telegraph.
'If q party prefers the primary sys-
TEN. let It pay ito own s1penses and
! not draw the money out of the county
treasury for party purposes" says the
Cedar Falls Record.
| The vinton Eagle says that IL Major
Rathbun should be nominated for
governor party adherents would not
go to bed at night in fear that he
would break out in a new spot by
morning.
IF anything can be done to make
| 1t possible to avoid errors in marking
the ballot it ought to be DONE" says
the Davenport Times, "but there will
always be some men who would make
a mistake If there were only one
square to be marked on the ballot"
! 1.-THE resolution is wholly unneces-
sary, and borders on the ilnpertinent,"
says the Manchester Press, referring
to the resolution introduced in the leg
| islature instructing the Iowa con-
gressional delegation to support the
Presidents railway rate plan.
| The Britt Tribune observes that the
NIoSSlSy Ulil pIOVIucS lOT primaries III
August, just when the farmers are all
| thrashing or stacking. you couldn't
| scare a lot Of farmers out to the
primaries in August declares the
Tribune, with a gun loaded with barb
WIRE"
"If the Iowa insurance companies
are not a little more discreet" sug-
gestsJ the Webster City Freeman
Tribune and oppose the proposition
to Investigate their affairs with a lit
tie less vehemence they may lead the
people into the belief that they feal
the searchlight."
The Dubuque Times suggests that
Mr.. Bryan's election as a datto in the
Philippines should help some in the
matter Of dates through the Chautau-
qua circuit next summer.
The Emmetsburg Reporter thinks 1t
is mighty poor policy to write "col-
umns of slush" alleging that j. w.
Blythe is debating to the republicans
Of Iowa and that all standpatters are
under his thumb. "A man who thinks
or believes such thing" says the
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