Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-03
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measure--and yet every man with
stand out against it was denounced as
a public enemy
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says SEN
ator Garst, of Carroll, announced as a
candidate for lieutenant governor, is
big and brainy and an ideal Iowan
1t sees one objection to his candidacy
however, and" says the Gazette
that is serious one The senator
Is not newspaper man."
There Is no reason" says the Des
Moines Register and Leader, referring
to the municipal election in that city.
why Des Moines should compete for
the prize as the worst governed city
IN the middle west, even with the cum
hersome and inefficient municipal sys-
tenn that prevails. There is no reason
why public work should not be intelli-
gently planned and honestly executed.
This Is the feeling that has been ex-
pressed by the vote at the polls. This
is the meaning of the election"
Has Iowa reached the point that
she has only one man to fill the gov
ernor's Officer" axis the GAINESVILLE
Star.
The Des Moines Capital thinks Cow
fngton, Neb.. must have assisted in
the Sioux City election on Monday.
The Burlington Hawk Eye ,xpects
to hear it charged now that Secretary
Shaw belongs to the federal crowd
But so long as that crowd Is lined
up with President Roosevelt, the coun-
try is not in danger" says the Hawk
Eye.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says
since the election on Monday a new
bond of sympathy binds Sioux City
and Burlington.
The Fort Dodge Chronicle asks:
Now, wouldn't it be joke if dark
horse would yet enter the guberna-
torial race and lead by a neck under
the wire?'
The Dubuque Telegraph Is disap-
pointed over the failure of the Tur-
ner bill, taxing liquor agents from out
side Iowa. 1T the Turner bill really
has failed to provide relief, the consti-
tutional lawyers in the legislature
should devote their energies to an
effort to frame a bill that would stand
the constitutional test" says the Tele-
graph.
The Reporter thinks the people Of
Waterloo can well feel satisfied with
the result of the election in the defeat
Of the proposition for municipal own
ership, adding: at was much more
important for the welfare Of the city
that this scheme should be scuttled
than that any man or ticket should
triumph. The defeat of ownership
is the brightest and best thing the
voters Of Waterloo did at the cleo
tion."
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says there
Is mo more excuse for keeping Okla
homa out Of the union than there
would be in compelling Iowa to return
to territorial form of government
Oklahoma ought to be given statehood
without moments delay"
"The life insurance trustees must
think by this time that it would have
been cheaper for them to have kept
on paying Andy Hamilton's board
bill in Paris" says the Bloomfield Re-
publican.
Noting that the Beers claim $780,
100000 for damages resulting from the
war and that Russia Is about to spend
100,000,000 in bringing it's navy up
to-date, the Dubuque Telegraph says:
War is not only what General Sher-
man said 1t was, but it is the most
expensive thing Of which civilization
knows aught."
"As a speaker, Secretary Shaw
seems to improve with the years."
says the Mason City Times Herald.
,ry1,o ~
ity made the man and the man was
lucky enough to embrace it at the
psychological moment"
Noting that the people Of Waterloo
have defeated municipal ownership
the Clinton Herald orders: Score
another point for Waterloo intelli-
gence."
Referring to the fact that the mem
bers Of the New York legislature have
asked the other states to Join them
in securing an amendment to the
United States constitution forever
prohibiting polygamy in any state or
territory, the Newton Record says:
ut Is certainly an amendment which
should be adopted and our legislature
should join in the movement"
1.-THE republican for mayor OF Desl
Moines got in by q scratch that may
be set down as one of the results Of
among the republicans Of
that city" says the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican "There they went so far as
to organize a "scratchers club" which
advertised its policies in half pageI
spaces In the daily newspapers
"The fact that Burlington voted forI
a wide omen town and SiOlx Cfty on.
dorsed licensed gambling does not
however, render void the statutes at
fecting such evils" declares the Cedar
Rapids Gazette. 1.-THE state Is yet, or
ought to be, greater than any COM
munity in the commonwealth"
"The governorship fight is about as
warm as it can get and yet the corn
which will be grown from the seed