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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
BUY AMERICAN
Sc Gu RITES
SAY GERMANS
BERLIN BANKERS DECLARE RE.
soURcEs OF UNITED STATES
ARE TOO VAST TO BE MADE
LIGHT OF.

Berlin. Oct 23-The violent finan-
cial sQuall in the United States is re-
garded here as having passed The
great Berlin banks are assuring their
customers that the crisis is relaxing
and that conditions in America are SO
sound that no deep seated consequence
S,an follow.
A representative Of powerful Hol-
and financial interests who happened
o be here sent word to Amsterdam
hat now Is the time to invest in
& american securities, and many Berlin
American stocks now while they are
under pressure.
Large offers in Europe by American
holders and buyings have caused
yAmerican exchange to rise to 4.26, a
rate without precedent. The demand
for transfers, which was due chiefly
to the fact that many investors bought
American securities in New York in
the belief that low prices offered un-
usual inducements, was so heavy that
many applicants failed to get ac-
commodations. The market assumes
that the English bank rate will be ad-
vanced Monday, this will be followed
Immediately by an advance Of the
reichs banks.
Dollars Wanted.
While the crisis has shaken Ger
man confidence In some American
banks and Individual undertakings,
there is widespread conviction that
1t cannot lead to protracted prostration
The German financial public possesses
large optimism regarding the econo1nf-
,cal resources Of the great republic
which they say the mismanagement OF
railroad directors and individual
bankers is unable to outweigh.
The Berlin bourse. which was re-
markably steady during the week, is
likely to feel the effects of the crisis
more during the next fortnight than
previously, because 1t must resist the
tendency to export gold. Much is be
ing said here about the passing nature
of the disturbance and figures are be
ing recited Of the American crops, rail
way earnings and increased imports
and exports. There also is a good
deal Of moralizing over the need In
the United States of government con
troll over the currency and of the
necessity for an organization of the
monetary system, so that 1T will be
able to bear immense prosperity anG
withstand sudden gusts Of unreasonine
panic.
The bourse is somewhat nervous
over the reporte financial crisis II
Chilli 1t is believed, however, thai
the reports from there are too pessi
mistic.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
Washington Bureau.
OF Ottumwa Courier,

Washington, D. G. Oct. 2S..
It would be utterly useless to deny
that real Roosevelt movement is
going on, looking to the nomination of
the President for another term, and
that 1t is led by men closest to the
President and commonly supposed to
understand what is In his mind.
Likewise 1t would be hardly worth
while to deny that this Roosevelt
movement is getting stronger every
day in all parts of the country.
Yet it would be, similarly, impos-
sible to question the good faith Of the
President in his declaration made on
the night of election day four years
ago, that he would not again be
candidate for president.
Here In Washington nobody ques-
tions these propositions; that the
President is likely to be renominated,
that ne the choice Of great majority
OF his party, and that there is a seri-
GUS movement in his behalf on foot.
But is the party cognizant of this
movement? Probably not. It has
only been very recently that observers
have become convinced that the move
ment is of an organized sort OF this
there seems small doubt now The
Taft people believe it is on, and they
are frankly Disconnected by 1t. They
have expected the President to use
all his power for Taft.
"But the president can't control his
friends" reply the third-term boomers.
"He could if he wanted to, reply the
Taft people. eff he allows himself to
be pushed out into this race now,
after his promise not to be a candidate
again and his agreements to support
Taft. 1t will be-we1l, we will be
nightly surprised"
William Busbey, of McAlester, 1. T.,
came to town this week to talk
politics. Busbey is the biggest repub-
lican in the territory from some
practical points of view He spends
more money for politics than any
other man, and doesn't want an Office.
He is close to the President and de-
termined that the President shall be
nominated again. He expects to take
an Oklahoma delegation into the
national convention for the President.
Now. Busby is one of the men
whom the Taft people think the Presi-
dent ought to control. They can't
understand why Bourne, of Oregon,
Busbey. of Oklahoma, and Hitchcock.
Of the postoff1ce department, go around
]scattering Roosevelt seed everywhere
/ T taet President DOESN'T want tnera to
do it. But the fact remains that they
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
Washington Sees a
Real Roosevelt Third
Term Campaign Moving

are doing it, and that scores of others
who generally represent strictly the
wishes of the President and doing the
same thing. Maybe it really is be-
cause the President can't control MS
friends in this supremely important
matter Certain 1t is that the follow
ers of Taft think he ought to make a
more earnest effort.
AS matter of fact the President Is
doing the only thing he could we'll do
In the interests of mis- legislative pro-
gram the coming winter. He is play
ing great game of the most practical
politics. He wants some big and new
powers turned over to the federal gov
eminent, and he knows that state
rights democrats and conservative
Republicans will try to combine agains,
him. How is he to meet the combi-
nation?
He will break the democrats of the
south into twos camps, by making I'M
mense concessions to the lower Mis-
sissippi valley. His waterways pro-
gram means power with southerners.
The south wants that program carried
out, and moreover the ancient state.
rights sentiment Is not SO potent as It
used to be. Politicians conJure with
it. but people down south don't excite
themselves over 1t SO much as they
! once did.
The waterways program will buy
votes in the south. just as the send
ing of the fleet to the Pacific will get
them In the west. New England
we'll, New England will be largely
against the President, especially in the
senate, but by no means solidly. He
may muster enough votes to get his
liberalization program passed this
winter, though success is strongly
doubted by the best observers.
And If he falls? Then 1t will be a
fight up to the doors of the republican
convention. and with tnat fight ahead
the President would commit political
suicide to take himself entirely and
finally out of the consideration in con-
4 nection with the nomination. He
needs every ounce of power he can
muster; first to force his program
i through congress; second, to force its
adoption as the republican platform
/ if II. fails in congress. s
That is the big game for which the
President is playing. If In the excite
ment of the game, which seems GER
tain to be ended only by the roll calls
in the party's convention, the man
VINO has led the fight gets swept into
the nomination-then the third term
Twill hAye been forced & upon Mr; Roose,
veft. { e, go -
. j. @. Welliver.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
Chattanooga Graft Cases.

Chattanooga. Tenn, Oct. 2S-The
cases of alleged graft against the men,
bers of the board of public works, in
cluding Chairman Harry Van Dusen
and ". D. Kelly, a member, and A.
l.. Thomas, member of the board
last year, and Thomas P. Mcmahon,
formerly sidewalk inspector in the en-
ploy of the board, We're called for trial
today. The indictments charge them
with having received bribes from con
tractors and others. The defendants
declare that the trial will show their
innocence of the charges made against
them
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
1,733,332 DIVORCES
Census Report Gives Figures Of Un-
happy Marriages in 20
Years

Washington y. c., Oct. 2S.-An ag-
gregate Of ] 100000 divorce cases and
1,7S3,332 persons parted by legal de-
cree during the past twenty years will
be shown by report being prepared
at the census bureau.
A total Of 1900 clerks and special
agents have been at work for months
gathering this data and 140 are still
engaged in the task:
There; are about 10000 remaining
cases to be investigated out Of the
number stated before the field work
is finished and the work of compila-
ton proper can begin.
1t is estimated that two-thirds Of
the people seeking divorce or S66,666,
have been successful in their suits.
The report IN detail is not to be made
public until early next spring.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
WEATHER IS COLDER
Temperature Falls Seventeen Degrees
During the Night-Was 21 This
Morn;pd

The marked drop in the temperature
during the last twenty-four hours was
keenly felt this morning, making the
oyercoat and mittens necessary adj
junct to personal comfort The ponds
and small pools along some of the
streets were covered with a coating of
ice. reminding one Of the necessity of
procuring the winters coal and wear
ing apparel.
The temperature registered at tho
local weather station this morning at
= o'clock was 81 degrees above ero,
as compared with 10 degrees yesterday
morning to the same hour. The tenn
pera ture last night at o'clock was 3S
degrees above. showing a drop of sew
enteen degrees during the night.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
Taft DODGES
RUNA " AY;,
SEES DANCE
PoRTLY SECRETARY IN AN AUT-
oMoBILE HAS AN ENCOUNTER
WITH A TEAM OF MULES
CHAUFFEUR FLEEs IN TERROR.

Baguido, Oct. 2s.-secretary Taft
and his wife escaped injury last night
from wild team of runaway mules
while in an automobile with General
Wood, and General Bliss. The chauf-
feur, who was going at great speed,
fled after the narrow escape of the
distinguished travellers. This after
noon Taft attended feast given in
his honor at which Igorrote dances
were presented.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
Dren Number 13
in Barber Shop;
Then Fell Dead


Iowa City. Oct, 2s.-(Spec-
iaD-WilIiam Baughman, pio-
neer member of Iowa City Water
company, drew the number 10
In a local barber shop, made
remark upon the probability of
Its bringing III luck. commented
upon the sudden death Of
friend during the day, walked
out of the shop and dropped
dead.
He was SIS, lifelong resident
of Iowa City, and widow su-
wives.
= . q - q . . . . - . . . =
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
SP PANISH ROYAL
PAIR WELCOMED
ENTHUSIASTIC GREETING FOR
KING ALFONSO IN FRENCH
CAPITAL

Paris, Oct. 2s-King Alfonso, Queen
Victoria and their son. the prince of
Asturias and suites, passed a few
hours in Paris today while on their
way to England. Although travelling
incognito as the duke and duchess of
Covadenga, the king and queen were
received with royal honors.
The public buildings displayed Span
ish as well as French colors. The
Airg is popular in Paris. Crowds of
people lined the streets through which
ne passed and gave him a cordial re-
ception.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
CHAIRMAN RsDoicK KILLED.
Chicago Public Administrator Crushed
by overturning Auto
mobiles.

Chicago, Oct. 28.-James Reddick
chairman of the republican county
central committee and public admin
istrator, was killed early yesterday
morning by the overturning of an
automobile in which he was riding
near Libertyville, III. Mrs. Reddick
Mr.. and Mrs. Williams Wells, the
other occupants of the car escaped
with slight injuries, The accident
was due to the sllidding of the machine
Mr.. Reddick was caught beneath the
tonneau.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29

Women Sing and
Serpe Hot Coffee
While Men Vote

5000 80 *Afh% s+sHs =
= Birmingham, Oct, 2s.-Ina
!" tense Interest is being manifest
/" cd In the outcome Of the local
options election today. This
morning five thousand women
= and children gathered at the
y Capitol park and paraded the
streets, visiting tho various poll
Ing places. They were wildly
enthusiastic, singing as they
marched. Later the women
served lunches and coffee as the
men voted.
Il y d y d 4 1 D 4 .
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
Cabinet For Abyssinia.

Adis Abeba, Abyssinia, Oct 2S. -
King Menelik has taken an important
step in the direction Of giving Abys-
sinia a constitutional form of govern
ment in issuing a decree today pro.
yiding for the formation of cabinet
on European lines.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
MYSTIC.

Mystic.--Mrs B. J. Read spent
Thursday and FRIDAY in Centerville.
Mrs. Swanson Of Centerville is visit
ing with her sons, William and James
Swanson. at this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edd Laubershamer.
singing avangelists Of Keokuk, are as
sistirg Rev. Banker with a meeting at
t.. Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr and Mrs. II. C. Smith were Cen
tervilla visitors last ThurEdam.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
Church Festival
Winds up in RON;
Eleven Are Killed

ses
Buda Pest, Hungary, Oct. %.
During church festival In
the village of Czarnova yester
day a conflict arose between
two factions in the congrega-
ton which led to the interven-
tlon of the gendarmes. A
fight ensued between the peas
ants and the eendarmes in
which eleven persons were kill
ed and a score wounded.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
Send Christmas Boxes Free.

Washington, Oct. 2s. Following
the custom inaugurated by the late
Secretary Alger the war department
will again this year transport free
Christmas boxes for officers and sol
diers on the foreign stations.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
Charged with Double Murder.

Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. 2S.--Much inter
est is manifested in the case of Mrs,
Mary Slade, which was called for trlaf
today. The woman. wac has becoms
a mother since her arrest. is charged
with killing her father and mother,
William and Mary Mette, by giving
them poison.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
WORKMA AN INJURED
Harriet Terryson, an EmpIoye of the
Box Car Loader Company, is
Bruised.

Harriet Tarreyson, an employe of
the Ottumwa Box Car Loader COM
pany, was quite seriously injured while
ASSISTING to load box car loader onto
car at the ccmpany's plant shortly
after 1G. O'Clock this morning.
Tarreyson's back was injured and
his face bruised and cnt by a door Of
the loader flyinr back and striking
him. Several stitches were necessary
by A surgeon to close the cash in his
cheek.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29
Auditor Of Nevada Dead.

Reno. Nevada, Oct 2S-Nate Rolf,
a state auditor of Nevada, and d
prominent Knight of Pythias, is dead
as the result of injuries received in a
runaway accident last week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29

Double dealing Is understood 70 be
associated with getting there with
both feet
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29

The rcd rag patriot relies in emerg-
ency of the nimblessness of his legs.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29

A part of every day should be given
to thanksgiving
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29

Washington, d. G., Oct. 2S.--
Secretary Cortelyou stated today
that he had received very .reas-
surfing reports from New York.
Chicago and other points and that
everywhere confidence Is being
restored and conditions much i'm
proved.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-10-29

Continued on page s
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-10-10
father was able to keep him in school.
The Clifton (Tenn.) Mirror.
MR.. BONAPARTE WANTS TO
JAIL TRUST THIEVES.

1t has taken Attorney General Bo-
naparte long time to be convinced
that trust criminals should go to Jail,
but ii he is at last a convert to that
doctrine, both -he and the people are
to be congratulated. The American
feels all the more ready to extend
such congratulations for the reason
that many years before Mr.. Bona
parte arrived on the public stage
this paper and it's editor were saying
just what Mr.. Bonaparte now says.
A criminal penalty clause provid-
ing for the Imprisonment Of dishon-
est corporation officials was one of
the chief features of William Ran
dolph Hearst's Antitrust bill in
Congress. The same idea has been
expressed in signed editorials and
speeches from the beginning of his
campaigns up to and including the La
Dor Day address at Jamestown. One
OF Mr.. Hearst's most familiar slo-
gans in the canvass of last fall was
his declaration of the principle that
there should be an end Of the sys-
tenn under which the little thief goes
to Jail and the big thief goes to Eu-
rope
The Attoney-General of the Unit
ed States wants a criminal clause in
the Anti Trust law. In his next re-
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-10-10

GETTING "A POSITION BY MUIR
DER.

Lord Seymour F. Darlington,
than whom there is no greater villain
unhanged, has been appointed as
bookkeeeper in the Missouri peniten-
tiary. His hours of work, according
to st. Louis paper, are eight each
day. He has comfortable cell and
good fare. Aside from the fact that
he cannot go out on Saturday nights
with his pay envelope in his pocket
and contract headache, he is about
as well off as any other bookkeeper
IN point of the actual comforts of
life.
Here is an example of how we do
not punish our criminals. :s'Lord' Bar
rington came to America from Eng
land to make career as a swindler.
One Of his crimes was that of repre-
senting himself as an English noble
man to delude and marry a Missouri
girl for her money. His career cul-
minated In murder. He was SEN
tenced to be hanged. The sentence
seemed in every way just. 1t was
commuted to life sentence sat hard
labor" The hard labor that has fall
en- to his lot is equal in strenuosity
to that of a Government clerk at
Washington. The next possibility is
a pardon, although it has not yet
been announced as possibility.
"Lord" Darlington was happy in
his selection Of the theater of his
criminal activities. 1t is not at all
probable that a professional swindler
who committed murder in the course
of his days work would have been
SO leniently treated in England
Weekly Courier-Journal.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-10-10
PAGE FIFTEEN

port to Congress he viii recommend
legislation providing for the impris-
onment of the "big thief
The way to stop crime is to pun
ish it. The mere assessment Of fines,
however large, is inadequate. If we
imprison the thief that robs one man
why not lock up the thief that robs
millions?
The $29,OOO,OOO fine against the
Standard Oil Company seemed gigan-
tic until the acknowledged profits Of
that concern made it look puny. Even
that vast amount can be paid by the
few men at the head Of the Trust
without their feeling the loss. But
if other like fines are assessed against
the corporations IN which the people
are the investors, it is the small in
vestors who will suffer. The prop
erty of these companies will depre-
ciate and the innocent stockholders
will pay the penalty rather than the
big criminals. The public will also
be penaized by having to make mp
the fines in higher prices. This sort
of punishment Furnishes everybody
but the wrongdoer.
Mr.. Bonaparte is right. The only
way to reach the guilty trust officials
so that they and they alone shall suf-
fer is to put these big offenders in
Jail. A little heroic treatment of that
sort will do more to create respect
for the law than all the fines, politi-
cal lectures and grandstand plays
N. Y. American.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-10-10
THE STORY OF POOR BOYS.

John Adams, second president, was
the son of a grocer of very moder-
ate means. The only start he had was
good education.
Andrew jackson was born In a log
hut In North Carolina, and was
reared in the pine woods for which
the state is famous.
James K. Polk spent the earlier
part of his life helping to dig a iv-
ing out of a new farm in North Car
olina. He was afterwards a clerk in
a country store.
Millard Fillmore was the son of
New York farmer, and his home was
an humble one. He learned the bus.
mess Of clothier.
James Buchanan was born in
small town in the Allegheny noun.
tains. His father cut the logs and
built the house in what was then a
wilderness.
Abraham Lincoln was the son of
wretched poor farmer in Kentucky,
and lived in log cabin until he was
twenty-one years old.
Andrew johnson was apprenticed
to tailor at the age of ten years by
his widowed mother. He never was
able to attend school, and picked up
all the education he ever had.
Ulysses S. Grant lived the life Of
a village boy in plain house on the
banks of the Ohio river until he was
seventeen years of age.
James A. Garfield was born in a log
cabin. He worked on the farm until
he was strong enough to use carpen-
ter's tools, when he learned the
trade. He afterward worked on a
canal.
Grover Cleveland's father was a
Presbyterian minister with a large
family and small salary. The boys
had to earn their living.
William McKinley's early home
was plain and comfortable, and his
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-10-10
CANNON RUNS CONGRESS, s
TRUSTS NEEDN'T WORRY.

sentatlveS shows himself very solic-
ltous for the future of the Repubi-
can party. In fact, he seems to have
little else or his mind than the bur-
den OF winning party success In 1908.
In discussing legislation for the COM
ing winter he has nothing to say on
what would be best for the country,
but has much to say on what
would make political capital.
What Cannon wants Congress to
do is to do nothing. That is also
what the trusts want. He would have
it make billion dollars of appro-
priations and go home. Otherwise it
may disturb the trusts and jeopar-
die Republican success. eff it
does not act wisely" says the boss
of the House, "if it is not actuated
by calmness there will not
be much need for the election of del
egates to the next National Conven-
tion of the Republican party"
There it is again. He cannot stop
talking about "my party" Not one
word about what is just or right or
for the relief of the people, but all
about what is expedient and polite.
The only occasion for mentioning
Cannon at all is that he is typical
of the traffcking, side stepping, dem
agogic politicians that have been so
busy serving themselves an dtheir
corporation masters that they have
failed to see the needs or the wishes
of the great masses.
For these prophets of expediency
''my party" has meant the machine
and the trusts that oiled and ran the
machine, Beyond that and its mar
row and selfish workings their vision
does not extend.
Cannon as Speaker has been the
great obstructor. He has stood in
the way of every movement that
meant anything. He has been to the
House what the Senate has been to
the whole Government-the barrier
across the road of progress. More
of Car than Tom Reed, without
Reeds brilliancy, he has pretended
to be one of the people, and yet has
blocked every bill in the interests of
the people.
Cannon is one Of those practical
statesmen who started comparatively
poor and now has fortune. "My
party" has done well by Cannon. No
wonder he is solicitous for its con-
tinued success.
With his outward pretense Of be-
ing farmer and his inward reality
of being trust politician, Cannon is
Of the type of the most sinister tools
Of special interests that have ever
threatened a republican government.
He is the brains of the House ma
chine that has throitled every gener-
Gus and disinterested move for the
public good. Through it he perpet-
uated the railway mail graft and al
most succeeded In creating the ship
subsidy graft.
With Cannon master of the low