Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-17

! PENCIL, mas done IL all. Il OT d NDliS Il
looked like the whole state Repuhli
can ticket had been elected, but re
lpeated recounts have landed some o
the democratic candidates in office
and given their constituents some lit
| tie grain Of comfort "Gumshoe BLY,
Stone has been declared his party's
choice and recommended to the Dem
ocratic (by four yotes) legislature. fol
election to the United States senate
Joseph Wingate Folk, one of the origi
nal ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS reformers
present governor, and candidate
against Stone for the senate, has been
commanded to sit down away back o.
the. last row of seats and the future
| shows dull drab face, to the Demo
cracy OF Missouri.
! If the shade of Thomas Jefferson
could visit this old earth and hold
communion with the chiefs Of the poll
tical party whose patron saint he is
| the meeting would be too sad fol
mortal eyes TO witness. When the
| sage OF Monticello added the Louis
! lana purchase TO The domain Of Uncle
| Sam he little dreamed that hundred
years would see Missouri, garden spot
! of the territory, given over into the
! hands of the Republicans. We Mis-
sourians are trying to get accustom
ed 10 saying Republican Missouri
but the words don't seem to fit the
/ tongue. We say them softly then
glance around quickly to see if any.
one has heard us. They have such a
funny sound. Republican Missouri! "
Why not, then, White bIackbird,' CT
hot ice?" Think what it means, Mis-,
souri-home Of Cockrell Of Vest. OF
Stevens, OF Dockery, of Clark OF
Reed, of Gumshoe Bill himseli--Re-
publican. Will wonders never cease
Mysterious Stranger Likes Habitat.
The Mysterious Stranger likes his
Missouri habitat. He mas hung Lis
wide sombrero upon the peg behind
The door In the governors official
home, loosened his belt and stereotyp.
ed his smile, and now. with his Slip
pered feet upon the mahogany table in
the executive mansions Lest room he
puffs contentedly on his battered corn
cob pipe and accepts with stately
grace the rlaudits of nation that is
mostly for Taft.
e Four years ago the Republicans car.
ried Missouri by default securing the
electoral vote for The Strenuous one
and slipping several state officials into
Office under Democratic Joseph Folk
as governor If it hadn't been for
tliat foretaste of happiness there l.; no
Leans might have died Of Joy upon
learning the truth regarding the greet
victory Of 1908 Bat the partial
triumph of 1904 did not impair thai,
ability to enjoy the event OF this
year. 1t just paved the way.
No one in Missouri paid much at
tention to the 1904 vote. All knew til
the Democrats didn't vote and that
the Republicans elected Folk 10 the
guard" called by the Folk men the
"old gang and worse names, stayed
at home and sulked. This year,
though, everybol; voted. Apparent
ly. somebody voted several times, and
each time he voted for Mr.. Taft, Mr.
Hadley, and the rest of the "Misters"
whose names adorned the Republican
state ticket Some OF the Democrats
aver that the Republicans are stili
voting down in the zinc belt, but
that is probably putting it little
strong.
Republicans "shakc Out" 10000 Votes.
Here in Missouri they have a homely
expression regarding getting out the
vote. They call it shaking the
bushes" When We Republicans talk
ed fondly of electing Hadley and Of
possibly carrying the state for Taft,
our Democratic friends would smile
with the plying smile of superior wis
dom ana say: Just wait till we
shake the bushes in November. and
your man iIadley will not have enough
votes to worry about counting
But they shook the bushes, and still,
their ticket was left in the lurch. 1t
wasn't case Of sliding through on the
tail of the Taft comet, either. 1t was
just pure, simple case Of Repubii-
can votes beating Democratic votes IN
q Democratic state, and that's all there
Is to it. The Republicans shook some
bushes, too, and when the shaking was
over it was found they had shaken
out more than 10000 Republican votes
in excess of the total that Cowherd.
of the Missouri "old
guard" could muster in his race for
governor. Hadley ran ahead Of his
ticket by almost $4,000. and the vote
between Taft and Bryan was as close
az the finish in circus chariot race.
The election of 1908 will be some.
thing from which to date In Missouri,
like the big wind in ireland and the
drought in Nebraska. The state hasn't
had a Republican governor for two
score years. When, in 1904, the state
officers under that Of governor went
Republican because of the fight on
Folk in the Democratic ranks it was
thought hothing like 1t could ever hap
pen again, and before the election OF
Tuesday. the wise ones regarded bet
on Hadiey in the same light as a bet
on Bryan, and the man who made it
was set down as anything but safe and
sane. But now all that is changed.
The man who bet on Hadley has the
respect and admiration of all, and the
only wonder is that he had SO long a.
head
To the Republicans who have been
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