Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-05-21
TRYING TO DECEIVE ITS READERS

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TRYING TO DECEIVE ITS READERS
The Des Moines Register and Lead
or, In a carefully worded editorial in
last Saturdays Issue, comes out in its
true colors and ignores all Republican
members Of the Iowa delegation in
congress and lauds only the one Demo
cratic member. That the Register and
Leader should take that position re-
garding Congressman Hamilton, Is to
say the least, very consistent, mas
much as that paper did all it could to
bring about Mr.. Hamilton's election.
For the past three years or more that
paper has been such chronic fault
finder that 1t has come to be looked
upon as kind Of common scold. 1t
nagged and nagged about conditions
1t alleged prevailed in certain Iowa
cities until it had gotten the governor
in a position that embarrasses him in
his candidacy for senator. With it
everything that Republicans do Is
wrong and everything Democrats do
Is right
The article referred to is written as
II 1t had been prompted by some one
outside Of the office, but of course,
efforts Of this kind to deceive, do not
get very far with the public The
Register and Leader referring to the
appropriations for Iowa from the gov
eminent says:
Dan Hamilton, : = Democrat
seems to have been more successful
than anybody else"
This article is studied effort on the
part of the Register and Leader and
gave the democratic congressman
from this district. Daniel w. Hamil-
ton, the credit for obtaining the appro-
priation of 100000 for the federal
building for Ottumwa. No one be-
Meves that Mr.. Hamilton will even
claim the credit for getting this ap,
preparation. This appropriation was
made necessary by the fact that
through Major Lacey Ottumwa was
designated as point for holding feo-
eral court. Previous to that however,
there had been an appropriation grant
ed to Ottumwa of $4,000 for enlarg-
Ing the present postofice.
After Ottumwa was selected as a
point at which to hold federal court 1t
then became necessary that the gov
eminent should provide a building in
which to hold this court At this juno
ture the department Of Justice called
on the Treasury Department for accom-
modations for the Ottunnwa court and
also on the federal judge and U. s..
marshal for data as to the space re-
CURED. The matter was taken up by
local people with the Iowa delegation
in congress and through the efforts Of
the local committee and the Repub-
Ican members of the Iowa delegation
it was shown to the Washington Off
Gals that If federal court was to
be held in Ottumwa there must be
some place to hold it, and that the
government would have to build q
building and that an appropriation
covering the cost Of the building
would have to be made and therefore
it was made Congressman Hamilton
no doubt did what he could, but being
on the minority side he was alb
solutely powerless to accomplish any
had he never been born.
Placing this matter in the light that
1t belongs, it is summed up in this
manner: That there would never have
been any need of the 100000 appro-
priation for Ottumwa if Major Lacey
had not gotten the federal court To-
Gated here but as he did get it To-
Gated here then it was necessary for
the government to take care Of it and
through the efforts of the local peo-
pie, Senators Allison and Dolliver,
took the matter up and pushed it to its
! final termination.
Such efforts as were made in Sat
urday's Register and Leader do not
tend to increase the confidence of the
people in newspapers nor the respect
Of the public for an editorial column.