Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-27
T. RS NEGRO QUESTION

rectors of this new party have devised
an argument which Is not merely
sophistical, but dishonest. They have
pretended to discover very material
difference between the moral char.
acter of the northern and the southern
NEGRO. The northern negro Is enlight.
ened and honest, and therefore tit to
associate with the new party; the
southern negro is benighted and dis
honest, and therefore unfit to asso-
[ciate with the new party. Whether
northern negroes are, as a class, more
enlightened than those OF the south
may be debatable question; but that
the negroes of the north are more
honest as a class than those Of the
south is an assertion which has no
foundation in fact whatever.
Louisville (Ky.) Times: South of the
Roosevelt and Dixon line no cullud
friend and brother can be a progress
sive North Of it he Is as good a pro-
gressive as is now or that may here.
after be numbered In the ranks that
follow the bandanna flag. The distinc.
ton is of the colonels own making.
The reason assigned is lengthy, labori.
GUS and not Illuminating. 1t exists be-
cause the colonel says 1t must.
Shreveport Ia.) Times: The
colonel has fooled nobody in this part
of the country. His bid for southern
support is about as cheap a piece OF
demagogism as the country has wit.
messed in forty years.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The leaders
of the bull moose organization in Iowa
have issued an ultimatum that all re
publican candidates for state Office In
Iowa must declare their preferences
for president, or be considered oppon
ents to Theodore Roosevelt, and suffer
the penalty of having third party can
didates nominated against them. While
the Hawk-Eye considers this as absurd
and impudent a demand as II 1t came
from the democratic state chairman
it sees no reason why all republicans
should hesitate to announce their par
ty loyalty. Political hedging has never
| yet won a campaign, and It will be
only those republican candidates who
are courageous enough to announce
their loyalty to the state and national
ticket who can hope TO win in lowe
this fall.
| Cedar Rapids Republican: We are
glad the issue is being forced In this
way. We have all the time believed
that it would be better for the third
party men to put their own tickets in
the field, state and congressional. The
sooner they decide to do that the
sooner they will be acting the part Of
! honorable adversaries, instead o.
mere traff1ckers. The republican who
tries to stand on both the republican
and the progressive planks is either q
knave or a fool-but the one who
takes his stand on the one or the Other
| is the man who is worthy of his trust
Iowa City Citizen Some of the
foolish republicans who held out al
the recent state convention for om1s
sion in indorsing the national ticke
in order to hold the third party mer
for the state ticket are now discover
ing that they were duped. In today's
news is printed an official statement
or the bull moosers to the effect tina
the republican candidates must come
out for Roosevelt or they cannot ex
pect the progressive support. Thus
has the dream faded of that happy
ombination by which the republican
state ticket should be elected and the
national republican ticket defeated IL
Iowa. The Citizen Is glad of it. We
are for a complete showdown all alons
the line.
Boone News-Republican: II 1t Il
true that the third party in Iowa II
going to demand that the republican
candidates vote it's ticket, it is asking
too much. Coercion never has beer
countenanced in this Independent
state. If it is inevitable that there /:
to be a third party ticket in the state
then let It be so. The News-Republi
can gives the republican candidates II
Iowa credit for more backbone than t.
be stampeded into another party Can
didacy for Office should mean some
thing beside merely getting votes. W.
have no time for man who will wab
BILE from one ticket to another because
somebody tells him to. The republi
can party of Iowa and its candidates
are progressive enough to suit US. l
the progressive party in Iowa must b.
split, then let it come. This pape
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