Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-23

before granted. He has urged that
the law allowing these special millage
tax appropriations should be repealed.
He has further called attention to the
fact that the governor Is vested with
the power to veto these measures
that discriminate against the people.
He has called attention to the bad
features of the road law and the need
of amending the same. as we'll as to
many other economic measures that
need consideration.
Now, during all these months OF
labor on the part of Mr.. Rowley, will
Mr.. Lee show the people where his
name has appeared in any effort to
inform or help the taxpayers in the
matters that leads him to feel the
party should turn to him as its Moses
to lead it out Of the wilderness? Yet
he seeks to jump into the band wagon
at the eleventh hour. II Mr.. Rowley'i
action along this line has been q
negative one for the past eleven
months, will Mr.. Lee tell who 1t was
that stirred up the intense and wide
spread protest on taxation? Only
three or four weeks ago Mr.. Lees
manager penned the following senti
ment to a resident of Van Buren,
county:
l"It appears, on careful lnvestiga.
ton, that in at least eighty counties
in Iowa the sentiment is so strong
among republicans against Governor
Clarke that he cannot be nominated,
and if he should be nominated he can
not be elected, hence Mr.. Lees can
didacy."
And in those words is given the In
spiration of the Lee candidacy. He,
perhaps, has been longingly looking
toward the governors chair. He has
been watching the battle waged by
that negative" quantity, Mr.. Rowley.
and when, as implied by the words OF
his manager as quoted above, he sees
Governor Clarke hanging to the ropes,
apparently a beaten man, this heroic
legislative lobbyist, Mr.. Lee. coached
by the Ames college interests which
seek to dominate the politics of the
state, jumps into the ring from behind
the hedge of the college campus and
shouts his desire to finish the COVER
nor whom he and his highwaymen
associates conceived as already down
and out. Brave Mr.. Lee! How he loves
the people! Bring on nowers.-keo-
sauqua Rs: lican.
Maybe there would be fewer photog-
raphers arrested in Mexico City ii
they would refrain from requesting
Huerta to "look pleasant, please. =
Des Moines Register and Leader.
Once more the names of Mathewson
F.! and Cobb and Johnson are becoming
Almost as familiar to newspaper read
ers as those of Villa and Huer:a Ike,
vance Daily Star Courier.
The attempt of an eastern writer
to discredit the influence of Mrs
O'Leary's COW in the uplift of Chicago
trings into view promising candidate
for the Ananias club.-Keokuk Gate
| City.
Long after other funds have van
ished the New Haven is able to rro
duce men with funds of information
Clinton Daily Advertiser.
! The great problem with Huerta nov
is how to slip away to Paris and spenC
that four million bank deposit which
he laid by for rainy day With Villa
and Zapaa both closing in he will have
| to make run for it soon.-Fort Dodge
Chronicle.
Iowa not only leads in the per cent
of it's area which is tillable, but it also
leads in the tillable area that Is titled
Ninety-five per cent of the area II
Iowa can be and is cultivated. Over
the United States as whole only
| twenty-seven, per cent of the ttllable
Hand is under cultivation.-Oskalo
Herald.
Des Moines Register and Leader:
Congress is becoming anxious to ad
journ, but 1t proposes to keep righ1
on talking until the time for adjourn
lment has arrived.
Marshalltown Times Republican
After the conferences and the field
meets, get ready for the graduates ant
the June brides Life Is just one thint
after another all the while.
Kansas City Journal: The reign o
universal peace may be what tht
world neeQS, OUT WudL InlS PAL lACuAal
part of it needs right now is a cair
Of water-the kind that vets thing:
Thoroughly.
/ Des Moines Capital: Iowa has
mon partisan judicial primary to ex
pertinent with this year. AS an incen
| tive to political guesswork the Law
lis already a huge success.
Keokuk Constitution Democrat: TIT
Illinois state food commissioner hal
ruled that anyone having bad egt
! in his possession or selling it is liable
to prosecution or Imprisonment. TIT
+ ham actor can now consider eggs les'
of a menace in Illinois.
! Rock Island Argus: While the aver
age Mexican hates "gringo," neithe,
federals nor insurrectos permit thei
feelings to prevent them from prompt
lily seeking refuge under the Unitet
States flag when hard pressed by enc
Imies of their own nationality.
| Clinton Herald: Speculation as t.
whether Lee will poll more votes thar
IpnwIoy which is beginning to crop vi