Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04
The State Tickets.

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i. r. commissioner. .................H H. f. Johns
Supreme judge. w. Rogers
Why Old Parties Are Unable To Re
form.
a party is formed to correct some
acknowledged, existing evil. 1t OBJ
tains control and corrects, or wipes
out the evil complained of and which
called it into existence. New evils
are continually growing. Today we
are conscious of evils of which we
knew nothing of five years ago, and
five years hence it is reasonable to
suppose new brood of evils will be
upon us. While an administration
is going on evils come into existence
and begin to flourish and at its close
have become quite strong. Those who
have profted from them strive to per-
petuate the party which has permitted
them to grow, and if successful at the
ballot box, the evils are of such a
nature that the party falls into their
power and profits by them, while the
evils in turn profit by the party, each
striving with all it's might against a
law or political organization that
would divorce them. This is why old
parties cannot reform no matter how
much many of it's members may desire
that it should, they not having control
OF its organization, being merely
camp followers. Syndicates, trusts,
corporations, and combines of various
kinds, and organized for different and
perhaps laudable purposes, have
grown aud prospered until they are
represented in both branches of con-
gress by Influential and able men who
owe their election to one or more of
these trusts, corporations or combines,
until finally their leaders become so
rich and powerful that they are able
TO seize control in part of the national
government. This is why there is
disturbance whenever change of adj
mlnlstration is threatened, the dis
honest leaders of these manifold
fostered trusts having reason to fear a
new administration pledged to expose
and correct the evils they have foisted
upon the government and the people.
Ibis is what disturbs their business
and destroys in them public confidence.
Thoughtful and intelligent men in
both the Old parties are conscious of
the existence of these evils within
their respective parties, but are pow
erless to effect, the reforms in the
public service, demanded for the gen
eral welfare of the country. The FL
klns; the Brices; the Quays: the Coz
mans; and men of their class, who re-
present and are members of, and pro-
hit through the "addition division
and silence methods of the gigantic
trusts, corporations and combines of
whose interests they are watchful and
vigilant, have usurped full and abso-
lutte control of the political organiza-
lions OF their respective parties
through one means and another, in
nearly every state in the Union; their
only contention being as to which
class of partisans shall enjoy the
plumber OF the people, neither being
pledged to reform, or repress their
plumber, since with a change of adj
ministration there is no change in
policy, but simply a new swarm of
files, gather around the pie counter OF
an administration, which has not been
gorged with the blood sucked from the
public during the past administration.
a party long in power feeds and
fattens upon tho evils which have had
their birth and growth within the life
of that party.
10 illustrate the mission of the re-
publican party was the overthrow of
AFRICAN slavery in every part of the
United States. This done its mission
for good was at an end. The evils
which have come into existence dur
ing Its administration have become
part and parcel of the party, and the
controlling part, SO that now the So
millions of people who should be free
are as much the servants,-the slaves
OF the corporations, the trusts and
combines. which had their birth and
growth under that party as were the
African slaves the bondmen of their
southern masters. The hope that the
democratic party will restore to the
masses the freedom, prosperity and
happiness of which they have been de-
prived by these agencies of the repub-
llcan party is delusion. Why? Be-
cause the very agencies and Influences
that dictate nominations to Office in
the one party dominates the other as
the leaders in both are sharers alike
In the profits of the evils of which the
people SO justly complain. Both par
ties are distrustful of the people. The
republican party proclaim it in giving
thirty-six per cent of the people power
to over ride the expressed wish and
will of sixty-four per cent; the demo.
cratic party reaches the same conclu-
sion by refusing to allow majority of
its party to name its presidential can
didates, giving thirty five per cent of
the party the power to nulify the ex-
pressed wish OF sixty five per cent. BY
this means alone it will be enabled to
nominate candidates who will contin-
ue the policy Of plundering the public
to which the republican party is also
welded, the proceeds to go to the ben
a r.