Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-01-29
From the State CAPITAL.

currying favor with the taxpayers
or from genuine spirit of economy
the state senate has done the right
thing in reducing the number of
clerks from forty to twenty. If it is
a real desire to save the state funds
why did they not think of it last ses-
ton?
Elk congressman Walter /. Hayes,
was elected from Clinton county to
the vacancy occasioned by the death
of State Representative N. A. Merrill.
Last November, Mr.. Hayes was the
silver candidate for congress in that
district aud lacked about 1000 votes
of carrying Clinton county. At this
special election, less than three
months after the goldbug victory, he
carried the county by about 1000 ma
jority, getting ebout two-thirds of all
the votes. If straws show which way
the wind blows, what does this lndi-
cate? 1t looks very much as though
the people are sick of the way they
allowed the election to go last tall
and would be glad to try something
different now if they but had an OPP
portunity. If the same ratio holds
good all over the state, and every
thing goes to show that it will, the
reform forces will sweep Iowa next
fall by tremendous majority.
The Mckinley wave of prosperity
and restored confidence struck Des
Moines in good shape last week. To
say nothing of several smaller failures
the German Savings bank closed it's
doors. 1t was the most popular bank
in the city and has plenty of assets to
pay out but owing to the scarcity of
money, which the present powers re-
fuse to make an improvement on. it
could not realize on them and had to
quit. The other banks were con-
siderably scared for fear their deposit
tors would want their money, know
ing that run" would burst every
one of them, but by publishing re-
ports that they had got all the money
needed from Chicago and by taking
advantage of the sixty day clause un-
der which deposits cannot be with
drawn, other banks were prevented
and depositors will continue to plod
along in state of uncertainty and
fear, not knowing whether they will
ever get their money or not. Deposi-
tors of the bursted bank are promised
their money as soon as the business
can be Strengthened out, but such
promises are always made and seldom
fulfilled and they may get all and
they may get very little. And still
there are some people who refuse to
believe that we need more and cheap
er money and better banking sys-
TEN.
| Never before were there so many
people In Des Moines in need of as
sistance. Not charity, but an OPP
portunity to earn a living. In fact
hundreds of thousands are becoming
desperate. The monopoly-serving,
anti-silver, Hanna-helping organ, the
Register, is forced to admit that its
ante-election promises of plenty of
work at good wages as soon as Nc
Kinley's election was assured, was
false and misleading and in depicting
the present pitiable situation urges
prompt action by the city govern
ment to prevent hundreds of fami-
i lies from starvation and says if in.
mediate assist ance be not forthcom.
ing there will be so-called criminal
acts to secure bread which under the
circumstances, will be perfectly JUST
fable in the sight of God. Speaking
of the destitute workingmen the Reg
lister says: "Now the savings have
been expended, they are out of EN-
; ployment and out of food, and as 6
last resort they have gone to the city
{ officials and told them that they mus
have labor that will enable them tt
, earn support or they will forcibl!
take sufficient of the food and fue
of other people, wherever they Cal
, find it, to feed and keep their love-
ones warm. That is right and is jus
what they should do if necessary. t.
prevent starvation and fire. ezing."
They do say that Governor Drak
t is not to be given second nomins
ton. He is not popular with tn
f party. Not that the party objects t
r his railroad, monopoly views; that
r a satisfactory passport for republ
: can support. Let republican DO
Y up who entertains any anti-monopol
r views and his head goes off in q jitf!
n For example look how Larrabee we
s laid in the shade. Also Wheele
# Finn, Lyons, ct al. No, brakes sui
d serviency to the monopoly lash
perfectly satisfactory. In fact 4
i lash is needed in his case. He is ]
/ line in that respect by instinct incl
). nation and on general principles, b,
It he is not satisfactory in other r
l. spects. He would have been throw
e off the ticket in 1895 had the oppos
If ton been at all formidable, but tt
D machine knew they could elect ian
! old thing" that year, SO they left hi
'. on the ticket, but fully resolved
d run no more such risks. The san
q was done in Jackson's case, and JAG
q son knew better than to ask for
second nomination. 1t is not know