Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-10-31
LOCAL REPUBLICAN, STUMP
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Acorrespondent Exposes a Few
of their Mis.statenents.

A Correspondent Exposes a Few
Of their Mis-statements.
Cap. Adams, County Attorney Con
verse and Others are stumping the
county for the Republican ticket and
a few of the mis-StatementS made al
the Howard Center school house
called forth the following communica.
tion. No doubt their other speeches
were much the same, so Mr.. Howard s
letter will apply to them all.
w. l.. Converse at Howard Center
commenting on Bryan's criticism oil
Republican efforts to shoot christianity
into the Filipinos said: "Well we are
shooting good stuff into them, and nv
Misunderstanding his arms-I am
here to tell you that they deserve it. $
Well Mr.. Converse, how long will
they KEEP, after the "good stuff is
in themP Long enough to see the
virtues of benevolent assimilation Pr
wot not. And they deserve it! YES,
as much as Americans deserved the
good stuff that the Hessians shot into
them, as much as Cubans deserved
the good stuff that butcher Weyler''
shot into them, as much as Beers de-
serve the good stuff that England is
planting in their breasts to-day.
j. q. Adams in a voice of thunder
IL didn't sound like the thunder from
Mount Sinai-declared that the demo-
Gratis had insulted, had slurred the
supreme court in 1896 and reiterated
the slur in 1899. He had reference
to the income tax plank which does
not come as near to being
a slur as he comes to
being a chump for calling it such. 1t
would be nearer the truth to say that
corporate wealth cast slur when it
opposed the courts first decision by
denying the constitutionality of the
law and successfully insisting that the
decision be reversed. Does Mr.. Adams
remember the slur (P) he cast on our
Judiciary when he shouldered mus.
ket and fought an institution that was
upheld by decisions OF the supreme
court? Has he forgotten the republi-
can that denounced these decisions as
'.perversion OF judicial power"?Will he
deny that a republican Administrations
not only disagreed with that tribunals
decision concerning the greenbacks,
but actually packed the court and re-
versed the decisionP For further crit
icism o. that tribupalI refer him to
A. Lincoln.
He said that democrats while oppos-
ing trusts in their platform, favored
the most gigantic trust in the world
the silver mine owners, who are sell
ling silver by the carload for what
ever they can get for it, but We stop
them and say "Now you contributed
literally to our campaign fund in '96,
II you will do the same next year aud
elect us we will pass law that will
double the value OF your product. y
Oh hol If we benefit the "silver
trust" TO that extent, what becomes of
your 50cent dollars?
He claimed that the declaration
"All governments derive their lust
powers from the consent of the gov
erned" was true only OF properly con-
stituted governments, and he at som
length undertook TO demonstrate tina,
it was not true of territorial govern
ments, IRON which we are to infer
that territorial is not .sproper,y
| GO lstitnteq'' foru. although that is
the form, he says, Mckinley proposes
to estab ish in the Philippines. He de-
fined as properly cons 'i.uted, one
that has the three branches, legis!a-
tive, executive and judicial. When
asked if We had those three branches
a. the time the declaration was writ
ten he said Yes" and thereby ex-
hibited his ignorance of American
history. Hs said were seeking the
Fiipinos best good. For upwards of
seven hundred years England has
ruled Ireland ostensibly for the ..best
good" Of the lrishmen, yet Robert
Emet's ep tloh will not be written
until Ireland will be free. We were
tod th It these eople We're Incapable
OF self government; that is what
Oliver Cromwell said when his men
marched through Ireland carrying
the pierced bodies OF babes on their
pixies leaving their mothers groyeling
and de4owtr,d behind them. Mr..
Adams attempted to justify Mckinley
by saying quote verba,im-"He is
doing exactly what the democrats did
| in the Mexican war" An unhappy
COME sion! The democratic party at
that lime was dominated by the slave
power as the republican party Is to-
day dominated by the money power.
AZ that time rational liberty loving
democrats were overpowered by the
slave holders who were determined to
wade through blood 10 SECURE more
slave territory. Today republicans OF
The school OF Lincoln are overpowered
by those who are drunk with Anglo
Saxon greed and propose to shoot
"good stuff into the Filipinos In or
der to SECURE their territory. Mr..
Adams let the cat out when he said:
chose islands hold the key to the
commercial interests Of the far east
Bryan APPLY says: Republicans give
three reasons for imperialism. ..Mon-
ey's 10 it, Gods IN it and we are in it.
Mckinley throws the blame on the
prov dence Of God" I'd like to hear
Gods side of the story. / have an idea
they are doing it not to please God but
to please England. They can't serve
two ma tcrs and don't believe God
has formed partnership with Joe
Chamberlain. or course rich gold
fields aud diamond mines have moth.
ing to do with British impudence in
South Africa. We rnust haliaua tbo+