Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-06-13

O. Z. claw each other on the slightest
provocation. Fer instance, my venera-
BILE and sometimes vitriolic friend
Charles Henry Grosvenor presided
over the Ohio Republican convention
the other day. Evidently the good
gray general was in thoroughly
pacific state of mind. He was being
honored and he loves honor, and that
put him in a highly good humor.
Among other cheerful things he said:
'Porto Rico exhibits the splendid re-
suits of American civilization. We will
repeat in the Philippines on larger
scale what we have accomplished 90
brilliantly In Porto Rico"
Whether true or not, that declara-
ton would appear to be absolutely
harmless and in no way calculated to
provoke heat, and yet the Chicago In
ter Ocean, rampant Republican or
gan grinder, Jumps on the general and
belabors him at fearful rate. In fact,
it runs amuck on the Republican party,
using Grosvenor's declaration as on
excuse. Let the war go on-the more
of 1t the better Off tho country will be.
A Heartrendlng Wall
In the immortal words of Mark An
tony in his great Grafton over Caesars
dead body, IF you have tears to shed,
prepare to shed them now" Yes, turn
them on quick. The Philadelphia In
quirer says:
1.-THE attention of the civil service
commissioners is directed to the Of
fensive partisanship Of Revenue Col
lector Hershey Of Dauphin county. If
there is anything in the rules and the
proclamations of the commissioners
that demand respect, then they should
be enforced In this case. Collector
Hershey has plunged into partisan
campaign by the orders Of Senator
Quay and is making himself obnoxious
to majority of the Republican voters
of the county. He has been CON-
manded to set up delegates and lead
fight and is apparently obeying his in
structions to the letter. He will be
beaten by the people by an overwhelm-
ing majority, but that fact does not ex-
cuse his intensely offensive partisan
ship, which Is a crime under the rules
of the commission. A strict investiga-
ton would seem to be necessary"
Now,Sthat wall is enough to move y
heart of stone-that Is It would be il
we did not know who and what Mat
thew Stanley Quay is and also who and
what the Philadelphia Inquirer is. For
years andtgears Matthew Stanley and
the Inquirer have been sort OF polit-
ical Siamese twins, and during all those
years-nauseous to the decent people Of
Pennsylvania-Qua has been doing
precisely as he is doing now, and dur
ing all those years the Inquirer in
dorsed whatever the senator did. For
some occult reason lately the Inquirer
and Quay parted company on the gov
ernorship, and Quay is proceeding IN
his usual way to nominate his man,
Whereupon the Inquirer lifts up it's
voice and weeps-not by reason of the
vicious methods Of Quay, but because
he is using them against its man. Very
much depends on whose OK is gored,
but clearly the Inquirer is estopped
from protesting.
Republicans and Trusts.
In campaigning for congress General
John G. Breckenridge of Kentucky,
once vice president of the United
States, used to tell n tale to the effect
that A borrowed kettle from B and
returned it with q hole in the bottom.
When A complained of the injury to
his kettle, B alleged three things:
First, it had no hole in it: second II
there was a hole in It. 1t was there
when he borrowed It; third, that he
mended the hole. The position of our
Republican friends on the subject Of
trusts is about as badly mixed as was
BIS defense us to the hole in the kettle:
First, they solemnly assevernted that
there are no trusts; second, they assert
ed that all trusts are blessings, an in
evitable result of modern progress;
third, they claimed there are good
trusts and bad trusts; fourth, they as
serted Republican paternity or mater
nifty, one or both, for oil antitrust laws:
fifth, they made feeble bluff at prose-
cutting the bad" trusts. They appear to
have self adjusting, back acting trust
platform warranted to please any audi
ence. I wonder how much longer they
hope to play that brazen game and to
deceive the public. The Union Pacific
Railroad company once hired boss
three card monte operator to bust all
the other three card monte operators
on its line, and he did 1t. Perhaps
the Republicans, having created the
trusts, know best how to bust the
trusts-yes, perhaps.
Judge Moons EIoquenoe.
Nobody can ever predict with any
thing like certainty what American
public speaker will grow eloquent or
what he will grow eloquent about.
Judge John A. Moon of Tennessee has
been rated ever since he came to con-
gress as man of strong parts, as a
lawyer of high standing not very much
given to rhetoric. Most people would |
consider the admission Of Arizona, Ok
lahoma and New Mexico as a decided
" Drosaic subject, yet It was on this
matter of fact subject that this matter |
Of fact lawyer burst forth into genuine
eloquence which would do to go into q
speech book" and which won round
after round Of applause from the
house. In closing his argument in
favor of their admission he said:
Ihey come with neither armies nor
nayies nor other insignia of power, but
q Grave and yirtuous citizenship, all
that constitutes a great state. In the
name OF The federal constitution, which
they have so long obeyed, they now
ask its NlnQication. Under tho shadarr.