Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-18

connection with this Philippine play, but
It Is too mcth 70 hone for; It IS too much.
when you eSe IN the minority. to strive
for. 1t CANNOT be done
It. Tho party WIN not be honest You
cannot meke It honest II will not be
candid, Why Il would cease to be tho
Republican party Of today II It were t..
be candid It would ba q dtsorganization:
It would be abandoning the organization
that lives for spoil and plundex. that lives
by pretense and hypocrisy. Do not esls
It, Do not expect It. The estute gentle
man from Ohio Is right about It The
party cannot AFFORD 70 be honest. The
party is damned Il 1t Is honest.
Honesty - the bene Of the party Tho
party sArinks from It ae 1t ehrinks from
death, Do not ash 30 much; do not go
deavor to force It. Wo cannot DO 1T we
have not the numbers. Moral forces, high
sentiments. lofty appeals stern duty, per-
suastve doQuence-all these will fail. The
gentleman from Ohio Is going to stand by
his guns and DO u going TO turn his guns
Tho conduct & H. patty. S,e pretensa.
tho shambling and shuflling of the lead
rs, hayo been effective in sptking their
guns. Lex the gentlemen alone, alone in
tho political copardioe end hypocrisy in
which they re'el Lex them proceed. and
by and by. my friends, VIC will lcnrn what
the American people say about It
Democratic Day IN tho House.
Tho debate spoken of IN my Inst let
ter and In this occurred on Thursday,
Juno 60 A. d Doa, which the his
torlap Of our times Will describe as
Democratic d0y IN the hol,sa
Richer than anything mentioned In
my previous letter or In this-rlch and
racy as they yere-vas tho complete
flooring of Mn. littleleld by John
Wesley Gohes, the hard hitter who
so ably represents the Old Hermitage
districr II Tennessee Ehero Andrew
Jackson Shge thp s'cep Of the bravo
and just G0spcs comes from Nash
yilje end b bis thpe9 tesms in con-
gpees has teUHp o national figure
1ote In tho afternoon OF June 20 he
obtulned tho Aoos for five minutes and
started In TO make q few remarks
about trusts. What no intended to say
may never be known. for he had hard-
ly started when ME-. LittleAeh tntey-
Tupted him, very luckily for the Ten
neseeean. pGy unfortunately for the
mnn from MatH. John Wesley drop
ped the trust question TO answer Lit
tlefeh oM amid tunultuous applause
declared that LittleAeh had sought his
advicR and counsel in preparing the
Iittleileld antitrust bill and had cab
baged tho Gaines antitrust bill which
antedated the Ltttefield bill and in
corpocated noek Of 1t In the latter.
littleleh tried 30 explain. but John
Wesley kept seitevating bis charge and
the house kept applauding him until
LittRfleh dropped into his chair. dis
pomAted utterly, And the hammer fell
With Gaines 4pastey Of tho field and
Of Littiefeh >..,,,,;tj.5,.,,t.-
No man In the house grow faster In
the last session of congress than ". ".
Kitchin Of North Carolina. under his
leadership the Democrats won O great
victory ana foHced congress TO author.
izo the building OF one first class bat.
tleship IN the government navy yard.
proposition bitterly ana persistently
fought by leading Republicans. notably
by Mr. Foss OF Illinois, chairman Of
the committee ON naval affairs, and by
Mr.. Dayton Of West Virginia. It was
long fight TO get that provision into
the bill and Keep It there. Kitchin led
In tho fight on tho 6oox OF the house,
end be handled himself md his theme
md the opposition with commanding
ability. BE Is p lusty. handsome.
courageous hhAa ana studious. young
man IN the very Gower Of Ills years,
WITH brilliant capeer before him.
Keep Tpur eye On ~. w. Mtchin and
+, r 1,.s, s
pper In Republican Illinois strange
things arc happening. I'm the northern
part OF the etats the other night they
bad a train robbery. which recalls those
days Of the long ago when Jesse James
was on tho road and when every Re
publican hypogtte In the land who
made q stump speech or edited a news
paper swore that a train robbery could
take place only In a Democratic state,
Isn't lllinois Republican, And did not
the train robbery occurV Therefore the
Republican slanderers OF Democrats In
general, and of Democratic Missouri in
particular, ought 70 GO down on their
marrow bones ind exclaim: "Peccav1!
l have sinnedm But they'll DO no such
thing: they'll start q new slander and
kaark It Coz an that It Is worth. =.
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