Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-06-20
ever, wnep the people have got their

ever. wnen the people have got their
dander up, Attorney General Knox
makes bluff at restraining trust, a
western trust with headquarters 1900
miles from Washington and 1000 miles
from Pittsburg, his home. The Repub-
lican administration appears never to
have heard of that trust until two or
three states began proceedings against
it and until Republican leaders con-
Guided that bogus prosecution by the
attorney general would help them in
the autumn elections. But why not
prosecute the steel trust which trans
acts its principal business right under
the attorney generals nose in his own
homo city of Pittsburg? Does anybody
believe for one moment that SO intelli-
gent man US Mr.. Attorney General
Knox has never heard of that billion
dollar trustY Can anybody be deluded
into thinking that so able lawyer as
he Is does not know how to smash tho
steel trust7 Why, then, have there not
been numerous prosecutions of the
trusts by Republican administrations
Simply because Republicans have fos-
tered trusts and because the trusts in
turn furnish the Republicans money to
retain possession Of the government.
The Globe-D Democrat knows all this.
and yet 1t has the efrrontery to under
take to make people believe that Re-
publicans are against the trusts. It
might as well undertake to make them
believe that the sultan of Turkey is
opposed to the Mohammcdan religion
or that Nicholas of Russia hates autoc-
racy.
Must Eat Dirt or Bolt
Matthew Stanley Quay triumphs
once moro In the state once honorcd
by Benjamin Franklin, Albert Gala
tin, Governor Mexican, George NJ. Dali
las, jeremiah S. Black and Andrew G..
Curtin. His grip on the Republican
machine is still unbroken. He pulled
Judge Pennypacker through for the
governorship. John P. Elkin knows
much more than he did and could give
the world some valuable pointers us to
how man feels after butting his head
against stone wall. What will the
Philadelphia Inquirer do now, poor
thing? 1t will have to bolt OF consume
more than the traditional peck of dirt.
The dish of crow which Senator Quay,
In his role Of Reformer, with big, big
r, prepared for 1t is tough and nau-
seous no doubt, but 1t will have to
swallow it or leave the party. In
its issue Of Monday, June 10, only
two days before the convention met,
In circus poster type it said: "Elllin
has won his fight Only bribery and
corruption can take from him the ma
jority Of delegates pledged to him.
But Quay did take from him those
pledged delegates. and therefore, If the
Inquirer is to be believed. bribery and
corruption We're triumphant. In that
same issue it printed picture Of n
mans head from the eyes up. and upon
the forehead appeared huge dollar
mark. Beneath that came this edi-
torial, which needs no diagram to en-
plain It:
1t ia very we'll known that agents sup
piled with ready money and plenty Of
promises have been going about trying to
buy with cash certain delegates elected
for John p. Elkin.
1t Is to the credit of these delegates that
such offers have been spurned with con-
tempt and disgust.
Mr.. Elkin has appealed to the people.
He has relied upon them. He has left his
case with them. He has demanded that
there shall be fair play. majority rule. q
convention free from a mailed hand and
that cannot be ignored II political parties
are to exist.
The people have fiocked to his support,
and the delegates elected for him have
been chosen because OF the high princi-
pies involved.
To expect such delegates to sell them
selves is to insult them.
To prove false to the trust imposed
would be to bare the brow to the dollar
mark of infany, a mark that would never
be eradicated in this life.
The agents who would buy might as
well gave their time
Fair play and majority rule are what
the Elkin delegates believe in, and bribery
has no part in the principles for which
they are contending.
On the very morning Of the conven-
ton the Inquirer's headlines ran in
this wise: ION the eve of convention
Elkin claims victory; Quay packs eau
Gus and steals delegates"
After printing such diatl1bes as the
foregoing how can the Inquirer sup
port Judge Pennypacker and retain its
self respect. If any it has?