Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-12-05

many years, was once secretary OF. the
interior and has been presidential
possibility. Whatever people may tn ink
Of his views on the money question. 1t
will not be denied by any person who
Is both honest and intelligent that he
ls the most distinguished man yet sent
to the national councils by the Cen
tennial State. Nobody ever doubted
either his ability, integrity. sincerity
or patriotism. For years he was the
glory Of the state, when such men as
Tabor were making 1t ridiculous and
such as Bowen bringing 1t into disre-
pute. There may have been time serv-
ers and self seekers connected with the
free silver movement-perhaps there
were; they are generally connected
with every great movement-but Sena-
tor Teller was not one. He did what
he thought was right. He followed his
conscience. He left his party with
tears in his eyes and sorrow in his
heart, and he deserves fair treatment
at least.
Little Rhody."
The results of the recent election,
while not showing anything like a
landslide for the Democrats, did show
growing sentiment in their favor.
Everybody talks Of the close finish in
New York simply because the Empire
State of the north is SO big; but, while
Brother Coler is in position to think of
Whitticr's couplet-
OF all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these-it might have
been
Governor Odell no doubt finds conso.
lation in the old saw, "a miss Is good
as a mile" Coler did not grow. and
Odell shrank.
Little attention has been paid to the
revolution in Rhode Island simply be-.
cause she is so small. but the Demo.
cratic victory in the smallest of states
means much more than the Democratic
defeat in New York, for, while New
York is normally Democratic state,
Rhode Island is normally Republican.
There is one unusual feature Of the
Rhode Island election which has been
little noted. and that is that her Dem
ocratic governor elect, Hon. Lucius r,
@, Garyip, is q southron by birth. q
native Of Tennessee. There are only q
few instances of the kind in New Eng.
land history-in fact, only one that
can now recall. that Of General Haw-
ley. senior senator from Connecticut,
who was born in North Carolina. Both
the Republican senator and the Demo-
cratic governor were Union soldiers.
OF course, out west It is nothing
strange for southern or northern man
to be elected to any office, but 1T has
always been rare for sautherner to be
elected to Office in New England or for
a New Englander to be elected in the
south, while in Greater New York little
or no account is taken of nativity.
Futile.
Fhe effort being made to establish q
lilly White" Republican party in the
south is utterly futile. The sad case
of Senator John L. McLaurin is the lat
est evidence of that. The scheme has
been suggested many times, but has al
ways been abandoned for the simple
reason that SO long as the negroes can
vote at all there can be found no con.
siderable material from WHICH to con.
struct Lilly White" party. When the
Republicans for purely selfish purposes
enfranchised the negroes en- masse,
they established such condition In
several states that no large number Of
white men will affiliate with them any
more forever. Just why some able ne.
gro has not forced the Republicans to
nominate him for vice president is In
comprehensive, because without the
negro vote the Republicans could not
carry enough states at any election to
give them president and congress.
Again Bah.
It would appear that after awhile
people would grow weary Of the Bali:
cock interviews; but, like Tennyson's
Brook" they so on forever. His most
recent suggestion is that the tariff is al.
ways revised at an extra session. which
statement is wide Of the mark, and he
gives several reasons why 1t should be
thus. He is decidedly hazy as to when
his proposed extra session will be call
ed. 1T may be for years, and it may
be forever" most probably forever il
Brother Bah and his political partners
are not turned out into the cold, where
there is weeping and wailing and gnash-
Ing Of teeth. There are few things more
certain in this world than that the Re
pIplishhs win never cut down the tar
Il rates, many j IF which 'Govern8s
pingley himself said were Intentionally
made too high to be cut down by reel.
procity treaties.