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busily engaged in winning Democrat
&c victory. Since Brother Serene r.
Payne and his cohorts were routed
horse, Foot and Dragons On the Cuban
reciprocity bill they have been roosting
very low. They evidently believe that
silence Is golden and have not taken
the initiative since that catastrophe.
The New York Press. which assumes
to be Republican organ. is continual
ay furnishing Democrats with ammuni-
ton and with hope. 1t is not at all
mealy mounted in its remarks as to Re
publican statesmen. For example, it
says, "What embarrassment and trou-
bic have, come to Republicanism In the
last six months have been due to the
actions olf this congress. which is dis
tinguished as few of our sessions Of the
national legislature have been for
Eass incompetency and dunderhead
subsesvSence to un-American inter
ests." That's,elegant, but caustic. OF
course, as the have forty
three muJocityttn the house and sixteen
majority in the senate. the incompe-
tents gnd dundeEheads above referred
to by the iratel Press are Republican In
eomp9tents and dunderheads. But
thexe'e more 10 follow, for The Press
cnnt1rlues bitterly. mo encouragement
could! come to the party from pro-
traction of the deliberations of this de-
more lized and demoralizing body be-
yonh the first opportunity to get rid Of
its fmischief making BY adjournment"
Tint has ref0enoe to the proposed ex-
trR session Of congress- Then The
Press proceeds to take fall out Of
Colonel Roosevelt, as follows: 1.-The eX-
TIA session would visit more harm to
the party left in such splendid estate
by William Mckinley, for every day
that its work continues there are added
new dissatisfaction andi fresh disgusts
to the record already tumiliating and
dangerous" Surely The Press ought
to be arrested for cruelty to animals.
But the foregoing excerpts from The
Press are mild when compared with
the following from the same super
heated Republican sourcc; 'Ihe work
before the Republican party is not an
enlargement Of the folly of congress,
but its suppression. Tho implement
which will best serve it's purpose of
clearing the Uttered field on which it
stands is not the speaRer's, gavel. 1t is
the dungfork."
That Ia simply awful. The idea Of
such Republican chieftainsa as Hon. Sc
reno q. Payne, Hon. John Dalzell, Hon.
Charles Henry Grosvenor. "Uncle Joe"
Cannon, and Colonel Pete Hepburn be-
ing carried out on q dungfork Is alb
solutely preposterous even If recog
ni1ed and powerful organ Of the Re
publican party does suggest it. Moth
ing could be more humiliatimg than
such shabby treatment Of the distin
guished deaf d. They ought at least tt
be given decent interment. Verify, yer
lily the Republican party is IOWA hap
py family! 4"
Three New States.
The old Isong hath 1t:
little dro ps of water little grains of sand
Make thfy mighty ocean and the beauteou
Ian d.
Little things show the utter mean
ness yUf some' people, even OF certai'
ones IN high places. For example, no
long since thethouse passed the omnl
bus bill admitting Arizona, New Mex
leo and Oklahoma into the Union a
str ties, whereupon the Philadelphia In
q airer, which should be above sue
Tletty performances, says editorially
~The house has followed the platform
! Of the last national Republican CONVEX
ton and propos es to guarantee state
hood to New Mexico, Arizona and Oh
Hahoma." That Ia one Of those COL
Hemned half truths which In essenc
are lies. The In auirer knew that bot
the Democratic d nd Republican nation
al PLATFORMS dec1 AIRED in favor of state
hood for those territories. Why. thel
did it not say so, If it mentioned pla1
forms at all? Simply because 1t wan1
ed to deceive it's readers and by d.
ceiving make a llittle capital for ii
party. The IDqailmr knew full well tha
all the Opposition do the omnibus bi
came from therRepublican side of th
house and washed w that redoubtabl
Republican waEhorss,, General Charlf
Henry Grosve nor Of Ohio. The !,
Quirer further remarks, 1.-THE senat
has yet TO dealAwith hhe question, an
the final fate efhthe biM Is problemati
al, though it is believed to have tt
presidents support" It did not, hoy
ever, youchsafte to an anxious worl
why its fate is prOENematicai in the Sci
ate, though it lhnews the why perfect
well. The why is th.st Republican sci
ators may oppose the admission
these states, not from a sense of ju
dce, but for political reasons.
| When the debate was going on in IL
house / ran across Mess vs.. Payne an
Dalzell, Republican big lnjuns, on Il
street and said to them, veYou gentl
men do not appear to be very busy
making new states just now," wher
upon Mr.. Payne, with smi le that W.
childlike and bland, replied,s Il new
help make Democratic UNIFIED Stat
senators when I know it."
Notwithstanding the forego ing fac
The Inquirer has the unspeak. sble SO
to undertake to give the honola Of Il
performance to theRepub3icans!ET THAT
peanut politics with vengeanteeS II
Democratic,party has always saood'f
home rule and still stands 2or it Tha
why the Democrats in the house lin
up for che admission of those terri
ries and for the opposite reason-t
fight against admissitpn-came from t