Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-09-19
The AIger Barrel to Be
Tapped Agaln--White
Gaping In Massachu.
setts-More Evidence
Of Republican Harmony


OF the south ana west. but the mouth |
of the old Bay State is in the dust in
these latter days. Her pride is in the
mud, and she lifts up her voice and
cries: "Pcccavi! Peccavi!' Up in the
village Of Marion. u pleasant summer
outing place III Plymouth county, Mass.
--only think of it. in Plymouth county
the citizens took poor wretch |
named Mcdonald, tarred him, feath-
cred him and rode him on rail, a gen
uine case of White Gaping. The job |
could not have been done in better
style down in Mississippi or out In
bleeding Kansas. All of the partici-
pants were disguised, but are said to
be respectable citizens. Sometimes
scoundrels are lynched in the south
and west for such crimes as rape, ar
son and murder and on such occasions
Massachusetts has been in the habit
of rolling her eyes toward heaven and
condemning the events on general
and geographical principles. For what
crime was this Mcdonald White Cap
| ped in the village of Marion, county of
| Plymouth and commonwealth of Mas
sachusctts? The sole charge against
him was that lie was II lazy, dissoluto
loufer, addicted TO the society of dis
reputable persons of both sexes. Now,
il Massachusetts is going to White Cap
all persons Of that character within
her borders size VIII have her hands SO
| full that she will not have time to at
tend to the affairs of the people of the
| 4, = A ,;n1, b
| show that human nature Is very much
the same, whether in South Carolina
or in Massachusetts.
OF course it is customary to charge
that the lynching habit is confined 10
| Democratic states or communities, in
which, of course, there is not syllable
of truth. Judge Lynch frequently holds
court out in bleeding Kansas, where
the soul of old John Brown is supposed
| to be always marching on. West Vir.
ginia is Overwhelmingly Republican.
A week or two ago they lynched two
men in that state and then after the
lynching discovered that they were In
nocent, discovery that didn't do the
victims very much good.
Marse Henry.
! Aarse Henry Watterson in letter
declining to be a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for governor of
Kentucky wrote n very brilliant letter,
as he always does when he writes at
all. Among the reasons assigned for
his deciination is that be is too old to
turn rascal. That is certainly an amaz:
ing declaration to come from one OF
Colonel Watterson's position and ex-
periencc. If it was intended for hu-
NOR, it should have been labeled, This
is a joke" # intended seriously, it is
utterly incredible that Marse Henry
gould haye worked himself into frame
Of miad to say It. He is the best be-
loved Of all Keutuekians; be is one Of
the most brilliant editors that ever
welded pen; lie has been associated
with statesmen all his life. With the
single exception Of Governor Taylor.
against whom there is an Indictment
pending Mt Frankfort for conspiracy
to murder, Colonel Wattcrson never
saw Kentucky governor whose integ-
rity was seriously doubted by any liv-
ing human being.
i The standard of political integrity in
Kentucky Governors has been high;
the vast majority of llL... Aie' iiAe
CRsaGs wife, above suspicion, and no.
body knows this better than Colonel
Watterson himself He speaks to
very large audience; no other editor in
America is SO much quoted; he is the
only American editor of a great paper
who is greater than his paper. His
principal editorials are sent out by the
| Associated Press in advance, not I'M
der the line, "Ihe Courier Journal will
say tomorrow" but under the more
fetching Introduction, Colonel Henry
Watterson will say tomorrow" Thou
sands of people believe implicitly in
him-I do myself. / can't get over it
to save my life. From the time first
could read the Louisville Courier-J our
nal was my principal political pabu-
lum, but don't believe the Kentucky
governors were rascals, that it is nec-
essary to be a rascal to be governor
Of kentucky or that Colonel Waiter
son believes it. He has no right to talk
in such a reckless manner. He should
remember the old motto, "Honi soft.
qui nal y pense" Because he is uni
versally beloved, because he is widely
believed in, he should make haste to
publicly withdraw that unfortunate
expression. Colonel Watterson is not
the first eminent man whom the love
of epigram has led into utterances con-
tradicted by the facts of history.
Still at 1t.
1t would really appear that all the
Democrats have to do on the tariff
question is to stand still and see the
salvation of the Lord, for the Repub-
lican factions will surely tear each
other to pieces in this bitter war. 1t
is really Roosevelt and anti-Roose-
welt fight under the guise of tariff
row. The Hartford Courant, Repub-
lican organ, dips into the controversy
in the following racy fashion:
The Delaware Republicans say ditto to
the Iowa Republicans. At their congress
sional convention In Dover Tuesday they
declared themselves supporters of the
reciprocity policy as expounded by Will
liam Mckinley at Buffalo and as applied
by Theodore Roosevelt to the case of
Cuba. They want to see the combinations
or capital that are enhancing the prices
of the necessaries of life brought up with
a round turn by state and federal stat
ptes Another thing the Delaware Re-
publicans want to see Is "the modification
OF revenue laws that strengthen such
combinations"
Preaching Versus Practice,