Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-04

fight in the Republican party
on Cuban reciprocity the canal routes,
etc, are outgrowths of the fractional
fight betwiXt Roosevelt and Hanna for
the nomination for president is per-
fectly plain, and the probabilities are
that the party will be much weakened
thereby In the meantime such sapi-
ent statesmen as Fairbanks and Spoon
er, like Br'er Rabbit, are lying low.
They are willing perfectly willing
Nor Hanna and Roosevelt to wool each
ether to their hearts content. LII the
meantime Democratic prospects of
electing the next congress and the
next president are increasing daily
Thurber's evidence as to uses made by
himself and General Wood of Cuban
funds ought to set the American peo-
pie to thinking that thorough over
hauling of the books generally would
be a good thing and that the only way
to receive that Is to turn the Repub-
licans out neck and crop and to put
the Democrats in.
Juggling the Figures.
1t is absolutely amazing how utterly
reckless a Republican organ grinder
becomes when it undertakes an attack
upon Democrats. 1t remained for the
,Globe-Democrat to misstate the num-
Der of judges on the supreme bench of
| Missouri in order to make point. Ev-
! cry schoolboy in Missouri knows that
| the state supreme court is composed
| of seven judges-Burgess, Brace, Sher-
| wood, CAN'T, Valiant, Marshall and
F, Robinson-yet for purposes of its own
| the GID. states the number at six, for
| in it's issue of June 10 it says, "Three
| state supreme judges are to be chosen
| three judges, of whom one is Re
| publican holdover." There you are.
| Three and three make six according to
the arithmetic. Which of the seven
| judges the CD. made away with this
! deponent saith not because he knoweth
not but he does know that the state
| has seven supreme judges. The GID.
| then goes on to argue in favor of Il
| nonpartisan court, which it would Sc
cure by having majority of the court
| Republicans! When we remember the
i 4
Samuel j. Tilden of the presidency by
the casting vote of Aliunde Joe Brad
ley, we can readily understand pre-
cisely how nonpartisan Il supreme court
would be which is composed of four
| Republicans and three Democrats. The
| CD should propose something rea-
| sonable.
| no of 1,a he. I n "a.
| string anything nonpartisan is the most
! preposterous one sprung upon an I'M
suspecting public during this century.
For it to abuse anybody for being par
tisan is certainly a case of the pot call
ing the kettle black. The state of Mis-
souri, had u Republican supreme court
foisted upon it once when q large por-
ton of the voters were DISTINGUISHED.
| and the people OF that magnificent
commonwealth will never forget that
sore atiliction Its political decisions
stand as Il monument to partisan zeal
/ and partisan malice Inter ALA, it up
held the brutal test oath of the Drake
constitution, which a Republican SUI
preme court of the United States de-
clared void as being in contrayention
of the federal constitution and CON
trarv to the genius of our institutions
Yet the GID. prates about the partisan
decisions of Democratic supreme
court!
Yes, three supreme judges are to bt
chosen this fall. That far the GID
is correct, and the people of Missouri
will choose three Republican supreme
} court judges III bunch when the.
. are bereft of the power of memory
and not before. "a burnt child breads
the fire" and "a scauGd cat fears colo
water" The dog may return to his
yomit and the sow to her walow, bu'
the people of Missouri will not agail
subject themselves to Republican mis-
rule When the returns are in, it viii
be found that Missouri is Democratic
by 10000 majority perhaps more.
Rayes-Tilden.
Two or three years ago in delivering
a speech in the house l incidental!
referred to Rutherford b. Hayes as ;
"pseudo president" whereupon Hon
Seth Brown of Ohio paved up TIL
ground ut q great rate, veNed the Gil
q cumambient atmosphere with his i'll
= dignant belloWings and tore a passio
. all to tatters. BY the way, what la
!, become of the Hon. Seth? He has dis
! appeared from congress, and somebod
else will have to defend "Rutherfraud,
as Roscoe Conkling dubbed Mr.. Hayes
When Hon. Seth lifted up his vote
and hoWled about my using the YER
mild term pseudo" all the Republica.
editorial postmasters howled at N
also. In fact, they danced war il
on my PROSTATE corporosity Now the
. | will have to do some more bowling
! but not at me; some more jumping OIL
; but not upon yours truly. They vii
have to howl at and jump on til
Washington Post this time, which
mirabiIe dictu! was one of the paper
/. which howled at and jumped on m
upon the memorable occasion above II
! ferred to. It lambasted me good an
strong for assailing the memory of
n dead man. but change has come owe
: the spirit of its dream, which prave
: the truth OF the old adagc that wis
$ men sometimes change their opinions
but fools never do"
IL the Hon. Seth Brown or ONO /,
L still living--and hope he is, for. bal
y ring his hallucination as to Hayes, h
e was an admirable character-if u
e Hon. Seth is still living, he would d