Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-06-20

paper, which the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat Is, especially
Of one which arrogates to it
self the title Of the great re-
ltgious daily" which the GID.
docs, Is to tell the truth, which the
CD. sometimes does not do. Recently
1t contained this editorial squib:
Champ Clark says all who do not SYM
pathize with his bigoted attack on Secre-
tary Hay are hunting a postmastership.
75.9s9,0O0 postoffices
Yes, Champ knows that there are not
100000 postoftices, and Champ
knows something else-to wit, that the
first sentence Of the above quotation
from the Globe Democrat is lie made
Of whole cloth, and the man who wrote
It also knows that 1t is lie and that
he wrote malicious lie to exc out his
wit Now. mark how plain tale will
put down the CD. Here is what l
did say: II recognize very clearly that
to oppose the passage Of this resolu-
ton subjects the man who does it to
the adverse criticism of every editor in
the United States who is also a post
master and every editor in the United
States WHO hopes to be postmaster or
to secure federal office. am equally
clear that in opposing it l am doing
right" There Is no resemblance in
what said to what the CD. says 1
said except the use of the word post
master. A position which needs to be
bolstcrcd up by falsehood is an unten-
able position, and that's the kind the
CD. occupies in this matter. 1t so
happened that I was the first person
In the United States who called atten-
ton to the un-American quality Of
President Roosevelt's action in ap-
pointing an extraordinary embassy to
DO the funky act at King Edwards
coronation. The CD. and all other or
gan grinders promptly jumped on me
for SO doing, but survived and have
lived to see nearly every decent news
paper in America denounce that spe-
cial embassy. So universal was the
Pronunciation that one Of the embassa-
doris declined the appointment, thereby
raising himself UNNECESSARILY in the
estimation Of all true Americans.
So it will be in the matter of the
resolution of thanks to Mr.. Secretary
Hay. Every man who reads his adj
dress will thoroughly understand that
he violated the proprieties by injecting
into his eulogy of Mr.. Mckinley n
Republican stump speech. The bust
ness Of the CD. and other organ
grinders is twofold-tirst to play the
lickspittle and Endorse everything and
anything that Republican says or
does; second, to condemn anything and
does, however wise, courageous or pa
tiotic. do not hold my commission
at the hands Of or with the permission
of the CD. answer for my acts only
to my own conscience and my own con-
stituents. do what / deem my duty
and construe as a certificate Of good
character the abuse heaped upon me
by the hired scribblers of the Repub-
lican press for 80 doing. If they
praised me for anything I do or say
in congress, l would carefully recon
slider my action or utterance to dis
cover If I had not made mistake.
When I made my very temperate re-
marks against thanking Colonel Hay
for violating the proprieties and max
ing u partisan Republican speech
when, according to all the canons Of
good taste, he should have confined
himself to the. language of eulogy,
knew that would be abused by every
timber legged sycophant in the land;
that | would not be popular with either
our aristocratic and imperialistic -Four
Hundred or with the innumerable
army Of political pothunters; that
would sacrifice many invitations to So
cfal functions. But did my duty and
do not care baubee what anybody
says in the way of legitimate criticism.
I draw the line at downright lying.
If Colonel Hays address had any
politics in it, was right; If not, was
wrong. To settle that question for all
time to come l make this fair, square
proposition to the Globe-Democrat Let
the editor or any one else connected
with the CD make affidavit that Colo
mel Hays Grafton contains no politics
or political remarks and send the af-
fdavit to me. l will institute criminal
proceedings against the maker of the
affidavit and conduct the prosecution
myself before jury. If an acquittal
is obtained on the charge of false
swearing, am to resign from congress
and never to hold another Office, but if
q conviction is secured the GID. is to
shut up shop and 60 out of business.
That's a tangible proposition. Will
the Globe-Democrat shrink from the
prdeal? Will it duck? VIII it dodge?
Will it hedge? Will it back out from
the contest which it has invited? 1t is
rich and powerful; l am poor and, ac-
cording to It's standard, feeble. There
fore it ought to be willing to abide the
result of such trial Will it do SO?
Rank Hypocrisy.
Certainly the ranllest hypocrites the
world contains are the Republican or
gan grinders. For example, this same
Globe-Democrat has the impudence to
publish this paragraph:
Boer immigrants will be warmly well
coined in the United States and allowed
front seat at shooting matches.
OF course Boer immigrants Will be
warmly welcomed in the United States,
but If the Republican administrations
IN the last three years had lifted u
finger or spoken word in behalf of
the Beers they would not have felt
Hike immigrating to the United States
or to any other country. They would
have retained their independence and