Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-04
said "Gow it went, nor did it stand on

said "Go!" 1t went, nor did 1t stand on
the order of It's coming or going.
But when Quay soured on the be-
loved Elkin the Inquirer soured on the
beloved Quay and denounced and carl
catured him at a great rate, accusing
him of stealing and buying delegates
But Quay triumphed, as he most al
ways does, and the Inquirer takes its
medicine without even making wry
face Indeed it licks its chops and
seems to like it. 1t says:
The Republican party in Pennsylvania
Is settling down on the governorship
Quirer, there will be a very general sup
port of Judge Pennypacker. He will not
be held responsible for certain events
that occurred in Harrisburg which UNI
Questionab1y caused deep feelings OF re-
sentiment. Not word can be said against
the Republican candidate. Those who
were fighting under the banners of anoth-
er candidate will loyalty follow Penny
packer through his election.
No matter what the Democrats may do
this week at their convention it would
seem to be quite improbable for them to
select a winning candidate. With the
Republican party united for Pennypacker
and that unity must be brought about
a Democrat could not hope to succeed.
Query.-Was the Inquirer telling the
truth when it charged that Elkin dele
gates were bought and stolen from Its
candidate or was it SO charging for
effect on the convention? In either
case it is in a bad box. If what it
charged was not true, it ought to say
so. If it was true, how can it support
Pennypacker, whose nomination was
secured by such forbidden means?
| Doesn't it know that 1t cannot shield
itself by saying that Pennypacker did
not himself steal and buy Elkin dele
gates? Is he not the beneficiary of the
| whole performance, and is not the re-
ceiver of stolen goods as guilty as the
thief?
With such vulnerable record Of it's
own staring it in the face the Inquirer
has the gall to jump on the Democrats
as follows:
And now we come to the Democratic
| state convention, which Is to meet at
Erie this week. The trouble with the
Democrats is that they quarrel among
themselves and then fail to patch up
| their differences. There was the liveliest
kind of fight in the Republican ranks,
but you do not find Republicans refusing
| to support Pennypacker. But things are
| different among the Democrats. One fac
| ton uses the knife on the other faction,
| and there you are.
| Most assuredly this is the age of
brass, and the Philadelphia Inquirer
Is Its chief prophet and exponent. Ono
thing eocksure, however, If the III
quirer is telling the truth about Penn.
sylvania Democrats they had better
be mending their ways. But it may be
that the Inquirer is as badly off In Its
summing up Of the Democratic situa
ton as it was in predicting the nomi
nation of Elkin.
Queer Civil Service Reform.
! President Roosevelt has for many
years been the darling of civil service
Reformers, with big, big r. Indeed
he was at one time a civil service com
missioner, but 1t appears from late
news dispatches that change hal
come over the spirit Of his dream. Gu
at Cleveland, O., the habitat of Senate
Marcus Alonzo Hanna, the federal of
f1ceholders were such offensive parti
sans" that Hon. Theodore e. Burton
although stanch Republican, de
clined to stand for reelection to con
gress because the aforesaid federal of
ticeholders, who are partisans Of Sen
ator Hanna, would not permit him t
name the managers of his own cam
paign. Two things We're given GU
fiat: First, that Burton would not stan
for reelection, and, second, that a
investigation would be made into til
Offensive partisanship' of Hanna
minions. But Marcus, so it is said, mad
q pilgrimage to the White House. s.
simultaneously certain Of his Cleyelan
henchmen made pilgrimage to tn
Virginia Hot Springs, where Burton
recuperating and where, like Tar
O'Shanter's wife, he was nursing hi
wrath to keep 1t warm" Thereupo
it was announced that while Burto
would not be permitted to name til
county committee he would be permi
!. ted to name his own managers an
would stand for reelection and ths
there would be no investigation Of so
fensive craftsmanship at Cleveland