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Out Of Its Own Mouth.

Out Of Its Own Mouth.
1tem.-By its own mouth the CD.
stands condemned. After the Wisoon-
sin Republican convention by vote Of
two to one Ind sent Senator Spooner 10
the bottom of the coal hole with dull,
sickening thud the CD. evidently con-
Guided that, after all, 1.-The solid Repub-
lican column" is shattered, for it lugu-
briously remarks:
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin probably
wants another term. He Is an able and
worthy man and deserves reelection.
The convention in his state. however, was
controlled by his enemy, Governor La
Toilette, and Spooner denomination ex-
preston was defeated. But when the
matter comes before the legislature there
is strong probability that the senator
will be rechosen. He has had large ex-
perience in public office. possesses tact
and personal popularity and Is decided
ly useful man to have in congress. The
Republican party needs men like Spooner
at the front.
Surely that is q remarkable sort Of
harmony which induces Governor La
Toilette and his faction to turn down SO
brilliant and eminent Republican as
Senator John G. Spooner.
Item.-In the same issue-July 49,
the CD. contributes to Republican
Harmony, with big, big Fl, by wind
ing up long article on the presidents
action in retiring General Jacob Fl.
Smith with this vicious dig at Colonel
Roosevelt:
Yet Smith is the man who. by mastery
soldiership, quieted the island of Samar
in the year 1902 the same year in which
the president says he can be of no fur
Their use in the army. There Is some
thing whimsical in this business that Is
decidedly not approved by the American
people. General Smith stands higher in
public opinion than he ever did before.
That paragraph will have about as
much tendency to promote harmony in
the Republican camp as would n good,
big chunk of raw meat in the animal
department of circus.
Item.-Not satisfied with that thrust
of the dagger into the presidents back,
the CD. contributes this additional
tidbit to Republican harmony:
General Smith will be admonished when
he returns to the United States that ev-
cry old soldier in the land offers him the
hand of fellowship and congratulates him
on the brilliant success of his operations
in Samar.
Item.-Continuing in its efforts to
give quantum sufficit of raw meat to
the Republican menagerie, the CD.
hurls this chunk to the Infatuated ami
mails:
The Indianapolis Journal ridcules the
beet sugar industry because it is small,
just as its local Democratic contemporary
derided American tin dozen years ago.
When Republican paper is discovered
holding a Democratic rifle pit of the year
1890, it's friends ought to call a medical
consultation.
OF course that paragraph is not only
intended as q hard knock for the In
dianapolis Journal, the leading Repub-
lican paper of Indiana, but is aimed at
all Republicans who are holding
Democratic rifle pits"-i. e., all Repub-
hcans who are in favor Of Cuban reci-
procity. Who are they? Theodore
Roosevelt, president Of the United
States; all the members of the cabi-
net, Serene e. Payne, chairman of the
ways and means committee; John Dali
zell, Governor Steele and Chester l..
Long, members thereof; David Brem-
ner Henderson, speaker Of the house,
and the vast majority of Republicans
In house and senate. Verify, verify,
| there is q distinguished company of
Republicans in 1.-The Democratic rifle
a medical consultation"
More Solids.
Item. = The Globe-Democrat, while
attacking the president, thereby dem
! onstrating the existence Of ga solid
| Republican column" might increase it's
| stock Of knowledge by perusing the
following brief but pregnant editorial
from the Washington Post, which the
Kansas City Journal Republican)
quotes approvingly:
If any one imagined that the war be-
tween the beet sugar faction and the adj
ministration-the latter backed by a ma
jority of the Republicans in congress and
apparently by an Overwhelming majority
of the Republican masses and the party
press-would end or begin to die away up
on the adjournment of congress, the name
of that credulouS person must be written
| into the list of those who Imagine a
vain thing" Instead of subsiding, that
| war. now trebly laundering swells the
|
| when he said in the senate last Monday:
| MY opinion is that we shall hear from
| the people in unmistakable terms. It is
| the policy Of the administration today as
1t would have been of Mr.. Mckinley had
he lived, to treat Cuba as ward and
friend"
Item.-The fact that four Of the beet
sugar Michigan Republican congress
| men have been ANONYMOUSLY defeated
for denomination will convince the c.
d. beyond all controversy that "the
Republican party is solid" and getting
more solid, just as General Zachary
Taylor remarked In his only annual
message to congress-that 1--WE are on
good terms with al the nations of the
earth-and the rest of mankind."
Item.-The fact that the Iowa Mil
iers' association is making bitter war
on Speaker Henderson for reelection
to congress and the further fact that
the antireciprocity gang is grooming
Mr.. Littleield Of Maine as a candidate
for the speakership, in the improbable
event that the Republicans elect the
next house, is Overwhelming proof Of
"a solid Republican column"
Item.-What opinion will the CD.
have as to it's "solid Republican col
umn" when it reads this singing edi-
torial about President Roosevelt from
the Portland Oregonian, leading Re
publican paper of the Pacific slope?
The Oregonian says:
Unquestionably there Is a remarkable
and ominous parallel between the course