Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-15
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announcing President Roosevelt, Speak
e. Henderson and other leading Re
publicans as traitors, free traders ETC.,
because they favor Cuban reciprocity.
Touching the conduct Of the Press, the
Washington Post, independent, says:
The New York Press. leading organ Of
the beet sugar faction OF the Republican
party, haa again unlimbered its battery
and opened fire on Speaker Henderson.
We say again" because tho same guns
were being worked in the same way
year ago when MIR. Henderson was in
Europe. Not only the beet sugar contin-
gent, but various advocates Of extreme
protection, united in an effort to prevent
Mr.. Henderson's reelection to the speak
ership. How sisnally they were defeated,
how utterly their forces were routed-all
that is history. and that history may re-
peat itself in December, 1903. The Press
treats with contemptuous snecrs the an
nouncement that the speaker. after Pc
rod Of rest at his home in Iowa. is going
to make IAN extensive campaigning trip
in various parts Of the country, his pur-
pose being to visit as many doubtful con-
gress districts as possible"
That same New York Press, radical
Republican sheet, thus spews its
venom OH Speaker Henderson,:
say that If the speaker is determined to
make campaign throughout the country
Chairman Babcock should make sure that
the spellbnding virtues of TIE Iowa dow
ager remain confined to hopelessly Demo-
cratic districts, where the loss of a few
thousand Republican votes would be nci-
Their here nor there in the calculation Of
how the next house Of representatives
may be constituted nor of any conse-
quence In candidatures for governorships
or United States senatoCships. Otherwise
we should not blame Republicans for
viewing with alarm. fear and trepidation
the proposal to project the voice and po-
litical record of Henderson into the can
vass for congress- The best thing
Chairman Babcock can do, If he wants to
carry the house next fall. is to get out
his club and drive Speaker Henderson off.
1t is absolutely safe to say that moth
ing so bitter as that about Speaker
Henderson has appeared in any Demo
cratic newspaper in the land, for Hen
derson is persona grata to most Dem
ocrats.
Piling Up Evidence.
Item.-"Never in our history have we
been so un-American as in the short
time elapsing since the Spanish war"
Who said that? A Democrat? Nay,
not so. 1t was uttered by Hon. Samuel
w. Mccall, the ablest Republican in
the house from Massachusetts, repre-
sentative from the famous Harvard
district and in all human probability
the predestined successor to George
Frisbie Hoar IN the senate. No doubt
Hoar would choose him to succeed
himself, as they think much alike on
public questions. Does that look like
"a solid Republican column"
Item.-It will be remembered that the
entire Michigan delegation revolted
against the Cuban reciprocity scheme
and voted with the Democrats to over
rule the chair and to take the differen-
tial off Of refined sugar. William AL
den Smith made speech in which
he fiayed the leaders alive. Therefore
there was great need for some har-
mony bunko in the Michigan state
convention. The Detroit Free Press
(Dem.) gives this ludicrous account Of
what happened:
When the time drew near for the state
convention to assemble, the senator lMc-
himself is very friendly to the president.
but the ADMINISTRATORS attitude toward
the question of Cuban reciprocity has e3-
cessively grieyed several Michigan con-
gressmen. In some of the districts the
sugar beet is consecrated issue not to
be covered by the mantle Of partisan pol
| tiles. The man that does not hold the
| sugar beet in high esteem is lost, what
| ever party he may belong to. Had the
Republican party reduced the tariff on
| Cuban sugar there would have been a
! small sized insurreetion in these dis
tricts, much to the political profit Of the
Democratic enemy. Naturally the Re
publican representatives from these dis
| tricts were veNed at the efforts of the
president In behalf of a policy that
| might have meant their retirement to
! private life. and they desired to have the
| Justice Of their revolt certified to by their
| Republican brethren in convention as
| sembled. To this Senator Mcmillan as
scented, and the boys" were allowed to
frame platform which approved of in
general the presidents administration and
in particular Of the sugar beet insurrec-
ton against that policy.
Persons that are given to thought may
regard this as ridiculously inconsistent,
but here In Michigan no great store is set
by consistency In notifies. The summum
| bonum is neither consistency nor intelli-
gence, but votes and no question ever
had so many sides that a Michigan con-
vention could not approve of all Of them
when approval meant harmony and Of
ficeH.
OF course the GID. will say that that
indicates "a solid Republican column"
but all other people will understand
that the Republican factions are only
sleeping on their arms, ready to fly at
| each others Threats at the first oppor-
| tunity. You can't successfully mix
water and oil. No more can the reci-
procity and aptireciprocity gangs be
harmonized.
| And Vermont Too.
Item.-For the first time since the
Republican party was organized the
managers are afraid Of losing Vermont.
They are bending every energy to
prevent the state going Democratic or
at least to prevent the Republican ma
Jority from being so cut down as tc
constitute moral victory for the Dem.
Ocrat.L The trouble arose as follows
There was Doodle campaign for the
Republican gubernatorial nomination
One of the defeated candidates bolted
and is running on his own hook, which,
according to the G.-D.'s philosophy, is
proof positive Of "a solid Republican
column"
Item.-That the Republican column
il solid is, according to the G.-D.'s
logic, eoaclusively demonstrated by
the fact that the Democrats elected q
governor in Oregon at the June cleo
tion, though the Republicans elected