Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-05-30


u G public of Cuba-and I'VE did
it." Mark Twain says, "Bless-
ed is the man who bloweth his own
horn lest it be not blown" And we
did it. We made the republic of Cuba
possible, just as we made the Mexican
republic possible when we ordered Lou
is Napoleon out of Mexico. We have
right to feHcitate ourselves upon
these achievements. In both these
cases we have acted on the principle
that man lives not for himself alone"
and that 1t applies to nations as well
as to individuals. 1t is the heartfelt
| prayer of every true American that
Cuba librs shall prosper like tree
planted blythe rivers of water and that
oil her ways may be the ways of peace.
To Quige.
a few men, and only few, in all the
hoary registers Of time have done
things which forced their names rs ad-
jectives, common nouns or verbs into
permanent place in spoken language
General Mcclellan invented the "Mc-
Clellan saddletree;;" the Iron Duke is
remembered as much by reason OF the
"Wellington boot" as because of the
battle Of Waterloo; General Burnside
survives in the FURNISHES" q style Of
whiskers; that very useful article Of
wet weather apparel the "mackintosh"
serves as a perpetual reminder Of the
inventor; to "burh" has fixed the maine
and status of a man who would other
wise have been forgotten. / used to
have humorous roommate at college
who proposed to immortaliZe Horace
Greeley by inventing the verb Ito gree
ley" making it mean Ito go west" but
some way he missed fire and his new
verb never materialized. There ore
| others not necessary to enumerate
| here.
| II General Charles Henry Grosyenor
| is to be believed, Lemuel Ell Quigg
ought to live forever in q verb con-
structed from his last name. The gen.
| eral, if he were editing the next edition
of Webster's International Dictionary,
would no doubt insert in 1t the verb
ito quigg" and would define 1t thus:
''To quigg: verb, active and transitiye;
meaning to insert extraneous matter
| surreptitiously in Republican nation
| al platforms unbeknownst to the Re-
publican big InJuns, very much to their
| amazement and chagrin." According
to the general, Lemuel Eli is what
| Major Joe Bagstock boosted himself to
| ue, roiy, Sill u~-.,.-i.-~l.,. +onoh utr
deyilish tough"
Shortly after the Philadelphia con-
yention General Grosvenor charged
that Qufgg suppressed some things
| which were agreed to by the committee
on platform and put in certain other
things never agreed to by that commit
tee, but which Lemuel evolved out of
his own fecund inner consciousness.
Inter ala. it was asserted that Quigg
changed the word "Nicaraguan" to
"isthmian" without the knowledge or
consent Of his platform colleagues, and
in the hurry burly Of the convention
nobody detected Qyigg's artistic and
pregnant verbal substitution.
A Breezy Colloquy.
1t is nearly two years since Quigg
performed his great coup, but time ap-
pears not to have altered General Gros-
yenors opinions as to Quigg or to have
reduced his heat The grim old lion
Of Athens is still sore on that account
and roars ferociously whenever the
Philadelphia platform is mentioned.
He made a very entertaining speech
against the omnibus state bill not long
since. There was good deal Of vitrioi
in it. In the midst of 1t Mr.. Stephens
of Texas, logged the generals memory
and reminded him that the Philadel-
phia platform declared in favor of ad-
mitting Arizona, New Mexico and Ok
lahoma. whereupon the following
breezy colloquy ensued:
Mr.. Stephens of Texas-Is not par
ty politics defined in the party plat
form. op does not the party platform
define what political principles are?
Mr.. Grosvenor-I am coming to that
point, if the gentleman will allow me
to proceed.
Mr.. Stephens of Texas-Has not the
admission Of these territories been
supported as matter of party policy
in both the Democratic and the Repub-
lican platforms7
Mr.. GrosvenOr-So have u great many
other things that people pay no more
attention to than the barking OF q dog
in the morning.
Mr.. Stephens Of Texas-Then you de-
clare Oh this floor that you pay no more
attention to those declarations than to
the barking Of u dog?
Mr. GrosyenOr-I have made my dec
larations on this subject q great many
times before. l do not allow myself to
be bound by such a declaration of par
ty policy. will stop right here and
say to the gentleman that when the
chairman of the committee In the Re
publican convention reported those res
olutions was as near to him as now
am to the gentleman from Texas, and
do not believe there were ten men on
the floor Of that convention who knew
that Mr.. Quigg had injected any such
thing as that into the platform Of the
Republican party at the time the plat
form wasreyised.
Now, that interiocutory performance
shows two or three things of more
than passing interest-frst. that. &C.
Eli Quigg not only doctored the plat
form in its canal plank, broadening it
from Nicaragua canal" to an "isth.
milan canal" which is not only "horse
OF another color" but of another size,
and second, ran in the declaration In
favor of statehood for Arizona, New
Mexico and Oklahoma, but also that