Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-09-09

had planned, so 1T Is said, to have q
band Of hired boys-in livery, of course
-precede his carriage, shouting: 'Io
triumphe! 10 triumphev In his minds
eye he saw himself knighted Sir
Whitelaw Of Ophir Farm by King Ed
ward. But all that has passed, and
he returns to despised America with
out title and with his precious knick
erbockers in his trunk Wonder what
the tariff is on knickerbockers and 9th.
er royal outfttings! Whitelaw knows
unless our customs officer at the port
of New York failed to do his duty
This sore disappointment came to
Whitelaw because pestlferous berry
seed slipped into King Edwards yer.
inform appendix.
Great God! On what a slender thread
Eternal matters hang!
Over the entrance to the Office of the
New York Tribune, of which White
law is editor in chief, thanks to his ia
ther-in-law's money, is the legend,
POUNDED by Horace Greeley" Won
der what old Horace, who was an
American from skin to core, would
think Of Whitelaw and his royal and
imperialistic knickerbockers! "What
fall was there, my countrymenw
A Pointer.
Once upon time was engaged in a
private jawing match with General
Charles Henry Grosvenor, l was con-
tending that the Democrats would
elect the house this fall and both a
house and president in 1904. The gem
eral said that the present prosperity
would prevent our doing any such
thing. But, general" l replied ar
guendo, "there is no greater prosperity
now than there was in 1892, when the
Democrats wiped the Republicans off
the face of the earth, even securing
one electoral vote in Ohio, which goes
to prove that prosperity has nothing
to do with it" This seemed to nettle
the venerable Buckeye warrior and
statesman, and he exclaimed, ooh, it
was that blankety BANKED Homestead
strike that made the country go Dem
ocratic in 1922 OF course the pro-
family is General Grosvenor's, not
mine. But, while that conversation
happened two years ago, have been
thinking about it a good deal lately
and have concluded inevitably and nee
that if the good gray general
Is correct in his diagnosis of the situa-
ton in 1892 we are dead sure to carry
the country i'll 1902, for precisely what
he ylnnnn1 n Do
Is now happening in both Pennsylva-
MIA and West Virginia this year. Far
stranger things have happened than
that Judge Jackson and General Goblin
should unwittingly and unintentionally
elect q Democratic house Of repre-
sentatives and Democratic president
of the United States, contamination
deyoutly to be wished. Democrats who
are inclined to be timorous should re-
member General Grosvenor's words
and cheer up.
Disintegration.
The recent falling of the campanile
at Venice, which both startled and in
terested the entire civilized world, is
not more thoroughly indicative of the
ultimate destruction Of that ancient
city Of story and Of song than is the
platform declaration of the Iowa Re
9ublicans in favor of tariff revision as
l remedy for the trust evil presage
Of the dissolution of the Republican
party. The campanile was the glory
Of Venice; the Dingley bill has been
regarded as the Gibraltar Of Repub-
licanism. True, Mr.. Mckinley in his
Buffalo speech, which may
be regarded not unjustly as his fare
well address to the American people,
overthrew the principle of the Dingley
bill, sapped and mined it's foundations,
BY declaring in favor of general pol
cy of reciprocity, which is free trade
n spots; but the trouble is that Nc
afnley did not live to carry out by
lis tact and the weight Of his great
lame the Democratic policy which in
lis Buffalo speech he borrowed from
he Democrats. He is dead, and he
lone could WELD "Excalibur." He is
u his grave, and the Republicans are
and jangling on every pub
lc question, especially the tariff and
IS daughters, the trusts. Even the
owa Republicans, who were doing
heir best to walk in the light, lauded
he tariff while they condemned the
rusts, utterly Obvious to the great
ruth uttered by Mr.. Havemeyer when
he declared that "the high protective
ariff is the mother Of trusts"
Shaw Nereue H,oa
Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of
he treasury and wet nurse to the Fow-
er Dill. of which he and his bank ex-
'ect to be the chief beneficiaries, is in
fair way to become the scapegoat of |
he ROosevelt-Shaw administration of !
he treasury affairs, and it serves Ly-
nan right, for be it remembered that |
n 1896 he deserted the Democrats
nd rated to the Republicans in order
0 secure for himself high office, which
e had never been able to do while
raining with the Democrats. He re,
eived his mess of pottage-namcly,
ne secretaryship Of the treasury. That
e used the great powers of that Of
ce for the benefit Of the plutocrats is
enerally believed; that he was offered
nd accepted a highly rcmulerative
osition at their hands when squeezed
ut of office by President Roosevelt is
noWn of all men. He quit the treas
~ when all was serene with the rep
[ation, self exploited, of being a great !,
nancier, but there are breakers ahead
n Lyman. His successor in office
eslie M. Shaw Of Iowa, is like Major
agstock-"sly, sir; devilish sly" if
IT tough, sir; devilish tough" There
growing deficiency in the revenues
the government, constantly growing : :
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