Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-10-07
D1scoRD AMONG REPUBLICANS
Some Things Which Go to Show That
All IL Not Lovely in the
Opposition Camp.


All Is Not Lovely in the
Opposition Camp.
The republican brethren and their
organs are not mixing we'll these
DAYS and are talking back at each
other, telling some plain truths that
hitherto it has been difficult to get
them to acknowledge. The smaller
fry have been making faces at one
another for some time, even those
edited by the postmasters getting
occasionally mixed up in the mess,
but their insignifcance was such that
hardly anyone took any notice of |
them. But now comes that stanch |
and reliable organ of republicanism,
the Chicago Inter Ocean, and bella
bors Grosvenor, of Ohio, for his
speech at the Ohio republican con-
vention, when he said-but what is
the use. in quoting Grosvenor, he
would say anything. But what the
Inter Ocean says, however, is Of con-
sequence, for after falling foul OF
Grosvenor for saying what we will
do" it declares that the 1--WE" in this
case means David b. Henderson, John
Dalzeil and the delectable Grosvenor
himself, the majority of the house
| committee on rules, who constitute
the house machine and dictate legis-
| lation as long as their fellow-mem-
bers and the people do not revolt
against their domination"
| But this is only the beginning of
| the SHINING the triumvirate will get
at the hands of the Inter Ocean ed
| itor, for he wants to know what
gave Porto Rico free trade and pro-
| duced the splendid results that the
boastfu1 Grosyenor speaks of, and
then this republican organ inquiries:
WAS it the Observation-Disclosures
Dalzell triumvirate?' And the an
swer is: Certainly not, Its aims
were free rum and taxed bread. Only
by moral revolt of the people
against this programme were free
trade and measure of prosperity Sc
cured to Porto Rico"
But this is not all the sad tale of
pickering between the brethren, for
!, that independent republican newspa-
per, the Washington Post, seems to
enjoy the telling about it, and COM
ments as follows:
SIS not all this cruel, coming from
a loyal republican newspaper? Still
it does not satisfy our Chicago con
: temporary. Being in a mood for ad,
ministering family discipline, and be.
! lieving in doing that kind of work
: thoroughly well if it must do it at
all, the Inter Ocean comes down from
the Porto Rico episode of the fifty
sixth to the first Philippine bill OF
the Fiftyseventh congress, which
was passed by the house last Decem.
Der and sent to the senate-a Christ
mas gift for the Filipinos. AS to
that the 1nter Ocean inquiries:
r "How did this triumyirate plan to
treat the Philippines?' And the re:
' ply is: "Worse than when they were
Spanish territory. 1t aimed to erect
a higher tariff barrier against the
Philippines than when they were
alien soil. But again the people re-
volted, and through the senate OBJ
tanned rs per cent. tariff eopces.
sion."
There is not democratic paper
' in the United States that could have
y put this in stronger shape. And here
2 is more plain talk from the SAM
6 source:
9 "Soft Words" runs the homely say
3 ing, butter no parsnips." The PEG
pie refused to be deceived by the mel
who sought to make Porto Rico for
eign soil. They never can be satisfied
with more promises about what is tt
be done some time or other in the
Philippines.
fl "What the people demand in oa1
, new possessions is not fair phrases
but just deeds. Mr.. Grosvenor vii
. do we'll to bear this fact in mind, am
when he returns TO Washington t.
square his acts with his speech
81 it is really refreshing to find s.
o. much independence in paper tina
e has long been sesaraed as one of TIL
d mosttruly loyal organs Of ting repul
a Ilican party. Besides the exhibition
it makes of serious family discord,
is far more valuable as showing tn
trend toward independence in jour
nalism.