Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-03-27

me great Maiylander must have tnr1n.
ed with pride at the outburst Of popu.
lar applause which marked his return
to the house of the conscript fathers.
AS he held up his hand to be sworn in
many mind went back to the time
when by almost superhuman skill he
defeated the hateful and infamous
force bill, and blessings without stint
were poured upon his shapely head.
The Democrats Of the senate made
him their leader, vice Senator james
X. Jones, retired. OF course the Re
publicans have an Overwhelming ma
5ority in the senate, but under Cor
mans leadership the minority will be
80 deity handled that victory will in
the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixth
eth congresses perch upon the Demo-
cratic banner more often than upon the
Republican.
Hot Shot.
The Philadelphia North American,
the Wanamaker organ, still knows how
to express its opinions with great Wig
or, as witness the following editorial,
which it published under the fetching
title Of 1.-The Bunko Session."
THE Fifty-seventh congress has been
called the 'filibuster' congress and the
billion and half congress, but
more fitting name for its last session is
suggested by the disclosures of trick
cry that were made in its closing hours.
The Democratic senators learned, to
their deep disgust, when it was too
late, that the astute Quay had used
them to blockade antitrust legislation
and delay consideration of treaties,
and the territories are beginning to
suspect that his precious omnibus state
hood bill was little better than legis-
lative gold brick.
Senator Morgan nearly killed HIM
to death, and not until the extra ses-
sion of the senate was nearly a week
old did it dawn upon him that the SEN
ators who had furtively encouraged
him to hold the floor at the risk of
physical collapse had made a tool of
him and that their purpose was to
sandbag the Cuban treaty. The aged
Alabama statesman has just discov-
cred that he is almost alone in genuine
opposition to the canal treaty and that
the senators of both parties who have
been urging him to persist in opposi-
ton to the limit of endurance cannot
be depended upon to vote with him.
''In the light of all these revelations
Of chicanery and shameless deception
the term 'bunko session is peculiarly
applicable to the last meeting of the
Fifty-seventh congress"
Also the following editorial squib
may be offered as evidence of the North
Americans vigor:
"What is this? Mr.. Rockefeller's
name Missed by the students in the
Standard Oil University of Chicago?
Evidently the professor of English lit
erature who placed Rockefeller above
Shakespeare as creative genius has
not been vigilant in excluding per-
nicious literature. and the students
have been reading the history of the
Standard Oil company"
n sweet Poem.
Let's turn from politics and such pro-
sale things long enough to read beau
tiful little poem by George w. Gable,
entitled "The Last Arrival"
There came to port last Sunday night
The queerest little craft,
Without an inch of rigging on;
I looked and laughed-and laughed!
It seemed so curious that she
Should cross the unknown water
And moor herself within my room
Ny daughter, oh, my daughter!
Yet by these presents witness all
She's welcome fifty times
And comes consigned in hope and love
And common meter rhymes.
She has no manifest but this;
No flag floats DER the water;
She's rather new for our marine
My daughter. oh, my daughter!
Ring out. wild bells. and tame ones too!
Ring out the lovers moon!
Ring in the little worsted socks!
Ring in the bib and spoon!
Ring out the muse! Ring in the nurse!
Ring in the milk and water!
Away with paper, pen and ink!
My daughter, oh, my daughterl