Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-06

toric county of Pike. in the i'm
perial state of Missouri, where 1
now reside, there lived n man
named Sidney Shaw, called sid"
for short, who was much of wit and
somewhat of sport. One night, being
In st. Louis, he bucked the tiger in
his lair and lost every cent lie had
Next morning about sunup Sid, dead
broke and chopfallen, ventured forth
in quest of breakfast. He met Il friend.
who, noting his woebegone expression
of countenance, said, "Sid, what on
earth's the matter!" In lugubrious
accents Sid replied: "Oh, the deuce!
have been playing the fool and have
nothing to show for it," That is pre-
cisely the condition of those Colorado
Republicans, headed by ex-senator Ed
ward o. Walcott, who endeavored UNI
successfully to rob Henry Nj. Teller
of reelection to the senate of the
United States.
Teller is an honor to the human race.
He is the one great historic parsonage
given to the world by Colorado. He
was Republican so long as he could
be and at the same time retain the ap-
prevail of his own mind and conscience.
When that could no longer be done, he,
with tears in his eyes and anguish in
his heart, left the party to which he
had devoted the best years Of his life.
AS Republican he had not only held,
but had honored, the positions Of sena-
;,,;e TI,.,< I'm
changed his political affiliations be-
cause of the purest motives nobody
whose good opinion is worth having
has ever doubted. Nevertheless, the
Republican press has pursued him with
q rancor that disgraces it and not Hen
~ NJ. Teller.
The Wolcott Republicans of Colora-
do resorted to methods that would
have been a revelation of violence to
the toughest ward meeting held in the
Tenderloin district of the toughest city
in the world, yet Republicans claim to
be the apostles Of light, sweetness and
purity; but in spite of all their machi-
nations, in spite of Senator. Marcus A.
Hanna's brazen and impudent telegram
begging the Colorado Republicans to
elect Republican senator when he
knew that Democratic legislature
had been elected honestly and fairly, in
spite of all the skulduddery to which
his foes resorted, Teller and truth and
right and justice have triumphed. The
grand old man who bravely stood by
his people in their darkest hour gets
another term in the senate, and Ed
ward o. Wolcott, who deserted them
when their need was the sorest, is once
more relegated to the rear.
J Again Addiclss.
y Indeed this Colorado election muddle
is not the only senatorial imbroglio in.
to which Senator Hanna has recently
poked his nose only to get it mashed
He has undertaken to line up the two
Republican factions in Delaware SO
that they will elect Hon. Gas" Ad-
dicks from his faction and somebody
no matter who - from the other fac.
ton, Notwithstanding that ex-United
States Senator Anthony Higgins has
repeatedly made charges against Ad.
dicks which, If true, ought to land him
in the penitentiary and which, If not
true, ought to land Higgins in the
stocks. But Mark Is SO anxious to
have the Republicans elected that he
is willing to have the odoriferous Ad-
dicks sit among the conscript fathers
| The anti-Addicks Republicans claim
| that the gas statesman has spent 9
| quarter Of million dollars in corrupt
ing the Republicans of Delaware and
! that his supporters claim the senator
ship for him because he has paid fol
it.! 20 tempora! o mores" How
are the mighty fallen! How would
Sumner, Lincoln, Chase and the great
men who founded the Republican par
| ty regard the Hannas, "Gas" Addickses
and Wolcotts could they return to
, earth? Endeavoring to steal sena-
| torship in Colorado, endeavoring to buy
two senatorships ip Delaware! Fine
record, sprelyl
equelehed.
Some time ago the attention Of the
readers of these letters was called to
the astounding capers of one Peter Ar
lund Of Louisville, KY, who claims to
be an officer of the Danish army. In
the Planters House at st. Louis lie
personally assaulted Colonel Moses g.
Wetmore, tobacco magnate, the re-
nowned trust buster, and then he chal.
lenged the aforesaid Moses to mortal
| combat; at least the vaporous Arlund
alleged in the newspapers that he did,
all because, as he claimed, Nose had
1nsulted Mrs. Arlund in st. Louis at
the very moment when Mrs. A. was in
Louisville, Ky. The woman in the
case, as it turned out, was not Mrs. A.
1t was pointed out at the time that
this Arlund Of the Danish army was
the prize ass of the age for committing
penitentiary offense by sending n
challenge to the Falstaffian Wetmore
and then publishing the fact to the
world. 1t was also pointed out to him
that il he was really thirsting for gore
be was domiciled in the most favorable
spot on earth to find it in great gobs
and that he could not stand on his
front doorstep in Louisville and give
one warwhoop without arousing the
chevaliers and knights Grant to pitch
Of fury which would astonish him.
We were correct in this latter point
Ing out at any rate, for not long since,
Mr.. Peter Arlund becoming destroyer
Gus and "nawsty," q citizen Of Louis
Vile sans ceremonie proceeded to
black his eyes, mash his nose, pommel
MS race 0nO twist his iI1r,lar On 1ft