Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-01-16
fspecial washinxton letter.

fSpecinl Washington Letter.
* pr. FOWLER Of New Jersey
W. still presses the Fowler bill
Nv upon the attention OF his
Republican brethren. Mr..
Fowler possesses the virtue OF persist
ency, If persistency In bad cause
may be properly denominated Il virtue.
True, the bankers associations OF Mis-.
souri,, Minnesota, Kansas and Okla
homa, all nonpartisan. have resolutcd
against the Fowler monstrosity, but
what do Messrs. Fowler & Co. care for
that? William H. Vanderbilt voiced
the real Republican creed when he ex-
claimed, "The people be dd!' =
There are faint whispers to the eff.
feet that If congress does not enact
antitrust legislation this session Presi-
dent Roosevelt will convene the Fifty
eighth congress in extraordinary ses-
sion before the roses come again. Since
that vigorous and able Democrat from
Georgia forced the Republicans into
q hole with his proposition to appro.
pirate money enough to leave the attor-
ney general no excuse for not prescott
ing the trusts there has been a feeling
growing among Republicans that they
must at least go through the motion Of
doing something against the trusts;
hence all the bills and all the oratory
by Republicans on that vcxed and fer
tile subject. The course OF the anthra-
cite coal trust came SO near wrecking
the Republican party last fall that the
Republicans feel cold chills chasing up
and down their spinal columns every
time they think Of that narrow escape
from the fate Of Mr.. McGinty;; conse-
quently they play at fighting the trusts
The Tariff and Principle.
One by one the roses fail. One by
one the rantankerous high protection
shouters demonstrate that they are free
traders in spots The old Scotehman
who was engaged In the red herring
industry and who wrote to Sir Robert
Peel indorsing his free trade policy eXr.
cept as to red behring's, was, after all.
the typical and normal man instead OF
the exceptional and abnormal man.
For instance, no man has been more
offensive In season and out Of season In
worsbiping the protection fetch than
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Where
forel Because 1t enricheE certain New
Englanders Mt the expense of the rest
OF the people. A great many folks. will
therefore be astonished to learn that
the aforesaid Henry Cabot Lodge is
vooifereusly advocating the repeal OF
suspension Of the blessed tariff on nm:
thracite coal. Wherefore2 BECAUSE
the tariff is unjust? Not at NIL He
cares nothing about Justice and right.
The reason he Is Believing for repeal
OF suspension IL that the present high
price Of anthracite prevents his people
from making as much money out Of
other people a. be thinks they ought to
make. - ~
a coIen Of Vantage.
Few people ever consider what a vast
aspiring citizens Of close or
pivotal or doubtful states have over
the denizens Of dead sure thing" states
in the field OF presidential politics.
This Is true even where the closeness,
pivotalness or doubtfulness is q. fiction.
Any man, no matter how great a dolt,
who happens to become governor, no
matter how. OF New York, OHIO Or In
diana Immediately becomes q pFesf-
DENTAL possibility, IL not a probability.
notwithstanding the fact that Ohio has
not gone Democratic in presidential
years sinee Franklin Pierce's amazing !.
victory in 1852. The nearest she came
to 1t in half q century was la 1891.
when the Republican plurality was
very smnll- so small indeed that the
weakest Harrison elector was defeat
ed by the strongest Cleveland elector.
In fact, the disposition to magnify
the public men Of those states in com. 4
parison with the public men Of other
days and has taken on the COM
plexioa OF a superstition. Why Da.
yid Bennett Hill preferred Coler to
Parker for the New York guberpatarIa1
nomination last year In. probably not
positively known to. anybody except /
the Sage OF. ,Wolfest's Roost, but people
DO say that he believed that any Demo
esat could be elected and that he fear
ed that It Judge Parker-.was elected
governor he might be nominated for
president and that he had po,feags, asj
to Coler In q presidential connection.
The chances. however, are that no mat
ter what Mr.. Hill thought about Coler'e !
being too small for the presidency, |
go1ey you'd have thought himself large |
enough, and. NAghafs more. the multitn-
dinous idiots Who think that every.
citizensof Ohio. Indiana and New York,
native born, over thirty,fiye years Of |
age ana Of the masculine gender is ex
oMct9 4 presidential possibility. would
have been whosaQplpg II Hp for Coler.
A still more remarEkable maplfesta.. !
Hen Of this superstition AZ To Ohio, !
New York and Indiana has Disguised !,
IcnsIble persons very recently, Hon.
Myron I. Herrlck OF Cleveland has not
yet been nominated for governor by the
ohio Republicans, but Uncle Mark'
,as dacf6ed IT, SO It is settled unless
Herrick should die. so crazy or should
oe Kidnapped before the conventioni
neetA Last week he and General
Charles Dick were worrying the life
sut n the Buckeye bose MS to- which I
mo OF Those tive, and no more should .
oe nominated fer geyePPinleefp fer II APP
bears never to have occurred to any
II the illustrious trio to consult the
>eopie OF Ohio touching the matter.
Only last week Herrick and Herrick's
riends were beseeching Uncle Mark"
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