Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-04-07

senate is thoroughly rotten Repub- {
lican body, completely under the thumb
of General Brayton, who appears to be
the greatest boss in America.
In Little Rhody they still have the
same apportionment they had when
the Indians were driven out of the
woods, so that about one-fourth of the
people elect the senate. In one district |
seventy eight voters elect n senator! |
The upshot of the matter is that |
Brayton and his venal senate thwart
the benefcent purposes of Governor
Garvin and the Democratic house.
The fight which Boss Brayton is max
ing on Governor Garvin is keeping the
latter constantly in the-public eye, and
people are more and more considering
him as a presidential possibility, even
as presidential probability. Up in
Massachusetts, most Of the presidential
talk centers about ex-Attorney General
and eX-Secretary of State Richard
Olney. There can be no question that
the Bay State delegation will present
his name to the convention and do all
in its power to secure for him the NOM
ination.
Signs Of Reviving Democracy.
In fact, the great number of men who
are grooming themselves or being
groomed for the Democratic nominal
ton for president is proof positive that
the party is in q growing condition.
Besides Olney and Governor Garvin,
already named, there are William ].
Bryan, Grover Cleveland, Arthur P.
German, David B. Hill, Judge Parker.
William r. Hearst, Edward NJ. Shop
ard, Tom L. johnson, NJ. q. ingalls,,
Francis Marion Cockrell, Alexander
Monroe Dockery, William ]. Stone,
Carter II. Harrison, David Overmeyer,
James D. Richardson, e. w. Carmack
and David r. Francis. That list con-
ta1ns every shade of opinion that any
body would deem Democratic even by
the most liberal construction. Indeed,
some Of the names thereon are not con-
sidered as Democratic by Democrats.
| OF course some of those men have
lno more chance to be nominated for
president than they have Of being
translated Ia Elijah in chariot of
fire, but the very fact that they are
grooming themselves or are being
groomed proves that Democratic pros
poets are getting brighter, for men do
not take the trouble to secure nomina-
tons which are worthless. It may be
safely predicted that whatever else the
next national Democratic convention
may be It will not be dull. Nobody
will suffer from ennui Quite the con-
trary.
New England and the South.
spent a delightful day in Boston,
going with my little son Bennett to see
Bunker Hill monument, Fanueil hall,
boston Common, the Old South church,
the place where the tea was chucked
into the sea and other places Of inter-
est. It does patriot good to see the
places made famous by great deeds or
great speeches. On every hand in
Boston are memorials to her great dead.
OF course Boston and Massachusetts,
claim to have done more than they &C.
tually did during the Revolution, but
} one can forgive them for magnifying
their achievements by reason of the
great care which they have taken to
preserve every scrap that throws any
light on their history.
That is precisely where the south
fell down. She did her full share dur
ling the neutrality-suspicious. more than
her share-and took it for granted that
history would do her justice. She left
her fame to chance, and chance has
lplayed her scurvy trick. The recol-
lection of her great deeds is fading
away, and in another century the cas-
ual reader will believe that New Eng
land did it oil, that Yorktown Is sub
urb of Boston and that the south had
no labor part in the immortal glory. !
; am not complaining Of what the north
does in this regard. On the contrary
think she is to be commended. I am
philosophizing about what the south
lost by not pursuing the same plan. II
the brains of the south had been de-
voted more to literature and less to pol.
! itics, 1t would have been better for her.
|, Homer Mods.
One is astonished at the large space
!, given to editorials in the Boston pa.
pers-elaborate editorials. For instance
the Herald must average eight columns
of editorial matter day. AS rule
: they are excellent and accurate edito
rials. was surprised, therefore, tc
find that one of the leading Boston pa
pars declared that on one occasion JOSH
Billings wept copious tears at the tomt
of Adam! Now, am MissouriaI
and do not propose that the most illus
trious living Missourian, Mark Twain
shall be deprived of any of his laurcls
Mark Ia the man who set all the world
: laughing by weeping at Adams grave
3 Massachusetts may claim that Johr
p Quincy Adams is the author of the
E Monroe doctrine, her general court may
3 refuse to repeal the decree banishinf
; Roger Williams, but will not permit
q her to take from Mark Twain the fam
I of great and historic weep.
y In the same paper there was an ed
= itorial about General Sam Houston
:; the liberator of Texas, in which it wa