Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-13
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Democrats in. Next year the battle
cries will be Turn the pascals out!"
and "Let US see the books:'
A New National Figure.
Two results of the November cleo
tons are that Senator Marcus A. Han
ma will certainly become presidential
candidate and Hon. George Brinton
Mcclellan certainly becomes a national
character, perhaps presidential cam
dtdate. OF Senator Hanna it is SUI
perfluous to speak. Everybody knows
more or less about your Uncle Mark,
and everybody is beginning to inform
himself about Mayor and Congress
man George b. Mcclellan. This splen-
did young man is most interesting
parsonage, just now impinging upon
the public eye as national figure. OPP
position papers affected to sheer at
him as "the son of his father" but that
sheer froze upon their faces when he
delivered his closing speech in his cam
paign. one of the strongest speeches
delivered on the American hastings
in the last ten years. It was admirable
In every respect-in matter, style, tenn
per. No doubt 1t helped materially to
swell his majority. If anybody dreams
that being ''the son Of his father" Cen
eral George B. Mcclellan, Little
Mac" will injure the young mayor,
he is badly mistaken. General Nc
Clellan served the country with great
capacity and perfect fidelity. as the
son has done and will continue to do,
but Mayor Mcclellan does not need
the aid of his fathers great reputation
to assure him magnificent career.
His nine years service in the house of
representatives, most of the time on
the great committee of ways and
means, is a prophecy of what he will
do in the future. One of the most
pleasant traits of his character is his
love for his father. In closing the great
speech to which have referred he
thus spoke Of his illustrious sire and
of one who had dragged his name into
the contest:
ask my fellow citizens to bear witness
to the fact that have endeavored in all
my public discussions to preserve that de-
cency of expression which becomes
gentleman.
Before I close I wish to express the
sense of indignity which 1 have suffered
In this campaign. 1t Is, believe the
only painful feeling which shall outlast
the decision of the peoples vote at the
polls
The name bear was borne more worth
lily by another, who has long since been
In hfe fofh Of n 3oI,
love to believe was one Of unselfish de-
votion to his country and of loyalty to his
Maker.
= assure you, my fellow citizens, that
not for all tho honors of this world, not
for any station, however high. would
dishonor 1t.
In this campaign man has dared to
assert that I have dishonored it.
/ rejoice to say that among all the fac
tionists who have supported the cause of
my political enemies there was but one
mouth foul enough to add this atrocious
Islander, and could not forbear to end
this campaign without publicly taking no.
tice of him to assert this expression Of my
contempt.
General coekreil and the Presidency.
General Francis Marion Cockrell Of
Missouri, now serving his twenty-nintll
year in the senate Of the United States,
is in no sense candidate for the presi-
dency. His friends-and they consti-
tute a host-in Missouri and elsewhere
are pressing him to permit his name to
be used in that connection. II he yields
to their solicitations the chances are
that lie will be nominated and elected.
At great meeting of Missouri Demo
Gratis at AIoberly Oct. q resolutions in
dorsing him for president were offered
by Colonel Moses G. Wetmore, an ex-
Union soldier, and adopted unanimous
ly and with whoop. At the great
Folk meeting at st. Joseph Oct. "a sim
liar resolutions were adopted. The
Wetmore resolutions are us follows:
All Missouri Democrats love Missouri
and delight in whatever tends to increase
her glory and prestige. They are proud OF
the fact that she stands as the foremost
Democratic state in the Union and that
her uncomfortable Democracy exercises a
commanding influence irA.the national
councils of the party. BysAying, as we
do, that the political signs are prophetic
of great Democratic victory in 1904 and
feeling that Missouri is entitled to lead
the united Democracy of the nation in
SAAdI il4i6 COllSSI, lAc OSluOCTdI6 GOIls
posing this great assemblage, gathered
from all sections of the state, propose to
the Democrats of Missouri that they In
struct their delegates to the next Demo-
cratic national convention to present to
that convention the name Of Senator
Francis Marion Cockrell for nomination
to the office Of president OF the United
States. This we do because we recognize
that his high character. his long expert
ence in the public service and his broad.
patriotic and conservative craftsmanship
pre-eminently fit him for party leadership
and for the high duties of the great Office
of president. But in presenting his name
for this nomination 1t should and must be
clearly and distinctly understood that the
use of his name in this behalf shall in no.
wise initiate against his candidacy for re.
election to the senate. for the Democracy
of Missouri is determined to continue him
in the senate unless the nation calls him
to the presidency.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat, the
largest Republican paper west of the
Mississippi, says that the Cockrell boom
10 being manufa ctured and manipulate.
ed by his enemies inside the Democrat.
&c party Of Missouri and that the whole
performance is intended to sidetrack
General Cockrell as candidate for re-
election to the senate by men who
Want his toga. The CD. is mistaken.
! started the Gockrell boom year ago
In the Kansas City papers and stated
then that should he be nominated for
president 1t ought to be with the dis
tinct understanding that should lie be
defeated for president he should be
sent to the senate for sixth term by