Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-05-01

! wsex me var round, .deductIng non.
days, and give very inferior service at
that This Is under q reform adminis-
tration In which the heads OF departments
are assumed to be making honest efforts
to secure efficient and economical service.
The same speaker said that with proper
supervision the government ought to be
run at rs per cent Of the present outlay
Nothing in luck, eli? Let some be
lieyer in that idea go out to Oregon
and interrogate Hon. Bingo Hermann
on that vexed subject. He served &c
ceptably in the national house of rep
resentatives for ten years, but in 1896
his constituents defeated him for re-
nomination with Thomas III. Tongue.
Mr.. Mckinley appointed Hermann
commissioner Of the general land Of
Zee in March, 1897. Tongue was elect
ed in 1896, 1893, 1900 and 1902. He
died last February, leaving vacancy
of full term for the Fifty-eighth con-
gress. A few days before Tongue died
Hermann resigned from the land office
under pressure and was statesman
out Of q Job" to use the felicitous
phraseology .of John James Ingalls,.
Now Hermann has been nominated for
congress, vice his conqueror Tongue,
deceased Nothing in luck, ell? Go
to! Tell that idiotic tale to the ma
rines! 4
"lowa Idea" IL .0roggy."
1.-THE Iowa idea'' appears to be be-
coming "groggy," to borrow q word
from the vocabulary Of pugilism. Pres
ident Roosevelt, Secretary OF War:
Elihu Root and Secretary of the Treas
ury Leslie NJ. Shaw have pounded 1t
into insensibility. It's great champion,
Governor A. B. Cummins, Is SO thor
oughly discredited that he will be lucky
IL he secures his own denomination.
Unless he has majority of delegates
already instructed for him he will have
to haul in his horns to do that. He;
ought to have had sense enough to
know that there can be no cutting
down Of tariff rates by Republicans.
Going to Republicans for tariff reform
is very much like going to "a goats
house for wool'-a performance which
has been considered ridiculous from a
time whereof the memory Of man run
meth not to the contrary.
Nothing in q name, Ell? Everybody
that believes that is fond OF quoting
Shakespeare's famous question and
answer: whats In. name? A rose
by any other name would smell as
sweet" Nevertheless and notwith-
standing 1t would require good deal
Of augmentation to convince the TWEEN
ty-nine Kansas statesmen whom Victor
Murdoch showed under the other day
In the congressional Republican con-
ventfon Of the Kansas big Seventh
that he was not most fttingly chris
tened. By the way, the editorial fra
ternity will show up in great shape
In the Fifty-eighth congress = Hearst,
Liyernash, Hitchcock, Murdoch, Brown
low and others. It seems really as IL
the lawyers in congress will have to
look to their laurels.
Can Stand the Heat.
p When the old woman heard that the
COW had eaten the grindstone, she
Joyously shouted, 81 told you sol's
Likewise say, 81. told you so!' That
ID to say, when It was given out that
since the death Of Thomas Mast, the
Immortal caricaturist, who was our
consul general to Guayaquil. Ecuador,
nobody could be found courageous
enough to accept that post Of emolu-
ments and danger on the equator I
said that as soon as the Missouri Re
publicans heard The news there would
be divers applications. No Official
place is too dangerous or too hot for a
Missouri Republican. He wants an
office. and he wants It even as the Mis-
sissippian wanted the revolver s'like
the deuce" The consul generalship at
GuayaQuil Is no longer vacant. Hon.
Herman R. Dietrich Of Attica, Mo-,
has applied for and been appointed to-
that position. He can stand the heat.
benevolent Assimilation"
The Boston Herald, independent has
this to say:
The Manila Times, newspaper which
10 certified to a. hitherto having been In
favor with the authorities In that quarter.
gives . discouraEinS view Of present Phil
ipptne feeling toward this country. II
says that the natives In the island are
only p little less hostile to the United
States than they were when the insurrec-
ton among them began. between three
and four years ago. and is even inclined
70 believe that a large part Of the 5000. :
200 which congress appropriated for their
relief from the lack OF food and other
comforts viii! be used to buy arms with
which to attack Americans. It looks very
much az II we were far from reaching q
| stage In which 1t win be appropriate to
consider II the Filipinos can be Ameri-
canixsd. Tho dimculty II In assimilating
them enough to counterfeit their NATIVE
tendency to be IN warfare against our
Dominion over them.
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