Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-09-22
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to convict on the 1limstest evidence and
again almost impossible to convict on
overwhelming evidence. Local public
opinion has much to do with it. Hence
the necessity for court Of appeals.
According to Judge Brewer, a man
ought to be permitted to appeal mule
case or dog case from civil court,
but where life or liberty is involved
there must be no appeal. That will not
do.
Republican Machine Candidates.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat, Re
publican organ grinder, has had spasm
Of virtue. 1t is said that an open con-
fession is good for the soul. The CD.
does not make exactly an open confess
sion as to how Republican nominations
have been made in Missouri in the past,
but even guarded confession from 1t
is better than no confession, on the
theory that a half loaf is better than
no bread. Hitherto it has been pro-
claiming from the house tops the in
EQUITIES Of the Democrats and the vir-
tues Of the Republicans, but in recent
issue it takes tumble to itself. Speak
ing Of an impending event, 1t says:
When the Republican state convention
meets 1t must be with q purpose to select
prove the principles for whose advance
ment the party exists. A state cohven-
ton Of nearly thousand Republicans Is
an assemblage that can be trusted to do
the right thing in choosing candidates
and shaping a platform. But suppose
~ sob
with cut and dried programme and tries
to cram 1t down the throats Of delegates
taking from them the functions for which
! they were elected. Such things have been
known to happen. In that event few
| plotters cheat the convention and the
| people also by an act OF tnsolent usurpa-
| ton.
1t is for the Republican state conven-
| ton of next year, in Its own time and
| way, by its majority vote, to select nomi-
nees for the governorship and other state
| offices. It is not for professional politi-
| clans and patronage hucksters to get to-
! gether and FIX up slate What unlim-
| tied presumption 1t is to attempt that
bunko on a large body of accredited Re-
publican delegates! Each delegate should
go into the convention realizing that 1t 10
| his mission and duty to perform his full
l share as unit in that body and to resent
| all attempts to turn him into cipher.
| The nominations must be made by the
| convention ITSELF not by some impudent
| cabal that lays the wires to do the con-
vention's work for 1t In advance without
Its knowledge or consent. That thimble-
rig has been played too often in the past.
Attention is called particularly to the
last sentence, 'That thimblerig has
been played too often in the past"
Most assuredly, but the CD. is very
late in confessing it. Better late than
never, however. OF course, If jumped
about the confession, the CD. will
probably undertake to wriggle out OF
1t by claiming that it had reference to
the Missouri Democrats and not to tile
Missouri Republicans, but the context
shows that in an unguarded moment
the CD. actually told truth about
its partners in political sin. Perhaps
the editor was absent and the above
editorial was written by prentice
hand. The CD. is to be congratulated
even on half confession.
Jealousy.
1t is astonishing how certain news
papers turn up their noses at Joseph
Pulitzers munifcent gift Of $2,O00,0t
to endow a school Of journalism. They
make merry with Joseph for supposine
that an editor or o Journalist or q re
porter needs any special training or thai
there can be any special training for q
newspaper man. These splenetic ed
itors should not permit the green eyed
monster to feed upon their damasl
cheeks. Mr.. Pulitzer has done nobly
no matter what the outcome Of hi
generosity. He had the $2,000,O00. HI
made it himself, and he had perfec
: right to do as he pleased with it. Wha
!, motive animated him is not known, bu
e until convinced to the contrary by
S proof positive and incontrovertible
e choose to believe that his motive II
\ good, that his sole desire Is to hell
8 poor boys struggling for q footholt
and that he wishes to be instrumental
, in elevating that profession in which
8 he has been such a Shining success
: Even If he has thrown away his 81
q 100000 and in expanding it as he !
t doing he is seeking the unattainable
!. he should be given full credit for act
: ing with patriotic and philanthropi
) intent. It is ten to one shot that tn
: reason for Mr.. Pulitzer's iberality 1
. his recollection Of his own career in tn
newspaper business, beginning as a re
n porter for the Westliche Post and end
ing as proprietor Of two great news
a papers, the New York World and til
J. st. Louis Post Dispatch. To argue tina
I Pulitzer is phenomenally great ed
= itor and newspaper proprietor would b
3 a work Of supererogaton, for the fac
i that, beginning with nothing, he ha
!. 100000 to give away-$2,OOO,OO
! earned, not $1,000 900 found or squeeze
h out of people under an unjust law
: sufficient proof that he is past maste
. in his profession. He should receiv
d praise, not criticism. He IL q human
t itarian and a great ex-Missourian.
: Happy Patterson.
e One of the most famous passages 9
Alfred Lord Tennyson's most famou
4 poem, "Locksley Hail." runs in tn!
0 wise:
In the spring fuller crimson comes upo
>. the robins breast;
In the spring the wanton lapwtng take
- himself another crest;
y In the spring q uvelier Iris changes o
u the FURNISHED dove:
In the spring young mans fancy light
turns to thoughts OF love.
r No doubt all these things happen
l. the spring, but Lord Tennyson we
l. away of If he supposed that it is onl
n In the spring that "a young mans fal