Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-27

cneckerpoards, q very interesting play il
going on. Those Of US who are not in the
game. those Of US who are not particular
" interested in the result OF the game,
can watch 1t, and meantime, as we hear
disclaimers from this source and that, we
can put those disclaimers side by side with
others and form our own conclusions as
to what they are worth.
From one point OF view-not. of course,
from the political point, where, 1 judge,
It appears very practical. but from GER
tain points of view-all this would seem to
be almost farcical. But even these farces
sometimes have a solemn side. and can
imagine how the old negroes of the south.
male and female, will now be the prey Of
the sharks who, in order to promote"
legislation. in order to bring in the millen-
mum, in order to hasten the coming Of
the good time promised in this bll-prom-
lsed also otherwise and In other ways
will give up their small earnings from
their scanty boards and then in their time
Of want will do as they have been doing
these many years. as they long since
learned to do and as they long will do
turn to their natural and best friends. the
white people of the south, for substantial
relief, entirely free from the politicians
frills and furbelows, which are designed
simply to catch the colored voter and not
De MortuIs.
The ancient saying. "De mortuis nil
nisi bonum" ("Concerning the dead say
nothing unless good''). does not apply
to the Crumpacker resolution. 1t is
dead as smelt-that is, if Il thing that
was never alive may be said to be dead.
Its days were few and full of evil. 1t
was Il fraud from the beginning. No
body ever believed that it could be
passed, but OH one or two occasions it
was held in terrorem over the heads of
the southern Democrats. 1t did the
negroes no good. So far as it had any
effect on them it was harmful and put
notions i'll their heads which can never
amount to anything. Its most notable
effect was to make its author, Mr..
Crumpacker of Indiana, familiar to
the country. Whether the judge was
seeking notoriety = merely that and
nothing more-this deponcnt saith not,
because he knoweth not. If that was
his object he succeeded wondrously
well. Why the soutllerners should
have ever feared the Crumpacker reso-
luton is strange indeed, for nearly
every business man in the north is op-
posed to any more southern disturb
ances.
A Bright Future.
The gossips are busy with the name
of Hon. George B. Mcclellan, repre-
sentative in congress from Greater
New York. He is an exceedingly capa-
BILE man and popular in the house.
The gossip about him is all of most
pleasant nature and runs in this wise:
That he will be nominated and elected
mayor of Greater New York this fall,
not only elected, but by such ire
mendous majority that he will be
nominated and elected governor of
New York state next fall, and i'll the
event of the Democrats electing leg
islature he will be elected to the SELL
ate of the United States in lieu of
Chauncey Mitchell Depew. That would
be going it with rush, but some Of
his friends, viewing his career through
rosy spectacles, predict even higher
things for him. 1t may be safely pre-
dicted that he will prove equal to any
station, however high.
Improving.
The late municipal elections, especial
~ in Pennsylvania, show that Demo
cratic prospects are improving. In
Philadelphia the Republicans. like Eph-
rain of old. appear to be joined to
their idols, but in other cities, particu-
larry i'll Pittsburg. the Democrats and
reform Republicans working together
swept the field. Republicanism is seen
i'll its worst estate in Pennsylvania
and the fact that thousands of Repub-
leans are cooperating with Democrats
to secure various reforms most nota,
BILE Of which is election reform. Ev-
erywherc Republicans are quarreling
among themselves, while Democrats
are drawing closer together.
Rumored Changes.
Uneasy rests the head that wears a
CROWN" ditto the head on the shoul-
ders Of the pension commissioner. OF
all the appointive officers in the gov
eminent the pension commissioner has
the hardest job. Colonel H. Clay Ev-
ans, who once received respectable
vote for vice president in Republican
national convention, tried it and was
glad to get out of it. The Kansas SOL
der, poet and lawyer, Colonel Gene
Ware, has tried it for n few months,
and the rumor is that lie is weary of it
and will soon swap it off for good fat
consulship. There is another rumor to
the effect that General Powell Clayton,
now ambassador to Mexico, will sue
coed him. Nous verrons.
NJ ! M