Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-16

between the faction Of which BabcooIs
DoLiver and Cummins are leaders and the
greater faction led by Aldrich, Hanna and
Payne appears to be unbridgable. In mo
absence OF any sincere programme Of
legislation on this subject the party will
IN all probability continue to stand pat ON
q policy that repudiates Blaine. McKin.
ley and Dingley and whose bitterest as
sailants are distinguished and lifelong
Republicans.
Mcclellan and the Republicans.
BY one Of those strange condolences
which confound the philosophers no
mention was made of General George
Brinton Mcclellan in the recent pro-
ceedings on the famous field of Ante
tam dedicating the New Jersey monu-
ment This omission has astounded
the entire country. Mcclellan is one
of the great figures Of the greatest CIV
IL war in all the hoary registers Of
time. Had he been Republican he
and not Grant would have been the
Union hero of that war. True, the
only time Grant ever voted he cast his
ballot for James Buchanan, but Nc.
Clellan doomed up so early as to be
in the way of Republican president
making, While Grants eminence came
at later date, and for some reason
the Republicans counted him as their
own. So they bounded Mcclellan to
his grave and can't forgive him even
after death, though he unquestionably
saved Washington and the Union at
Antietam. His reward was depriya-
ton Of command. The Globe-Demo-
crat of st. Louis, blind, narrow and
malicious Republican organ grinder.
has had much to say in disparagement
OF Mcclellan in general and McClel-
lan's victory at Antietam in particular
In order to disparage Little Mac" it
went so far in one editorial as to say
That Lee was weak when fighting on
the defensive, when all the world
knows that he was the greatest de-
fensive general that the civil war pro-
duced. Afterward it contained an.
other editorial In which it said that he
was strong in the defense, but it new
er retracted, referred to or explained
the first named editorial assertion,
More recently it contained this editori-
al fling at General Mcclellan without
any sort of excuse: "McClellan's name
could be charitably omitted in men
ton of nearly all his battles" It is
very easy to say that sitting in cush-
Toned chair in a fine Office in a great
city in the year Of our Lord and Mas
ter 1903, but it was not said by any
man who served with Little Mac" in
the times that tried mems souls.
The Republican effort to belittle Cen
eral Mcclellan because he was Dem
ocrat will not work. The omission Of
his name from all the Antietam speech
es has caused people to talk about him
more than If he had received his due
need of praise on that occasion, and
the talk is all favorable except that Of
few narrow minded Republican big
OTIS. The average American citizen in
tends to be just, and he does not like
to see man who has served the coun-
try faithfully, vigorously and we'll SLAM
dered or belittled. A systematic effort
was made by northern Republicans to
deprive General George II. Thomas,
"the Rock of Chickamauga," Of his fair
measure of glory, but the effort, base
and malicious, recoiled upon the heads
of its authors. More and more Thomas
stands out in bold relief as one of the
greatest American soldiers, and his
detractors have hidden their diminish
ed heads. The reason these "hateites"
pursued Thomas with slander and
abuse was that he was Yirsinian and
a Democrat
When the future historian of the
civil war, far removed from the heat
and hurry burly of that titanic strug-
gle, comes to write the true story Of
'the bloodiest chapter in the book Of
time" the names Of Mcclellan and
Thomas will be written high above
some Of the petted darlings of the Re-
publican maligners.
Why Not2
A rumor comes from Europe that
American jingoes have set covetous
eyes on Haiti and Santo Domingo and
are fitting out filibustering expedition
to gobble them. The Globe Democrat
denies the truth Of the rumor and says
we do not want them. Indeed! If six
years ago somebody had prophesied
that we should be fools enough to take
over the Philippines, he would have
been put into straitjacket and a
padded cell without ceremony lingo
ism grows with what it feeds on, and
If jingoes remain in power they will
annex Haiti and Santo Domingo.