Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-20

WARES EARLY RHYMES.
1t Is shocking how the indiscretions Of
youth will sometimes rise to confront
man In his respectable old age. The Fort
Scott Monitor Is reproducing matter from
its files of n date when Gene Ware was
Ats editor. And here is poem by Ware
depicting the woes of reporter:
oh, that some burglars
Into stores would break
And heaps of "swag
Feloniously take!
Oh. that two houses
Would take fire in town
And one of them burn up
And one burn down!
Oh, that some one would strike
With angry frown
A seven foot manor coal bank
Near our town!
Oh, that some person
Who despaired of life
Would run away
With some one else's wife!
Oh. that some fiery
Horse would break loose
And. like a gambler.
Play the very "deuce!"
Oh that some politician
Would take pride
In killing rascals of
BY suicide!
The gold of Ophir
We may oh and owe for.
But now. Just now.
It's locals we must go for
Another kansan.
Indeed Madam Rumor has lately been
hrs with Il CT pt a
reports that Fourth Assistant Post.
master General Bristow ls to resign.
This piece of news may be true, as il
ts coupled with two other rumOrs
which may explain the fact that he is
to resign One is that he is to go on
the Dawes commission. and the other
lie that he Is to run for congress in the
big Seventh Kansas district. now rep
resented by Chester | Long. senator
elect. Now, while nobody can believe
| that Pension Commissioner Ware is to
resign. one can readily understand
that Bristow may resign. as he is slat.
| ed for a fatter job Out in Pike coun-
| ty, Mo-, where reside, the Cry of "Ro.
tation in oftice! went up and disar.
ranged things political mt great rate.
| Uncle Tom Cash. who was consid-
| cradle wag, was filling the Office of
assessor and at the same time was a
candidate for recorder, much more
desirable position. While he was on
his electioneering rounds somebody
| asked him how he stood on the rota
ton question, whereupon he gayly and
automatically replied. "Oh, yes. am
in favor OF rotation in ottice-that is.
| Of rotating out of one Office Into bet.
ter one!" Uncle Tom was Democrat.
all Republican statesmen stand. They
rarely perform the Improbable caper
of giving up good. Juicy bone In the
vain hope of securing better one. They
make certain Of the juicier bone first.
| A Certain Telegram.
WHO sent that telegram" is likely
to become as famous question as
who struck Billy Patterson" The
| particular telegram herein referred to
Is the one which came to divers sena-
tors on Saturday, Feb. I. in the year
of orr Lord 1903 and signed John
d. Rockefeller" protesting against any
hostile action by congress against the
trusts or, more properly speaking, which
| purported to be so signed. for 1t does
| not stand to reason and to common
| sense that Mr.. Rockefeller would do
such an idiotic thing. He probably
could not do anything which would be
more certain to precipitate drastic anti.
trust legislation than to send such a
telegram to senator's, provided such tel
egram became public property OF
course there are senators to whom he
could with perfect impunity send any
request or command by telegram. letter
| or otherwise, but the average senator,
even when willing to do Rockefeller's
bidding, would prefer that the matter
be kept secret.
But. whether bogus or genuine, the
aforesaid telegram has created grea,
excitement not only in newspaper Of.
aces, but also among statesmen, great
and small. 1t will probably end in All
investigation to ascertain who sent the
telegram. Perhaps such investigation
would turn out to be bogus. The prob.
abilities are that the Rockefellers are
well pleased with the antitrust legislu.
ton, 80 called. which has been or may
be enacted by this congress. It's ten
to one shot that the number of trusts
or their profits will be in no way re-
duced by the legislation aforesaid In.
deed, some persons are 80 cynical as t.
claim that the trusts dictate the said
| legislation. '''''s -
A Flptop Speech.
The speechmaklng on the trust ques-
ton was not confined to the members
OF the judiciary committee. III fact. a
tptop speech-one of the best and most
thoroughly consideration that absorb.
Ing and vexing theme was delivered by
Hon. Charles Randolph Thomas of
North Carolina. Congressional service
and congressional reputation are hered-
itary in the family. the father Of Mr..
Thomas having been an honored men,
Der OF the house years ago. wish l
had room for Mr. Thomas entire speech.
but ! can give only the following OF.
cespts,