Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-13
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Tribute to General
Franz sigel-olney
and Hearst as Presi-
dental Possibilities y
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states and Germany should be friends.
Millions OF our people trace their an.
cestry to the fatherland. The truth is
that If we have as people any father.
land 1t is Germany rather than Eng.
land. Notwithstanding the idiotic jab.
Der Of the Anglomaniacs. for there are
more American citizens Of German
birth and extraction than there are Of
Indeed. not only the Germans.
but the Irish also. overtop the English
In this country. The first broad foun.
dations Of human liberty were laid in
Germany hundreds of years before
Magma Charta and Runnymede.
Presidential Politics.
Recently when at the state dinner III
honor OF the supreme court at the
Nnitt E6dse. President Roosevelt and
Hon. Richard Olney. ex-attorney gener-
al and ex-secretary OF state, stretched
their legs simultaneously under the
presidential mahogany. good many
persons concluded that. whether the
Democrats win or the Republicans win
in 1904, the president was then dining
in the executive mansion. OF course
Mr.. Olney was in Washington on prt-
vate business. This must be so, for I
heard him say so, and surely nobody
knows better what Mr.. Olney was do
ing in Washington for the best part of
a week than Mr.. Olney himself. But
folks will talk, don't you know, and the
Talk is that the Venezuelan imbrogl-
10 has increased Mr.. Olney's chances
very much. To borrow commercial
phrase, "Olney stock is looking up
not, only booking up. but looking up
very much. Folks are furnishing up
their memories, and they find that the
most oppertune and Vigorous assertion
of the Monroe doctrine ever made was
by Mr.. Olney when he was secretary Of
state, and many are coming to the con-
clusion that it would be we'll to have
such q man in the White House in
these parioHs times. At any rate. the
Venezuelan hullabaioe that is, by caus-
ing people to bark back to the yenezu-
elan ruction that was, is helping the
Oiney boom along wonderfully. A
great many think that Mp, 0lpey was
called to Washington by the admins,
tration for purposes Of consultation as
to the peril in which the Monroe doc
trine is placed by recent performances
in Venezuela. If so, it is splendid
tribute to the eX-secretary of state,
who by his own action in the Anglo
r,lo hsy,,cn1e
at one bound in the smqall but goodly
company Of the great secretaries II
state.
Nobody has eysr doubted the eapaci-
ty, courage or integrity Of AlF. Qlney.
Intelligent Americans, no matter what
feel, IL he ever domiciled in the White
House, that our country's interests
would be faithfully protected and her
honor gloriously upheld.
Time has dealt gently with Mr.. Oh
ney He is still in the prime Of his
powers. mental and physical, looking
scarcely day older than when he re-
tired to private life five years ago.
While in Washington great deal Of
attention was shown him. and much
curiosity was manifested to see him
not as relic Of bygone days, but as
one who stands high up on the list Of
Democratic presidential possibilities.
" another thing which has added to
the Olney pfastdential talk'fs the meet
ing Of Mr. Olney, Grover ~Cleyeland,
William G. Whitney and Edward NJ.
Shepard in New York lately, OF course
this meeting may have been fortuitous.
They may have met to have smoker,
to discuss next summers catch of fish,
to hold prayer meeting or to consult
about law case-who knows? But
for whatever purpose they met the OF.
hey presidential boom was aided there.
by. 1t set peoples tongues to Yagging.
Another element Id the OIney gossip
is the fact that New England in gen
eral, Massachusetts in particular, shows
tndubitable signs Of being weary of the
Dingley tariff schedules. II Massachu-
sets continues to shaW pemepp9tif
gains and the Republicans continue to
palter with the people in double sense
as to tariff revision, fur stranger things
have happened than the nomination
and election OF Hon. Richard Olpey to
the presidency in 1904.
Mr.. Hearts Popularity.
In the meantime Hon. William Ran.
dolph Hearst, member elect of con-
gress and editor of three great Demo-
cratic dailies. is being kept well to the
front and center Of the stage. Hearst
clubs are not only being formed in New
York, but away down south in Dixie
and In 1.-THE far west" Mr.. Hearst is
evidently growing. Youth will be
served. His stand, bold and persistent,
In favor Of labor and Of government
ownership is attracting to him the at.
tention and may attract to him the
support of the whole country. He Avi
IDENTIFY has the ear of the public as
much as any man now on the boards.
His wondrous success in the newspaper
field and the business world demon.
strates that he possesses capacity of a
high order. His Democratic pedigree
Is hptop, his Democratic record is per.
ASSI uAAO LIS SCiNASeS " tAc 0cAOCIullC
party are many and valuable. He stood
faithfully by the Democracy in its
darkest hour and has warm place in
the hearts of all genuine Democrats.
His friendship for labor has become
proverbial. Here is most remarkable
editorial from his New York American,
remarkable for its boldness, Its sue:
cinctness and its skillfulness:
When an ofilGfr in the army or navy
has served his country for certain num-
ba to