Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-09-11

ippInes and Great Britain's conduct in
South Africa. 1t must be admitted by
all candid persons that the three cases
are very similar to each other. Wonder
II we are to share the fate Of Old Dog
Tray7
The Colorado Springs Gazette, which
recently Topped to Republicanism. in
dorses the idea of the Nebraska Re-
publicans that the west is entitled to
the Republican vice presidential nomi-
nation. What is far more important,
the Gazette serves notice on all con-
cerned that in that connection "the
west does not mean Indiana, Ohio or
Illinois. but the great and gorgeous
country west Of the Mississippi. All
this will not be pleasant reading to
Governor Durbin of Indiana, who is
assiduously incubating vice presiden-
tial boom for himself on the ground
that from the safe retreat of the guber-
Material Office In Indianapolis he is
sued blood and thunder manifesto
against the lynchers of Evansville. Ind.
Nor will this wild west talk delight the
heart Of Colonel Myron T. Herrick,
who is casting sleeps eyes at the vice
presidential nomination solely because
he Is the protege Of Senator Marcus
!Alonzo Hanna.
The Omaha World Herald, edited by
Congressman Elect Hitchcock, helps
the Cockrell presidential boom along
with these kindly words:
No member of the United States senate
stands higher in the public confidence
than does Cockrell Of Missouri Should
he permit the presentation OF his name
for the national convention Missouri
Democrats will rally around him, and not
only Missouri Democrats. but Democrats
OF other southern as well as western
states.
Governor Benjamin B. Odell Of New
York is busily engaged in denying that
he ever said that he would not be
candidate for third term. OF course
he never said it. He need not strain
his vocal chords denying 1t. Nobody
| ever believed that he had said anything
OF the sort, for it is not Republican
habit to let loose of teat until choked
loose; consequently B. b. o. may now
conserve the breath he is expanding in
denials.
II Samuel Gompers and the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, with 2,0O0,-
900 Of voters, take notion, they can
give President Roosevelt lesson
which he will not forget during his
natural life.
The sapheads who do not believe
that the federal government is prac-
ticing paternalism run mad should
carefully ponder the scheme now
preached for raising green turtles.
The next move will probably be to
start ranch for propagating canvas.
back ducks.
The Republicans Of Illinois are fine
exemplars of that Republican harmony
which exists on paper, and on paper
only. For example, the Chicago Trib
une, Republican organ grinder, calls
the friends of the Republican govern
or 1.-THE Yates astrologers and sooth
sayers."
Not Necessarily Final.
Touching the proposition of his null
titudinous friends that General Fran
els Marion Cockrell, Missouri's senior
senator, shall become candidate TO
the Democratic nomination for tn
presidency, he says: "If the choice nov
lay in my power of being either tn
president of the United States or sen
!, ator from Missouri, would choose thu
latter. / would rather be senator thar
president"
Perhaps Cincinnatus would rather
have continued blowing than to have
become dictator Of Rome, but all thu
same he left the pillow in the furrow
assumed the dictatorship and savet
his country.
i Perhaps Saul, II left to his own de
vices, would never have dreamed Of
being king Of Israel and would have
been contented to continue herdins
asses till the day of his death. Like
wise David might have elected, II thu
matter had been submitted to him. t,
, continue as shepherd rather than t
, nit upon throne, wear diadem an,
! WELD q scepter. Nevertheless bot
Saul and David obeyed the summon
TO the higher and more difficult posi-
hon, accepting 1t as duty they owet
their country and their kind.
It must not be concluded from Gen
eral Coekrell's remark that he Is les
patriotic than Cincinnatus. Saul O
David. The good gray general is &C
customed to the humdrum life Of tn
senate and likes it, but that is no rea
son why he will shrink from the siren
uous life in the White House II hi
. countrymen demand that he serv
them as chief magistrate Of the repub
lic. The general has not declined, AM
he is too good citizen to decline
: he sees that 1t Is his duty to accept.
|Tiptop.
Il Buckeye Democrats did q good day
work for themselves, for Democracy i
general and for the country in ADOPT
. Ing the right sort Of platform and i
nominating that great Democrat, Tor
7 f.. johnson, for governor. He ought t
be elected, and II elected governor b
70 almost certain to be nominated an
. elected president Of the United States
an Office which he would honor anc
adorn. Tom Johnson is one Of the mos
brilliant and remarkable characters Of
this age. He is in the flower Of hi!
years, and, while he has already at
tanned great eminence and distinction
I he Is just beginning his great career OF
a the national stage. No man in America
> has more splendid future. A Ken
{ tuckian by birth, Democrat by ma
/ ture, multimillionaire by his own ex
: artinn honest MS tho dav ia long 4,