Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-12-15

al Q1fTercnceS IN New 1Cfh Dy the COLI
ferences of Prcs:dsnt Roosevelt, Gov
ernor Odell and Senator Platt has more
OF the character of armed neutrality
than anything else. In making Odell
governor Senator Plat appears to have
initiated the performance of the phi
losopher who created for himself and
for his own use devil and then dis
covered, to his amaZement and disgust,
that the devil controlled him instead Of
his controlling his devil.
When one reads General Benjamin
T. Buffers book and the memoirs Of
Senator George Frisbie Hoar he won
ders if those two illustrious New Eng
landers will quarrel in the other world.
In this world Senator Hoar has had
"tlic last say" and it consumes thirty
four pages of his book. 1t is rather
vitriolic to have come from the pen of
a man who is frequently called 1.-The
cherubic."
1t took Senator John I. Morgan of
Alabama four hours to state his opinion
of the words and actions of President
Roosevelt touching the sudden birth of
the Panama republic, but what the
aged senator said was mild and polite
when compared with certain statements
made by Mr.. Fordney. Republican
from Michigan, in discussing the Gu
ban reciprocity bill.
Readers of the st. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat will soon be RECALLED with rose
tinted predictions as to how the Re-
publicans will carry Missouri next year.
ALI those who think of telling that Mis-
souri, will go Republican would do
well to commit to memory this editorial
squib, which appeared in recent is
sue Of the CD. when 1t was some
what disgruntled with the Republican
Missouri machine: Missouri can never
be carried by Republican leaders who
lie awake Of nights thinking of federal
patronage" Why, bless my soul, that
is all that holds the Republicans in
Missouri together! If it were not for
federal patronage the G. o. p. in Mis-
souri, would dissolve before the roses
come again.
"Tall oaks from little acorns grow"
There is a feud on betwixt Mayor
Weaver of Philadelphia and Senator
Matthew Stanley Quay. boss of the
state, as to the expenditure Of new
city loan of $23,oOO,OOO, which some
prophets predict will split the Repub-
lican party of the Keystone State wide
open and enable the Democrats to carry
Pennsylvania for president What
courage those prophets possess!
While our Republican friends are
seeking a Hoosier candidate for vice
| president 1t is peculiar that nobody has
suggested Parry-D. NJ. Parry, the
sworn Zoe Of organized labor. He is a
genuine Republican and says what
most Republicans think.
One Of my constituents, Henry Sen
den of Ellen Point, st. Charles county
Mo-, SO far as heard from Is the boss
corn raiser Of the world. This year OIL
a little over eleven acres he raised
1,4f3 bushels of first class corn, OF
about 1873 bushels to the acre, which
certainly entities him to the blue rib
bon. Who can beat 1t?
Mr.. Speaker Cannon has adopted 8
new term for some of the house CAB
tests. he calls them talks" instead Of
debates. In SO doing Uncle Joe exhibit
ed his level headedness, the quality
which more than all else placed hin
where he is. Once in awhile there is {
real debate in the house, but most o
! the linguistic performances in tina
arena are mere talks"
1t is whispered about that when tn
subject Of the vice presidency is men
4 toned to Speaker Cannon his remark
touching that Office are more forcibl
than elegant. It will be remembers,
that Daniel Webster and General Ben
3amin F. Butler both missed the presi
dency by spurning the vice presidenc,
and that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
kicked vast deal before he could b
"laid on the vice presidential shelf"
Really the newspaper correspondent
In the far east ought either to shut VI
their jabber about Russia and Japa,
or they ought to decide once for al
whether it is war or peace. Their tale
do not hang together, One day the,
| Announce tilat war "a at hand tho nov
peace is certain. Nobody cares par
ticularly whether they fight or moi
J We Will furnish both the munitions o
war with perfect impartiality, but 1
they are going to fight 1t is to be hope,
they will begin at once, and If they ar
not going to fight they ought to qui
shaking their mailed fists at each other
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