Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-08-11
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Senator Cockrell For President.
The Late Cassius M. Clay - Ver> &3
mont's Election Law >>>>>>>>
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its troubled breast by repeating Shake
speares famous mot:
What's in name? That which we call |
a rose
BY any other namc would smell as sweet.
But whats writ is writ" and should
the world endure million years Con-
necticut will remain the Nutmeg State.
At 1t Again.
Republican Harmony with big, big
"H," of which we hear so much that
our tympanums are getting sore, is
manifesting itself in Il very peculiar,
not to say astounding. manner out i'll
bleeding Kansas. There is n United
States district judge to be appointed
from among the Jayhawkers by reason
Of the promotion of Judge Hook to the
circuit bench. This prospect of a good,
fat juicy Office to be bestowed has had
about the same effect on the Long and
Burton factions that a big hunk of raw
meat has upon the wild animals in a
| menagerie. The feud is so bitter that
some peacemaker has suggested that
| Kansas be divided into two judicial
districts SO that Long and Burton may
| each have a judge. Great is Republic
an harmony in Kansas!
| A Christian Lobby.
King Solomon once enunciated the
! startling proposition that there is moth
ing new under the sun. He had
great headpiece and told more wisdom
than any other of the teeming sons of
Adam, but the wise king had never
gazed upon my learned and energetic
friend, Rev. DIR. Wilbur +. Crafts, when
he made the declaration aforesaid. If
he had communed with the doctor per-
haps lie would have held his decision
for revision" DIR. Crafts. with orig
inality that is startling and with in
genuity that is puzzling, has evolved
out of his own inner consciousness the
idea of Christian lobby to operate
upon, influence, assist, aid or direct
congress in it's labors. Perhaps that
, would not have been "a new thing
under the sun" to King Solomon, but
it is certainly new to everybody else.
DR.. Crafts is entitled to letters patent
or copyright ON his idea. So far as
) can now be ascertained, Hobbies are as
old as legislative bodies. Indeed, Hon.
. Thomas Bracket Reed always defend
) ed Hobbies on the ground that a repre-
sentative or senator could not possibly
investigate the merits of every bill that
, came up for consideration in congress,
! but, while his logic was forcible, cir
! cumstances have given q sinister mean
! ing to the lobby, and with the masses
) of the people the mention of the lobby
suggests corruption. 1t seems incon-
gruous, therefore, to preface it with
the adjective "Christian," and in popu-
lar estimation :"Christian lobby is a
misnomer. What would be the func-
ton OF a Christian lobby? Who would
determine what bills it would advo-
!. cate? Who would pay it? How much
:, would it receive? Would it not soor
degenerate into secular lobby and dc
the questionable things done by secu.
lar lobby, thereby bringing reproach OH
Christians?
vermonts Election Law.
If any southern state had adopted
the suffrage qualification recently en-.
: acted in Vermont mighty indignation
, meetings would be held in Boston, and
= congress would be memorialized and
= asked to take charge Of elections in the
south. The following is from the
Washington Post:
What the Chicago Tribune calls "a
v poser from the south" is really deserving
III of that name. Webster defines poser a,
). a question or proposition that puzzle!
u or silences." The Tribune represents tn,
< people OF the south as being DESTROYS t
% learn from the supreme court Of tn
United States II the Vermont suffrag
It qualification is constitutional. In the Ian
% guage Of the Green Mountain solons a
1t quoted by the Tribune all those shall b
% excluded from the suffrage who have no
% attained the appreciation of the board o
n civil authority of the town in which the,
If reside"
20 That is sure enough poser for Yer
monters or any other censorious critics o
J. southern suffrage laws. The Atlant;
L, Constitution says it wants nothing bette
% than that The Tribune says that grand
= father clauses would be but the gauz
tissues of the adolescent spider compares
n to the withes which the Vermont claus
e would wrap around the black voter Il
~ | care freed Dixie. - The Constitution
, predicts the Vermont idea would reall,
i work with charming effectiveness in shut
j" ting out the venal and ignorant voters o
d our precincts, whether white or black
= The Tribune, which is not half so bite
toward the southern Democrats as is 1t
Democratic neighbor. the Chicago Chron
tcle says the Constitutions prediction u
y evidently and patiently true, provided W
> disregard the southrons exuberant, fairy
like figures of speech and substitute TO
j. his fanciful phrase about excluding 'ig
is norant voters, whether white or black
e. what he meant by 1.-THE word ne
er 0-oes.'"
of But the Tribune readily perceives tn
to gravity of the subject. 1t declares tha
e. the Constitution has 'put up a knott
Or question" and adds:
TT 1.-THE supreme court must pass on tn
te constitutionality Of the statute as 1t oper
,e ates in Vermont. Vermonters have neve
availed themselves of it to shut out ne
ly groes. Neither in language nor spirit doe
J. it contravene the fourteenth or fifteent
tn amendment. The supreme court ca
ty hardly, by the strongest stretch OF inter
I'd probation. hold otherwise. If the cour
r will at once adopt 1t, and nothing ca
" stop 1t. And then the southern negr
ne will be disfranchised as effectually as h
r. Is now, but without the remote gimme
,g Of hope before him that the federal court
is may intervene and hand him back til
ca ballot"
ge We hope the Hon. Thomas William
Hardwick, representative elect to Il
Fifty-eighth congress from the Tent
Georgia district. is keeping an eye on GU
III rent happenings relative to suffrage que
ty TONS The Post has recently dscusse
n. this young statesman's announcemel
- that he will offer an amendment to II
~ constitution wiping out the fifteent
Is amendment. The Post has not given NJ
3Iardwick any encouragement. for 1t b.
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