Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-07-07

enthusiasm that De was not entitled 70 |
q red cent. While the people were still
gaping at the verdict colored teacher
in that county decided that he wanted
certificate to teach school, which was
denied him, whereupon he shot the
official who refused 1t. The st. Clair
Suckers, thinking the aforesaid Off
cial was about to die, killed the appli-
cant for the certificate, and the man
who refused the certificate Is getting
we'll. Now, these things were not done
in a corner. but openly, and Illinois is
not down in the Yazoo country, but adj
joins the great state of Indiana, where
Judge Crumpncker has his habitat.
The Judge should undoubtedly inves-
tigate these matters Mt once. OF course
he can't bring the dead brother back
to life, but he might do something for
the parson.
Wisdom.
Up in Brooklyn there is sprig Of
royalty unusually wise In his day and
generation. He is man with an un-
pronounceable name, but n decidedly
level head. According to his own tale,
he is by descent king. BY occupa-
ton he Is aswine merchant. This is not
as sublime job as being king. but
In his case 1t is decidedly safer. The
throne which he claims the right to sit
upon. but Which he is not seeking just
at this time, is the Servian throne. His
philosophy probably teaches that a live
wine merchant is better than dead
king.
The Vice Presidency.
The Washington Post says in an edi-
torial paragraph:
People are apt to place a rather cheap
estimate on the vice presidency when
they learn that Governor Yates does not
want 1t.
Yes, some might do so, while some
others. remembering the recent expe-
rience of President Roosevelt, might,
on the contrary, place the cheap esti-
mate" on Yates Judgment. Some with
longer memories will recollcct that
Daniel Webster twice refused the vice
presidency. II lie had accepted either
time he would have become president,
which was the goal of his ambition,
but which because of these two re-
fnsals he never reached. The truth is
that there are but two men in the Unit
I'D States who could afford to decline a
nomination for vice president-thcy are
Theodore Roosevelt and Grover Cleye-
land. The vice presidency is some
what overshadowcd and overtopped Ey
the presidency. but Is great Office,
full of great possibilities. and Governor
Yates is in a very poor position to
sneeze at it.
Long Speeches.
The Washington Post has new edl-
toriu paragraphcr since the death of
the great but gentle Mcrrick. and lie
executes some slightly tart acerbita-
tons. For instance, he says:
what will Mr.. Littlcfield talk about
this SUMMER asks the New York Press.
| About two hours and a half If the audi
| ence does not become too restless.
We protest that this is hardly treat
Nelson Dingley with the proper reyer-
ence. But two and half hours
speech is merely q warmer up com
pared with some long speeches made
many years after the great Burke
4 s,,el.e eos -tnIrtrru consecutive days II
the impeachment trial of Hastings. Lei
the new man on the Post so read
AIacaulay's great description of tha,
event, where. in solemn lmpressivcness
he begins, ION the third day Burke
rose" Let him then turn to the rec
ords of the first session of the Fifty
third congress and read the speech OF
Senator William Vincent Allen Of Ne
braska, delivered In fourteen and q
half consecutive hours, and nowhere in
that speech did the great Nebraskar
slip down from plane of high states
manship and dignihed, sound reason
! Ing Let him then read the thirteen
and q half hours speech of Senator
Thomas A. Carter, another great ant
effective effort, found in the records o.
the final week Of the Fifty-sixth con
gress. II Judge Littlefeld ever reache
the usually dull and mustY atmospher.
Of the senate speech Of two and .
half hours will be considered merely a
the opening Of his argument. And b,
Will entertain 'em!
Muddled.
When Mr.. Representative Babcock o
Wisconsin finds himself lining up wit
the "stand patters" or whole hoggers
among the Republicans on the tarii
question he must feel about as com
Portable and as much at home as di
the old hen that Matched out a goslinl
Everybody remembers her consterna
ton when her gosling went a-swimmint
She was in most dreadful state of e1
element. Now, II man were eve
the father Of any idea IN politics Ba
was the father Of the iowa idea" a
indoctrinated such innocents as GOV
ernor Cummins and Senator Dollive
with that idea and then goes over I
the enemy. abandoning them to thel
{ fate. Alas and alack!
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