Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-08-05

liberty, and, though dead, he yet speak
eth. A great man has this day fallen
in Israel.
Whether the refusal Of Hon. William
Loeb, secretary to the president, to per-
NIT the coal miners committee to con-
fer with the president will have any
considerable effect OH coming events
remains to be seen. What are regarded
as small things have far reaching and
tremendous results sometimes. For in
stance, many wiseacres trace General
Benjamin Harrison's overwhelming de-
feat in 1892 to the Homestead riots.
That was local performance, but Or
ganized labor took up the fight, and
General Harrison suffered for the ac-
ton of Henry O. Frick ct al. So it may
be again. History frequently repeats
itself.
The French government has con-
ferred the grand cross Of the Legion of
Honor upon Mr.. Secretary Of State
John Hay, and the papers say that Colo---
mel Hay has written letter accepting
same. OF course, though the papers do
not say SO, in accepting the honor Colo
mel Hay did so subject to resolution
of congress authorizing him so to do,
for the resolution Is condition prece-
dent in such cases. OF course 1t will
pass. Such resolutions have passed as
a matter of course in these later years.
Nobody begrudges Colonel Hay his
grand cross and the honors which 60
with 1t, but great many sensible per-
sons believe that there should be an
end to all such resolutions.
Golden Rule" Jones, mayor of To
ledo, did not live in vain II he accom-
plished what he aimed at-namely, the
Introduction of the Golden Rule into
business methods. Such consumma-
ton is devoutly to be wished. If the
world would net on the Golden Rule,
what delightful place for human hab-
itation it would be! John James ingalls,
declared that the application of the
Decalogue to politics is an iridescent
dream. Let us hope that the Jones
idea of applying the Golden Rule to
business will prove splendid reality.
/ Easily the most surprising feature Of
the st. Louis convention was the fact
that United States Senator Benjamin
R. Tillman Of South Carolina exhibited
a degree of conservatism of which the
world did not deem him capable. That
he is an exceedingly able man has long
been known by all intelligent persons
and conceded by all candid persons.
But he has always been classed rs q
radical Of radicals, called by such pet
names as the American Danton, Robe
sphere, etc. At st. Louis, however, it
must be admitted that he was a wise,
courageous, conservative counselor.
United States Senator John Warwick
Daniel Of Virginia, chairman Of the
platform committee, lie about the last
representative Of the old southern
school Of oratory now in active life.
His familiars call him "the lame lion
of Lynchburg," because Of limp con-
tracted during the civil war. He is q
great orator, has magnificent head
and face, and at once impresses himself
on an audience as master in the DIFF
fcult art of Demosthenes and Cicero.
He is also law author Of renown.
His great work on negotiable instru-
ments is recognized everywhere as a
standard authority.
That famous three cornered peace
arrangement between President Rnnse-
! welt, Governor Odell and Senator Plat
appears to be already in process Of
dissolution. Plat and Odell are quar-
reling over the gubernatorial nomina-
ton. 1t will be remembered that not
long ago Governor Odell took trip to
Europe, ostensibly for his health, but
the newspapers declared that he really
went to induce General Horace Porter,
Mt present our ambassador to France,
to accept the nomination for governor.
What General Porter answered nobody
seems to know. So Odell and Plat are
at each others threats again, which is