Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-04-26

publicans given an exhibition of Har-
mony by ceasing to punch each others
Noses smash each others jaws, blacl,
each others eyes and crack each 9th
er's skulls, after Senators Foraker and
Dick, under the guidance of Hon.
sion of the pie, than two West Virginia
Republican statesmen closed a Har-
mony meeting-with a big red H-by
shooting each other to death. Kansas |
Republicans, not to be left behind i'll
playing Harmony, have nominated two
Republican candidates for congress in |
each of two districts, while the New |
York Republicans have done the same
thing in at least one district. Truly, |
Republican Harmony is past finding
out. AS things are now running, the |
chances are two to one that we will !
have the next house of representatives.
Hon. William Randolph Hearst won
q most notable victory against the coal
trust in the supreme court of the Unit !
ed States recently when it was decided
by that highest of all tribunals that
the trust must produce it's books, pa
pers contracts, ETC., in court and he
is receiving great credit at the hands
of all patriotic persons. Persistency
Of purpose is one of Mr.. Hearst's most
prominent characteristics. When he
began his crusade against the trusts,
there was an attempt to belittle his
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improper motives. But he stuck to
his knitting-to use homely phrase
employed the best legal talent avail
able, paid them out of his own pocket
and won splendid triumph for truth
and humanity. Such an achievement
cannot be whistled down the wind. 1t
cannot be discounted by asserting that
Hearst did it for his own glory. Take
even that view of it, and the people
are the benefciaries of his labor and
his money. 1t would be we'll If others
would work in the same way for their
own glory. Hearst has demonstrated
that the way to bust the trusts is to
bust them.
The latest addition to the list of pos
sible Republican nominees for the vice
presidency is Judge John w. Yerkes
of Kentucky, now commissioner of in
ternal revenue. The judge, barring his
naughty politics, is all right. He is n
lawyer of capacity and was once nomi-
nee for governor of Kentucky. Per-
sonally he is most amiable gentle
man and looks the Kentuckian, being
tall and handsome. But he will find
that his habitat bars him. B. Gratz
Brown of Missouri, who was Horace
Greeley's running mate in 1872, thir-
ty-two years ago, was the last citizen
Of the old slave states to be nominated
by either Of the great parties for vice
president. Judge Yerkes would be an
imposing presiding officer for the sen
ate. Kentucky never furnished a pres
ident, but has furnished two vice pres
idents-C Colonel Richard NJ. Johnson,
who is generally called "Old Dick,"
and General John G. Breckenridge. If
the Republicans are to elect another
vice president-which God Forbid
Judge Yerkes would do as we'll as any
Of the rest and much better than most.
Il At the recent New York Republican
convention Hon. Chauncey Mitchell
Depew spoke with as much airineSs
kuuw rnat It has been decreed by the
Republican bosses that his senatorial
head shall fall into the basket when
me New York legislature again meets.
VI course, II the Democrats carry the
legislature, it will fall, and equally Of
course If the Republicans carry it. In
! the latter event that plum will go to
governor Odell or Ex-Governor Black,
Chauncey was singing the swan song.
NO sooner had the Hon. Elihu Root
quit the war Office than lie took en-
ployment from the trust magnates, no
| doubt with very handsome fee. 1t is
given out that he is to be the tempo
/ rary chairman of the Republican ma
/ t1onal convention and is to do the
keynote act on that occasion. No
doubt the antitrust speech which he
Will deliver to the great national con-
clave will cause cold chills to run up
and down the spinal column of his
trust clients. After hearing his perora-
don they will doubtless all take to the
woods
Nobody wants to be chairman of the
Republican national committee, though
It has usually been considered very
rich graft. Why are things thus? Do
the Republican chieftains see defeat in
November? It would so appear, and
they do not desire that their names
shall figure prominently in the list Of
the slain on the field of that Republic.
an Waterloo. No doubt they are wise
IN their day and generation. At any
rate their action does not harmonic
With all the Republican boasts about
sweeping the country"
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