Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-08-12


ceumres rnar conservatives people ..uoupt
his capacity for self control, distrust his
judgment and question his conception of
presidential duties"
Other newspapers in New York city that
opposed Bryan and are now either sup
porting Parker or decidedly friendly to-
ward his candidacy are the Times the
Staats-Zeitung, the World, the Evening
Post and the Brooklyn Eagle.
Parker's Titan Locks.
Judge Parker is redheaded. This will
certainly be Of no disadvantage to him
either in seeking the presidential chair
or in holding it down. 1t is n good
omen, for was not the immortal Jeffer-
son redheaded? And if, through that
sympathetic affinity existing among
redheaded men, he should get the votes
of all the redheaded men in the coun-
try the number of additions to his fol-
lowing on that account will be con-
siderable, more doubtless than would
have been needed to carry the election
for the Democrats in 1896, when 26, 500
votes, properly distributed, would have
elected Bryan. Here's to the red
headed statesman Of Esopus!
Stealing Thunder From Providence.
Providence appears to be on the side
OF American wheat growers again this
year. Ours is to be very large if
not q bumper crop, while the wheat
crop outside the United States is much
smaller than usual, which insures a
good price for American wheat. OF
course the Republicans, committing
blasphemy, as is their habit, will swear
that they did it, ignoring utterly the
injunction, Render unto Caesar the
things that are Caesars and unto God
the things that are Gods"
At the psychological moment when
Senator Fairbanks was being nomi-
mated for vice president the sun, shin
Ing through blue glass, made his caput
bright cerulean color. Some one on
the stage said eli! See Fairbanks
blue halow The chances are that after
the election not only Fairbanks, but the
entire Republican party, will be in
blue funk.
If the press dispatches are to be be-
lleyed the president must be a busy
man indeed. He is not only managing
his own campaign, but finds time to
look after the candidacy of his friends.
The latest report is that at his instance
and request Thomas f. Walsh, the
Colorado mining king, is a candidate
for United States senator, vice Thomas
Macdonald Patterson, whom they are
determined to defeat If it be within the
range Of possibilities. They will find
1t tough job to beat Tom Patterson,
as everybody in the Rocky mountain
region calls the senator. He is man
Of splendid and varied talents. He
has made fine record in the senate.
He is born fighter. Every sensible
voter in the Centennial State is proud
Of him, and the presidents protege will
have rocky road to travel to the SEN
ate of the United States.
misery loves company" SO 1t is said.
It seems that we are not alone in hay
ing race troubles. The Australians
are in cold sweat for fear of "the
yellow peril" Japs have been coloniz-
Ing there, and, what's more, the Jap.
anese colonists are fourishing like
tree planted by the rivers of water;
hence the alarm. Consequently the
Australians are enacting rigid exclu-
sion laws against all Asiatics whatso-
ever and are making arrangements to
paise an army and to create a navy.
so that they may protect themselves
without depending on England
The senatorial prospects of Hon.
"Gas" Addicks are Frightening. He
recently made, SO it is said, $e,OOOO 600
in gold mining deal. How much
money he has spent in his chase after
a senatorial toga will perhaps never be
known-most likely he does not know
himself. But if he can keep selling
gold mines at that rate he can keep up
the chase good while yet.
That President Roosevelt is a busy
man is Iact known OF all the world.
He is so active that the Republican
leaders are wondering if he really in
tends to leave anything for them to do.
The latest press reports touching his
doings are to the effect that he has
selected Hon. Elihu Root as the Re
publican gubernatorial candidate In
New York this year and as the Re
publican nominee for president in 1908.
So the Republican bigwigs may as
well go away back and sit down. Mr..
Root keeps on declining, but it will be
case Of "ne'er consenting, he con-
sented."
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